<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I signed and hope you will, too.<div class="">Elizabeth Whelan<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">sue goldstein <<a href="mailto:ontheaccount@gmail.com" class="">ontheaccount@gmail.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Artists & Academics in Canada: Statement of Support for Palestine</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">October 15, 2023 at 1:50:41 AM EDT<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">undisclosed-recipients:;<br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><p dir="ltr" class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="">“We, the undersigned artists, academics, and cultural workers, pledge our support<br class="">for the Palestinian people in the face of over 75 years of Israeli apartheid, settler<br class="">colonialism, military occupation, and ethnic cleansing. </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="">“We understand that the events of this week did not occur in a vacuum. For two<br class="">decades, Israel has held Palestinians in Gaza under siege, in an open-air prison,<br class="">subjecting them to brutal massacres and weapons testing; depriving them of basic<br class="">goods, food, clean water, medicine, and medical supplies. Since 2000, more than<br class="">135,000 Palestinians have been detained by Israeli forces, including 21,000<br class="">Palestinian children and hundreds of academics, artists, journalists, human rights<br class="">defenders, and parliamentarians. Peaceful protests continue to be met with Israeli<br class="">sniper bullets. Palestinian journalists are targeted for bringing us news on the<br class="">ground, as in the case of longtime Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh,<br class="">who was shot in the head by Israeli forces while covering Israeli attacks on Jenin<br class="">refugee camp last year.”</span></font></p></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="4" class="">Read the full statement and sign on here:</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="4" class=""><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdKNJNzjf02KHv17wRfxo6jdPjU_5JBUCkjM_HJi3_W9zcKYg/viewform" class="">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdKNJNzjf02KHv17wRfxo6jdPjU_5JBUCkjM_HJi3_W9zcKYg/viewform</a></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small"><font size="4" class="">And please pass it on.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small"><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small"><img alt="Artists and Academics Statement on Palestine.jpg" class="" apple-inline="yes" id="3C0163F8-120C-454C-856F-AC860640A387" src="cid:ii_lnr1sgkb0"><br class=""></div><br class=""><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif" class="">There is difference and there is power. And who holds<br class="">the power decides the meaning of the difference.<br class=""><i class=""> June Jordan </i><br class=""><br class="">There's a world of difference between truth and facts.<br class="">Facts can obscure the truth.<br class=""><i class=""> Maya Angelou<br class=""><br class=""></i>A riot is the language of the unheard.<span class=""></span><i class=""><br class=""></i></span><div style="margin-left:160px" class=""><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif" class=""><i class=""> Martin Luther King Jr.<br class=""><br class=""></i></span></div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif" class="">Indeed, conceit, arrogance and egotism<br class="">are the essentials of patriotism.<br class=""> <i class="">Emma Goldman</i></span></div><div class=""><br class=""><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif" class=""><span class=""><span class="">Nobody in history has gotten their freedom by appealing</span></span></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif" class=""><span class=""><span class="">to the moral sense of the people oppressing them.</span></span></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif" class=""><i class=""><span class=""><span class=""> Assata Shakur</span></span></i></span></div><div class=""><div style="margin-left:120px" class=""><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif" class=""></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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