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Happy New Years everyone. What - you think it’s cheap that I put up a video from last year’s ball dropping? Yeah well me too. You can watch this year’s on tv then just like the rest of us.

Be safe tonight everyone.

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Citizen Power had a great post yesterday about the Gaza Strip humanitarian crisis that I would encourage you all to check out. Shellinaya also had a link on there for a petition calling for a cease-fire in Gaza now. Anyone who feels the way that I do about this is encouraged to sign it.

You can also forward this e-mail to anyone else. Let’s get as many signatures on this thing as we can.

Subject: We need a ceasefire and humanitarian aid in Gaza.

Dear Friend,

During a time of year filled with prayers for peace, the volatile Gaza Strip is plagued, once again, by violence and death.

Air strikes in Gaza have killed 300 so far - at least 50 of them civilians - and injured over 600 more. Rockets are striking deep inside of Israel. As the crisis is spirals out of control, it is certain to lead to more civilian suffering and an escalation of the conflict.

To make a profound understatement, the political and historical conflict causing this violence is centuries old and far too complicated to address in an e-mail. The purpose of the petition I just signed is not to assert who’s right and who’s wrong, but rather to ask for real action to stop the violence through an immediate ceasefire.

I just signed a petition asking the UN, the European Union, the Arab League and the U.S. State Department to act to stop this violence. I hope you will too.

Please have a look and take action.

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/un_gaza/?r_by=-1932999-qjpm9px&rc=paste

Thanks!

Gaza resident surveying damage, photo by Suhaib Salem / Reuters