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An orientation for newcomers begins at 6pm. More info about chapter meetings below. Support resolutions in San Francisco and Richmond condemning Israel's raid on the Gaza flotilla! Write your elected official before June 15th! SF Board of Supes Contact info HERE Summary of SF resolution: Richmond City Council Info HERE Summary of Richmond resolution: Water Issues in the Palestinian Territories At our November 2009 meeting our chapter was privileged to hear from Susan Koppelman, a team member with Lifesource, a Palestinian NGO that seeks to expose and end the Israeli occupation's domination of Palestinian's access to water. More info can be found at Lifesource's website. Chapter Meetings Our chapter meets the second Sunday of each month from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. An orientation for new members starts at 6:00pm. The location switches each month between the East Bay and San Francisco. Odd-numbered months: South Berkeley Senior Center 2939 Ellis St. (at Ashby) Berkeley (map) Near Ashby BART (walk two blocks west on Ashby). Even-numbered months: American Friends Service Committee 65 9th St. (btw Mission and Market) San Francisco. (map) Near Civic Center BART (walk one block southwest on Market, turn left down 9th St.). To confirm the place and time, please call (510) 465-1777 or e-mail us here. Contact JVP Bay Area Click here to send an e-mail to us, including suggestions or questions about this web page. Olive Oil Film A film of JVP members bottling olive oil in 2007 can be viewed here. (Requires Quicktime) Stop the bulldozers! Save the village of Al Aqabah!
At our October 2008 meeting, JVP Bay Area was privileged to meet and hear from Haj Sami Sadik Sbaih,the mayor of Al Aqabah village in the West Bank, and members of the Rebuilding Alliance, who are fighting with him to save the village from demolition by the Israeli occupying authority. The kindergarten in the village of Al Aqabah, in the Jordan River Valley, is scheduled to be demolished, along with the village mosque, the medical center, and almost all the village's homes. The village is threatened by the Israeli occupying authority's tactic of denying almost every Palestinian building permit application, while at the same time granting thousands of permits to Jewish settlements in the same areas. The threat to Al Aqabah continues. More info about the campaign to save the village can be found here, including info on calling US congresspeople and others who can put pressure on the Israelis to recognize the right of the people of Al Aqabah, and all Palestinians, to build on their own land. They need to hear from us! Committees Please visit this page to learn more about our chapter's committees. |
