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POR 2024-10

Calling for an Immediate Negotiated Ceasefire in Gaza

How it started
Jan 29, 2024 · Proposed by Mayor Siddiqui and Councillors Wilson, McGovern, and Sobrinho-Wheeler: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Jan 29, 2024 · Amendment carried Moved by Councillor Sumbul Siddiqui; carried 6–3.
POR 2024 #10 by substitution. A copy of the substitute order was shown on the screen
The clerk's words, from the minutes of Jan 29, 2024, p. 12.
Jan 29, 2024 · Amendment carried Moved by Councillor Patty Nolan; carried 6–3.
the second “Whereas” by striking the word “Hamas” after the word “horrific” and adding the words “by Hamas, a terrorist organization” after the word “attacks”
The clerk's words, from the minutes of Jan 29, 2024, p. 12.
Jan 29, 2024 · Amendment failed Moved by Councillor Patty Nolan; failed 3–6.
the third “Whereas” by striking “over 25,000” and inserting in the same place “thousands of” and by striking “10,000” and adding the word “more” after the word “thousands” and before the word “who”
The clerk's words, from the minutes of Jan 29, 2024, p. 13.
Jan 29, 2024 · Amendment carried Moved by Vice Mayor Marc McGovern; carried.
the proposed amendment by striking the words “cessation of violence” and inserting the word “ceasefire”
The clerk's words, from the minutes of Jan 29, 2024, p. 13.
Jan 29, 2024 · Amendment carried Moved by Councillor Patty Nolan; carried 5–4.
the last “Ordered” by adding the words “bigotry of all forms including” after the word “against”
The clerk's words, from the minutes of Jan 29, 2024, p. 14.
Jan 29, 2024 · Amendment carried Moved by Councillor Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler; carried.
the “Resolved” by striking the word “both” and adding “Muslim, Israeli,” after the word “by”
The clerk's words, from the minutes of Jan 29, 2024, p. 14.
Jan 29, 2024 · Reconsideration failed Moved by Vice Mayor Marc McGovern; failed 0–9.
made a motion to reconsider the vote taken on POR 2024 #10
The clerk's words, from the minutes of Jan 29, 2024.
View the roll call on the amendment

Voted no (9)

  • Burhan Azeem
  • Marc McGovern
  • Patty Nolan
  • Joan Pickett
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
  • Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
  • Paul F. Toner
  • Ayesha M. Wilson
  • E. Denise Simmons
Jan 29, 2024 · ✅ Order adopted as amended (unanimous)
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Voted yes (9), unanimous

  • Burhan Azeem
  • Marc McGovern
  • Patty Nolan
  • Joan Pickett
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
  • Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
  • Paul F. Toner
  • Ayesha M. Wilson
  • E. Denise Simmons
Roll call of Jan 29, 2024 · from the council’s minutes · photos: City of Cambridge
What’s next
No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number. Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.
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🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Jan 29, 2024

Public Comment (54)

54 written comments received (2024-02-12 – 2024-12-02). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.