This Weeks Updates:
1. Submit letter on Punishgenocide.org - Contact Your U.S. House Representative in Support of H.Res. 876
2. Holiday Cards for Senator Van Hollen - See Upcoming events for more details
1. Submit letter on Punishgenocide.org - Contact Your U.S. House Representative in Support of H.Res. 876
2. Holiday Cards for Senator Van Hollen - See Upcoming events for more details
Frederick for Justice in Palestine is a group of local Frederick City and County residents organizing and fighting for a free Palestine.
FJP vision is a just and peaceful world where every person is treated with fairness and dignity, in sustainable balance with the planet we share.
(1) Advocate for lasting justice and peace for Palestine.
(2) Educate Frederick residents and the surrounding community about the impacts of colonialism, racism, militarism, materialism, and ecological destruction of U.S policy regarding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
(3) Build meaningful connections and engage with city, county, state, and national organizations to recognize and address the intersectionality of human suffering.
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Since April 2024, community members have been attending and testifying at City and County Council Public meetings to urge our local governing bodies to join the growing call for a permant ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the US Complicity in the ongoing Gaza Genocide. Formerly known as Frederick Ceasefire Now, Frederick for Justice in Palestine (FJP) has met with members of each governing body to try and work on resolutions to pass at a local level. Despite listening and promises for follow-ups or letters of endorsement, only 1 City Council Member was brave enough to introduce a resolution in August of 2025 but could not get a second to support adding it to the agenda.
Below you will find the FJP drafts provided to each body which, unfortunately, have chosen not to act on our call to action. Still we persist! We know this is the right and moral thing to do, for Frederick City to join the other over 170+ juristictions across the Nation advocating for an end to our complicity and financial support of the Genocide in Gaza. Free Palestine!
FJP Co-drafted this Ceasefire Document with one of our local Frederick City Council members in May and June of 2025. It was broadened from our initial draft to denounce militarism in general and call for an end to U.S. involved violence globally, including in Gaza and Palestine.
This is FJP's original Ceasefire Resolution from May of 2024. Most of the demands made in this document are still valid requirements of a meaningful, lasting peace, though the language we used to describe those demands has evolved over the course of this genocide.