40-day Fast for Gaza, May 22 - June 3

We will be vigiling at the TCPL on Wednesdays (June 4, 11, 18, 25), 3:00pm - 6:00 pm, during the Fast for Gaza. Feel free to join us!

The Ithaca Catholic Worker community is joining the Veterans for Peace 40-day Fast for Gaza starting May 22nd and ending June 30. We would like to invite everyone to participate that can. Veterans for Peace and Allies will fast and maintain a core group presence at the UN and the U.S. Mission to the UN in New York City. The Ithaca Catholic Worker and friends will be fasting locally.

We are fasting in support of the Veterans for Peace call for...

1) a resumption of humanitarian aid, under UN authority, to Gaza, and
2) that the U.S. stop arming Israel NOW!

We will be fasting in a sequential style with each person fasting for 24-48 hours. Of course, you can fast in whatever way you want and in a way that works for you. Some folks are eating only 250 calories a day, in line with the general caloric intake of Gazans under the ongoing Israeli military blockade. Please let us know you are fasting by signing up here: https://tinyurl.com/Gazafast40.  We are happy to have multiple people fasting on any given day so no worries about picking a unique time slot.

We hope that fasting, in this context, is a way to open our hearts and the hearts of those around us to a deeper sense of compassion for and subsequent action to end the genocide in Gaza. It does feel like the least we can do. We look forward to hearing from you.