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STOP GAZA GENOCIDE
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STOP GAZA GENOCIDE: CEASEFIRE NOW!

uscpr.org/StopGazaGenocide
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1.🚨Tell Congress: HANDS OFF RAFAH!


URGENT: After the Senate passed a massive $26 billion in weapons for genocide, Israel announced its intention to move forward with a full-scale ground invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza. Hands off Rafah now!

Hit the streets and demand an end to the U.S.-funded genocide in Palestine.

TAKE ACTION:

2. STUDENTS: Join the Popular University for Gaza!

National Students for Justice in Palestine has issued this call-to-action for students across the country to rise up with the Palestinian people and demand their universities divest from genocide and apartheid:

“Our universities have chosen profit and reputation over the lives of the people of Palestine and our will as students. The supposed power of our administrators is nothing compared to the strength of the united students, staff, and faculty committed to realizing justice and upholding Palestinian liberation on campus. In the footsteps of our comrades at Rutgers-New Brunswick SJP, Tufts SJP, and now Columbia SJP, we will seize our universities and force the administration to divest, for the people of Gaza! Join the Popular University, take back our institutions!”

Here are ways we suggest that non-students can support:

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3. Support the Freedom Flotilla to break the siege on Gaza

The Freedom Flotilla to Gaza will set sail soon to break Israel’s illegal sea blockade and deliver 5,500 tons of urgent humanitarian aid. Due to the high risk of Israeli military assault and interference, it’s critical for Congress to speak up now to protect the flotilla and its emergency mission. The lives of Palestinians in Gaza, as well as those on the boat, depend on it.

TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to protect the Freedom Flotilla.

4. Look up: How much of your community’s tax dollars fund genocide?

Every year, the U.S. government writes Israel a blank check for at least $3.8 billion. With your federal U.S. tax dollars, the Israeli military is bombing Gaza and wiping out entire Palestinian families right now. Find out how much people in your city pay, and what could be funded instead.

See the map at NotMyTaxDollars.org & share on social media

Wherever you go, make sure everyone knows that Israel is mass murdering Palestinian families with our tax dollars. Find flyers, signs, and other resources in your Not My Tax Dollars Activist Toolbox.

Share the people’s demands: Fund care, not killing! Our U.S. government should be funding housing, healthcare, education, and climate & economic justice instead of militarism, policing, and prisons. Share this graphic on social media with the hashtag #NotMyTaxDollars.

Download this shareable graphic.

5. Organize your local community to stop arming Israel

Find ways to take action below, from visuals to protests to birddogging. You can find even more resources, like flyers, signs, and toolkits, in your Not My Tax Dollars Activist Toolbox.

VISUALS: Distribute posters/flyers about how much money your Senators receive from AIPAC or J Street.
Look up your senator on OpenSecrets.

Example from HoCo 4 A Free Palestine


MOVEMENT: Disrupt transportation, especially around an event where the Senator will be: a car caravan to their town hall or public event, or flooding the train station with people. Ex: Jewish Voice for Peace bridge actions

PROTEST: Disrupt business as usual of our elected officials or their political allies (ex: local electeds with relationship to your Senators).

Ex: CA state assembly disruption

WAKE-UP CALLS: Conduct a ‘wake up call’ visit to members of Congress’s houses or offices.

See JVP Bay Area photo by Brooke Anderson, PYM DMV

GO BIG: Organize posters, a banner drop, mass postering, or projection in a key location likely to be seen by elected officials and their allies. Consider using this image with credit to @fifithephoenix

BIRDDOG: Birddog members of Congress so that they can’t be seen in public without being confronted about their choice to fund killing over care for constituents’ human needs. Here’s an example from #ShutDownDC! Special shame on Senators Warner, King, Kelly, Cornyn, Gillibrand, Ossoff who met with Netanyahu in early Jan.!

To get support from our staff & organizing coaches to pull it off, contact leah@uscpr.org.

6. Find more protests: uscpr.org/protests


Find a protest near you. Text and invite all your friends. Ask everyone in attendance to complete an action tool on the spot. Print your signs.

These protest signs are free to use. You’ll find USCPR protest signs, as well as signs by artists who’ve granted their permission for printing them for protests. Also see the protest art collection bit.ly/Pal-Art.

