I only had two students who didn't take a flyer. Quite the opposite, a number of students had questions. Here is Eli talking about Gaza. No security asked us to leave.
Students had questions
Film: "The Teacher" on Sunday, September 28
SUNDAY, September 28, from 2:00 - 5:00 PM at the Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall St., Kingston, NY. Showing of the international, award winning film “The Teacher," a story about a Palestinian educator who struggles to reconcile his commitment to political resistance with the chance for a new relationship. Free admission and community reflection/discussion after the film. Cosponsored by: Middle East Crisis Response mideastcrisis.org, Mid Hudson Valley DSA, Rally Middletown, JVP Hudson Valley, Peace Education Center, and Veterans For Peace, Women In Black - New Paltz. Contact: mecr@mideastcrisis.org or 845 876-7906
Two campaigns to free Palestine
These two campaigns deserve our special attention. It is too bad the titles sound very similar. But all that we are asking is two phone calls. I just made them myself, and it took about three minutes. -Fred
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"Block the Bombs to Israel" campaign:
Since the beginning of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza in
October 2023, the US has given more than $30 billion in taxpayer-funded weapons to Israel to enable its atrocities. The US is not only complicit in Israel’s killing of more than 60,000 Palestinians–our weapons make us partners in crime.
Rep. Ryan's office reports they're not hearing much from constituents about the Block the Bombs to Israel Act (HR3565) - but your voice can change that. Constituent pressure is working. Representatives who were always pro-Israel and take AIPAC money are now co-sponsoring this bill because voters called their offices and put pressure on them. 37 House Democrats have already signed on.URGENT: Call Rep. Pat Ryan's DC Office About HR3565 (Block the Bombs Act).
Call Rep. Ryan: (202) 225-5614
As Israel escalates its genocidal violence by killing and starving Palestinians, and by driving them from their homes, it’s time to Block the Bombs!
https://www.blockthebombs.org/
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"Break the Bonds" campaign:
You can call Comptroller DiNapoli at either of the following phone numbers:
NY City Office: 212-383-1600
Albany Office: 518-474-4044
This campaign is sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace.
Learn More & Sign the Petition
https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/btb-nys/
The Encampments showing in Rhinebeck
The Encampments
Trailer Review
Starr・Rhinebeck
Friday, August 29: 5:15 PM
Saturday, August 30: 5:15 PM
Sunday, August 31: 5:15 PM
Monday, September 1: 5:15 PM
Tuesday, September 2: 7:45 PM
CLICK ON SHOWTIME TO PURCHASE TICKETS, THEATER AND ACCESSIBILITY INFO
https://www.upstatefilms.org/the-encampments
The Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University began with 50 students pitching tents in the campus’s designated protest zone, then soon became an international movement demanding university administrations divest from Israel and weapons manufacturing. This stirring film’s protagonists include the personable Mahmoud Khalil (who was arrested in March as part of an effort to deport pro-Palestinian student activists). The strength of the film is that it avoids getting caught up in polemics, instead focusing solely on the encampments and the people who led them. (dir. Kei Pritsker, Michael T Workman, U.S., 2025, 83 min.)
“The Encampments is not just critical in capturing the real-time makings of a movement, but in laying bare the consequences of this response.” — Hollywood
The Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University began with 50 students pitching tents in the campus’s designated protest zone, then soon became an international movement demanding university administrations divest from Israel and weapons manufacturing. This stirring film’s protagonists include the personable Mahmoud Khalil (who was arrested in March as part of an effort to deport pro-Palestinian student activists). The strength of the film is that it avoids getting caught up in polemics, instead focusing solely on the encampments and the people who led them. (dir. Kei Pritsker, Michael T Workman, U.S., 2025, 83 min.)
“The Encampments is not just critical in capturing the real-time makings of a movement, but in laying bare the consequences of this response.” — Hollywood
Beacon Farmers' Market this Sunday
Beacon Farmers' Market
Sun, August 24 in Beacon at 11 am
(223 Main Street, Beacon)
This is the last scheduled Farmers' Market event for August in Dutchess County. It is our chance to get out there and talk to people about Gaza and about free speech. Our right wing government as well as our college presidents would like us to believe that criticizing Israel is antisemitic. But we the people see how this word is being used to defend the barbarous mass murders we see in Gaza.
We pass out watermelon slices (a symbol of a free Palestine) and flyers, so we get to talk to a lot of people from 11 am to 12 noon. Our group, https://mideastcrisis.org/ is setting up the table. But we hope that others can join us for a morning of truth telling.
Free, Free, Free Palestine!
THIS IS A RED ALERT: ISRAEL IS STARVING GAZA TO DEATH
Forced famine is here. Israel has blocked almost all humanitarian aid from entering Gaza since early March. Palestinians are passing out in the streets, with the vast majority of the population entering the lethal fourth and fifth stages of malnutrition.1
This is not a natural disaster—it's genocide, deliberately manufactured to wipe out Palestinians en masse.
As Israel's largest military funder, the U.S. has the power to pressure Israel to open the gates and allow all humanitarian aid to enter now. Not to mention that Congress could stop sending deadly weapons for genocide by passing the Block the Bombs Act, H.R. 3565.
Call now. It only takes a few minutes to leave your message:
Charles Schumer (202) 224-6542
Kirsten E. Gillibrand (202) 224-4451
Pat Ryan (202) 225-5614
Josh Riley (202) 225-5441
Sunday, Aug 3
Film showing of "How Israel Won the West"
I am reaching out to seek co-sponsorship from your organizations and to share this information in the hope that you can disseminate it in your networks. The RSVP link is https://actionnetwork.org/events/mid-hudson-valley-dsa-free-screening-how-israel-won-the-west. We would add the organization logos to the flyer, mention them at the event, and would welcome any help on the day of the event.
MECR has its first farmers' market this Saturday
"Over the past five weeks, Israel has shot and killed nearly 600 starved Palestinian people who were seeking aid at/near U.S.-run concentration camps, wounding thousands more.
Please understand: If the Israeli military shot one starved Palestinian person approaching food, it would be a heinous injustice that should be plastered on major news headlines around the world. But Israel is slaughtering dozens of Palestinians seeking aid every day. This is systematic mass murder, cold-blooded and deliberate, paid with our tax dollars and covered up by media silence." -USCPR
MECR has its first farmers' market this Saturday:
Sat, July 5 in Kingston: at 11 am (285 Wall St, Kingston)
->Felice, Fred
->Felice, Fred
As you can see, we have two people signed up to table and pass out flyers so far. We will have a table, Palestinian flag, some banners and sliced watermelon if possible. This is our time to connect to people and let them know about the Israel/US genocide in Gaza. It is our time to speak out against the carnage.
See you on Saturday!
Criticizing Israel is not antisemitic.
Defend Hudson Valley's freedom of speech.
We, the citizens and residents of Dutchess and Ulster Counties urge our representatives in local, state, and national governing bodies, commissions, and schools not to confuse criticism of Israel with antisemitism. Adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition does exactly that. It includes eleven examples of antisemitism, seven of which claim that criticism of the state of Israel is antisemitic.
This seriously flawed definition can be used to censor First Amendment free speech rights, and must not be given an influential voice. If adopted already, as New York State and some counties have done , it must be amended or replaced. We cannot allow protestors, teachers, students, workers, and public officials to be exposed to criminal liability, censure, firing, or false accusations of antisemitism simply because they dare criticize the state of Israel.
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