Santa Barbara Rally & March for Palestine
**Events may have been canceled or postponed. Please contact the venue to confirm the event.
Date & Time
Sat, Dec 02 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Address (map)
1100 Anacapa Street
Venue (website)
S.B. County Courthouse
The Central Coast Antiwar Coalition invites you to:
Rally & March for Palestine/Banner Ceasefire in Gaza
Saturday, Dec. 2nd-Noon-3 PM
Ceasefire advocates will rally first at the front of the Santa Barbara Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara
Then march through downtown Santa Barbara to banner for a ceasefire and end to the Israeli blockade of Gaza that has killed 15,000 people, and wounded tens of thousands.
The Coalition calls on the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors and City Council to pass resolutions in support of a ceasefire.
Sophia Halima Fadila is a Palestinian resident of Santa Barbara who was born near Jerusalem. Fadila said, “We reject the resolution that county supervisors passed on November 11, 2023, to declare support for Israel. The supervisors passed this resolution, reportedly without any Muslims on hand, during Israel’s relentless bombings of Gaza’s hospitals, health clinics, apartments, and escape routes. These bombs, some of them weighing 2,000 pounds, turned Gaza into a graveyard for children.”
Omar Figuereo, organizer with the Central Coast Antiwar Coalition, added, “The county supervisors do not speak for us. We do not stand with Israel in its genocidal campaign against Gaza. We stand with those who yearn for liberation from occupation and who support peace and justice in the Middle East and at home.”
The rally before the march will feature an indigenous person reading a land acknowledgement, followed by another indigenous speaker. Other speakers will include Santa Barbara-based Palestinian Sophia Halima Fadila, former San Luis Obispo Mayor Heidi Harmon, congressional candidate Helena Pasquerella of Ojai who is primarying Salud Carbajal in 2024, and Marcy Winograd of CODEPINK-Santa Barbara.
Speakers will address the importance of Santa Barbara joining the global call to stop the genocide in Gaza, the role of local military contractors–Raytheon, Lockheed Martin– in churning out weapons for Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, the urgency of denouncing Israel’s crimes against humanity and the need to push back on attempts to censor voices for Palestinian rights.
Silence is complicity.