You can also make a positive impact on your health, the environment, and global human rights every day through your purchases, lifestyle choices, and lobbying efforts. Consider joining these local, community-led efforts to support national and global causes.
Ending Genocide in Gaza
Follow these Sites for DC local Anti-Genocide Actions and Updates
- DMV Palestinian Youth Movement
- DMV Students of Justice in Palestine (SJP) Coalition
- DC for Ceasefire Now Coalition
- DC Families for Ceasefire
- Jewish Voices For Palestine
- DC Metro Chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace
- Jewish Voice For Peace at GWU
- Jewish Voice for Peace at the University of Maryland
- Georgetown Jewish Students for Justice
- Students for Justice in Palestine at Gallaudet University
- Howard community college students for a Free Palestine
- Jewish Voice for Peace
- Harriets Wildest Dreams
- Claudia Jones School
- Occupation Free DC
- Party for Socialism and Liberation – Washington DC
Additional Actions
Click on photo to follow on Instagram to hear about future actions
- Contact White House and your Congressional Representative and demand they support a ceasefire
- White House
- (202) 456-1111 (Tuesday through Thursday 11-3pm)
- https://www.whitehouse.gov/
contact/
- Congress
- White House
- Petition to call on the DC Council DC to demand a Ceasefire Now
- Donate to humanitarian organizations in Gaza
- Targeted actions
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Visit these sites for more actions
- Gaza Journalist to Follow
- Articles
- LA Times: Do campus protests show Americans’ support for Palestinians has reached a turning point?
- Jewish Currents: What Does “From the River to the Sea” Really Mean?
- Al Jazeera : The Nakba did not start or end in 1948
- Aljazeera: Interactive Guide to NakbaArticles
- Ilan Pappe: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (free PDF)
- Amnesty International: Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians
- Amnesty International: Understanding the long roots of violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel
- Rolling Stones: AIPAC Targets Progressives With $100 Million in Its Coffers
- Videos
- AJ+: How Israel Was Created
- AJ+: Israeli Settlements Explained
- AJ+: Behind Israel’s West Bank Escalation
- AJ+: Is Israel Guilty Of Apartheid Against Palestinians?
- Al Jazeera English: Zionism is not the same as Judaism
- AJ+: How Israel And Its Allies Weaponize Antisemitism
- The Intercept: How Israel Helped Create Hamas
- AJ+: Congress Is Receiving Millions From Pro-Israel Lobby Groups
- AJ+: Congress Wants To Make It Illegal To Boycott Israel
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BreakThrough News – Anti-Defamation League Exposed
- Washington Post: Noura Erakat: Palestinians want freedom, just like anyone would
- Rania Khalek: The West should stop projecting its own history of anti-semitism onto the victims of Zionism
- Michael Brooks: Why the Israel/Palestine is NOT a complex issue
- Israelism (Trailer and next movie screenings)
- Boycott (Free online documentary about Anti-BDS Laws in US)
More Visual Resources at Visualizing Palestine
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Join DC Fair Food to Boycott Wendy’s
This local campaign to support a national Fair Food Program to ensure the human rights of farm workers. First launched by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in 2011 the campaign boycotted Burger King, McDonalds, Walmart, Publix, Taco Bell, and Whole Foods, forcing them to signed on to ensure humane wages and working conditions for the workers who pick fruits and vegetables on participating farms.. Former President Bill Clinton said the effort was, “brilliant … You’ve got a success model, and you ought to put the pedal to the metal…”
We are working to get Wendy’s to sign on to efforts instead of importing tomatoes from Mexico. Learn more at the National Boycott Website.
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The Responsible Consumer
The Responsible Consumer website includes information on:
– Calendar of over 100 upcoming Direct Actions, Trainings, and Meetings
– Over 100 products and companies to promote and boycott
– Over a 100 national & local campaigns covering over 100 issues
– Links to 100s of resources and organizations making a difference
– Lists of credible and non credible news sources for all political views
– Inspiration to keep on fighting
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Humane DC
A local resource for improved animal welfare options for the greater Washington, DC area