Dear
 I
am writing you very quickly today. World Can't Wait has a mission of stopping
the crimes of our government. All day yesterday, in court (see below) we were
getting messages and calls about the aerial assault on Gaza by Israel. Reading
the news, we learned that Israel is preparing a ground attack, and that three
Israelis were killed by missiles from Gaza. The death toll in Gaza is reported
now to be 15, including children, and the widely circulated photo of a parents
holding a baby they buried today.
From Dr. Mona Al-Farra in Gaza City, an
urgent message on Facebook:
Dear Friends, Gaza is under extensive
Israeli military attack, in less than 2 hours, 14 military attacks against
different targets in different parts of Gaza Strip, 6 were killed including 2
young girls age 4 and 7, 11 were injured, the hospitals are already lacking
essential emergency medications, and citizens were called for blood donation, we
do not have power, iam using UBS, the first stage of this operation has been
accomplished, we expect more escalation. your solidarity means a lot at this
difficult times, pass the word, this aggression, should stop now.
One
of the most popular tweets under the hashtag #gazaunderattack was, "I am
embarassed to be an American today. How can we sit and watch innocent civilians
murdered in Gaza, again." And, "Obama sleeps soundly while all of Gaza is awake
to the sound of US supplied bombs and rockets." There were protests in last
night in Seattle, DC, NY, San Francisco, Chicago, and more protests are planned
around the country and around the world today.
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 Queens, NY – A Queens jury
today found four men not guilty of obstructing the NYPD’s 103rd Precinct last
year. The high-stakes trial for political protesters began October 23, delayed
several times by weather, and almost ended with a mistrial because of the highly
unusual arrest of a sitting juror last week.
Carl Dix, Jamel Mims, Morgan
Rhodewalt and Robert Parsons were charged with two counts of Obstruction of
Government Administration, a Class A misdemeanor which carries a possible
sentence of 12 months in jail. Prosecutors failed to convince the jury that the
men, who were part of a group of 20 who loudly protested the NYPD stop-and-frisk
policy last November 19, had disrupted normal functioning of the
precinct.
Dix said today, “The prosecution attempted to make us pay a
heavy price for protesting against stop and frisk. They crafted the case from
the beginning, and failed in this objective. They put on a case, but couldn’t
provide any evidence that we obstructed the precinct, or that we intended to do
that. At the 103rdPrecinct last year, and today in court, we delivered a loud
message against NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy, and we won’t stop protesting this
unjust, unconstitutional, racist, policy.”
The jury found the defendants
guilty of one count of disorderly conduct, a violation. They will be sentenced
January 7. 13 more defendants await trial next year for the same
incident.
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Debra Sweet, Director, The World Can't Wait
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