BREAKING NEWS: Cambridge City Council Adopts Gaza Resolution

01.12.2009 | http://gazasiege.blogspot.com

Breaking News Release reported on GazaSiege.org

The Cambridge City Council http://www.cambridgema.gov/ccouncil.cfm today convened a public hearing on a bold and timely resolution regarding the situation in Gaza, with eloquent comments by many residents of Cambridge and heartfelt deliberations by City Council Members.

Summary of original resolution: “That the Cambridge City Council go on record recognizing the grievous impact of the loss of lives in the conflict on families and communities, mourning those lives on both sides of the conflict, condemning the attacks and invasion of Gaza by the Israeli military and the rocket attacks upon the people of Israel, and call for an immediate end to all attacks on civilians on both sides.”

The resolution was proposed by Councillor Marjorie Decker and Mayor Denise Simmons, and drafted with the support of the Cambridge Peace Commission http://www.cambridgema.gov/peace/.

In an unprecedented decision after the 3-hour hearing, the Council voted to adopt the resolution with 8 members voting in favor and 1 voting present. It included a last minute amendment requesting a long-term negotiated truce between both parties and support for a 2-state solution.

Read the full text of the original Gaza resolution http://www.cambridgema.gov/cityClerk/PolicyOrder.cfm?item_id=24033 (Cambridge City Policy Order Resolution O-15, January 12, 2009). The amended resolution will be posted online soon.

This landmark resolution should encourage many others around the country to propose similar actions in their own city councils and have congressional representatives finally take notice of the injustice and bias in US foreign policy in the Middle East, particularly regarding the devastating siege of Gaza.

Please show your support by thanking members of the Cambridge City Council for their bold and courageous action for an end to the siege in Gaza and a just peace in the region. Contacts for council members can be found here:
http://www.cambridgema.gov/ccouncil.cfm

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