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1 23-0935 Subject: Affirming Oakland's Support For The Congressional And Worldwide Calls For Immediate Ceasefire In Gaza
From: Councilmember Fife
Recommendation: Adopt A Resolution Affirming Oakland's Love Life Commitment And Support For The Congressional And Worldwide Calls For An Immediate Ceasefire In Gaza
I am an Oakland resident and I fully support an immediate ceasefire on the Palestinian citizens of Gaza. If this does not happen we will be failing these people that deserve to exist on their own land.
I am a Bay Area resident of 30 years who has lived and worked in Oakland in the past. I'm also a queer clinical psychologist and Jewish descendant family who fled pogroms in Eastern Europe and were killed in the Holocaust. I am horrified by what is happening to the people of Palestine and am urging the City Council to affirm this resolution and call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire. What is happening in Gaza is nothing short of genocide and must be clearly, loudly, and unequivocally opposed. Please act with courage so that other cities may follow your example, thank you!
I am in full support of this resolution; I am calling for Oakland city council to echo the shouts of the majority and demand an immediate ceasefire. Enough innocent lives have been taken- mostly children- and it needs to end! Thank you for your time.
I am an educator and was a resident of Oakland for 9 years, I urge the council members to vote for the resolution that supports the ceasefire and ends the genocide in Palestine.
I am a Bay Area resident and I fully support the city council passing this ceasefire resolution. 4 days is NOT a true ceasefire, the people of Palestine deserve all of our support and the people of the Bay Area are making our voices clear. Please stand on the right side of history and listen to the voices of your district and the entire Bay Area!!!!
We are proud of Oakland's profound anti-apartheid and anti-oppression history, and I really hope our city upholds that tradition. For years, all major international human rights organizations have recognized Israel as an apartheid state, and partly due to us neglecting that fact, now Israel is committing genocide with direct support of the United States.
The former mayor of Oakland, Congressman Ron Dellums (2007-2011), has pioneered the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act in the US congress. Our city has a rich history. Let us not not disregard our proud history. Let us stand on the right side of history again!
The United States involvement and in turn enabling of these atrocities occurring in Gaza must end. I am a D3 resident born and raised in Oakland, local government must continue to play a role in influencing the larger federal government to discontinue practices of US imperialism globally, to be a voice where others do not have one.
I am a therapist/social worker residing in district 2. I fully support immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza. We must stand on the right side of history and fight with the people of Palestine. In the words of Fannie Lou Hamer, “nobody's free until everybody's free.”
Please stand on the correct side of history. This has gone on for much too long! Every minute there is no cease fire costs us people’s lives. Cease fire now!!
I am a Bay Area and former Oakland District 2 resident, and I wholeheartedly support the City Council passing the ceasefire resolution. Oakland City Council should pass this resolution so that it is clear on the record that this city is against genocide. It will cost nothing to pass this resolution, but will costs thousands more Palestinian lives if we are unable to build more pressure to successfully call for a permanent ceasefire.
As an Oakland resident in District 5 I’m in full support of an immediate and permanent ceasefire. I call on my fellow community members and Oakland city council to stand on the right side of history and support the end of genocide in Palestine. With Oaklands rich history of progressive action towards liberation of all people and this is our chance to show the world we again will not stand silent in the face of injustice. Thank you
This council has a responsibility to protect our families, from Oakland to Gaza. Acknowledging Palestinian humanity will be the first step to deescalating anti-Arab and Muslim hate in Oakland. Thank you for listening to your constituents and putting our safety and the safety of our families in Gaza first. We know that you will do the right thing and stand on the side of humanity.
I am a D3 resident of Oakland and am urgently calling on the City Council to affirm this ceasefire resolution and follow in the leadership of Rep Barbara Lee in this moment. This resolution is a critical way to break through the propaganda that our government and media apparatuses, as well as the Israeli government, are using to try and manufacture consent for genocide. We must pass this resolution and show that the people of Oakland unequivocally stand with the people of Palestine and join in their call for total liberation from occupation and apartheid, for an end to the siege on Gaza, for an end to US aid to Israel, and for freedom and justice. We cannot sit idly by as we watch atrocity after atrocity unfolding -- as the Israeli government slaughters innocent civilians (more than 14,000 at the time of writing), bombs refugee camps, sacred places, hospitals and leaves civilians with nowhere to turn, as they dehumanize and wage a genocide against the people of Palestine. We cannot sit idly by when we know that millions in Oakland taxpayer money directly funds the genocide we are witnessing. We need that money in Oakland to support our unhoused neighbors, invest in schools, and so much more. Please act with courage and stand on the right side of history by calling for an immediate ceasefire.
This past weekend we've been able to witness what can occur with a cease fire, however a temporary ceasefire of a few days is not enough. We need a permanent ceasefire now to ensure no more lives are lost, maimed, or starved. I support this resolution for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza to end this madness and genocide and we need you to support it to. We cannot wait any longer.
