The Oakland City Council is responsible for matters in Oakland, not issues abroad. Foreign matters are neither your expertise nor your obligation. A resolution on the war between Israel and Hamas will only lead to divisiveness and heightened hate crimes against Muslims and Jews. Please protect Oakland citizens and do not give in to misguided and misinformed pressure to pass a resolution.
My name is Habiba Sarmad and I urgently call on the Oakland City Council to pass a resolution for immediate ceasefire. This is the least we can do to stop the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. Please be on the right side of history, on the side of humanity. Every minute counts. Gaza is burning, it’s a children’s graveyard now.
My name is Suzan Boulad. I am a resident of Oakland District 3 and a criminal defense attorney. The city of Oakland must pass a resolution calling for a ceasefire to protect Palestinian lives. Oakland is a city of leadership and love, and the money our federal government sends to Palestine could be used to house people here. Local actions have global consequences, and we cannot celebrate Indigenous heritage, we cannot call for safer streets, for affordable housing, unless we also call for a ceasefire immediately.
My name is Kerryn Pincus Gallagher, and I reside in district 6. I strongly oppose the resolution being considered to follow in Richmond and Alameda's footsteps. This stance lacks substance and fails to acknowledge the complexities of the conflict in Israel. Furthermore, it only serves to alienate the Jewish community, who have significant ties to Israel. I believe this resolution masks underlying antisemitism and hatred, posing a threat to the safety and visibility of Jewish residents in Oakland.
It is disheartening that the resolution fails to address crucial aspects such as peace initiatives, the release of hostages, and condemning the abhorrent and inhumane behavior of HAMAS. Instead, it inadvertently legitimizes HAMAS as an organization. Addressing these global political causes is beyond the scope and purview of Oakland. We should focus on local challenges rather than venturing into matters that are best left to people who actually understand the situation in the Middle East.
My name is Eli & I'm a Jewish American fervently calling on the Oakland City Council to do the right thing and resolve to demand an immediate ceasefire, a halting of the United States war machine in the form of disgusting sums of aid provided to Israel's military, and an end to the horrific genocide & ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people in Gaza. Take action now! A resolution is the least you could do.
I urge the city council of Oakland to support an immediate ceasefire and demand that Israel stop murdering Palestinians in Gaza and Westbank. Oakland city council, hear the voices of your people. Among all levels of government, city councils are supposed to be the closest to the people. And people want you to stand up for humanity by supporting Palestinian people.
I ask you all to follow the example of Richmond Mayor Eduardo Martinez and Vice Mayor Gayle McLaughlin, who co-sponsored this Resolution Affirming Richmond’s Support and Solidarity with the Palestinian People of Gaza. I ask for the following:
Sponsor or co-sponsor an advisory resolution, following Richmond’s model, affirming solidarity with Palestinian people against genocide. Condemn Israeli leadership’s ethnic cleansing and collective punishment.
Use your power as the City Council President (Oakland Municipal Code 2.20.070-A) and Chair of the Rules & Regulations Committee (Rule 23 of the City Council’s current Rules of Procedure) to call for a special meeting to pass this resolution with extreme urgency. More than 8,000 Palestinians have been killed in the last three weeks. Following the usual three-week procedure for introducing new agenda items is unacceptable while genocide is escalating.
Post information and updates regarding the above actions on all of your platforms (including social media, website, and email lists) so that we, your constituents, know that you are accountable to us and transparent in your communications.
I'm Andrea Muchin, from District 4. I am in vehement and sad opposition to any effort to pass a resolution similar to that of Richmond and Alameda, openly condemning Israel. The Oakland City Council has absolutely no reason to take a stand or pick a side unless it wants to other and alienate many Oaklanders, unless it wants the Jewish members of the Oakland community to feel unseen and unsafe, and unless it wants to create further division on a situation that is incredibly complex and poorly understood. Such a resolution will also do absolutely NOTHING to change the horrific tragedy that has already taken place and continues to unfold in the Middle East; such a resolution would only serve as self-important posturing. If the Oakland City Council wants to take a stand and pick a side, take a stand for Oakland and focus on the community here.
My name is Alia and I'm calling on Oakland officials to stand against the genocide happening in Gaza and please make some urgent resolution to make a CEASEFIRE.
I am a resident of district 3. I ask the Oakland City Council to urgently pass a resolution condemning the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people funded by our US government. We demand an immediate ceasefire, an end to US military aid to Israel, the release of all hostages and an end to the siege, allowing for unrestricted humanitarian aid.
