PEACE CENTER ACTIVIST ALERT

DECEMBER 15th, 2025

MONDAY, DECEMBER 15th

ANNOUNCEMENT FROM

MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE

In Loving Memory of Barbara Lubin:

A Legacy That Lives On

With the most profound sadness, respect and love, the Middle East Children's Alliance announces the death of our co-founder and longtime Executive Director Barbara Lubin.

Barbara became an activist during the Vietnam War and continued working for justice throughout her life. After years of activism against US intervention in Central America, for the rights of children with disabilities, and on many critical issues, Barbara learned about the struggle for justice in Palestine and became a fierce champion of Palestinian rights.

Barbara joined one of the first delegations of elected officials and activists to Palestine during the First Intifada in 1988. Outraged by what she witnessed in Palestine, she returned determined to do something. Barbara and her partner Howard Levine launched the Middle East Children’s Alliance on May 1, 1988. Barbara’s energy, commitment, and passion helped MECA deliver millions of dollars in aid and support hundreds of community projects for children in Palestine, Iraq, and Lebanon. She smuggled medicine into Iraq during 13 years of brutal US-led sanctions. She organized actions, spoke at rallies, engaged in civil disobedience, and was arrested while standing up for for children. Barbara put solidarity into practice and brought Palestinian voices to people in the US and helped build the movement for freedom and justice for Palestine in the Bay Area and beyond. 

Barbara had four children, including her son Charlie who has Down Syndrome, and she fought tirelessly for his access to services, education, and basic rights. She had seven beloved grandchildren.

Barbara's life was dedicated to the idea that what was good for her kids was good for everyone’s kids. This led her to build community and solidarity beyond national, ethnic, and religious boundaries. She leaves a profoundly important legacy, not only in MECA, but in the lives of everyone who knew her.

All of us at MECA are honored to continue Barbara’s legacy. She will be dearly missed and never forgotten.

Barbara’s family asks that donations in her memory be made to MECA.

If you would like to make a donation to MECA in memory of Barbara,

we will notify her family.

Make a gift to MECA to carry on Barbara's legacy

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17th, 5 - 6:30 PM PST

ADVENT COMMUNITY CALL WITH

CHRISTIANS FOR A FREE PALESTINE

Advent! A coming in the middle of endings! Join CFP witnesses and friends from across the country for a time of biblical reflection, action testimony, and ritual reinforcement to conclude the “season of actions” carried out by Solidarity Circle participants. CFP Solidarity Circles across the land have been organizing their voices and bodies enjoining Chevron to cease its support for the continuing Israel-U.S. genocide against Palestinians. The hour and a half will ramp up with sharp commentary provoked by apocalyptic visioning and counsel in the biblical text. It will feature 1st person reportage from the previous week of hands-on protest against fossil fuel complicity with the Gaza genocide, and conclude with worship honoring both grief and resistance. Come, watch, wait, prepare!

more info and registration



SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21st, 11:30 AM PST - NEW DATE!

ZOOM WEBINAR

INFO AND REGISTRATION

DECEMBER, JANUARY, ONGOING....

IYAS SARTAWI, LOCAL PALESTINIAN ACTIVIST/ORGANIZER SEEKS DONATIONS FOR GAZA

more info go to: IG projecthopepalestine

ONGOING WEEKLY LOCAL PROTESTS

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TUESDAY EVENINGS

NOTE EARLIER START TIME!!!

4:00 - 5:00 PM

Corners of Mt. Diablo Blvd. and Moraga Road, Lafayette

A PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION FOR COMMUNITY BUILDING - THE WORK CONTINUES!

Meet Local Activists, Bring your own signs or make one when you arrive.

AND A MESSAGE FROM THE ORGANIZERS OF THIS WEEKLY EVENT:

We are concerned with safety and have a monitor at each corner wearing an orange vest. They will help keep the crosswalks and sidewalks clear for pedestrians. If you have any questions or concerns, please let one of them or Gordon Lake, our main event organizer, know.  

