● Be your own billboard, wear a Got Human Rights Palestinian don’t t-shirts: FMI: sacreg4palestinianrights@gmail.com.

● Contact Assemblymember Kevin McCarty or your CA Assemblymember and tell them to call for an immediate ceasefire and end to the genocidal ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza. McCarty was in attendance on Jan. 3 when Jewish organization and allies shut down the Assembly demanding a ceasefire.

► Contact your Congressional representatives now ask them to publicly oppose ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza and sign onto HR 786 that calls for de-escalation and an immediate ceasefire.
– Contact Rep. Doris Matsui 202-225-7163 (DC) & 916-498-5600 (Sacramento), @repdorismatsui. 501 I St, #12-600, Sacramento. See Human Rights Day Message to Rep. Doris Matsui.
– Contact Rep. Ami Bera 202-225-5716 (DC) & 916-635-0505 (Sacramento), @repbera, @rep.bera.ami. 8950 Cal Center Dr #100, Sacramento
– Contact Rep. Mike Thompson 202-225-3311, @repmikethompson, @RepThompson, 622 Main St, #106, Woodland

► Tell Governor Newsom that criticizing Israel is NOT antisemitic. Newsom is considering forcing all state agencies to use a definition of antisemitism that would silence calls for a ceasefire and an end to genocide. Also tell him the State of California should not be supporting or promoting Israel. If he, as governor is going to take a position, it should be to advocate for a ceasefire and end to the genocide in Gaza. (916) 445-2841

► Tell Rep. Ami Bera (202-225-5716, @repbera, @rep.bera.ami, to remove his name from the shameful Jan 23, 2024 letter denouncing South Africa’s case to the International Court of Justice charging Israel with genocide in Gaza.

To find your U.S. representative, click here.
– Contact President Biden 202-456-1111
– Contact Senator Alex Padilla 202-224-3553.
– Contact Senator Laphonza Butler 202-224-3841 

► Add your name and voice to messages to Congress demanding a ceasefire from:
– Jewish Voice for Peace
  – Representative Rashida Talib
– U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights
– Friends of Sabeel North America
– Change.org
 – Veterans for Peace
 - United for Peace and Justice
 – MoveOn
 – United for Human Rights in the Israel-Palestine Crisis
– Petition started on change dot org to demand a ceasefire and more.
 - Send a letter to Secretary of State Blinken.
 - Pledge No Ceasefire, No Votes for Biden in 2024.

● Ask your organization to sign on or send our letter to Congress.

MORE ACTIONS

► Ask your group to take the pledge to be apartheid free: Click for more info.

►Ask your Congressmember to co-sponsor H.R. 3103 Defending the Human Rights of Palestinian Children & Families Living Under Israeli Military Occupation Act. Call 202-224-3121. H.R. 3103 would prohibit Israel using U.S. taxpayer funds to: detain & torture Palestinian children, seize & demolish Palestinian homes, & steal Palestinian land. Click here for more information.

►Tell Christina Aguilera: Don’t Play Israeli Apartheid.  Aguilera, who is known for her fierce LGBTQ and feminist advocacy, has announced that she will perform in Israel on August 10.Tell her there is no equality, justice or freedom under Israeli apartheid. Leave Aguilera a message on her Instagram post telling her to cancel her Israel show.

► Tell the Sierra Club to respect human rights and stop greenwashing. Click for more info.

►Thank Sierra Club Workers for Standing up for Palestinian rights. Click here. Sierra Club workers of the Progressive Workers Union (PWU), representing hundreds of environmental justice workers, have passed a historic resolution pledging solidarity with Palestinians and their struggle for freedom from Israel’s oppressive apartheid rule.

► Email Sierra Club board members at board.liaison@sierraclub.org and ask: “Please cancel Sierra Club sponsored trips to Israel until Israel ends its: apartheid laws that discriminate against Palestinians and violations of Palestinian human rights.”

► Also ask the Sacramento Chapter of the Sierra Club, SacramentoSierraClub@gmail.com, to discuss the issue of Sierra Club sponsored trips to Israel. To date, they have refused, claiming it is a national issue only.

► Take action on recent increased Israeli violence against Palestinians:
1. Click here to send a message to Congress
2. Click here to message the NY Times about its biased reporting of current violence.

