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Palestine / Palestine Solidarity / War on Gaza

Genocide Prevention Group Issues ‘Urgent SOS Warning’ as Israel Takes Aim at Rafah

by Jake JohnsonCommon Dreams The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, an organization named after the Polish lawyer who coined the term genocide, issued what it called an "urgent SOS warning" on Tuesday for Palestinians in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where more than half of the enclave's population is…

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April 2, 2024
International Soldarity / Labor / Palestine / Palestine Solidarity / SJPJC / War on Gaza

Unions representing 9 million workers are calling for a ceasefire

Statement by National Labor Network for a Ceasefire. We, members of the American labor movement, mourn the loss of life in Israel and Palestine. We express our solidarity with all workers and our common desire for peace in Palestine and Israel, and we call on President Joe Biden and Congress…

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March 28, 2024
History / Palestine / War on Gaza

“There Were No Guns in Palestine”

by Barbara Taft "There were no guns in Palestine."  During the bombardment of Gaza by Israel in October/November of 2023, those words came back to me.  I was sitting in the dining room of a small Palestinian home in East Jerusalem.  It was the summer of 1985.  My host, a…

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March 18, 2024
Palestine / SJPJC / War on Gaza

County Board of Education Passes Ceasefire Resolution

Press release from the SFBA Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR): The San Francisco Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-SFBA), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today applauded the Santa Clara County Board of Education (SCCBOE) for its principled stand in passing a comprehensive Gaza ceasefire resolution.…

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January 30, 2024
SJPJC / War on Gaza

International Court of Justice Rules That Israel Must Stop Killing Palestinians

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, January 26, 2024 The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel must cease its warmaking in Gaza — cease committing and inciting genocidal acts — and that the case charging Israel with genocide must proceed. DETAILS OF THE RULING: By 15-2: Israel shall…

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January 26, 2024
SJPJC / War on Gaza

Urgent: Pressure Our Reps to Call for a Ceasefire

Over two million Palestinians trapped in Gaza are living through genocide, as Israel bombs, starves, and displaces them. But of the four South Bay Congressional representatives, only Ro Khanna has joined the call for a ceasefire. We need to flood our representatives with calls, emails, and letters until they call…

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January 2, 2024
Palestine / SJPJC

The killing must stop

The San Jose Peace & Justice Center condemns the killing of innocent civilians whether they be Israeli or Palestinian. The killing must stop.

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October 14, 2023
SJPJC

Peace & Justice Center Statement on Ukraine War

The Peace and Justice Center calls for open dialogue on the conflict, with differences of opinion informed by uncensored reporting available from all media platforms. We support an immediate cease-fire, negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, and a peace agreement that respects Ukrainian neutrality and respects Ukrainian and Russian national sovereignty and…

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September 10, 2023
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No more nukes! Ban the bomb!

At Lawrence Livermore Lab In connection with the release of the film Oppenheimer, “the bomb” is getting a lot of attention in the mass media this summer. It’s an opportunity for the public to learn something about the immense and horrifying impact that nuclear weapons have had and continue to…

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July 24, 2023