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-We [[spring-proclamation|Recognize the first month of Spring, Nisan, as an Asian heritage month]], and the chief month of the year in the [[wp>Hebrew calendar]], mentioned in Exodus 12, and the [[wp>Babylonian calendar]], and in many [[wp>Hindu calendar|Indian calendar]]s where it is called [[wp>Vaisakha]]. The moon of Nisan endures between 9th April to 8th May, 2024, and will reoccur next year 30th March to 25th April 2025, according to the [[wp>Metonic Cycle]].  This year's later occurence is due to a 13th intercalary month added prior, to make the previous a leap year, a postponement called [[wp>Nasi']] in the Quran in reference to the [[wp>pre-Islamic Arab calendar]], presumably after the Jewish Exilarch, or "Nasi" (lit. Prince, president) who would announce the upcoming year's holiday cycle.    We Recognize the night of full moon, the Quartodeciman 14th of Nisan, April 22-23rd, [[wp>Passover]] night, to begin the Jewish [[wp>feast of unleavened]] bread.  Recognizing it also as an ecumenical Asian and [[wp>Quartodeciman]] Christian heritage week, and Lunar spring break.   Acknowledging the two great lights, the Sun which rules by day and Moon by night, are natural “signs, appointed times, days, and years”, as known through common sense to animals and plants, through natural philosophy to humankind, as also described in Genesis 1:14-19, and as relevant to other indigenous cultures around the globe, who also do not require the astronomical tables and mathematical calculations of the imperial Roman Gregorian calendar, derived by the court of Julius Caesar from the Egyptian solar calendar, in order to understand time and predict the seasons.  Recognizing this as an equity issue, in that the Roman Gregorian calendar has been imposed on Asia and indigenous America, through imperialism and colonization.  And it was imposed on the Near East through decision by the 313 CE [[wp>Synod of Arles]] and 323 CE [[wp>Council of Nicaea]] to excommunicate Quartodeciman christians who observed the feast of Matzah and thus would break the Lenten fast before Easter.   Eating the unleavened bread was either in solidarity with Jews, as Paul taught them to be "wild olive shoots grafted in to the olive tree of Israel" (Romans 9-12) or else as a memorial of the last supper in which Joshua son of Mary said to his disciples "do this in remembrance of me", or both.  But the church instead chose [[wp>supercession]]ism and replacement theology, and established an alternate gnostic ritual, the sunday "Eucharist", and made it compulsory.  This anti-Judaism and anti-Zionism of the imperial church, which (mis)appropriates Jewish texts, promises, and prophecies in order to style itself the "spiritual Israel" and the christian quarter as the "new Jerusalem", became dogma and command:  Jews were and still are expected to convert, assimilate and eat the Easter ham.  The alternatives offered are that they serve as a "witness people" to the "wrath and severity of God upon unbelievers" by remaining miserable and powerless in Palestine and throughout the christian world, or else disappear from the stage of history.  Failure to comply with this absurd expectation, resulted in frequent expulsions and violence against Jews and other heretics living in christian lands, for which the victims were blamed.  the antecedent of later antisemitism as justified on spurious scientific, political, or racial grounds after the supercessionism was translated into the dialectics of "critical reason" during the Enlightenment.  Nisan is known as [[wp>Vaisakha]] in India, and is the first month of the [[wp>Vikram Samvat calendar]], [[wp>Odia calendar]], [[wp>Maithili Calendar]], [[wp>Punjabi calendar]], [[wp>Assamese calendar]] (where it is called Bohag) and the [[wp>Bengali calendar]].    These are [[wp>luni-solar calendar]]s.  It is the third month of the [[wp>Chinese calendar]], although it is often the second month, because of differences in the schedule for intercalation on leap years, in which years the Chinese mid-autumn festival in that 8th month corresponds to the Jewish feast of tabernacles and universal feast of harvest ingathering, in the seventh month. For further reading on the equity issue and history of antiJudaism as a constitutive idea  and explanatory force in Christianity, Islam, and Enlightenment thinking, see the book by Nirenberg, David "[[wp>David_Nirenberg#Anti-Judaism|Anti-Judaism:  The Western Tradition]]" WW Norton (2013)
+We [[spring-proclamation|Recognize the first month of Spring, Nisan, as an Asian heritage month]], and the chief month of the year in the [[wp>Hebrew calendar]], mentioned in Exodus 12, and the [[wp>Babylonian calendar]], and in many [[wp>Hindu calendar|Indian calendar]]s where it is called [[wp>Vaisakha]]. The moon of Nisan endures between 9th April to 8th May, 2024, and will reoccur next year 30th March to 25th April 2025, according to the [[wp>Metonic Cycle]].  This year's later occurence is due to a 13th intercalary month added prior, to make the previous a leap year, a postponement called [[wp>Nasi']] in the Quran in reference to the [[wp>pre-Islamic Arab calendar]], presumably after the Jewish Exilarch, or "Nasi" (lit. Prince, president) who would announce the upcoming year's holiday cycle.
