<div dir="ltr">This is the least we can do. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Elaine Bachman <a href="mailto:elaine.reva@gmail.com">elaine.reva@gmail.com</a> [JVP-Chgo-Appeals]</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:JVP-Chgo-Appeals@yahoogroups.com">JVP-Chgo-Appeals@yahoogroups.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 9:39 AM<br>Subject: Re: [JVP-Chgo-Appeals] Monday JUL 21: Call-in day for Gaza - Act Now!<br>To: <a href="mailto:JVP-Chgo-Appeals@yahoogroups.com">JVP-Chgo-Appeals@yahoogroups.com</a><br><br><br>
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<p></p><div dir="ltr">hi, Egyption embassy is not answering the phone , anyone get thru ? <div><br></div><div>Elaine</div></div><div class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Burton Steck <a href="mailto:brtn@comcast.net" target="_blank">brtn@comcast.net</a> [JVP-Chgo-Appeals] <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:JVP-Chgo-Appeals@yahoogroups.com" target="_blank">JVP-Chgo-Appeals@yahoogroups.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<font face="Helvetica Neue" style="font-size:18px"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-size:20px">Monday JUL</span> </span></font><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">21</span></div><div style="text-align:center;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
<font face="Helvetica Neue" size="6"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/702191309829218/?source=1" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:white"><font color="#000000">Call-in day for Gaza</font></span></a></font></div>
</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#141823" style="font:14.0px Helvetica;color:#141823">1. Contact President Obama at <a href="tel:%28202%29%20456-1111" value="+12024561111" target="_blank">(202) 456-1111</a> and the State Department at <a href="tel:%28202%29%20647-4000" value="+12026474000" target="_blank">(202) 647-4000</a>. Demand that they immediately withdraw U.S. military aid from Israel and call on Israel to immediately end its attacks. Tell them to stop supporting Israel’s crimes with our tax dollars.</font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);min-height:17px"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#141823" style="font:14.0px Helvetica;color:#141823">2. Call the Egyptian Embassy at <a href="tel:%28202%29%20895-5400" value="+12028955400" target="_blank">(202) 895-5400</a> and demand they open the Rafah border for injured Palestinians in need of urgent medical care.</font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);min-height:17px"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#141823" style="font:14.0px Helvetica;color:#141823">3. Call Boeing. Boeing provides Israel with F-15A fighter jets and Apache AH 64 helicopters to attack Gaza. Boeing’s headquarters are located in Chicago. Contact Boeing at <a href="tel:%28312%29%20544-2140" value="+13125442140" target="_blank">(312) 544-2140</a> and demand they stop giving Israel weapons to use against civilians in Gaza. </font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);min-height:17px"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#141823" style="font:14.0px Helvetica;color:#141823">Visit this link to see other corporations that are involved in the current attacks on Gaza. Look for a corporation near you if possible and call them and protest at their offices: <a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fafsc.org%2Fresource%2Fus-corporations-complicit-current-attacks-gaza&h=GAQFiegtb&enc=AZM5vATJQlnT0Q52wl2l9Z8DV_9IC_gNtC9DV-ADClHI99i2ne17TRWwmmse9SPjJ0k&s=1" target="_blank"><font color="#3b5997" style="color:#3b5997">http://afsc.org/resource/us-corporations-complicit-current-attacks-gaza</font></a></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);min-height:17px"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#141823" style="font:14.0px Helvetica;color:#141823">4. Call your U.S. Senators and ask that Congress demand an end to the siege of Gaza. If you're from Illinois, call Senator Dick Durbin at his DC office at <a href="tel:%28202%29%20224-2152" value="+12022242152" target="_blank">(202) 224-2152</a> and his Chicago office at <a href="tel:%28312%29%20353-4952" value="+13123534952" target="_blank">(312) 353-4952</a>.</font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);min-height:17px"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#141823" style="font:14.0px Helvetica;color:#141823">If you're not from Illinois, please look up your senator and ask the same. You can find your senators at <a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.senate.gov%2Fgeneral%2Fcontact_information%2Fsenators_cfm.cfm&h=cAQE3fONf&enc=AZNsis3m5jrqThi9g9-oWEGiav4MszHcH3IIXyIDMy5lQDk0NWOo_fLhlBdbbP-tt7w&s=1" target="_blank"><font color="#3b5997" style="color:#3b5997">http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm</font></a>.</font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#141823" style="font:14.0px Helvetica;color:#141823">------</font></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);min-height:17px">
<br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#141823" style="font:14.0px Helvetica;color:#141823">Since July 8, 2014, Israel had launched an intense and disproportionate bombing campaign and land incursion of the Gaza Strip, “Operation Protective Edge”.</font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);min-height:17px"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#141823" style="font:14.0px Helvetica;color:#141823">In Gaza, 1.7 million Palestinians live in what is often referred to as an “open-air prison.” All of Gaza’s borders are restricted, including the side bordering the Mediterranean Sea, which is controlled by Israel. Israel has imposed an eight-year blockade on Gaza, making it extremely difficult and even impossible for Palestinians to go in and out of the Gaza Strip. Access to water, electricity, and basic goods have also been extremely limited.</font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);min-height:17px"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#141823" style="font:14.0px Helvetica;color:#141823">In the latest operation, approximately 400 Palestinians have been killed thus far, the vast majority of which are civilians, including children and women. Thousands have been injured. About 20 Israeli soldier have been killed.</font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);min-height:17px"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#141823" style="font:14.0px Helvetica;color:#141823">Israel has dropped bombs on civilian homes in Gaza, killing entire families. Schools, hospitals, and rehabilitation centers have also been attacked, killing students, doctors, and disabled patients.</font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);min-height:17px"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#141823" style="font:14.0px Helvetica;color:#141823">Thousands of Palestinians have been left displaced and homeless due to of the damage to their homes from Israeli airstrikes. Electrical damage from the attacks has further crippled already inconsistent access to electricity in Gaza.</font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);min-height:17px"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#141823" style="font:14.0px Helvetica;color:#141823">Palestinians have lived under 47 years of Israeli military occupation, and 66 years of ongoing colonization, dispossession, and apartheid.</font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);min-height:17px"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#141823" style="font:14.0px Helvetica;color:#141823">Please take action to support human rights and end Israel’s impunity.</font></div>
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