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Samidoun is a human rights organization, not a terror group!

This week, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control in a joint action with Canada Public Safety Ministery have officially designating the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, or “Samidoun,” as a foreign terrorist organization and you would never guess why. Toronto Star ran a story yesterday, October 15, 2024, citing Canadian officials who accused the organization of spreading hate. Seriously? The US' reason was that Samidoun act as a sham charity that serves as a fundraiser for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Again, zero evidence. I will get to that in a in minute! 

War’s Victims Speak the Deepest Truth

“The past carries unforgettable trauma and pain across the land and among generations of refugees; yet we choose to transform victimhood into agency. We want to be the authors of our future.”

Let these words resonate. In a sense, they’re all we have — if we oppose war and envision a future that transcends it. I’ve quoted these words of Ali Abu Awwad before. They’re part of the Palestinian Nonviolence Charter, but they reach beyond Palestine: deep into the soul, and the hope, of all humanity.

The Safety Trump

‘Text Me You Haven’t Died’ - My Sister was the 166th Doctor to Be Murdered in Gaza

"Your lives will continue. With new events and new faces. They are the faces of your children, who will fill your homes with noise and laughter." 

 These were the last words written by my sister in a text message to one of her daughters. 

 Dr. Soma Baroud was murdered on October 9 when Israeli warplanes bombed a taxi that carried her and other tired Gazans somewhere near the Bani Suhaila roundabout near Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip. 

 I am still unable to understand whether she was on her way to the hospital, where she worked, or leaving the hospital to go home. Does it even matter? 

Two eco events today

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Digging Into Donald Trump’s Climate Record”
Wednesday, October 16, at 12pm US Eastern Time
The 2024 US elections are undoubtedly about climate change, and audiences need to understand both candidates’ positions and records on climate. While in office, former president Donald Trump withdrew from the 2015 Paris Agreement, threw out more than 100 environmental regulations, and had “climate change” removed from the EPA's site. On the 2024 campaign trail, the former president reportedly told Big Oil executives that he would trash President Joe Biden's climate policy accomplishments in exchange for $1 billion in campaign donations.
Join a panel of journalists October 16, at 12pm US Eastern Time, for a one-hour discussion on Trump's climate agenda during his first term, and what his campaign promises and political affiliations mean for a potential second term.

PANELISTS

More on Israeli Atrocities

That Israel is now attacking United Nations peacekeepers in south Lebanon might well be decisive in turning its few remaining “friends” against it. Spain, France, Ireland and Italy, all of which contribute to the peacekeepers force (UNIFIL), and which continued to look the other way when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his band of war criminals committed atrocity after atrocity against Arabs, are now finding themselves mortified when European soldiers are being attacked and wounded by cannon fire from snipers and Israeli tanks. In one incident, Israeli armored vehicles smashed their way through the gate of a UNIFIL base, allegedly using chemical weapons that injured 15 UN soldiers.

STOP. OBSESSING. OVER. THE POLLS.

Jeez, my mailbox is exploding! Everyone is freaking out over the latest polls, the pessimistic pundits, the sudden (?) rise of Trump, the warnings of doom and gloom! Mike! Mike! Please tell us he’s gonna lose! She’s gonna win! Flowers will bloom in December! Unicorns will ride on the backs of lions! The McRib will return!

Whoa. Everybody please calm down. We’ve all been here before. Exactly 3 weeks til Election Day — so that means it’s official, folks! We’ve entered the fear-mongering, pendulum-swing stage of the election season. We are no longer basking in the glow of Biden’s withdrawal and the adrenaline shot from Kamala’s injection into this race. That’s not surprising. It’s expected. Now, this is back to being a normal election season — the news outlets and pundits are salivating for their polls, and our side is cowering in fear and despair.

My friends, STOP OBSESSING OVER THE POLLS. 

Wait, what’s that I hear? “They’re tied at 48-48!!!” 

I said, STOP. OBSESSING. OVER. THE POLLS. 

FEMA Season

Students for Gaza: Campus to Elections

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Tuesday, October 15, 2024, 4:00 PM
MPower will host a conversation with me, Ahmad Abuznaid, Executive Director of the US Campaign For Palestinian Rights, Students for Justice in Palestine, and CAIR CA.  

Join us for a crucial online conversation Tuesday, October 15th, on advocating for Gaza, student organizing, and the upcoming election.  

Register here. 

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