+We Recognize the night of full moon, the Quartodeciman 14th of Nisan, April 22-23rd, [[wp>Passover]] night, to begin the Jewish [[wp>feast of unleavened]] bread.  Recognizing it also as an ecumenical Asian and [[wp>Quartodeciman]] Christian heritage week, and Lunar spring break.
+Acknowledging the two great lights, the Sun which rules by day and Moon by night, are natural “signs, appointed times, days, and years”, as known through common sense to animals and plants, through natural philosophy to humankind, as also described in Genesis 1:14-19, and as relevant to other indigenous cultures around the globe, who also do not require the astronomical tables and mathematical calculations of the imperial Roman Gregorian calendar, derived by the court of Julius Caesar from the Egyptian solar calendar, in order to understand time and predict the seasons.
+Recognizing this as an equity issue, in that the Roman Gregorian calendar has been imposed on Asia and indigenous America, through imperialism and colonization. And it was imposed on the Near East through decision by the 313 CE Synod of Arles and 323 CE Council of Nicaea to excommunicate Quartodeciman christians who observed the feast of Matzah and thus would break the Lenten fast before Easter. Eating the unleavened bread was either in solidarity with Jews, as Paul taught them to be “wild olive shoots grafted in to the olive tree of Israel” (Romans 9-12) or else as a memorial of the last supper in which Joshua son of Mary said to his disciples “do this in remembrance of me”, or both. But the church instead chose the unbiblical supercessionism and replacement theology, based on hermeneutic perversions that deny the texts' plain meaning and are contrary to the apostolic teaching, and established an alternate gnostic ritual, the sunday “Eucharist”, and made it compulsory. This anti-Judaism and anti-Zionism of the imperial church, which (mis)appropriates Jewish texts, promises, and prophecies in order to abrogate the covenant and law, and flatter itself the “spiritual Israel” and the christian quarter as the “new Jerusalem”, became dogma and command: Jews were and still are expected to convert, assimilate and eat the Easter ham. The alternatives offered are that they serve as a “witness people” to the “wrath and severity of God upon unbelievers” by remaining miserable and powerless in Palestine and throughout the christian world, or else disappear from the stage of history. Failure to comply with this absurd expectation, resulted in frequent expulsions and violence against Jews and other heretics living in christian lands, for which the victims were blamed. Supercessionism was the antecedent of Islamic anti-Judaism, and of later antisemitism as justified on spurious scientific, political, or racial grounds after the supercessionism was translated into the dialectics of “critical reason” during the Enlightenment.  We renounce our past complicity, and resolve to not participate any longer in this systemically violent fraudence.
+Nisan is known as [[wp>Vaisakha]] in India, and is the first month of the [[wp>Vikram Samvat calendar]], [[wp>Odia calendar]], [[wp>Maithili Calendar]], [[wp>Punjabi calendar]], [[wp>Assamese calendar]] (where it is called Bohag) and the [[wp>Bengali calendar]].    These are [[wp>luni-solar calendar]]s.  It is the third month of the [[wp>Chinese calendar]], although it is often the second month, because of differences in the schedule for intercalation on leap years, in which years the Chinese mid-autumn festival in that 8th month corresponds to the Jewish feast of tabernacles and universal feast of harvest ingathering, in the seventh month. For further reading on the equity issue and history of antiJudaism as a constitutive idea  and explanatory force in Christianity, Islam, and Enlightenment thinking, see the book by Nirenberg, David "[[wp>David_Nirenberg#Anti-Judaism|Anti-Judaism:  The Western Tradition]]" WW Norton (2013)
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 Therefore, We the [Board of Commissioners of Multnomah County] do hereby
-===Proclaim Recognition of the first month of Spring, Nisan, as Asian Heritage chief month (Draft)====
+====We Proclaim Recognition of the first month of Spring, Nisan, as Asian Heritage chief month (Draft)====
 We acknowledge the Chaldean name "Nisan" used in the Hebrew bible for the first namely the month of [[wp>Aviv]], the ripening of the barley, and also the time of the ancient Babylonian spring festival of "Akitu".