SOLIDARITY W. PALESTINE

SIGN: djs against apartheid • musicians for palestine • artists against apartheid

PRIORITY (nov '24):
tell congress [now] senate, STOP HR 9495!!!!!

every name below has a phone # & link to email contact page! i rec something like, "I'm calling to ask that you please OPPOSE H.R. 9495, the Stop Terror-Financing & Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act. Granting any administration the ability to destroy nonprofits at will would be a nightmare, & there's no way to predict how the incoming administration will wield this legislation!!"

[ CONTACT ]

ACTUAL PHONE CALLS (u can do it!!!)

1. FIND YOUR REPS

2a. CALL! always ID YOURSELF AS A CONSTITUENT (at least give neighborhood); scroll down for ppl to call + scripts; ideal to call 9am-5pm, M-F, but u can try whenev cuz it's mostly voicemail lately anyway!!

2b. u can get connected to ALL reps, w/ scripts, via USCPR tool (i stopped using this cuz i often make single calls *&* cuz i instinctively hang up after 1st call instead of hitting [*] whoops... but i bet u can do it!!)

[ NYC-WIDE ]

• sen Chuck Schumer – 212-486-4430
• sen Kirsten Gillibrand – 212-688-6262
• gov Kathy Hochul – 518-474-8390; ask abt this gross sh*t
• cringe machine Eric Adams (all adams #s direct to 311; ask for his office there or write here)

[ CONGRESS ]

☑️ = sponsored h.res 786 for ceasefire
✓ = voted against HR 9495
❌ = voted in favor or abstained for HR 9495

BRONX
13th: Adriano Espaillat – 646-740-3632 ✓
14th: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – 718-662-5970 ☑️ ✓
15th: Ritchie Torres – 718-503-9610 ❌ (didn't vote)
16th: Jamaal Bowman – 914-323-5550 ☑️ ✓

BROOKLYN
7th: Nydia Velázquez – 718-599-3658 ☑️ ✓
8th: Hakeem Jeffries ✓
–– central 718-237-2211, south 718-373-0033
9th: Yvette Clarke – 718-287-1142 ✓
10th: Dan Goldman – 718-312-7575 ✓
11th: Nicole Malliotakis (R) – 718-306-1620 ❌

MNHTN
10th: Dan Goldman – 212-822-7878 ✓
12th: Jerry Nadler – 212-367-7350 ✓
13th: Adriano Espaillat – 212-663-3900 ✓

QUEENS
3rd: Tom Suozzi – 718-631-0400 ❌
5th: Gregory Meeks ✓
–– jamaica: 718-725-6000, rockaway: 347-230-4032
6th: Grace Meng – 718-358-6364 ✓
7th: Nydia Velázquez – 718-340-6244 ☑️ ✓
14th: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – 718-662-5970 ☑️ ✓

STATEN ISL: Nicole Malliotakis – 718-568-2870 ❌

[ RIDGEWOOD ]

(...sry this is *my* to-do list lol, find yr full list here)

• NY-07 [congressional] rep Nydia M. Velázquez co-sponsored the house ceasefire bill; u can call (202-225-2361 or 718-340-6244) & say thanks!! some ~no thanks~ mfs include...
• district 30's Robert Holden (212-788-7381; literally called anti-zionist protests "terrorism")
• queens boro prez Donovan J. Richards, Jr. (718-286-3000; ousted cec mem for pro-palestine tweets)

STUFF U CAN SAY

USCPR script: "My name is [YOUR FIRST & LAST NAME], and I'm a constituent of [REP OR SENATOR]. I'm calling about Palestine & Israel. [REP OR SENATOR X] must [call] for 1) a total & permanent ceasefire, 2) humanitarian aid allowed to enter Gaza, including reinstating funding to UNRWA, 3) an end to Israel's siege on Gaza, & 4) no more weapons or funding to the Israeli military. I support a permanent ceasefire, along with over 80 Congress members & 67% of American voters. I'm urgently asking [REP/SENATOR X] to call for a permanent ceasefire."

JVP script: "Israel's genocide against Palestinians has become one of the deadliest & most destructive military campaigns in recent history. [Democrats] must call on the Biden administration to demand an immediate lasting ceasefire, & to stop sending weapons to the Israeli military. This is the only way to stop Israel's mass assaults, war crimes, & genocide against Palestinians in Gaza ... ensure the release of hostages ... rush desperately needed humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza who are being starved by Israeli siege ... address the root causes of everything happening — 75 years of Israeli military occupation and apartheid — & to end U.S. complicity in this systemic oppression."

expect answering machines –– but if you reach a Real Person, remember they're prolly a lowly staffer, likely a young person who feels gross representing their sellout employer. be adamant (& depending on the office, feel free to suggest they resign lol), but remember you're not speaking directly to a person in power; save the volume for yelling at those f*ckers outside their offices & homes & in the street!

