City Councils stand against military aid to Israel

 Flyer for the April 1, 2024 Ann Arbor City Council meeting, in Michigan: ----------------------------------------------------

Major mobilizations for divestment from Apartheid Israel - on the University of Michigan campus, including 600 students marching for divestment on March 28, 2024: " ‘We won’t let them forget’: More than 600 march through campus in largest UMich pro-Palestine protest this year" At:  https://www.michigandaily.com/news/administration/we-wont-let-them-forget-more-than-600-march-through-campus-in-largest-umich-pro-palestine-protest-this-year/   See also the following news articles. They show more mobilizations for divestment, accompanied by more threats of punishment from the University of Michigan administration: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "UM takes action after divestment activists shut down honors ceremony" At:  https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/03/28/university-michigan-wont-divest-from-endowment-says-small-fraction-indirectly-invested-in-israel/73129346007/ ---------------------------------------

University of Michigan students demonstrate for divestment from Israel, during the university's Honors Convocation, March 24, 2024 - * See the coverage in the Detroit News:  https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/03/25/students-disrupt-um-honors-convocation-over-israel-investments/73094798007/ * See also the coverage in the  Michigan Daily:  https://www.michigandaily.com/campus-life/you-are-funding-genocide-tahrir-members-protest-during-101st-annual-honors-convocation/  * See also the coverage in WWJ-950 radio news: https://www.audacy.com/wwjnewsradio/news/local/protestors-crash-university-of-michigan-honors-convocation * See also the coverage in Inside Higher Ed : https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2024/03/27/pro-palestine-students-disrupt-speech-michigan-honors-event

 March 20, 2024  University of Michigan divestment rally on the Ann Arbor campus. See this news article -- "U-M students hold kick-off rally for the Divest! Don’t Arrest People’s Referendum" In the Michigan Daily, 3/21/2024, at: https://www.michigandaily.com/news/administration/u-m-students-hold-kick-off-rally-for-the-divest-dont-arrest-peoples-referendum/ "...Anwar said it is important that the University be held accountable for their investments. " 'We are here today, just as Palestinians have been (in Palestine) every single day for the past 100 years resisting colonialism, just as you all have been here every day in the past few months despite the felony charges (against protesters),' Anwar said. 'Despite whatever the fuck this University’s Regents, Santa Ono and Erik fucking Lundberg will have us believe, we know the Palestinian struggle is our struggle...' "  

At least five U.S. city councils have approved resolutions opposing military aid to Israel - The Richmond City Council resolution which  "opposes all existing and any future military aid to Israel". The full language of the Richmond (California) City Council's final resolution, as approved, is posted on the city's official web site here: https://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/13435  That resolution calls for ceasefire and also "opposes all existing and any future military aid to Israel". --------------------------------------------- Minneapolis (Minnesota) City Council passed a resolution against military aid to Israel.  Then the Mayor vetoed it.  But the City Council voted to override the Mayor and approved that resolution over his veto:  (1) See the CBS News coverage here: https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minneapolis-city-council-passes-veto-proof-resolution-calling-for-israel-hamas-ceasefire/  (2) See the Minneapolis Star Tribune

  Public speakers demand a resolution against military aid to Israel. At the March 18, 2024 meeting of the Ann Arbor, Michigan City Council. Video here.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=940k6hoFtFI City Councilmember Ayesha Ghazi Edwin comes in for severe criticism for her previous allegations of antisemitism when that resolution was brought before Ann Arbor City Council. She is told to introduce the resolution herself instead of fighting against it. This occasions applause from the audience. The Michigan Daily (University of Michigan student newspaper) reported on that meeting at  https://www.michigandaily.com/news/ann-arbor/city-council-passes-ordinance-regarding-greenbelt-program-amendments-and-approves-resolution-to-implement-anonymous-hiring-practices/ -- "Ann Arbor residents Mozhgan Savabieasfahani and Blaine Coleman asked the council to pass a resolution declaring opposition to military aid to Israel. Savabieasfahani and Coleman said they have been  demanding  this  actio

Dr. Mozhgan's call to attend the next Ann Arbor City Council meeting and demand the resolution against military aid to Israel -- at the City Council's March 18, 2024 meeting: ________________________________________________________

Ann Arbor (Michigan) City Councilmember Ayesha Ghazi Edwin has fired some very ugly "anti-Semitism" slander at those who demanded a resolution against military aid to Israel. The blood of 39,000+ Palestinians is on the hands of Councilmember Ayesha and on the hands of all of Israel's bloodhounds.  See this video, including scenes from the Ann Arbor City Council meeting of March 4, 2024: https://youtu.be/kQFndtwWVu4

Dr. Mozhgan demands a resolution against military aid to Israel, March 4, 2024. See the video at:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HUnjluKjgQ Ann Arbor's Ward 4 City Council race is between the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Palestinian people,  who are being genocided by the IDF. That's the distinct impression you get from watching the March 4th Ann Arbor City Council meeting video. In that meeting, Dr. Mozhgan Savabieasfahani speaks at 24 minutes and 54 seconds into the meeting video, for a City Council resolution against military aid to Israel: Another speaker: