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Media Advisory: NYC Press Conference

International Legal Action To Be Taken Against the US Government 

for Participation in Genocide

Where: Foley Square, 60 Center St., NYC

When: Thursday, September 4, Noon

NEW YORK— Taxpayers Against Genocide (TAG) and the National Lawyers Guild International Committee (NLG) will hold a press conference to discuss the international legal action they are taking against the US government for participation in the genocide in Gaza. TAG is a growing grassroots movement, representing more than 3,000 taxpayers across the United States backing this legal action.

This initial phase of the legal action involves filing a historic legal complaint against the US government with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IAHCR), the official human rights body in the Western Hemisphere established by the Organization of American States (OAS). This is the only legal complaint in the world that directly takes on the US government as a whole– including both Biden and Trump administrations, as well as Congress– for the genocide. 

The complaint is endorsed by a wide range of organizations,  including the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP),  American Muslims for Palestine (AMP),  and CODEPINK, as well as by publicly prominent individuals such as Mahmoud Khalil and Dr. Cornel West.

Participants in the press conference will include:

• Huwaida Arraf, lead attorney of the IACHR complaint and also one of the founders of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition;

• Maria Kari, attorney on both the IACHR complaint and Mahmoud Khalil’s legal teams, as well as executive director or Project TAHA;

• Susan Abulhawa, Palestinian human rights activist, best selling author, and the lead petitioner in this complaint;

• Monadel Herzollah,  Palestinian-American petitioner with the complaint and co-founder of US Palestinian Community Network who has lost 44 family members to the genocide;

• Hadil  El Wahidy Palestinian-American petitioner with the complaint, business owner, and activist who has lost more than 50 family members to the genocide;

• Jacqueline Luqman, Chair, Coordinating Committee, Black Alliance for Peace (BAP);

• Maryam Shuaib, Community Program Organizer at CAIR-NY;

• Dr. Jill Stein, Green Party Presidential candidate;

• Marco Castillo, Co-Executive Director, Global Exchange;

• Leaders from other endorsing organizations such as PYM, AMP,  JVP, CODEPINK.

Following the press conference, there will be a march to Irish Hunger Memorial Park,  stopping at several companies profiting from the genocide, demanding US accountability and an end to the genocide.

For more information and to arrange interviews, please contact:

Seth Donnelly, Co-Founder, TAG, at ph: 650-814-8495 or taxpayersagainstgenocide@gmail.com

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