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Please call your senators today and urge them to VOTE YES on S.J. Res. 124! Call your senator (Padilla and Schiff) at: (202) 224-3121
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I strongly oppose using our tax dollars to fight new wars while people in this country need affordable healthcare, housing, and food.
Warfare against Cuba will only deepen suffering and damage relations with a longtime neighbor.
Since the Administration’s tightened chokehold on the island, the shortages experienced before are now transitioning to complete lack. Cuba’s infant mortality rate has doubled: nearly 2000 newborns are dying every year.
Senator, please vote YES on S.J. Res. 124 today.
Please take one minute today to contact your senators and urge them to support it. And Take More Action Here!
Read about the flotilla to distribute medical and food aid to Gaza, which is still being blockaded while children are starving and patients have no medicine in violation of the October ceasefire . The aim is to establish a sea route for aid, and end the blockade. Read and donate below:
*(The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor website has been censored since this posting and thus the report is not available, but here is an Owen Jones report on the Euro-Med Monitor report. Trigger warning.) Personal note: my grandparents were always terrified of German Shepherds because of their use during the Holocaust against Jews. What a bitter irony that now Israel is now using them to commit atrocities.
Say NO to AB 2664– CA Bill to Jail Protesters–Call Assembly Judiciary Committee Members Please let members of the CA Assembly Judiciary Committee, chaired by single-payer advocate Ash Kalra(D-San Jose), know that you, along with the ACLU, oppose AB2664, a thinly veiled attempt to suppress protests of synagogues auctioning stolen Palestinian land. AB2664 is expected to pass out of committee without objection or amendments next Tuesday. Please call the committee members (scroll for script). Kalra (916) 319-2025 (D-San Jose), Macedo (916) 319-2033 (R-Chico), Bauer-Kahan (916) 319-2016 (D-Orinda), Bryan (916) 319-2055 (D-Los Angeles), Connolly (916) 319-2012 (D-Marin), Dixon (916) 319-2072 (D-Coastal Orange County), Harabedian (916) 319-2041 (D-Pasadena/Altadena), Pacheco (916) 319-2064 (D-Downey/Norwalk), Papan (916) 319-2021 (D-San Mateo), Sanchez (916) 319-2071 (R-Mission Viejo), Stefani (916) 319-2019 (D-Daily City, parts of SF), Chavez Zbur (916) 319-2051 (D-Santa Monica/Hollywood). Script: I urge _________ to vote NO on AB 2664 when the assembly judiciary committee meets on Tuesday. This bill is an unconstitutional attempt to jail protesters at synagogues and churches hosting IDF soldiers and illegal auctions of stolen Palestinian land. AB2664 would also serve to shield churches accused of sex trafficking and financial fraud. Anyone approaching a congregant (within eight feet of a 100 foot bubble) with a flyer or educational sign could face a $10,000-25,000 fine and up to a year in jail. We already have the FACE Act of 1994, a federal law that prohibits the use of force and threats of force at religious worship. Vote NO on AB 2664. The bill, authored by Bauer-Kahan (D-Orinda), a member of the CA Legislative Jewish Caucus, would make it a crime, punishable of up to $10,000 and up to a year in jail on the first offense, $25,000 and up to a year in jail on the second offense, to approach anyone with a protest flyer or educational sign within eight feet of a 100-foot bubble around a religious institution and its adjacent parking lot or nearby public sidewalk. This could easily restrict speech at nearby private residences located next to a place of worship. PLEASE SHARE THIS ACTION ALERT. In solidarity, Marcy WinogradCo-Chair, Central Coast Antiwar Coalition
Fight real antisemitism. Protect Palestinian human rights. The two are not mutually exclusive.
Trump is using a definition of antisemitism that dangerously conflates antisemitism with criticism of Israel — to silence pro-Palestinian speech, subpoena universities, cut university funding, and detain people for exercising their First Amendment rights.
California’s AB 715, a 2025 antisemitism law, indirectly uses that same definition: the IHRA definition. If left unchanged, AB 715 could be weaponized in similar ways to how Trump is using it nationally.
AB 2159 helps to fix. It would:
Remove the indirect reference to the IHRA definition so criticism of Israeli policy isn’t treated as antisemitism
Require the Antisemitism Coordinator to be a qualified, merit-based hire — not a political appointee
Eliminate vague language that lets politically motivated groups file complaints against teachers who discuss Palestinian culture and rights
But AB 2159 first needs to move out of the Rules Committee, then make its way through committee to the Assembly floor. We need people making calls at every step of the way.
Real antisemitism — rooted in white nationalist ideology — is a serious threat. The same movement driving antisemitism is attacking LGBTQ+ people, erasing histories of communities of color, dismantling DEIA, promoting Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism, and supporting the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. We have to fight all of it. We cannot do that with a law that equates advocacy for Palestinian human rights with antisemitism.
