<div dir="ltr">THANKS ELIZABETH, IT IS A WONDERFUL STATEMENT OF SUPPORT FOR THE OPPRESSED PALESTINIANS.<div>PEACE, DWYER</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 9:58 AM Elizabeth Whelan via Sundaycommunity <<a href="mailto:sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca">sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">I signed and hope you will, too.<div>Elizabeth Whelan<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">sue goldstein <<a href="mailto:ontheaccount@gmail.com" target="_blank">ontheaccount@gmail.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Artists & Academics in Canada: Statement of Support for Palestine</b><br></span></div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">October 15, 2023 at 1:50:41 AM EDT<br></span></div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">undisclosed-recipients:;<br></span></div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif"><p dir="ltr"><font size="4"><span>“We, the undersigned artists, academics, and cultural workers, pledge our support<br>for the Palestinian people in the face of over 75 years of Israeli apartheid, settler<br>colonialism, military occupation, and ethnic cleansing. </span></font></p><p dir="ltr"><font size="4"><span>“We understand that the events of this week did not occur in a vacuum. For two<br>decades, Israel has held Palestinians in Gaza under siege, in an open-air prison,<br>subjecting them to brutal massacres and weapons testing; depriving them of basic<br>goods, food, clean water, medicine, and medical supplies. Since 2000, more than<br>135,000 Palestinians have been detained by Israeli forces, including 21,000<br>Palestinian children and hundreds of academics, artists, journalists, human rights<br>defenders, and parliamentarians. Peaceful protests continue to be met with Israeli<br>sniper bullets. Palestinian journalists are targeted for bringing us news on the<br>ground, as in the case of longtime Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh,<br>who was shot in the head by Israeli forces while covering Israeli attacks on Jenin<br>refugee camp last year.”</span></font></p></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif"><font size="4">Read the full statement and sign on here:</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif"><font size="4"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdKNJNzjf02KHv17wRfxo6jdPjU_5JBUCkjM_HJi3_W9zcKYg/viewform" target="_blank">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">And please pass it on.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:small"><font size="4"><br></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" id="m_4976211214106322503C0163F8-120C-454C-856F-AC860640A387" src="cid:18b33a4954cda995a491"><br></div><br><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">There is difference and there is power. And who holds<br>the power decides the meaning of the difference.<br><i>                                                                     June Jordan </i><br><br>There's a world of difference between truth and facts.<br>Facts can obscure the truth.<br><i>                                                                    Maya Angelou<br><br></i>A riot is the language of the unheard.<span></span><i><br></i></span><div style="margin-left:160px"><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif"><i>                  Martin Luther King Jr.<br><br></i></span></div><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">Indeed, conceit, arrogance and egotism<br>are the essentials of patriotism.<br>                                                                  <i>Emma Goldman</i></span></div><div><br><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span><span>Nobody in history has gotten their freedom by appealing</span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span><span>to the moral sense of the people oppressing them.</span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif"><i><span><span>                                                                  Assata Shakur</span></span></i></span></div><div><div style="margin-left:120px"><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif"></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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