This resolution is the bare minimum for us to stand in our humanity. Though our senators disappointingly remain silent, I am hopeful that the Oakland City Council will follow the precedent set by the City of Richmond and Alameda County Democratic Central Committee and have the courage to stand on the right side of history.
As we joyfully celebrate and recognize the indigenous community in Oakland today, let us extend our solidarity and call for the right to self determination to all indigenous peoples.
My Name is Leo Mates-Muchin and I am a resident of District 2. I am 20 years old an a recent graduate of Skyline High School. The conflict in Israel and Palestine is complicated and hard to understand. As we saw in Richmond, when cities across the world take positions on the conflict, all that it does it divide the citizens of the city, and it has no impact the actual conflict. Not to mention that these resolutions spew hate and lead to a rise of antisemitism. I call upon the city counsel to continue to fight for the problems that we have within out borders and not pass a resolution in relation to the problems happening on the other side of the world.
My name is Chinasa and I am a birth worker from Oakland committed to the revolutionary struggle for reproductive justice and body autonomy. The violent and sadistic occupation of Palestine by the settler colonial state of Isreal is in direct opposition to reproductive justice and body autonomy. Human beings cannot thrive under settler colonial occupation. Colonial terror DENIES LIFE. It must be dismantled.
It is our duty. As people. A system of colonialism anywhere, committing genocide against an Indigenous population is a threat to all life on earth. It is not an opinion. It is not a theory. It is a fact. I call on all members of the council to join us all in standing firmly on the side of the Indigenous people of Palestine, to condemn the terrorist colonial project of Isreal for their 75 years of colonial terror and genocide. AND DEMAND A CEASEFIRE, AN END to the violent occupation of Palestinian people AND A COMPLETE AND TOTAL STOP TO THE FUNDING AND SHIPMENT OF U.S WEAPONRY AIDING IN THE MASS MURDER OF PALESTINIAN LIFE.
I’m writing public comment in strong support of the City of Oakland to conduct a special meeting and develop a resolution calling for a Ceasefire in Gaza, and for an end to U.S. military aid to Israel.
The genocide occurring in Gaza is a human rights issue and an environmental justice issue. The City of Oakland should be on the right side of history and join the many other cities who have already create a resolution in support of a ceasefire. As many more cities and jurisdictions develop similar resolutions this will pressure our administration to do the ethical thing and stop the ethic cleansing of Palestinians and stop funding a ruthless monstrous war. Please call a special emergency meeting for a resolution in the name of human rights.
I am a resident of district 3. I ask the Oakland City Council to urgently pass a resolution condemning the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people funded by our US government. We demand an immediate ceasefire, an end to US military aid to Israel, the release of all hostages and an end to the siege, allowing for unrestricted humanitarian aid.
This resolution is the bare minimum for us to stand in our humanity. Though our senators disappointingly remain silent, I am hopeful that the Oakland City Council will follow the precedent set by the City of Richmond and Alameda County Democratic Central Committee and have the courage to stand on the right side of history.
As we joyfully celebrate and recognize the indigenous community in Oakland today, let us extend our solidarity and call for the right to self determination to all indigenous peoples.
Hello my name is Sucharitha and I am an Oakland resident. I am commenting to speak my support for Palestinian liberation, and I demand that you take immediate steps to convene a special meeting to pass a resolution condemning the genocide of the Palestinian people. Do not turn your back on these people, do not allow this cycle of violent settler colonialism to continue. Stand up in support of palestian liberation as they are being ethnically cleansed and mayrtered. Our collective oppression is tied as is our liberation. This action is the bare minimum, and an easy way to stand on the right side of history. We are now over 10,000 people dead. Families, mothers, fathers, brothers and children. It doesn’t take an intellectual battlefield to understand that Israel’s occupation of indigenous Palestinian, and ethnic cleansing that we are seeing in our own eyes is not acceptable and will not stand here. Please join Richmond’s condemnation of Genocide.
My name is Sara and I am a resident of Oakland, District 1. I am asking the City of Oakland to call for an emergency meeting and pass a resolution that demands a ceasefire, condemns Israel’s apartheid regime, recognizes end-stage genocide of the Palestinian people, and calls for an end to U.S. military aid to Israel. The City of Oakland needs to join our neighboring city of Richmond in denouncing the genocide of the Palestinian people.
