U.S (NATIVE ORGANIZERS ALLIANCE ACTION FUND): Our Indigenous values and traditions teach us that all life is precious and interconnected. CEASEFIRE IN GAZA NOW !

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friend, 

 

Between Saturday, October 7 and October 17, at least 1,400 Israelis and 3,000 Palestinians have been killed -- including 30 U.S. citizens. Many, many more have been wounded and traumatized.

Civilians always pay the highest price in the breakout of war and violence. As chaos rises, following the attack by Hamas on Israel and Israel’s continued bombing, Israeli politicians have openly broadcast their collective punishment of innocent civilians.

Relentless bombing continues to pound the densely populated Gaza Strip, where Israeli and American hostages, Palestinian Americans, and Palestinian civilians are all in the line of fire. The Israeli government has cut off water, food, fuel, medicine, and electricity as well. Refusing to accept Palestinian Americans from Gaza or to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid into Gaza is also a violation of international law.

This is a humanitarian crisis jeopardizing people throughout the region. With the visit of President Biden to Israel today, we have a responsibility as Indigenous peoples and allies in the U.S. to push our political leaders to call for a ceasefire and deliver humanitarian aid into Gaza as soon as possible.

But President Biden’s administration and most U.S. Congress members are not listening to calls for a ceasefire even as Jewish leaders and activists are sitting in at the US Capitol demanding a ceasefire and an end to the assault on civilian lives, saying, "not in our name !"

Please add your name now to support the Ceasefire Now Resolution in Congress, which urges the Biden administration to call for an immediate de-escalation and ceasefire and to send humanitarian aid to the people under siege and trapped in Gaza.

SIGN ON

In announcing the Ceasefire Now Resolution, Representatives Cori Bush (MO-01), Rashida Tlaib (MI-12), André Carson (IN-07), Summer Lee (PA-12), Delia C. Ramirez (IL-03), Jamaal Bowman (NY-16), Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12), Jesús “Chuy” García (IL-04), Jonathan Jackson (IL-01), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), Ilhan Omar (MN-05), Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), and Nydia Velázquez (NY-07) are some of the only members of Congress calling for a ceasefire.

Stefanie Fox, Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace Action, said while endorsing the resolution : “We call on every member of Congress who values the preciousness of human life to join them in demanding a ceasefire now.”

Our Indigenous values and traditions teach us that all life, human and the natural world, is precious and interconnected.

The only Palestinian American in Congress, Rep. Rashida Tlaib said that her colleagues are trying to silence her voice “because I want the violence to stop, no matter whether it’s toward Israelis or toward Palestinians.” She said : "I cannot believe I have to beg our country to value every human life, no matter their faith or ethnicity. We cannot lose sight of the humanity in each other."

In addition to immediate humanitarian aid and a ceasefire, we also need actual negotiations to end the military occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, which harms both the Israeli and Palestinian people. No one is safe with the current status quo. For now, the focus is on saving as many lives as possible in the region.

Please sign onto the Ceasefire Now Resolution if you agree: The U.S. government must urgently save Palestinian, Israeli, and American civilian lives. Our tax dollars go to Israel’s military, so we must push Israel’s government to stop the siege on Gaza and ensure humanitarian aid to Gaza now.

 

Hawwih (thank you) for taking action in defense of all life. 

 

Judith LeBlanc (Caddo)
Executive Director.

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