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PLEASE READ ME!

For this snail-mail action, we will be sending the names (or a slip of paper marked "Name Unknown" in case a name is not available) of the list of 11,000 + martyred Palestinians to the Kingston office of Congressman Pat Ryan.

Our goals:
> To communicate the sheer volume of people who have been unjustly murdered.
> To push the staffer(s) at Congressman Pat Ryan’s Kingston, NY, office to look at each name and share the impact with him.
> To send enough mail that it disrupts the normal workflow, even for a little bit of time.

This is not a normal time; Congressman Pat Ryan’s Kingston, NY, office should not be conducting business as usual.

As of December 5, Aljazeera has reported that “Israel has killed more than 15,200 Palestinians in Gaza attacks since October 7, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.” This document includes a list from October 26, 2023, reported by the Gaza Ministry of Health of 11,078 Gazans martyred by the Israeli military. For the ~4,000 names we don't know, we have put "Name Unknown."

Signing up for a name:
Initial next to the name you are signing up for in the fifth column. Sign up for as many names as possible and write each name on a separate slip of paper. Please include the person's age, too. If you have the capacity, consider giving yourself time to sit with the names you are signing up for and let yourself feel whatever comes up as you write them as a small act of honoring their life, knowing they deserve so much more. It’s encouraged to gather and do this action in small groups where each person commits to several names and sends their own personal copy of the form letter to the Congressman.

Mailing the Names:
We are asking folks to mail the names they have written directly to Congressman Pat Ryan, along with a copy of the letter, in the LETTER tab of this document. Tuck the slips of paper inside the folded letter so they cannot be ignored. The letter will let the Kingston office know this is a coordinated action. Please mail your letter(s) on Tuesday, December 19th, so all our envelopes arrive on or around the same day.

Congressman Pat Ryan
307 Wall Street Suite #6
Kingston, NY 12401
United States

Transparency:
This action was inspired by and made possible with the assistance of a group of community members invested in pressuring elected officials in Western Massachusetts who were supported and promoted by JVP Western Mass to call for a permanent ceasefire. Their action was successfully completed on November 11th, and that group has generously shared their templates and materials to conduct a similar campaign in New York State. A small affinity group in the Hudson Valley decided to focus this action on Congressman Pat Ryan, who represents the 18th District. Please consider participating even if he is not your district representative; every voice counts in our collective demand for a permanent ceasefire.
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