Palestine Tet – 101 – Denver, Colorado to vote on a ceasefire proclamation on Monday, February 12, 2024

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This coming Monday, in two days, Denver Colorado will vote on a proclamation calling for a permanent ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza, first step in ending Israel’s unspeakably cruel war, massacre of Palestinians in Gaza which the International Court of Justice – a body connected to the United Nations – has designated as genocide. 

For those of us – Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, Jewish and Peace activists that have working for an end to the Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Territories and for a Palestinian state, our movement – essentially a peace movement – this moment is the culmination of more than a half century of work, for some longer than that. 

As someone who has been involved – and intimately so – in this above movement for most of his adult life, the momentum behind pressing the City Council for a peace fire has been literally unprecedented both in its size and scope. I’ve never seen anything like it, not in Denver, not across the country, the world. 

Below an email to local City Council members calling on them to support the ceasefire proclamation written by Alejandra X. Castañeda, a neighbor and friend who lives down the block from us. It expresses better than I could – succinctly – the case for a ceasefire. Alejandra is one of the great walkers of all time. She is out virtually every day, along with her dog, walking miles and miles. I’ve seen her as far away as five miles from our homes walking at a quick pace. I’d like to walk with her once in a while but there is no way I could ever keep up with her pace.

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