7. Birddog your member of Congress

There will be NO REST for Congress while they fund and enable genocide. Blood is on their hands. Find out where your member of Congress will be, and approach them with your questions and demands. Bring a camera! See this example. Use the “How to Pressure Congress: From Birddogging to Sit-ins” kit.

Learn how to birddog at bit.ly/PalestineBirddogging.

8. Sign up for Gaza text alerts

Get the most important updates in real time. With so much social media censorship, this is the fastest way to find out about actions you can take.


Sign up at uscpr.org/SMSactions.

9. Send a big message with visuals


Photo by Jennifer Falcon

Drop a banner over a highway or local hotspot. Make it large so everyone can see your demands from a distance!

Or, broadcast a light projection with your message at night on the side of a building or flat surface. See this example protesting AIPAC.

10. Organize for a local city council resolution

Build a campaign to pass a ceasefire resolution or divestment resolution at your city council.

Learn more at bit.ly/CityCouncilToolkit.


11. Boycott, Divestment, & Sanctions (BDS)

Modeled after anti-apartheid organizing in South Africa, BDS tactics are an effective strategy for Palestinian rights. See this updated graphic on complicit companies to boycott. Read more.

Print out BDS stickers and flyers to wheatpaste around your neighborhood. Find designs here from @GentleSuns.

   

12. Wheatpaste flyers around your neighborhood

You can wheatpaste flyers on walls, electrical boxes, and other public spaces along the sidewalk. This is a great way to get our your message locally, whether you’re calling out Genocide Joe for his complicity, spreading the message for ceasefire now, or highlighting a BDS target. Here’s a guide to wheatpasting and a printable zine from @GentleSuns on Instagram. You can also use SureGrip wallpaper adhesive mixed with water, to save time!
    

Download flyers for wheatpasting.

13. Mobilize a social media storm

Organize your local networks, pick a date/time for a social media storm targeting your member of Congress, and flood their feeds with your demands all at once.

If your Congressmember hasn’t called for a ceasefire yet, then post this message on social media, tagging their social media handle. You can also tweet at your elected officials using uscpr.org/GazaTweet.

Hi [@handle]: As your constituent, I’m urging you to demand a permanent ceasefire


Palestinians in Gaza are living through genocide as Israel bombs, starves, and displaces them. Their lives are on the line with every passing second

Stop arming Israel! Speak up now!

Download images for social media.

14. Hold a vigil for Gaza

Mourn and pray together to honor our Palestinian martyrs killed. In their memories, you can read out their names, share their stories, or display their photos with candles and tea lights. Close by taking action together and emailing Congress on the spot (uscpr.org/GazaEmail).

Print this action flyer to hand out.

15. Text all your friends, group chats, your whole contact list

Copy/paste this message:

Hey! Urgent action is needed to stop the ongoing genocide in Gaza. 🚨 Palestinian people in Gaza are asking us to drive as much pressure as possible for a PERMANENT CEASEFIRE NOW! Please use these links to call and email your elected officials.

  1. 📧 Email Congress: STOP ARMING ISRAEL! | USCPR Action
    🔗 Link:     https://uscpr.org/GazaEmail

  1. 📞 Call Congress: END THE GENOCIDE! | USCPR Action
    🔗 Link:     https://uscpr.org/GazaCall 
  2. For more info including protests and other actions you can take, see https://uscpr.org/StopGazaGenocide 


Your voice matters. It’s extremely important to pressure our elected officials to stop the killing. Thank you for taking action with me.

16. Tell the U.S. media to stop platforming the ADL

The ADL, or as many call it the Apartheid Defense League, is not an ally to our movements. The ADL is a right-wing organization that uses inflammatory, racist rhetoric to mislead the public, cover up Israel’s war crimes, and smear activists for Palestinian rights. Tell media outlets to stop platforming the ADL.

Write to the media with the #DropTheADL media toolkit.

17. Print out a yard sign for your home

Display a Palestine sign in your yard or window. You can also show your support by flying the Palestinian flag and wearing a keffiyeh.


Download signs here.

18. Follow these accounts on social media:

Instagram:

Twitter:

19. Share this toolkit on Instagram and on TikTok

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