How To Get Your City Council To
Divest From Israel
USCPR Action’s City Council Organizing Toolkit has helped spur 200+ local ceasefire resolutions. Read on for the Divestment Edition to get your city to materially divest from genocide.
But First, Email Congress: Let Aid Into Gaza!
Over 2 million Palestinian people trapped in Gaza are living through U.S.-funded genocide in real time, as Israel bombs, starves, and displaces them. Email Congress now to demand an immediate arms embargo to cut off weapons to Israel.
Why We Need To Escalate To Divestment
Divestment is a key strategy because it’s tangible: It moves dollars away from weapons companies and complicit corporations that fuel genocide, making the war machine increasingly less profitable. Use this guide to organize for a divestment resolution at your local city council. Demand that your city withdraws investments from corporations complicit in genocide and apartheid.
How To Get City Council To Divest From Israel
When we chant “no justice, no peace”, we affirm its promise to the people with the power to end the genocide. In that spirit, make Palestine unavoidable for your elected officials. Here are the most common ways people have won a divestment campaign.
Protest your elected officials.
Revolutionary history has given us a legacy of creative ways to capture our elected officials’ attention. Mobilize your community to show up in numbers and remind your electeds who they represent. In the past year and a half, activists have held demonstrations such as:
Sit-in at an elected officials’ office
Loud “wake up call” noise demonstration at their house
Car caravan or other transportation disruption
Manure delivery
And more…
2. Birddog & disrupt politicians.
There will be NO REST for politicians while they fund and enable genocide. Blood is on the hands of every elected official who has armed Israel.
Birddog members of Congress so that they can’t be seen in public without being confronted about their choice to fund killing over care for constituents’ human needs.
Find out where your elected official will be, and approach them with your questions and demands. Disrupt events such as local town halls, classes, and speaking engagements with a group of trusted friends. Bring a camera.
3. Schedule an advocacy meeting.
Schedule a meeting with your member of Congress to bring your demands. Force them to confront the endless documentation of U.S. participation in genocide.
Look up their legislative record and how much money they receive from anti-Palestinian groups using the USCPR Action Congress Scorecard.
More Ways to Take Action
Go to USCPR’s Stop Gaza Genocide toolkit.