EMAIL + LETTERS

• every name listed above links to their contact page, which likely includes a form! u can also...
• email congress // uscpr auto-email
• email congress // JVP auto-mail
• email white house staff // ask them to resign!
• email white house // ...keep radicalizing biden interns!!!! my fall '23 biden script included "I wish you grace in the face of your certain defeat, & enough years of health to try to make amends for your devastating moral failure." but let's be real: no one has that many years!! now i just crib adalah's line, short & [bitter]sweet: "Biden's legacy is genocide. Let it not be ours."

PAST

–– 2024-11-21: ughhhh they changed the number of votes needed, now it's passed grrr... tho we did flip people (see: all actions HR 9495): nine days earlier it was 256-145, this time 219-184 –– NY STATE YES VOTES (BAD): D'Esposito, LaLota, Langworthy, Lawler, Malliotakis, Molinaro, Stefanik, Suozzi, Tenney, Williams; DIDN'T VOTE (COWARDS): Garbarino, Torres (at least they didn't vote in favor like the first time); LISTENED TO CONSTITUENTS & FLIPPED: Bowman (didn't vote the first time), Meng, Ryan
–– 2024-11-12: WE DID IT!!!!!! CONGRESS VOTED THAT BITCH DOWN WOOO
–– 2024-11-11: PRIORITY: tell congress STOP HR 9495!!!!!
every name below has a phone # & link to email contact page! i rec something like, "I'm calling / writing to ask that you please OPPOSE H.R. 9495, the Stop Terror-Financing & Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act. Granting any administration the ability to destroy nonprofits at will would be a nightmare, & there's no way to predict how the incoming administration will wield this legislation!!"

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[ DONATE ]

• Crips for eSims for Gaza // "disabled diasporic Asian queer" disability justice crowdfund for eSims; you can also do this yourself directly via...

• eSims for Gaza // order an eSim & forward qr code install msg here

• aid, advocacy, activism: UNRWA • Palestinian Feminist Collective x MECA (or, individually, PFC (as thanks for their toolkits?), MECA) • WOL (Within Our Lifetime; single donation link works) • PYM (Palestinian Youth Movement) • Al-Awda • MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians) • PCRF (Palestine Children’s Relief Fund) • ANERA • Doctors Without Borders • Palestine Legal

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[ PACBI ]

NYC PACBI

8-Ball Community • 29 Speedway • BK Institute for Social Research • BGS Queer Division • Body Hack • Bossa Nova Civic Club • Brooklyn Poets • Brothers Wash & Dry • Center for Psychic Technology • Chaos Warp • Come Forever • Creative Code Art [statement link soon!] • Cutelab • Double Dutch • Dripping • Dweller • EMMA Tech Coop • Ende Tymes [statement link soon!] • FIST • Gold Bolus • Human Pitch • INTERCOMM • Kaleidoscope • Light & Sound Design [statement link soon!] • LiveCode.NYC • Melting Point • New York Underground • Noise Not Music • The Nurse's Station • NYC Noise • Pageant • Papi Juice • Please Y.S. • The Poetry Project • Property is Theft (P.I.T.) • Purgatory [statement soon!] • PTP (Purple Tape Pedigree) [statement link soon!] • Queer | Art • Reading Group •  Receiver • The Record Shop [WATCH LAST SLIDE 😭] • School for Poetic Computation • Screen Slate • Sisters • Skinny Apartment • SLINK • Small Planet • Sorry Records • Still/Moving [statement link soon!] • Techno Queers [will ask!] • Toadstool Records • The Tubs • Voluminous Arts • Wendy's Subway • Wet Spot

+ WORKERS @: MoMA • Printed Matter

in WAWOG list, but i couldn't find statements: Topos, The Word is Change

PACBI *is* [a low bar!]
the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) is non-violent direct action asking that academic & cultural institutions, orgs, groups...
–– boycott events, activities, institutions, & products funded by the state of Israeli or a complicit institution (e.g. "Brand Israel") *&* normalization projects (activities, events, orgs, etc.) suggesting that Israel's violence is justified or that "both sides" are equally responsible for "the conflict"
–– make a public commitment to refuse material support from the state of Israel

to learn more, here's a cheatsheet + sample PACBI statement u can copy / paste !

