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To: City Council
Subject: Ceasefire Resolution
Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 10:00:49 PM
Dear Sebastopol City Council,
When I look at the news, my heart breaks with sadness about the ever increasing loss of life, such as when reading in today’s Press Democrat that "A quarter of Gaza's population is starving, according to the United Nations" and the headline in Saturday’s paper blares “Children dying of hunger UNICEF Middle East Chief: ‘The child deaths we feared are here.’" The situation continues to worsen and last November we were already informed that "Thousands of children have been killed."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/world/middleeast/gaza-childrenisrael.html I’ve seen so many more devastating reports and I think about how our Sebastopol City Council has not yet passed a Ceasefire Resolution. Since Oct 7th, at least 1,139 people have been killed in Israel, and 31,272 killed in Gaza with over 8,000 more missing, tens of thousands injured and over 2 million at risk of death from ongoing attacks, hunger and lack of clean water.
I am asking that you please support putting on the agenda, and approve, a Ceasefire Resolution like Cotati has already done, and so many people have called for. You will be in the company of over a hundred other municipalities, the Sonoma County Democratic Party and the North Bay Labor Council who have taken action calling for a ceasefire.
Thank you for your consideration,
June Brashares
Sebastopol, 95472