From: Mira Viorst
To: City Council
Cc: Mary Gourley; Sandra Maurer; Jill McLewis; Nevsa Hinton; Stephen Zollman; Diana Rich Subject: Again: Jewish leader for Ceasefire Resolution
Date: Tuesday, March 26, 2024 5:29:57 PM
Hello City Council, my name is Miranda Viorst and I'm overjoyed to call Sebastopol my home for the last two and a half years. I'm a devoted community member, working as a mental health clinician at TLC Child and Family Services.
I'm also a Jewish leader in my community, and I urge you to hear me and take me and those I represent seriously when I say that I hereby call for a permanent ceasefire to end the killing of all innocent civilians in Gaza, and for us to do everything in our power for that to occur. If you represent me and my Judaism, you represent this.
It's silly and exhausting for this pertinent matter to be delayed again and again, from one meeting agenda to the next.
So called Peacetown should join over 50 municipalities nationwide in calling for an end to the siege on Gaza. 65% of the 28,000 civilians killed in Gaza are women and children. All of the 2.4 million residents in Gaza are facing starvation, sickness, and death. The proposed resolution is balanced. It calls for an end to all killing! Peace and dignity for all is a balanced resolution.
Listen to your Sebastopol constituents and West County residents. Don't let outside agitators strong-arm the City Council into rejecting the Ceasefire Resolution.
Thank you for your time.
Warmly,
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Mira Viorst,