One northern California activist’s idea of bringing a class action lawsuit against their local congressperson over support for the Gaza genocide has become a nationwide movement.
What began as one northern California activist’s idea to up the ante on pressure against local congressmen who support Israel’s assault on Gaza has turned into a plan to air the issue in the international arena.
Retired high school history teacher Seth Donnelly, a resident of Boyes Hot Springs in Sonoma County, California, said he was fed up with his Congress member Mike Thompson, who refused to respond to phone calls, emails, and protests demanding that he stop funding Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
“I even invited him to speak before a student human rights group at Rancho Cotate High School,” Donnelly said, referring to the school where he taught until recently. “When the students asked him if he would agree to vote against more military aid to Israel, he refused.”
At that point, joined by Fort Bragg activist Anna Marie Stenberg and members of Sonoma County for Palestine, Donnelly initiated a class action lawsuit against Thompson and another local Congress member, Jared Huffman. Stenberg is a former paralegal and long-time activist who was excited to find a new avenue for addressing the ongoing siege of Gaza. Sonoma County for Palestine had been holding weekly ceasefire vigils since late October 2023.
Stenberg told Mondoweiss, “I had been thinking, what else can we do? When Seth called me about a class action lawsuit I jumped on it right away.” (more...)
Class action lawsuit against California Congress members over Gaza genocide goes international
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