► Take the Pledge: Give PUMA the Boot Until It Ends Support for Illegal Israeli Settlements. Let Puma know you will respect the call from Palestinian teams and athletes to #BoycottPuma until it ends support for illegal Israeli settlements pushing Palestinians off their land.

► Sign Petition demanding justice for Shireen Abu Akleh, journalist assassinated by Israeli military.

► Tell Amazon and Google: No Tech for Apartheid Join Amazon and Google workers in demanding that their companies end all ties with Israeli apartheid and end the Project Nimbus $1.22 billion contact to provide cloud technology to the Israeli government and military.  This technology will be used against the Palestinian people. Click to send a message to Amazon & Google. Hear a former Google employee, who recently quit her job at Google after claiming it retaliated against her for opposing its growing partnership with the Israeli military, offered a chilling, insiders’ view of the company. Click to watch.

► Send letters to Congress to stop mass displacement in Masafer Yatta.

● Ukraine and Gaza

● Is This Israel’s South Africa Moment? | The Nation

● Amnesty International: Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians. See YouTube video:

● Tell Puma: Stop Supporting the Israeli apartheid regime’s oppression of the Palestinian people.

1. Tell Congress 202-224-3121 and the White house (202-456-1111) NO more U.S. aid to Israel. Demand that all US aid to and political support for the Israeli regime be ended until the regime ends all its abuses  of Palestinian rights, including:  extra judicial killing,  arrest and imprisonment with charges or trials; home demolitions; left of land and water including the illegal settlements; apartheid laws; kidnapping of children.  www.house.gov; www.senate.gov.  Click here for electeds contact information.

2. Don’t buy Israeli products or invest in companies that profit from Israel’s occupation and colonization of Palestine.

3. Talk to people about this issue and spread the word to your friends, colleagues, community members.

4. Be your own billboard: Wear a t-shirt or carry a tote bag that says: “Got Human Rights? Palestinians don’t” and put a “I support a Palestinian Rights” bumper sticker on your call. To order, use this form or contact: sacpeace@dcn.org

5. Learn more: Check out these websites, organizations & books.

6. Sign Petitions for Palestinian Rights

Past action alerts:

►Tell Senator Kamala Harris to oppose the Israel Anti-boycott Act S 720 (HR 1597) that would criminalize some forms of support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) effort directed at entities that profit from Israel’s abuses.

Call 202-224 -3553 or  email Harris with a short message:  Boycotting is constitutionally protected free speech. Boycotting companies that profit from Israel’s human rights abuses is not anti-Jewish, it is pro-human rights. Oppose the Israel Anti-boycott Act.

►Tell Senator Cory Booker the same thing. Shamefully, Booker used the Pittsburg massacre to justify supporting criminalizing boycotts of human rights-violating Israel. Call 202-224-3224 or email.

►Support free speech in LA: On 11-6-18, the Los Angeles City Council voted to ask UCLA to cancel Students for Justice (SJP) in Palestine event. UCLA first canceled then reinstated the event.
Send a message to the City Council, emails below, and to UCLA Chancellor Gene Block chancellor@ucla.edu demanding that they stand up for free speech instead of attacking it. Tell them that nonviolent advocacy for Palestinian rights is about justice and equality. Falsely accusing SJP and others of being anti-Jewish is nothing but a transparent attempt to silence them. Ask the City Council to rescind its previous anti-free speech request that the SJP conference be cancelled and instead issue a statement that supports our constitutionally protected right of free speech.
City council address:  councilmember.cedillo@lacity.org, councilmember.krekorian@lacity.org, Councilmember.Blumenfield@lacity.org, david.ryu@lacity.org, paul.koretz@lacity.org, councilmember.martinez@lacity.org, Councilmember.Rodriguez@lacity.org, councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org, councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org, councilmember.price@lacity.org, councilmember.wesson@lacity.org, councilmember.bonin@lacity.org, councilmember.englander@lacity.org, councilmember.ofarrell@lacity.org, councilmember.huizar@lacity.org, councilmember.buscaino@lacity.org

► Tell SF State to reinstate Professor Abdulhadi’s courses and stop censoring her. Click for more info.

►  Tell Congress to condemn Israel’s invasion of Jenin. Click here to take action.