I am an Oakland resident and I fully support an immediate ceasefire on the Palestinian citizens of Gaza. If this does not happen we will be failing these people that deserve to exist on their own land.
I am a Bay Area resident of 30 years who has lived and worked in Oakland in the past. I'm also a queer clinical psychologist and Jewish descendant family who fled pogroms in Eastern Europe and were killed in the Holocaust. I am horrified by what is happening to the people of Palestine and am urging the City Council to affirm this resolution and call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire. What is happening in Gaza is nothing short of genocide and must be clearly, loudly, and unequivocally opposed. Please act with courage so that other cities may follow your example, thank you!
i lived and worked in Oakland for years and i demand an immediate and permanent Israeli cease fire! Oakland cannot be complicit in this genocide.
I am in full support of this resolution; I am calling for Oakland city council to echo the shouts of the majority and demand an immediate ceasefire. Enough innocent lives have been taken- mostly children- and it needs to end! Thank you for your time.
I am an educator and was a resident of Oakland for 9 years, I urge the council members to vote for the resolution that supports the ceasefire and ends the genocide in Palestine.
I am an oakland resident and am fully in support of an immediate ceasefire in Gaza
I am a Bay Area resident and I fully support the city council passing this ceasefire resolution. 4 days is NOT a true ceasefire, the people of Palestine deserve all of our support and the people of the Bay Area are making our voices clear. Please stand on the right side of history and listen to the voices of your district and the entire Bay Area!!!!
We are proud of Oakland's profound anti-apartheid and anti-oppression history, and I really hope our city upholds that tradition. For years, all major international human rights organizations have recognized Israel as an apartheid state, and partly due to us neglecting that fact, now Israel is committing genocide with direct support of the United States.
The former mayor of Oakland, Congressman Ron Dellums (2007-2011), has pioneered the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act in the US congress. Our city has a rich history. Let us not not disregard our proud history. Let us stand on the right side of history again!
The United States involvement and in turn enabling of these atrocities occurring in Gaza must end. I am a D3 resident born and raised in Oakland, local government must continue to play a role in influencing the larger federal government to discontinue practices of US imperialism globally, to be a voice where others do not have one.
I am a therapist/social worker residing in district 2. I fully support immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza. We must stand on the right side of history and fight with the people of Palestine. In the words of Fannie Lou Hamer, “nobody's free until everybody's free.”
Ceasefire now! Ceasefire now! Oakland for Palestine! Shed some lights on humanity!
I am for an immediate and permanent ceasefire!
Please stand on the correct side of history. This has gone on for much too long! Every minute there is no cease fire costs us people’s lives. Cease fire now!!
I am a Bay Area and former Oakland District 2 resident, and I wholeheartedly support the City Council passing the ceasefire resolution. Oakland City Council should pass this resolution so that it is clear on the record that this city is against genocide. It will cost nothing to pass this resolution, but will costs thousands more Palestinian lives if we are unable to build more pressure to successfully call for a permanent ceasefire.
As an Oakland resident in District 5 I’m in full support of an immediate and permanent ceasefire. I call on my fellow community members and Oakland city council to stand on the right side of history and support the end of genocide in Palestine. With Oaklands rich history of progressive action towards liberation of all people and this is our chance to show the world we again will not stand silent in the face of injustice. Thank you
This council has a responsibility to protect our families, from Oakland to Gaza. Acknowledging Palestinian humanity will be the first step to deescalating anti-Arab and Muslim hate in Oakland. Thank you for listening to your constituents and putting our safety and the safety of our families in Gaza first. We know that you will do the right thing and stand on the side of humanity.
I am a D3 resident of Oakland and am urgently calling on the City Council to affirm this ceasefire resolution and follow in the leadership of Rep Barbara Lee in this moment. This resolution is a critical way to break through the propaganda that our government and media apparatuses, as well as the Israeli government, are using to try and manufacture consent for genocide. We must pass this resolution and show that the people of Oakland unequivocally stand with the people of Palestine and join in their call for total liberation from occupation and apartheid, for an end to the siege on Gaza, for an end to US aid to Israel, and for freedom and justice. We cannot sit idly by as we watch atrocity after atrocity unfolding -- as the Israeli government slaughters innocent civilians (more than 14,000 at the time of writing), bombs refugee camps, sacred places, hospitals and leaves civilians with nowhere to turn, as they dehumanize and wage a genocide against the people of Palestine. We cannot sit idly by when we know that millions in Oakland taxpayer money directly funds the genocide we are witnessing. We need that money in Oakland to support our unhoused neighbors, invest in schools, and so much more. Please act with courage and stand on the right side of history by calling for an immediate ceasefire.
This past weekend we've been able to witness what can occur with a cease fire, however a temporary ceasefire of a few days is not enough. We need a permanent ceasefire now to ensure no more lives are lost, maimed, or starved. I support this resolution for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza to end this madness and genocide and we need you to support it to. We cannot wait any longer.
I'm a resident of district 3 and I fully support an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
Ceasefire!