Dear Friends,
By this point in the year, living through 2020 has practically become an Olympic event.
COVID has changed how we live our lives, where we go, and who we can be with. It has impacted our work, our
economy and the health of millions of Americans. And of course the 2020 election has been the most expensive
political circus (complete with orange painted clowns) that our nation has ever experienced. I’m sure that,
like me, you too could draft a long list of 2020 complaints.
And yet, I am thankful.
I am thankful that this year I was welcomed into the Americans for Peace Now family. Certainly I am thankful to the board and staff, whose hard work and dedication to the cause has kept the hope for peace moving forward through many hard and unknowing moments. I am thankful to our friends and donors who have kept APN’s work and mission in the forefront of their support each year, and to each and every person who is a part of this movement that we are building.
It has been a challenging time to be in the peace business. Here in the US we had “leaders” who threw aside already insufficient policies in favor of cronyism and right-wing talking points, without even a perfunctory nod toward the ideals of peace and justice.
And yet, I am thankful.
I am thankful because today we have a new opportunity. Today we can speak up, and know that someone will listen. We can raise our voices together. We can call on our leaders to strive for peace and to prioritize justice. We can show them that we are tens of thousands strong, a movement of Americans, who, with our Israeli partners by our side, demand a reckoning and a recognition that the time for peace is now.
23 November, 2020
