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

Wed Jul 23 18:54:08 EDT 2014

When?

Ricky

"Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes." - Maggie Kuhn

On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 5:27 PM, Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

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

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Just Foreign Policy <info at justforeignpolicy.org>
Date: Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 5:13 PM
Subject: Thursday: National Day of Action on Gaza; An Urgent Appeal
To: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com

Dear Robert, 
Find a petition delivery near you or start a delivery at your local congressional office.

Take Action  
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:

http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=r9JPaLHw0%2BXx46h8d0arqAg8l3VeJv8c 

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.

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/gaza-petition-delivery

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

Megan Iorio
Just Foreign Policy 
*** 
Dear Robert, 
Help me stop the violence in Gaza and end the blockade by signing my petition at MoveOn.

Take Action  
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 
	* Sign up to deliver petition signatures to your Representative or Senator’s local office. We’ll help you every step of the way. Just fill out our quick form to let us know you’re interested. 
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/gaza-petition-delivery  
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

Thanks for all you do to help end the violence,

Abir “Abby” Elzowidi
Just Foreign Policy

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