Local peace groups call on RI's Senate delegation to support ceasefire
The visits were part of the American Friends Service Committee’s (AFSC) national “No Tax Dollars for War Crimes” call for action.
Members of East Bay Citizens for Peace and other Rhode Island peace groups joined the American Friends Service Committee’s (AFSC) national “No Tax Dollars for War Crimes” on Monday to call for action in which people across the United States visited the district offices of their senators and representatives to “honor the dead and demand an end to the mass killing of people in Gaza.” Activists visited the downtown Providence offices of Rhode Island Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, both Democrats, to demand:
Cease-fire now
Humanitarian access to Gaza
No tax dollars for war crimes
Representatives from the offices of both Senators met with the activists outside and promised to relay their message to the Senators.
You can view the video here:
According to the AFSC, “Congress votes to send billions of dollars to Israel to buy the bombs that have already killed more than 11,000 people in less than a month, including over 4,500 children.”
Activists built memorials in front of congressional offices to memorialize those who have died and those who will die if a cease-fire and humanitarian access are not put in place.
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it is discouraging that these well intentioned people, and many like them, by seeing only one side (Hamas) are both politically ineffective, and also not helpful by driving people further apart instead of in helping develop a vision of how to bring people together.
I don't see how political leaders can take this seriously enough since in effect it asks Israel to allow Hamas to regroup and rearm and give up trying to remove them from power, while leaving the hostages in Hamas' control, even as Hamas has already said they intend to slaughter Israelis over and over again whenever they can to further their openly stated aim of eliminating the Jewish population there. Of course Israelis and their friends won't agree to that, and even if there was a ceasefire the same thig would happen again. I see no way Gazans can improve their lives with Hamas in power, with their ideology they are incapable of making peace. So is the Netanyahu coalition, Israel also has to give up their dream of indefinitely ruling over Palestinians.
Only by recognizing legitimate interests of BOTH sides can progress be actually made.
I was emotional and at times mumbled and stumbled. Indeed, my story is very personal. It is here, the top two posts on this web page: https://peternightingale.substack.com
The New Yorker—https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-extreme-ambitions-of-west-bank-settlers—has an example of what the Jabotinsky-Begin-Netanyahu line has led to. It might be an extreme example, but it is important and has been understood since 1948, as the New York Times letter to which I refer makes clear. This is what the US government supports with its corporate welfare for the US merchants of its war industry.
The US poverty death count since Gaza, November 7, 2023, today stands at 30,400. That's 800 a day.
All of the above is what spiritual death of the nation looks like!