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[ VENUES ]

that have hosted recent Palestine solidarity events &/or made public PACBI commitments (listed if latter!)

• Bar Laika // clinton hill, 21+ ♿️; 76/40 cap; book
• Brothers Wash & Dry –– ✅ PACBI
• Bossa Nova // bushwick, 21+ ♿️; 140 cap –– ✅ PACBI
• Cutelab // –– ✅ PACBI
• Dada // ridgewood 🅰️ ♿️; book
• Double Dutch // –– ✅ PACBI
• Elsewhere // east williamsburg, 16+ ♿️ ACCESS
• The End // bushwick, 21+ ❓
• Francis Kite Club // east village 🅰️ ♿️; book
• Gold Sounds // bushwick 🅰️ ♿️; book/tech
• Hex House // east williamsburg 🅰️ ♿️; book
• Interference Archive // park slope 🅰️ ♿️
• JACK // clinton hill 🅰️ ♿️; ACCESS
• Jade // bushwick, 21+ 📶; book
• Kaleidoscope // –– ✅ PACBI
• Light & Sound Design // –– ✅ PACBI
• The Living Gallery // bushwick 🅰️ ☑️; book
• The Lot Radio // greenpoint 🅰️ 📶
• Mayday // bushwick 🅰️ 📶; book/tech/ACCESS –– Mission
• Montez Press // chinatown 🅰️ 📶 ☑️ W.A.G.E.
• Nowadays // ridgewood, 21+ ☑️; 269/188; ACCESS
• Pageant // williamsburg 🅰️ 📶 –– ✅ PACBI
• People's Forum // midtown 🅰️ ♿️; book/tech/ACCESS –– Mission
• Performance Space // east village, ? ♿️; ACCESS –– ☑️ W.A.G.E.
• Please Y.S. // –– ✅ PACBI
• Poetry Project // east village 🅰️ ♿️; ACCESS –– ✅ PACBI, ☑️ W.A.G.E.
• Property is Theft // williamsburg 🅰️ ☑️; ACCESS –– ✅ PACBI
• Purgatory // bushwick, 21+ 📶; 75 cap; book –– ✅ PACBI
• The Record Shop // –– ✅ PACBI
• Secret Pour // bushwick, 21+ ❓; book/tech
• Sisters // –– ✅ PACBI
• Skinny Apartment // –– ✅ PACBI
• Starr Bar // bushwick, 21+ ♿️; 150 cap; book/tech –– About
• Stone Circle Theatre // ridgewood 🅰️ 📶; book
• The Stone // village 🅰️ ♿️
• The Sultan Room // bushwick, 21+ ♿️; 201/115; book
• Trans-Pecos // ridgewood 🅰️ ☑️; book/tech
• Triple Canopy // chinatown 🅰️ ☑️ –– ☑️ W.A.G.E.
• The Tubs // –– ✅ PACBI
• TV Eye // ridgewood, 21+ ☑️; 250 cap; tech
• Union Pool // williamsburg, 21+ ♿️; book/tech
• Wet Spot // –– ✅ PACBI

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[ ACCOUNTS ]

resources: protest.one/calendar

nyc-specific: @asians 4 palestinenyc • @ bx palestine solidarity committee • @harlem 4 palestine • @hcw4pnyc • @ifnotnow.nyc • @israelis for peace nyc • @jvpny • @nodutdol • @no tech for apartheid • @nyc dissenters • @nyc educators for palestine • @nyc pym • @nyc workers 4 palestine • @palawda • @palestine forever .nyc • @peoples forum nyc • @rockaway for ceasefire • @uptown 4 palestine • @WOLPalestine

nyc campus groups: @cuny4palestine / @johnjaysjp • nyu: @nyu_sjp @nyu_fjp @nyu.psc • @cooperunion_sjp • @fordhamsjp / @fordhampsn • @sao.pratt • @fit.sjp • @sjp.sva • @tns.sjp (new school) • cu: @sjp.columbia, @cuapartheiddivest, @jvp.columbia, @fsjp_cbt (faculty @ cu, barnard, teachers) CUAD telegram

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[other things that could/might show up here: STATEMENTS negotiating support for Palestine or resigning because of its absence; COMMUNICATION with institutions...??]