Film Showing of Palestinian Exception
Thanks to all. The film was great and Mimi's individually wrapped baked goods put us over the top. Thanks to Ellen for projecting the film, and everyone else: the discussion moderators, the security, the tabling, and the Old Dutch Church.
April 5th we are standing up to Trump
Bus Details:
Saturday, April 5th
Albany bus boarding 1:30 am
Stop at New Paltz Park and Ride at 3am for boarding
Rally is expected to begin in D.C. at 1pm
Departure:
Gather for 1:30 a.m. at the Delaware Ave Park and Ride located at Delaware Ave & Normanskill Blvd, Delmar, NY 12054 on Saturday April 5th for departure at 2A. Overnight parking is outdoors but in a secure lot. Our drop off and pickup location in D.C. will be announced on the bus. At 3 am we will stop at the New Paltz Park and Ride at Route 87 & Main Street, New Paltz, NY, 12561 to pick up additional Hudson Valley Passengers
Return:
**We anticipate departing from D.C. at 5:00 p.m., We anticipate arriving back to Albany by 1am., but could be as later. The Charter bus has outlets and a bathroom. We will take two rest stops per leg of the trip.
Cost:
$100 per standard ticket, and $150 per solidarity ticket to help pay for others. If you need help with the cost, please email prcalbany@gmail.com to discuss sliding scale payment.
Payment confirms your reservation, and you will receive logistics thereafter.
Steps to purchase bus ticket from Albany:
- Fill out contact form (see link below).
- Pay for your ticket (see link below).
- Make sure you get on the bus and send a screenshot of the ticket confirmation to prcalbany@gmail.com
Dear Women in Black and MECR folks
Hudson River Playback Theatre's show next Sunday is for you and others deeply involved in resistance. I hope you'll come. More info at web link.
Stop purchasing Israel Bonds
Tell New York State: Stop purchasing Israel Bonds for the Common Retirement Fund!
http://bit.ly/BTBNYS
As employees, retirees, taxpayers, and residents of New York State, we envision a state where all of our communities can thrive — where our families and neighbors have access to resources like education, healthcare, and housing in order to flourish.
But State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli continues to put his political aspirations before the needs of our communities here in New York.
He has spent hundreds of millions in state retirement funds on Israel Bonds, unrestricted loans that go directly into the Israeli treasury and provide critical financial support for Israel’s apartheid system, the forced displacement of Palestinians, illegal settlement construction, and the ongoing killing of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. The New York State Common Retirement Fund (NYSCRF) is one of the top U.S. investors in Israel Bonds, with over $340 million worth of Israel Bond holdings as of March 2024.
Israel Bonds are not only ethically unconscionable, they are also a low return and increasingly risky investment.
By continuing to invest in Israel Bonds, including purchasing more than $100 million in new bonds in the six months following October 7, 2023, DiNapoli has prioritized his political agenda over his obligation to maximize the retirement funds of more than 1 million state and local government employees, non-teaching school district employees, firefighters, and public sector retirees.
We call on Comptroller DiNapoli to be on the right side of history and bring this pension fund into alignment with its own legal mandate by prioritizing sustainable investments that benefit state workers, retirees, and all New Yorkers — as well as by refusing to fund Israeli apartheid and genocide.
DiNapoli can follow in the tradition of the New York City Employees’ Retirement System, which divested from companies doing business with South Africa’s apartheid government in 1984, helping to end South African apartheid through economic pressure.
As workers, retirees, taxpayers, and residents of New York State, we call on New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli to stop buying Israel Bonds and prioritize the financial and ethical interests of our communities.
The Chris Hedges Report : The Last Chapter of the Genocide
The final chapter marks the end of Israeli lies. The lie of the two-state solution. The lie that Israel respects the laws of war that protect civilians. The lie that Israel bombs hospitals and schools only because they are used as staging areas by Hamas. The lie that Hamas uses civilians as human shields, while Israel routinely forces captive Palestinians to enter potentially bobby trapped tunnels and buildings ahead of Israeli troops. The lie that Hamas or Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ) are responsible — the charge often being errant Palestinian rockets — for the destruction of hospitals, United Nations’ buildings or mass Palestinian casualties. The lie that humanitarian aid to Gaza is blocked because Hamas is hijacking the trucks or smuggling in weapons and war material. The lie that Israeli babies are beheaded or Palestinians carried out mass rape of Israeli women. The lie that 75 percent of the tens of thousands killed in Gaza were Hamas “terrorists.” The lie that Hamas, because it was allegedly rearming and recruiting new fighters, is responsible for the breakdown of the ceasefire agreement.
full article at:
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-last-chapter-of-the-genocide
Handful of pro-Palestinian protesters
Times Union:
"Ryan’s audience in Poughkeepsie was also charged and frustrated — but not with him, for the most part. There were two brief disruptions: a handful of pro-Palestinian protesters stood up to express their anger about Ryan’s support of Israel in its war with Hamas, and a person at the end of the event was nearly escorted out while venting about the lack of discussion of foreign policy."
At least the Times Union reported our frustration with Rep. Pat Ryan. Israel's slaughter of tens of thousands in Gaza is ethnic cleansing and not a war.
We never got to ask
him about the close to quarter million dollars he got from the Israel
Lobby last year. Pat Ryan is well paid to keep his mouth shut as
Palestinian civilians are slaughtered.
A nation headed in all the wrong directions
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