From a constituent in Oakland, CAYou can stop genocide - Arms Embargo NOW
From Al Jazeera on Sep 15: President Joe Biden said Washington and the UK will continue to work together to address "the urgent need for a ceasefire deal that will free the hostages and enable increased relief in Gaza.” If you stopped supplying the Israeli military, you would be placing the Israeli
From a constituent in Oakland, CAIsrael starving civilians, this isn’t defense - Arms Embargo NOW
From Yahoo News on Sep 6: The U.N. independent investigator on the right to food accused Israel of carrying out a “starvation campaign” against Palestinians. A professor at the University of Oregon School of Law, Fakhri was appointed by the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council as the investigator,
From a constituent in Oakland, CAARMS EMBARGO ON ISRAEL NOW
President Biden and Congress, Why are you still sending weapons to Israel, when more than 2/3 of your constituents disapprove? Why are you still sending weapons to Israel, when it is illegal under international law? Why are you still sending weapons to Israel, when they have refused every reasona
From a constituent in Oakland, CAIsrael continues to kill with impunity - Arms Embargo NOW
From Al Jazeera on September 12: "The killing of Rachel and Aysenur was not accidental, just as the killing of over 41,000 Palestinian men, women, and children over the past year is not," writes Omar Suleiman, an American Muslim scholar and theologically driven activist for human rights. "They are p
From a constituent in Oakland, CALatest Israeli attack on UN school kills 18 - Arms Embargo NOW
From Al Jazeera on September 12: Israel's military bombed the UN-operated al-Jaouni school in central Gaza for the fifth time since October 7, killing at least 18 people, including UNRWA staff members. Witnesses said "women and children were blown to pieces" in the assault. According to Data For Pr
From a constituent in Oakland, CAIsrael dropped US made MK-84 bombs - Arms Embargo NOW
From IMEU on September 10: Last night, Israeli warplanes dropped three US-made 2,000-pound MK-84 bombs on al-Mawasi refugee camp, killing dozens of Palestinians and leaving giant craters where tents full of families used to be. Since 2023 President Biden has given more than 14,000 MK-84 bombs - manu
From a constituent in Oakland, CAIsrael killed American activist who protested for Palestine - Arms Embargo NOW
From Al Jazeera on September 9: Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was murdered by an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank last week. Biden administration officials said Monday that they will allow Israel to investigate itself, rejecting calls for an independent investigation by Eygi's family. Aysenur Ezgi Eygi
From a constituent in Oakland, CAIsrael causing phone and internet outages in Gaza - Arms Embargo NOW
From Al Jazeera on September 9: Israel’s bombardment caused mobile phone and internet outages in central and southern Gaza, according to service provider Paltel and the Wafa news agency. These outages prevent Palestinians from reporting and communicating their safety, whereabouts, and well-being wi
From a constituent in Oakland, CAIsrael’s genocide disrupts school for a second year - Arms Embargo NOW
From Al Jazeera on September 9: More than 630,000 students in Gaza will not be returning to school on Monday, officials said, as Israel’s war on the Palestinian enclave disrupts schooling for a second year. According to Data For Progress, the majority of America - 56% of Republicans and 86% of Demo
From a constituent in Oakland, CA“80% of Gaza victims I treated were children” - Arms Embargo NOW
From Al Jazeera on September 5: "I had a seven-year-old child that had most of his nose blown off." Dr Victoria Rose has just returned to the United Kingdom after working at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. She says children are increasingly suffering life-altering wounds in Israeli attacks compared
From a constituent in Oakland, CAGenocide in West Bank - Permanent Ceasefire, Arms Embargo NOW
Since October 7, 2023, more than 650 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli occupation forces and Israeli settlers in the West Bank. Since Oct. 7, Israeli authorities have destroyed, demolished, confiscated, or forced the demolition of at least 1,478 Palestinian structures across the West Bank, di
From a verified voter in San Leandro, CAPass the Airborne Act of 2024!
Please support Don Beyer's Airborne Act of 2024. Improving COVID safety infrastructure is a critical part of adapting to life post-pandemic. This bill will improve indoor air quality essential to preventing infection in public spaces, which will reduce the rates of death and permanent disability due
From a constituent in Oakland, CA“Dangerous escalation” of West Bank raids - Arms Embargo NOW
From Al Jazeera on September 2: Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the rights situation in the Palestinian territories, says Israel's recent deadly raids in the occupied West Bank mark "a dangerous escalation.” "Israel's genocidal violence risks leaking out of Gaza and into
From a constituent in Oakland, CAPalestinians want to live - Permanent Ceasefire and Arms Embargo NOW
The empathy abyss for Palestinians and Palestine is astounding. While Israelis are protesting Netanyahu’s military approach - which continues to endanger Israeli hostages and massacre Palestinians through indiscriminate attacks and bombings - Palestinians are struggling to stay alive each day, with
From a constituent in Oakland, CAYou are not saving hostages - Permanent Ceasefire and Arms Embargo NOW
The rhetoric claiming to prioritize the rescue of Israeli hostages doesn’t hold when the Biden administration has sent and continues to send weapons like U.S. made 2000 pound bombs, which has leveled entire buildings, and 500 pound bombs, which destroy and kill people within a 65 foot radius. It is
From a constituent in Oakland, CAI support the JRD - Permanent Ceasefire and Arms Embargo NOW
From IMEU: Senator Sanders announced he will introduce a Joint Resolution of Disapproval (JRD) to halt the weapons sales of Israel. Weapons sales paid for through Foreign Military Financing are a violation of US law and the Biden administration's own policies. That includes the Arms Export Control A
From a verified voter in Albany, CAICE have abrogated responsibility for the welfare of the immigrants in detention by paying GEO with federal tax payer funds to run their detention centers. This then allows ICE to claim that the appalling conditions, which we all know about, that prevail in the California Detention centers are not t
From a constituent in Oakland, CAStop killing Palestinians: Support an immediate arms embargo
The escalating violence in Gaza is deeply concerning. A ceasefire is urgently needed, and one crucial step toward achieving that is for the U.S. to enact an immediate arms embargo against Israel. Continuing to provide weapons and military aid only enables the bombing and perpetuates the cycle of vio
From a constituent in Berkeley, CAUrge the FDA to Release the Novavax Vaccine
I am writing today to urge you to inquire to the FDA about why they are delaying the release of the latest Novavax COVID vaccine. In early July Novavax applied for approval with the vaccine ready to rollout. This came at the perfect time as we are in one of the biggest surges of COVID ever. Last y
From a constituent in Oakland, CAOnly 11% of Gaza are designated humanitarian zones - Arms Embargo NOW
As reported in Al Jazeera on August 18: According to U.N.W.R.A., the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, areas designated as so-called “humanitarian zones” in Gaza by the Israeli military have shrunk to just 11 percent of the Strip, “causing chaos and fear among the displaced”. According to Data
From a constituent in Oakland, CAUNRWA says Gaza families have nowhere to go - Arms Embargo NOW
As reported in Al Jazeera on August 16: The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees (U.N.R.W.A.) has said Israel's latest evacuation orders in Gaza are contributing to an "endless nightmare of death and destruction" in the war-battered enclave. According to Data For Progress, the majority of America -
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