[Peace-discuss] Thursday noon, we're going to visit Rodney Davis about Gaza

Wed Jul 23 18:27:31 EDT 2014

Thursday noon - tomorrow if you're reading this Wednesday - me and Stuart
and Karen and David and Anke are going to go visit Rodney Davis' office in
Champaign on 2004 Fox Drive to talk about Gaza.

If you're on Facebook, you can sign up to come here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1457132167887461/

If you're not on Facebook, you can just reply to this email. Or you can
just show up.

Even if you can't come, you can sign the petition that we're going to
deliver, calling on Rodney Davis to support all efforts to end the violence
and lift the economic blockade:

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/gaza-end-war-end-blockade

If you want to see all the petition deliveries to Congress that are set up
around the country tomorrow as part of the day of action on Gaza, you can
see them here:

National Day of Action for Gaza Congressional Office Visit Events
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/day-of-action-gaza

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Subject: Thursday: National Day of Action on Gaza; An Urgent Appeal
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Dear Robert,

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Thursday is a National Day of Action on Gaza. Events are being organized
across the US to pressure our elected officials to stop the violence and
end the siege in Gaza.

*Just Foreign Policy is asking supporters to deliver petition signatures to
their local congressional offices.* Abir Elzowidi's powerful appeal, along
with a link to the petition, is forwarded below. *If you haven't signed
yet, please do.*

*To check whether there is a petition delivery planned near you, and to
RSVP to join, go here:*

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If there is no petition delivery planned in your area, *you can sign up to
do the delivery yourself by filling out the following form.* We will send
you a PDF of the petition with instructions on printing and delivering it
later today.

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Thank you for all you do to end the violence in Gaza,

Megan Iorio
Just Foreign Policy

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Dear Robert,

*Help me stop the violence in Gaza and end the blockade by signing my
petition at MoveOn.*
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My name is Abir Elzowidi. I work in Los Angeles for a small NGO called
“Oasis of Peace” promoting peaceful co-existence between Israelis and
Palestinians, Christians, Muslims and Jews.

A few days ago, five members of my family—including two small children—were
killed in my village of Beit Hanoun in Gaza. A few days before, several
other family members were told to leave their homes and made to stand by
and watch as members of the Israeli Defense Force bombed their homes. They
are now homeless, including my 93 year-old grandmother. Now I am afraid for
the safety of my mother, my sister, my brother and their children in Gaza
City as they are bombing randomly all around them. They, like others in
Gaza, have nowhere safe to go.

I am grieving but I need your support. Together, we are not powerless. We
can use our voices in this country to say enough is enough: stop the
bombing, stop killing innocent children!

*Thursday, July 24, will be a national day of action on Gaza.* Here are two
things you can do to help stop the violence:

   - *Sign my petition calling on the Obama Administration and Congress to
   use all the tools at their disposal to end the violence and lift the
   blockade of Gaza.*
   *http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/gaza-end-war-end-blockade*
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   out our quick form to let us know you’re interested.
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As of Monday, July 21, at least 550 Palestinians have been killed and 3,350
wounded since the new round of violence started two weeks ago in Gaza.
Twenty-seven Israelis, including 25 soldiers and two civilians, have been
killed.

The US, Israel and Egypt put together a ceasefire agreement last week, but
what they proposed did not address a root cause of the violence: Israel’s
seven year-old economic blockade of Gaza. We need to stop the killing now,
but we also need to prevent more killing in the future. Lifting the siege
is the only way to stop the killing long-term—and keep more people like me
from losing family members in the future.

*Please help me stop the killing in Gaza. Sign the petition telling the
Obama Administration and Congress to stop the violence and lift the
blockade of Gaza.*

*http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/gaza-end-war-end-blockade*
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Thanks for all you do to help end the violence,

Abir “Abby” Elzowidi
Just Foreign Policy

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