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Berkeley City Council Cancels Ceasefire Meeting; Activists Respond with a Spirited Rally
Zionist City Hall vs. Pro-Palestine Citizenry
“I am committed to giving the voiceless a voice… we need to stand strong.”
Grace Morizawa, Chair of the Berkeley Peace & Justice Commission, exhorted the crowd of 100+ activists on the evening of September 3rd at the South Berkeley Senior Center to never give in to the repression of Berkeley’s tyrannical city government.
Authoritarianism behavior is normalized in Berkeley City Hall, it seems. Igor Tregub, a new city council member, ordered longtime Peace & Justice Commission member Diana
Bohn to withdraw her support of a ceasefire revolution. When she declined, he had her removed from the Commission, and replaced with a staunch Zionist.
The Berkeley City Manager subsequently canceled the Commission’s meeting scheduled that night. But the fight wasn’t over…
Swiftly responding, an impromptu rally was held to support the Commission’s goal to get Berkeley to adopt a “Resolution for an Immediate and Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza, and an End to U.S. Military Aid to Israel, and Support for Palestinian Self-Determination.”
Berkeley has a glorious radical past, but now it’s an embarrassing hub of militaristic conservatism. Many neighboring cities - Oakland, Richmond, Hayward, Daly City, etc. - passed measures condemning Israel’s brutality, but myopic Berkeley continues to rah-rah the apartheid, racist, colonialist state.
Numerous dynamic speakers roused the crowd, including Dr. Feroze Sidwa (trauma surgeon recently returned from Gaza), Zeiad Abbas (MECA), Lara Kiswani (AROC), Professor Hatem Bazian (SJP), Andrea Pritchett (Berkeley Cop Watch) and more.
Grace Morizawa, Chair of the Berkeley Peace & Justice Commission, exhorted the crowd of 100+ activists on the evening of September 3rd at the South Berkeley Senior Center to never give in to the repression of Berkeley’s tyrannical city government.
Authoritarianism behavior is normalized in Berkeley City Hall, it seems. Igor Tregub, a new city council member, ordered longtime Peace & Justice Commission member Diana
Bohn to withdraw her support of a ceasefire revolution. When she declined, he had her removed from the Commission, and replaced with a staunch Zionist.
The Berkeley City Manager subsequently canceled the Commission’s meeting scheduled that night. But the fight wasn’t over…
Swiftly responding, an impromptu rally was held to support the Commission’s goal to get Berkeley to adopt a “Resolution for an Immediate and Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza, and an End to U.S. Military Aid to Israel, and Support for Palestinian Self-Determination.”
Berkeley has a glorious radical past, but now it’s an embarrassing hub of militaristic conservatism. Many neighboring cities - Oakland, Richmond, Hayward, Daly City, etc. - passed measures condemning Israel’s brutality, but myopic Berkeley continues to rah-rah the apartheid, racist, colonialist state.
Numerous dynamic speakers roused the crowd, including Dr. Feroze Sidwa (trauma surgeon recently returned from Gaza), Zeiad Abbas (MECA), Lara Kiswani (AROC), Professor Hatem Bazian (SJP), Andrea Pritchett (Berkeley Cop Watch) and more.
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The Berkeley Peace and Justice commission will be voting, at their September 30 meeting, on a resolution to present to the City Council that calls for a ceasefire and end to military aid to Israel.
I appreciate the recent good work of "Hank Pellissier", and encourage all concerned to look back at what happened when the same council, and city officials, were confronted with the leaked messages from the Berkeley Police that mocked the homeless, and revealed a quota system for accelerating their criminalization.
The matter was quickly brushed aside so that everyone in City Hall could get the raises they need to ensure their position among the upper crust that always benefits at the expense of all others.
Along with this trend, there is another, and that is the rise of Silicon Valley Marketeers working for Israeli tech startups, and their ownership of your officials, who of course must be paid well for this diligent suppression of "undesirables".
Nothing will change until further revelations are presented to authorities beyond the sacred boundaries of this Faux progressive community.
Dave
indyradio.net
The matter was quickly brushed aside so that everyone in City Hall could get the raises they need to ensure their position among the upper crust that always benefits at the expense of all others.
Along with this trend, there is another, and that is the rise of Silicon Valley Marketeers working for Israeli tech startups, and their ownership of your officials, who of course must be paid well for this diligent suppression of "undesirables".
Nothing will change until further revelations are presented to authorities beyond the sacred boundaries of this Faux progressive community.
Dave
indyradio.net
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