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AIPAC, Hands
Off!
Chat with peacemakers and experts on Zoom:
Tuesday, Apr 15 at
5PM PT/8PM ET
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Dear John,
As Israel seizes
Rafah, turns Gaza to rubble and
blocks food, water and medicine to two million people, the world
pushes back on US-funded genocide. Canada’s Prime Minister backs an
arms embargo on Israel and countries in the Global South organize The
Hague group to block weapons shipments to Israel. Here in the US,
organizations and individuals are taking their outrage to the United
Nations, to the electoral arena and to the press and
academia.
Join CODEPINK Congress as we look
at two major lobby groups, AIPAC and the weapons industry, and uplift
acts of resistance to genocide.
And hear a Special News Update from
Seth Donnelly of Taxpayers Against Genocide (TAG). On
April 7, Taxpayers
Against Genocide (TAG) submitted a report
to the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) that charges U.S. officials with
directly participating in genocide in Gaza. TAG is filing this
historic report while the HRC is carrying out its Universal Periodic
Review (UPR) of the US government, something that it does for every UN
member state only once every four and a half years.
Chat with peacemakers and
experts
Tuesday, Apr 15 at 5pm PT / 8 pm ET:
Featured Guest:
Former Rep. Jamaal Bowman is back. Less than
a year after losing a hard-fought congressional Democratic primary
battle, the unapologetically progressive
politician is launching a new super PAC called Built to Win to serve as a
counterweight to well-funded groups like the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the United Democracy Project. Built to
Win specifically targets non-White voters who have become
disillusioned with the Democratic Party – a group that has been
especially difficult for more traditional PACs to
reach. Bowman is a former
educator who served, from 2021-2025, as
House representative for New
York City’s 16th CD. After
being recruited by Justice Democrats, Bowman ran for Congress on an
anti-poverty, anti-racist platform to defeat 16-term
incumbent Eliot Engel in the 2020
primary.
Annelle Sheline, PhD, is a
research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a
think tank dedicated to advocating for a less militaristic US foreign
policy, and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. She served
for a year at the US Department
of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human
Rights, and Labor's Office of Near East
Affairs before resigning in March 2024 over the
Biden administration's unconditional support
for Israel's military operations in
Gaza. Sheline is also a non-resident senior fellow at the
Arab Center of Washington DC, as well as a
non-resident fellow at
Rice University's Baker Institute for Public
Policy. Her current work focuses on US foreign policy
towards the Middle East, focused in particular on the impacts of US
militarism and the Global War on Terror. She is the author of a new
report Under Primacy, Weapons Sales Will Always
Supersede Human Rights.
Take Action!
Tell the IAEP to condemn the massacre of
first responders in Gaza!
15 Palestinian first responders
were found in a mass grave in Gaza on March 23 — executed by the
Israeli occupation forces while trying to save lives. Some were found
with their hands zip-tied, shot at close range. One was a UN
worker.
The International Association of
EMTs and Paramedics (IAEP), which claims to protect emergency
responders, has said nothing. This silence is not neutral — it enables
the continued targeting of medics in Gaza. It’s time to speak
up.
Sign the petition to demand the
IAEP speak out and stand with Palestinian first responders. Their
colleagues are being killed for doing the same work EMTs perform every
day.
Google Group & Local
Leaders
Join our CODEPINK Congress Google
Group, a space for sharing events and actions. Request to be added here!
Become a CODEPINK Congress liaison in
your district to mobilize support for demilitarization and progressive
foreign policy! Sign up here as a volunteer organizer.
And finally, view the entire CODEPINK
Congress archives here.
Onward toward peace and
justice,
Medea, Marcy, Grace and the entire
CODEPINK team
