Dec 16 Standout & Rally in Brockton, MA

Over 40 people from all over Congressional District 8 showed up at the Westgate Mall in Brockton, MA today to tell our Congressperson, Rep. Stephen Lynch that we want him to call for a Permanent Ceasefire Now!  We were from Brockton, Quincy, Westwood, JP, and other cities and towns, Muslim, Palestinian, Jews and all others.  Eric Andrade of Fall River performed his rap as a closer.  Spirited and powerful!

The Alliance affectionally calls this banner “Big Red”.

Creative Action in CT and MA

Voters in CT and MA have put this action together. The truck with its billboard of rotating messages originally played to stop at the offices of Markey, Warren, and McGovern only but the organizer have since added Neal, Auchincloss and Lynch to their itinerary.

Here are two photos of the messages that will be on the billboard:

Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel | Flash Update #70. Dec 15

On 15 December, an airstrike struck a school sheltering Internally Displaced People (IDPs), in Khan Yunis, reportedly killing 12 Palestinians, and injuring dozens of others. Since 7 October, at least 288 IDPs sheltering in UNRWA shelters have been killed and at least 998 injured, according to UNRWA. A total of 342 school buildings have sustained damage (about 70 per cent of all school buildings in Gaza). Seventy of the schools damaged are UNRWA schools, with at least 56 serving as shelters for IDPs. Several schools, including UNRWA schools, have been directly hit by Israeli airstrikes or tank shells.


A new World Food Programme (WFP) rapid food security assessment reveals alarming trends in the food security situation in southern Gaza, with 44 per cent of assessed households facing very severe hunger. This is an increase from the 24 per cent recorded in the previous assessment undertaken during the humanitarian pause (24-30 November).

Obtaining an accurate total of the IDPs remains challenging, but as of 12 December, according to UNRWA, almost 1.9 million people in Gaza, or nearly 85 per cent of the population, are estimated to be internally displaced, including people who have been displaced multiple times.

read the full report: Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel | Flash Update #70

“These are all our memories, our entire lives. For over 50 years, we have been living here .... Now it's all gone; everything has turned into ashes.” Screenshot from a video by UNRWA