Our mission statement and some norms for our group: .

Mission:

We are meeting to collectively defend democracy and support and protect the institutions which are vital to the wellbeing of all of us, and which are now under attack. Our goals are to meet every week to express our values and ideas, to promote solidarity and mutual support within our protest community, and to encourage other like-minded citizens to join us.

Norms:

We are non-violent in word and deed. We will follow all laws and act in ways that ensure personal safety. We will not block crosswalks or walkways.

We will not respond to those in cars or on the street who express different views. We will contact monitors in orange vests if we have questions or concerns.

LAMORINDA PEACE & JUSTICE GROUP

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WE THE PEOPLE PROTESTS

taking place on various days

WALNUT CREEK, LAFAYETTE,

MARTINEZ and OAKLAND!

CHECK THE SCHEDULE HERE

Organized by Indivisible ReSisters Contra Costa!

Join us for a rousing honk and wave visibility action.

Bring your signs and raise your voice for democracy and to protect our rights!

This is a nonviolent event. Stay within your rights, don’t break laws, stay safe, stay peaceful, and avoid any risk you don’t feel comfortable with. Don’t obstruct traffic, impede pedestrians, or commit any acts of property damage.

If counter-protestors appear, do your best to ignore them. When people shout from cars, just remember that we are standing for their rights, too. They just don't know it.

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Suggested readings/videos/podcasts (not found in MSM!)

FROM LAST WEEK:

PAUL KRUGMAN interviews Paul Kedrosky, MIT researcher on AI

AMY GOODMAN interviews Attorney Dan Kovalik regarding Colombian Fisherman’s Family Files Claim Against U.S. over Boat Strike

ADDITIONAL ONLINE SOURCES FOR ACTIONS and INFORMATION ON PALESTINE/GAZA and other MILITARY ACTIONS WORLDWIDE

ACTIONS TO TAKE!

Continue contacting Congress to

demand they pass these resolutions: 

Block the Bombs – Support H.R. 3565

Call on your member of Congress to support the

Block the Bombs Act (H.R. 3565), introduced by

Rep. Delia Ramirez, to stop U.S. weapons transfers to Israel.

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/block-the-bombs-act

 Urge Support for Humanitarian Aid to Gaza – Senate Resolution 224

Tell your senators to support S. Res. 224, introduced by

Senator Peter Welch, calling for the immediate delivery

of humanitarian aid to Gaza. 

https://anewpolicy.org/urge-your-representatives-to-support-immediate-delivery-of-humanitarian-aid-to-gaza/

RECENTLY RELEASED!

2025 edition of Mapping Militarism

24 interactive maps to highlight

the state of war and peace on our planet.

Each map allows the viewer to spin the globe,

zoom in and out, scroll the timeline back through the years,

or switch from map view to list view. 

TRY IT HERE!

World BEYOND War has

a DIVESTMENT campaign!

About the Campaign

Grassroots-led war divestment campaigns are springing up all over the world, from students organizing to divest university endowments, to municipalities and states coming together to divest public pension funds. Divestment means organizing to remove public and private assets from weapons manufacturers, military contractors, and war profiteers.

Public pension and retirement funds especially are often invested, directly and indirectly, in weapons companies. Teachers and other public servants whose interests lie with promoting human needs have their retirement security tied up with maintaining or enlarging the war industry. Every dollar currently invested in weapons and war is a dollar that could be better spent on job creation, education, housing, healthcare, food security, and so much more.

War profiteering is largely normalized today. We’re working to stigmatize the war machine. World BEYOND War assists divestment campaigns led by our chapters, affiliates, other coalitions, and individuals around the world.

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN HERE

This website provides comprehensive information including events & campaigns

CHECK HERE FOR LINKS TO REACH OUT TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVES!

Includes a frequently updated

calendar of local events

Peace work in the Quaker tradition

American Friends Service Committee

BOYCOTT

DIVESTMENT and SANCTIONS!

CHECK OUT THIS HANDY APP!