Erik Sperling
Erik Sperling is the Executive Director of Just Foreign Policy. He has worked as Senior Adviser and Counsel in the offices of Congressman Ro Khanna and Congressman John Conyers. He has a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Ceasefire Now Resolution
Washington, D.C. (October 16, 2023) — Today, Representatives Cori Bush (MO-01), Rashida Tlaib (MI-12), Andre Carson (IN-07), Summer Lee (PA-12), and Delia Ramirez (IL-03), alongside Representatives Jamaal Bowman (NY-16), Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12), Chuy Garcia (IL-04), Jonathan Jackson (IL-01), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), Ilhan Omar (MN-05), Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), and Nydia Velazquez (NY-07) announced a resolution urging the Biden Administration to call for an immediate de-escalation and ceasefire in Israel and occupied Palestine, to send humanitarian aid and assistance to Gaza, and to save as many lives as possible.
Endorsement quotes came from Brittany DeBarros, Army Combat Veteran and Member of About Face: Veterans Against the War, Sandra Tamari, Executive Director, Adalah Justice Project, Dr. Osama Abu Irshaid, Executive Director American Muslims for Palestine, Abed Ayoub, National Executive Director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Mike Merryman-Lotze, Just Peace Global Policy Director, Ayah Ziyadeh, Advocacy Director Americans for Justice in Palestine Action, Maya Berry, Executive Director, Arab American Institute, Nihad Awad, National Executive Director, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Rachel Gilmer, Dream Defenders, Wa'el Alzayat, CEO, Emgage Action, Sunjeev Bery, Executive Director, Freedom Forward, Ria Chakrabarty, Policy Director, Hindus for Human Rights, Stefanie Fox, Executive Director, Jewish Voice for Peace Action, Erik Sperling, Executive Director, Just Foreign Policy, Yasmine Taeb, Legislative and Political Director at MPower Change Action Fund, Jon Rainwater, Executive Director, Peace Action, Hannah Rosenthal, Organizer for Progressive Jews of St. Louis, Dr. Frederick D. Haynes, III, President & CEO Rainbow Push Coalition, Mitchell Plitnick, President, ReThinking Foreign Policy, Jeff Cohen, cofounder of RootsAction.org, Rev. Dr. Karen Georgia A. Thompson, General Minister and President of the United Church of Christ, Iman Abid, Director of Advocacy, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Natalia Salgado, Director of Federal Affairs, Working Families Party.[1]
TEACH IN: US AGGRESSION ON CHINA: WHAT CAN WE DO
December 6 @ 2020 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm. . In the face of growing, bipartisan US aggression on China, misinformation, racist narratives, and warmongering make it difficult to understand the situation clearly. It is the responsibility of all people who hope for a world without war, discrimination, and marginalization to understand the situation and do what we can to make a change. Join us for the second in a two-part teach in to hear from diverse voices from different sectors of society as we consider what actions we can take: What can we as organizers, activists, students, workers, do to push for deescalation and an end to this US-imposed new cold war?
Speakers:
- Sheila Xiao – Pivot to Peace
- Jodie Evans – CODEPINK
- Erik Sperling – Just Foreign Policy
- Tobita Chow – Justice is Global
- Charles Xu– Qiao Collective
- Molly Hurley– Beyond the Bomb