My name is meesh, and I am an Oakland resident in District 6. I strongly urge Oakland City Council to use its power to call for a Ceasefire, to stop the brutal and inhumane genocide against the Palestinian ppl, as well as condemning the genocides happening in Sudan, Congo, and Yemen. Every day / hour / min we fail to take action esp local, state, + federal leaders who have the power to stop this brutality ; ppl are being murdered in their homelands. It is our collective responsibility, with what ever power we have access to, to speak + act against injustice for the future of our communities and this land. I am a settler, guest, and non-native to Ohlone land, so it is important for me / us to beyond acknowledge the violence against the indigenous ppl here and to actively fight against this violence everywhere. May all lands be rematriated back to their original stewards and be protected from extraction and exploitation. I ask, pray, and urge you to tap into your hearts + humanity and take IMMEDIATE action by setting up a special meeting to put forth a resolution to demand a CEASEFIRE to stop the ethnic cleansing and genocide of our kin in Palestine, Congo, Sudan, and Yemen.
Urgent message that Oakland please join both Richmond and Alameda to call for a ceasefire now in Gaza by calling an emergency meeting to pass a resolution that denounces the collective punishment and genocidal actions of Israel towards Gaza! 10,000 people have been killed and we the people here do not want our tax money going to support the killing of people there! Please arrange this emergency meeting to pass a resolution to call for a ceasefire now!
I am here as a community member in Oakland demanding the City of Oakland follow the lead of Richmond City Council and the Alameda County Democratic Central Committee, and please sponsor and pass a resolution condemning this genocide currently taking place in Palestine. Every single day people, families, generations are murdered by the thousands by the terrorist state of “Israel” Every second this continues to go on, lives are lost. We must call for an IMMEDIATE ceasefire. If you have any humanity at all you can look at this catastrophe and see this murdering and destroying of land needs to end now. Please follow Richmond’s foot steps, Oakland is a historical place of resistance, please know your community members need that to be reflected by our city council, this situation is urgent, please act immediately.
I am an Oakland resident and local business owner. I am here to DEMAND the Oakland City Council to call for an emergency meeting and pass a resolution that demands a ceasefire, condemns Israel’s apartheid regime, recognizes end-stage genocide of the Palestinian people, and calls for an end to U.S. military aid to Israel.
We do not want our tax money used to KILL thousands of children, and you as our reps have a responsibility to represent our interests !
CEASEFIRE NOW
The Oakland City Council is responsible for matters in Oakland, not issues abroad. Foreign matters are neither your expertise nor your obligation. A resolution on the war between Israel and Hamas will only lead to divisiveness and heightened hate crimes against Muslims and Jews. Please protect Oakland citizens and do not give in to misguided and misinformed pressure to pass a resolution.
My name is Habiba Sarmad and I urgently call on the Oakland City Council to pass a resolution for immediate ceasefire. This is the least we can do to stop the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. Please be on the right side of history, on the side of humanity. Every minute counts. Gaza is burning, it’s a children’s graveyard now.
My name is Suzan Boulad. I am a resident of Oakland District 3 and a criminal defense attorney. The city of Oakland must pass a resolution calling for a ceasefire to protect Palestinian lives. Oakland is a city of leadership and love, and the money our federal government sends to Palestine could be used to house people here. Local actions have global consequences, and we cannot celebrate Indigenous heritage, we cannot call for safer streets, for affordable housing, unless we also call for a ceasefire immediately.
My name is Kerryn Pincus Gallagher, and I reside in district 6. I strongly oppose the resolution being considered to follow in Richmond and Alameda's footsteps. This stance lacks substance and fails to acknowledge the complexities of the conflict in Israel. Furthermore, it only serves to alienate the Jewish community, who have significant ties to Israel. I believe this resolution masks underlying antisemitism and hatred, posing a threat to the safety and visibility of Jewish residents in Oakland.
It is disheartening that the resolution fails to address crucial aspects such as peace initiatives, the release of hostages, and condemning the abhorrent and inhumane behavior of HAMAS. Instead, it inadvertently legitimizes HAMAS as an organization. Addressing these global political causes is beyond the scope and purview of Oakland. We should focus on local challenges rather than venturing into matters that are best left to people who actually understand the situation in the Middle East.
My name is Eli & I'm a Jewish American fervently calling on the Oakland City Council to do the right thing and resolve to demand an immediate ceasefire, a halting of the United States war machine in the form of disgusting sums of aid provided to Israel's military, and an end to the horrific genocide & ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people in Gaza. Take action now! A resolution is the least you could do.
