As an anarchist pacifist, I am not in support of
signing because I think
that both "sides" are in the wrong. The land issue is a religious issue
and both Islam and Judaism are problematic institutions.
On 2025-06-05 15:56, Jake Watters via sudo-discuss wrote:
if there are no objections can we go ahead and
sign it?
On Wed, Jun 4, 2025 at 11:13 PM Aaron Fenyes via sudo-discuss
<sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> wrote:
> Jake, Lo, and I (Aaron) talked about the Apartheid-Free Communities
> pledge at tonight's meeting! Here are some combined thoughts.
>
> === We should sign as soon as possible ===
>
> Signing the pledge will counteract ongoing harm in a small but real
> way, so we should sign it as soon as possible.
>
> === Our obligations ===
>
> Here's an idea of what we think we're promising to do, as an
> organization, by signing the pledge.
>
> --- Items 1-3 ---
>
>> WE AFFIRM our commitment to freedom, justice, and
>> equality for the Palestinian people and all people
>>
>> WE OPPOSE all forms of racism, bigotry,
>> discrimination, and oppression
>>
>> WE DECLARE ourselves an Apartheid-free community
>
> These are things we have or should have affirmed already, so
> (re)affirming them presumably won't change anything about how we
> operate.
>
> --- Item 4 ---
>
>> WE PLEDGE to join others in working to end all support to Israel's
>> Apartheid regime, settler colonialism, and military occupation.
>
> Here are some ways we can uphold this promise.
>
> - Sign the pledge. As Lo pointed out in the quoted e-mails below,
> just putting our name on the list of signatories already helps
> uphold our obligations: "It reflects public support to our elected
> officials when we press them to divest from Israeli violence. It
> reduces harm to Palestinian and Arab members of our community. It
> challenges the official narratives and expands the public
> consciousness around Palestine."
>
> - Confirm on our wiki that we've signed the pledge, and add the
> Apartheid-Free Communities logo.
>
> - Facilitate (and, if possible, promote) the use of our space by
> organizations "working to end all support to Israel's Apartheid
> regime, settler colonialism, and military occupation."
>
> - Provide information resources (like flyers, zines, articles, book
> chapters, and a listening / watching / reading list) in the space.
>
> === Background on the campaign ===
>
> This Apartheid-Free Communities campaign is financed by the American
> Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization. You can find some
> steering committee members on the campaign site's "About" page
> (
https://apartheid-free.org/about/).
>
> All the listed steering committee members are Christian or Unitarian
> organizations, which for one of us (Aaron) is kind of a red flag.
>
> On the other hand, the list of pledge signatories seems to include
> more diverse religious organizations. In particular, it has a good
> number of Jewish organizations, including the national and Bay Area
> chapters of Jewish Voice for Peace.
>
>> On Mon, 2 Jun 2025, Jake Watters via sudo-discuss wrote:
>>
>>> Let's have a meeting this coming Wednesday, in two days! Last
> week just
>>> three or four of us got together and discussed things as can be
> seen in the
>>> meeting notes:
>>>
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meetings
>>>
>>> Here's a proposed agenda:
>>> * catch up on new membership applications
>>> * continue talking about the process of sudoroom becoming its
> own 501(c)3
>>> * the volunteer effort of updating our membership list
>>> * fundraising including reaching out to members who may have
> forgotten to
>>> pay dues
>>> * sudoroom signing the "Apartheid-Free Communities" pledge! See
> below for
>>> more info
>>>
>>> Lets say this Wednesday, 7:30PM?
>>> -jake
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>>> From: Lo via sudo-discuss sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org
>>> Date: Tue, May 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
>>> Subject: [sudo-discuss] Proposal: SUDO room joins the Apartheid
> Free
>>> Communities Campaign
>>> To: sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org
>>>
>>> Dear Sudoroom members and leaders,
>>>
>>> For the past 2.5 years I’ve been a Sudoroom “member” (I
> say this in
>>> quotations because I’ve been paying dues and attending but
> have never been
>>> endorsed as a full fledged member), but I’d like to make a
> proposal that
>>> Sudoroom become an Apartheid Free Community!
>>>
>>> I am writing as a member of SURJ Bay Area’s Palestine
> Solidarity Campaign.
>>> As a racial justice organization, SURJ believes it is our moral
> obligation
>>> to demand an end to Israel’s system of apartheid, its genocide
> in Gaza, and
>>> its increasing violent seizure of land in the West Bank. All
> this is paid
>>> for by our tax dollars, with the U.S. directly funding the
> Israeli
>>> government to the tune of $35 billion a year.
>>>
>>> We invite Sudoroom to join us to support the Palestinian
> people’s human
>>> rights, lives, and lands by taking the pledge to become an
> Apartheid-Free
>>> Community.
>>>
>>> Apartheid is a crime against humanity. As defined by the United
> Nations
>>>
https://legal.un.org/avl/ha/cspca/cspca.html, apartheid
> includes:
>>>
>>> • Acts such as murder, torture, inhuman treatment, and
> arbitrary arrest of
>>> members of a racial group
>>>
>>> • Deliberate imposition upon the subjugated racial group of
> living
>>> conditions calculated to cause its physical destruction
>>>
>>> • Legislative measures that discriminate in the political,
> social,
>>> economic, and cultural fields
>>>
>>> We could fill pages with examples of how Israel’s treatment of
> Palestinians
>>> meets this criteria—from arrests and imprisonment without
> charges to the
>>> destruction of Gaza by bombing homes, hospitals, and schools and
> cutting
>>> off food, water, electricity and medical supplies. Palestinians
> are
>>> subjected to entirely different laws and judicial systems,
> without freedom
>>> of movement and economic opportunities.
>>>
>>> Inspired by the anti-apartheid movement that helped topple the
> white
>>> supremacist regime in South Africa, the Apartheid-Free
> Communities Campaign
>>> is bringing communities together to end apartheid in
> Israel/Palestine. We
>>> encourage Sudoroom to join the over 500 organizations across the
> globe,
>>> including cities, schools, faith-based communities, labor
> unions,
>>> businesses, and organizations, in taking the pledge to become an
>>> Apartheid-Free Community.
>>>
>>> Signing the Pledge makes a difference! It reflects public
> support to our
>>> elected officials when we press them to divest from Israeli
> violence. It
>>> reduces harm to Palestinian and Arab members of our community.
> It
>>> challenges the official narratives and expands the public
> consciousness
>>> around Palestine. We ask that you sign this pledge, and take
> actions, in
>>> whatever way makes sense to Sudoroom, to be part of this effort.
>>>
>>> Be sure to let me know if you have any questions and how I can
> support your
>>> Sudoroom in signing the Pledge and joining this campaign.
>>>
>>> In Solidarity,
>>>
>>> Lo
>>>
>>> P.S. We have materials including buttons, posters, and pamphlets
> you can
>>> use to increase awareness and build support. Plus the
> Apartheid-Free
>>> Communities website
https://apartheid-free.org/about/ is full of
> great
>>> resources and educational materials.
>>>
>>> --
>>> *Lo *
>>> Pronouns: She/They
https://www.mypronouns.org/
>>>
>>> There is no neutral body from which our bodies deviate. Society
> has
>>> written deep into each strand of tissue of every living person
> on earth.
>>> What it writes into the heart muscles of five star generals is
> distinct
>>> from what it writes in the pancreatic tissue and intestinal
> tracts of Black
>>> single mothers in Detroit, of Mexicana migrants in Fresno, but
> no body
>>> stands outside the consequences of injustice and inequality
>>>
>>> *― *Aurora Levins Morales
>>>
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