On Monday, February 12, 2024 local Mendocino coast citizens offered a Ceasefire Proclamation before the Fort Bragg City Council, attempting to have our Ceasefire Proclamation added to calendar for consideration and adoption. Here is what I shared:
Good evening dear neighbors. My name is Laurel Krause. For 20 years I’ve made my home on Pudding Creek Road at the Allison Center for Peace. This evening I am here to encourage the Fort Bragg City Council to consider and support the Sustained Ceasefire proclamation we have put before you.
Our proclamation is made in response to Israel’s unrelenting bombing, killing of women and children in Gaza, and their inhumane genocide of the people of Palestine. Since October 20, 2023, on every Friday in town center at noon, I join a group of local citizens to protest for peace and ceasefire, sponsored by the Allison Center for Peace. As a Jew, I support this proclamation and demand a sustained, permanent CEASEFIRE NOW!
The Allison Center for Peace was established in memory of my sister Allison Krause, who was one of four antiwar student protesters killed by U.S. military gunfire at Kent State on May 4, 1970. The Allison Center is creating a Kent State and Jackson State massacre memorial, where we honor those who stood against war and for peace in May 1970. Populated with sustainable art, the memorial is a developing project to enhance peace and healing via peace gardens and a power art farm. A place for us to get on with our PEACE!
Our proclamation calls for the protection of all peoples’ human rights, free of terror and bombing, with access to food, water, shelter and medical aid. We call for PEACE in Gaza.
URGING the Fort Bragg City Council to ADOPT the ceasefire proclamation we have put before you.
JOIN the 47 cities (now 70 cities!) recently passing symbolic resolutions, calling for a halt to Israel’s Gaza bombardment. STAND with other U.S. cities like Richmond, San Francisco, Oakland, Detroit, Michigan, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Chicago, Illinois, Atlanta, Georgia, Akron, Ohio, St. Louis, Missouri, Albany, New York, Wilmington, Delaware, Bridgeport, Connecticut and Madison, Wisconsin to name a few.
Those Quiet During Genocide Are Accomplices!
Let the voice of peace be heard!
Thank you
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Before the close of the meeting, City Council members approved hearing our Ceasefire Proclamation on Monday, February 26th.
To WATCH the full Monday, February 12, 2024 Fort Bragg City Council meeting, go to https://bit.ly/3HYN9cR. Commenters begin at 1:08; Approval of the hearing for our Ceasefire Proclamation at 1:55.
Mendo Coast Current 