I urge the city council of Oakland to support an immediate ceasefire and demand that Israel stop murdering Palestinians in Gaza and Westbank. Oakland city council, hear the voices of your people. Among all levels of government, city councils are supposed to be the closest to the people. And people want you to stand up for humanity by supporting Palestinian people.
I ask you all to follow the example of Richmond Mayor Eduardo Martinez and Vice Mayor Gayle McLaughlin, who co-sponsored this Resolution Affirming Richmond’s Support and Solidarity with the Palestinian People of Gaza. I ask for the following:
Sponsor or co-sponsor an advisory resolution, following Richmond’s model, affirming solidarity with Palestinian people against genocide. Condemn Israeli leadership’s ethnic cleansing and collective punishment.
Use your power as the City Council President (Oakland Municipal Code 2.20.070-A) and Chair of the Rules & Regulations Committee (Rule 23 of the City Council’s current Rules of Procedure) to call for a special meeting to pass this resolution with extreme urgency. More than 8,000 Palestinians have been killed in the last three weeks. Following the usual three-week procedure for introducing new agenda items is unacceptable while genocide is escalating.
Post information and updates regarding the above actions on all of your platforms (including social media, website, and email lists) so that we, your constituents, know that you are accountable to us and transparent in your communications.
I'm Andrea Muchin, from District 4. I am in vehement and sad opposition to any effort to pass a resolution similar to that of Richmond and Alameda, openly condemning Israel. The Oakland City Council has absolutely no reason to take a stand or pick a side unless it wants to other and alienate many Oaklanders, unless it wants the Jewish members of the Oakland community to feel unseen and unsafe, and unless it wants to create further division on a situation that is incredibly complex and poorly understood. Such a resolution will also do absolutely NOTHING to change the horrific tragedy that has already taken place and continues to unfold in the Middle East; such a resolution would only serve as self-important posturing. If the Oakland City Council wants to take a stand and pick a side, take a stand for Oakland and focus on the community here.
My name is Alia and I'm calling on Oakland officials to stand against the genocide happening in Gaza and please make some urgent resolution to make a CEASEFIRE.
I am a resident of district 3. I ask the Oakland City Council to urgently pass a resolution condemning the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people funded by our US government. We demand an immediate ceasefire, an end to US military aid to Israel, the release of all hostages and an end to the siege, allowing for unrestricted humanitarian aid.
This resolution is the bare minimum for us to stand in our humanity. Though our senators disappointingly remain silent, I am hopeful that the Oakland City Council will follow the precedent set by the City of Richmond and Alameda County Democratic Central Committee and have the courage to stand on the right side of history.
As we joyfully celebrate and recognize the indigenous community in Oakland today, let us extend our solidarity and call for the right to self determination to all indigenous peoples.
My Name is Leo Mates-Muchin and I am a resident of District 2. I am 20 years old an a recent graduate of Skyline High School. The conflict in Israel and Palestine is complicated and hard to understand. As we saw in Richmond, when cities across the world take positions on the conflict, all that it does it divide the citizens of the city, and it has no impact the actual conflict. Not to mention that these resolutions spew hate and lead to a rise of antisemitism. I call upon the city counsel to continue to fight for the problems that we have within out borders and not pass a resolution in relation to the problems happening on the other side of the world.
My name is Chinasa and I am a birth worker from Oakland committed to the revolutionary struggle for reproductive justice and body autonomy. The violent and sadistic occupation of Palestine by the settler colonial state of Isreal is in direct opposition to reproductive justice and body autonomy. Human beings cannot thrive under settler colonial occupation. Colonial terror DENIES LIFE. It must be dismantled.
It is our duty. As people. A system of colonialism anywhere, committing genocide against an Indigenous population is a threat to all life on earth. It is not an opinion. It is not a theory. It is a fact. I call on all members of the council to join us all in standing firmly on the side of the Indigenous people of Palestine, to condemn the terrorist colonial project of Isreal for their 75 years of colonial terror and genocide. AND DEMAND A CEASEFIRE, AN END to the violent occupation of Palestinian people AND A COMPLETE AND TOTAL STOP TO THE FUNDING AND SHIPMENT OF U.S WEAPONRY AIDING IN THE MASS MURDER OF PALESTINIAN LIFE.
I’m writing public comment in strong support of the City of Oakland to conduct a special meeting and develop a resolution calling for a Ceasefire in Gaza, and for an end to U.S. military aid to Israel.
