PROTEST: Oppose the Gaza Massacre! Protest Dinner & Movie with Sen. Cory Booker and Sen. Jeff Merkley

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Written by AUPHR, JVP, SUPER, SABEEL, LJHL, ISO, OFOR AUPHR, JVP, SUPER, SABEEL, LJHL, ISO, OFOR
Published: 27 August 2014 27 August 2014
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You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise. -- Maya Angelou, Still I Rise

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PROTEST: Oppose the Gaza Massacre! Protest Dinner & Movie with Sen. Cory Booker and Sen. Jeff Merkley

When: Wednesday, August 27th 2014 at 4:30pm

Where: 8005 SE Stark St, Portland, OR

Contact: Peter Miller, 503-358-7475, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Facebook: Oppose the Gaza Massacre!

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Israel's Operation Protective Edge, an aerial and ground assault on the Gaza Strip, has killed over 2100 people, mostly civilians, including over 493 children.  140 Gazan families have lost three or more loved ones.  The U.S. Senate voted unanimously to support this carnage.

Oregonians of conscience will be outside of Senator Merkley's fundraiser with New Jersey Senator Cory Booker reading the names of people killed by Israel's attack.  Senator Booker is the top recipient of pro-Israel money in this year's Senatorial campaigns, raising over $320,000.  Senator Booker has come out unabashedly for Israel's disproportionate attack on Gazans which has killed 70% civilians and has caused over $6 billion in damage to homes, apartment buildings, schools, mosques, hospitals, electrical generation, water systems, streets, farms, factories and on and on.

We call on Senator Merkley and Senator Booker to treat Palestinians as full human beings. We demand they work to end Israel's seven-year siege of Gaza, along with U.S. support for and complicity with Israel's decades-long occupation and denial of Palestinian human rights.

Maxine Fookson, member of Jewish Voice for Peace - Portland said "Senator Cory showed courage in Newark confronting a corrupt political system which favored special interests. We ask the same of Senators Booker and Merkley for Palestinians:  Treat Palestinians as human beings deserving of their basic human rights and confront the U.S. corrupt role in supporting Israel's military occupation of Palestinians. 

At the end of the film Street Fight that will be shown at the fundraiser, Cory Booker reads some lines from a poem by Maya Angelou, which applies to Gaza today:

You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may tread me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I'll rise. -- Maya Angelou, Still I Rise

 

Sponsored by Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights (AUPHR), Friends of Sabeel North America, Jewish Voice for Peace, Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights (SUPER), Lutherans for Justice in the Holy Land, International Socialist Organization, and Oregon Fellowship of Reconciliation.

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