First Ever in Madison: Palestine Solidarity TRIVIA Night!!
Giant Jones Brewing Company, 931 E Main St. in Madison ( enter on Brearly)
Event starts at 5:30, Trivia 6-7:30.
Fundraiser for Palestinian families in Masafer Yatta (in the West Bank) struggling to survive unprecedented settler violence and military demolitions of their homes.
Test your knowledge of Palestine!! Cool trivia prizes including gift cards from Giant Jones Brewing, Java Cat Coffee House, Room of One’s Own Bookstore, Eclipse on State street and Glass Nickel Pizza, plus a made-in-Palestine Kuffiya, embroidery from Women in Hebron Co-operative, Save Masafer Yatta sweatshirt, books and Palestinian olive oil. Everyone wins at this event!!
Enjoy free Palestinian snacks, plus a fundraising bake sale. Want to donate baked goods? Sign up at https://tinyurl.com/
Olive oil, Palestinian embroidery and jewelry from Women in Hebron Co-operative, bake sale sweets and treats, books, yard signs and Save Masafer Yatta t-shirts and sweatshirts will be available for sale.
Resources and info will be available from local Palestine solidarity organizations, plus materials and suggestions for contacting elected officials and getting more involved. Donations accepted to help families in Masafer Yatta survive spiking settler violence in the West Bank.
Enjoy an excellent beer at Giant Jones while showing off your knowledge of Palestine!
Co-sponsored by Palestine Partners, Madison-Rafah Sister City Project, Vets for Peace, Clarence Kalin Chapter 25, Madison and Madison Mennonite Action.
A note on the current situation in Masafer Yatta:
As Israel continues to strike Gaza and Lebanon, the entire civilian population of the West Bank is also facing unprecedented military and settler violence. In just the first 12 days of October settlers carried out 219 violent attacks on Palestinian civilians, killing three people and injuring dozens.
Villages in Masafer Yatta, at the southern end of the West Bank, are enduring brutal demolitions that have left more than 300 people without homes in just the past two months. Israeli military bulldozers have destroyed homes, schools, mosques, agricultural structures, roads, olive groves, crops and water and energy infrastructure at a greatly increased rate. More demolitions are expected in the coming weeks, and a state campaign to confiscate the cars and tractors of area families is now making it nearly impossible to deliver food, water, shelter materials, emergency medical care and animal feed. Many families are trapped in their homes by settler violence and unable to graze their flocks, feed and water their animals, send their children to school or harvest their olives.
Armed Israeli settlers, acting with the army’s protection and assistance, have ramped up a longstanding terror campaign that includes night raids, the use of sheep and goats to destroy crops and occupy private property, invading and occupying schools and playgrounds, trapping families inside their homes and preventing them from accessing food, water and even bathrooms, torching crops, vehicles, homes and mosques, stealing, poisoning and killing livestock, and terrorizing, beating and seriously injuring residents. Israeli soldiers and police respond to these attacks by detaining the Palestinian residents and deporting international activists.
The families of Masafer-Yatta are struggling to remain on their land despite these daily attacks and demolitions, carried out with impunity, funded with our tax dollars, and backed by the power of our foreign policy. They need our solidarity, and we need to exert our right to not be complicit in the destruction of their lives.
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