The genocide occurring in Gaza is a human rights issue and an environmental justice issue. The City of Oakland should be on the right side of history and join the many other cities who have already create a resolution in support of a ceasefire. As many more cities and jurisdictions develop similar resolutions this will pressure our administration to do the ethical thing and stop the ethic cleansing of Palestinians and stop funding a ruthless monstrous war. Please call a special emergency meeting for a resolution in the name of human rights.
I am a resident of district 3. I ask the Oakland City Council to urgently pass a resolution condemning the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people funded by our US government. We demand an immediate ceasefire, an end to US military aid to Israel, the release of all hostages and an end to the siege, allowing for unrestricted humanitarian aid.
This resolution is the bare minimum for us to stand in our humanity. Though our senators disappointingly remain silent, I am hopeful that the Oakland City Council will follow the precedent set by the City of Richmond and Alameda County Democratic Central Committee and have the courage to stand on the right side of history.
As we joyfully celebrate and recognize the indigenous community in Oakland today, let us extend our solidarity and call for the right to self determination to all indigenous peoples.
Hello my name is Sucharitha and I am an Oakland resident. I am commenting to speak my support for Palestinian liberation, and I demand that you take immediate steps to convene a special meeting to pass a resolution condemning the genocide of the Palestinian people. Do not turn your back on these people, do not allow this cycle of violent settler colonialism to continue. Stand up in support of palestian liberation as they are being ethnically cleansed and mayrtered. Our collective oppression is tied as is our liberation. This action is the bare minimum, and an easy way to stand on the right side of history. We are now over 10,000 people dead. Families, mothers, fathers, brothers and children. It doesn’t take an intellectual battlefield to understand that Israel’s occupation of indigenous Palestinian, and ethnic cleansing that we are seeing in our own eyes is not acceptable and will not stand here. Please join Richmond’s condemnation of Genocide.
My name is Sara and I am a resident of Oakland, District 1. I am asking the City of Oakland to call for an emergency meeting and pass a resolution that demands a ceasefire, condemns Israel’s apartheid regime, recognizes end-stage genocide of the Palestinian people, and calls for an end to U.S. military aid to Israel. The City of Oakland needs to join our neighboring city of Richmond in denouncing the genocide of the Palestinian people.
My name is meesh, and I am an Oakland resident in District 6. I strongly urge Oakland City Council to use its power to call for a Ceasefire, to stop the brutal and inhumane genocide against the Palestinian ppl, as well as condemning the genocides happening in Sudan, Congo, and Yemen. Every day / hour / min we fail to take action esp local, state, + federal leaders who have the power to stop this brutality ; ppl are being murdered in their homelands. It is our collective responsibility, with what ever power we have access to, to speak + act against injustice for the future of our communities and this land. I am a settler, guest, and non-native to Ohlone land, so it is important for me / us to beyond acknowledge the violence against the indigenous ppl here and to actively fight against this violence everywhere. May all lands be rematriated back to their original stewards and be protected from extraction and exploitation. I ask, pray, and urge you to tap into your hearts + humanity and take IMMEDIATE action by setting up a special meeting to put forth a resolution to demand a CEASEFIRE to stop the ethnic cleansing and genocide of our kin in Palestine, Congo, Sudan, and Yemen.
Urgent message that Oakland please join both Richmond and Alameda to call for a ceasefire now in Gaza by calling an emergency meeting to pass a resolution that denounces the collective punishment and genocidal actions of Israel towards Gaza! 10,000 people have been killed and we the people here do not want our tax money going to support the killing of people there! Please arrange this emergency meeting to pass a resolution to call for a ceasefire now!
I am here as a community member in Oakland demanding the City of Oakland follow the lead of Richmond City Council and the Alameda County Democratic Central Committee, and please sponsor and pass a resolution condemning this genocide currently taking place in Palestine. Every single day people, families, generations are murdered by the thousands by the terrorist state of “Israel” Every second this continues to go on, lives are lost. We must call for an IMMEDIATE ceasefire. If you have any humanity at all you can look at this catastrophe and see this murdering and destroying of land needs to end now. Please follow Richmond’s foot steps, Oakland is a historical place of resistance, please know your community members need that to be reflected by our city council, this situation is urgent, please act immediately.
I am an Oakland resident and local business owner. I am here to DEMAND the Oakland City Council to call for an emergency meeting and pass a resolution that demands a ceasefire, condemns Israel’s apartheid regime, recognizes end-stage genocide of the Palestinian people, and calls for an end to U.S. military aid to Israel.
We do not want our tax money used to KILL thousands of children, and you as our reps have a responsibility to represent our interests !
CEASEFIRE NOW