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DESCRIPTION:11/11/24 UC People’s Tribunal on Palestine\n\nMonday, October 14, 
 2024\nContacts: ucpeoplestribunal@gmail.com\n***FOR IMMEDIATE 
 RELEASE***\n\nUniversity of California Community Members Launch People’s 
 Tribunal, Charge Leadership with Complicity in Israel’s Genocide of the 
 Palestinian People\n\nOakland, CA, October 14, 2024, 9 am–Today at 9 am, 
 faculty, staff, and students of the University of California and concerned 
 community members launched the UC People’s Tribunal for Palestine to hold 
 their leadership–UC President Michael Drake, the UC Regents, and Governor 
 Gavin Newsom–accountable for complicity in the devastation and 
 destruction of the Palestinian people. Beginning on November 11, 2024, 
 members of the UC community will assemble to charge UC leaders with direct 
 and indirect complicity in genocide and Nakba, the ongoing process of 
 dislocation, fragmentation, and mass killing that seeks to complete the 
 work of erasing the existence of the Palestinian people that began in 
 1948.\n\nTribunal organizers chose Indigenous Peoples’ Day for their 
 launch to acknowledge and honor the Lisjan Ohlone people on whose unceded 
 lands the UC Office of the President sits and to call attention to 
 Israel’s unceasing genocide of Palestinians as the Indigenous people of 
 historic Palestine. “The reciprocity between Indigenous land and peoples 
 and solidarity with ongoing global struggles for land rights and resistance 
 to occupation and militarism are foundational to the health of humanity and 
 our planet,” stated an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health 
 at UC Berkeley and a member of the UC Faculty and Staff for Justice in 
 Palestine.\n\nThe UC People’s Tribunal for Palestine follows on a year of 
 escalating protest across all UC campuses against the unceasing Israeli 
 genocide in occupied Palestine and beyond. Over the past year, UC 
 leadership has failed to condemn genocide or reckon with the implications 
 of its investment, research, and donor complicity in the destruction and 
 devastation of the Palestinian people. Instead, UC leaders have normalized 
 the Israeli state and defended Zionism while restricting speech and using 
 militarized police power, exclusion orders, and other modes of repression 
 against students, faculty, and community members for speaking out against 
 the genocide. “These are times that call for clarity,” stated Christine 
 Hong, a UC Santa Cruz ethnic studies professor. “In the absence of 
 justice, we turn to the mechanism of the people’s tribunal in order to 
 reassert our right to hold systems and structures of power 
 accountable.”\n\n"If truth is the first casualty of war, the lies told by 
 the Regents and the UC bosses show that they have declared war on students, 
 faculty, and staff,” stated Mark Kleiman, a human rights\n\nlawyer who 
 has defended numerous members of the UC community who have been targeted by 
 the UC administration for protesting the genocide. “Thousands have been 
 shot and beaten by police, fired, threatened, and suspended by UC, and 
 defamed by Israel-directed character assassination squads,” he stated. 
 “We deserve to have the truth exposed and the record established. Make no 
 mistake. The tide is turning and the people behind these attacks and smear 
 campaigns will be exposed, and these tribunals will hold them all to 
 account."\n\nThe November 11 tribunal session will also consider specific 
 charges against the leadership of the University of California, San 
 Francisco (UCSF) for their complicity in the destruction of the health care 
 system in Gaza, their violations of the Hippocratic oath, and their 
 repression of faculty, staff, and students who have called attention to 
 these crimes. Subsequent tribunal sessions, at dates to be announced, will 
 focus on the financial complicity of the UC as well as its role in police 
 repression. “In charging the leadership of the UC with complicity with 
 genocide and Nakba, we seek not only to hold these individuals accountable, 
 but also to provide an example of how people can collectively organize to 
 bring justice to their own institutions, no matter how big or small,” 
 stated Sean Malloy, a UC Merced historian and tribunal 
 organizer.\n\nWebsite: http://ucpeoplestribunal.org/Twitter: 
 @uctribunal4pali\nIG: @peoples_tribunal_uc\nUnfair Labor Charges (ULP) UCSF 
 Repression Statement\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/10/19/18870092.php
SUMMARY:UC People’s Tribunal on Palestine
LOCATION:La Pena Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/10/19/18870092.php
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