NefeshBarYochai
2023-10-31 02:58:57 UTC
We Are Millions, We Are Billions, We are all Palestinians: Stand with
Palestine in DC on November 4th
There is an emergent mass movement in the United States unwavering in
its struggle for the liberation of Palestine. Join us in Washington,
DC on November 4 for the largest march for Palestine in U.S. history:
the Palestinian cause is your cause.
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We are witnessing an emergent movement in the United States, one that
upholds Black Lives from Ferguson to Minneapolis, champions Native
sovereignty from the Hawaiian mountains to the Plains of the Dakotas,
knows no borders from the Texas deserts to the California valley and
reclaims our stolen labor from the classrooms of Oklahoma to the
factories of Michigan and the hotels of Los Angeles. It is a mass
base, cross-coalition movement unwavering in its struggle for the
liberation of Palestine. Although it may appear disparate at times,
its compass is the world-historical refusal of the downtrodden, and as
the Palestinian revolutionary intellectual Ghassan Kanafani makes
clear, Palestine unites us, for the Palestinian cause is not a cause
for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary wherever he
is, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed.
This movement did not begin two weeks ago but builds on decades of
grassroots and youth-led struggle wherever Palestinians, Arabs, and
those who stand with them against Zionist colonialism find themselves.
On November 4th, this movement will make its way to Washington, DCs
Freedom Plaza, to march for an end to the siege on Gaza, a ceasefire,
and an end to the U.S. aid to Israel. Organized by the Palestinian
Youth Movement (PYM), National Students for Justice in Palestine,
ANSWER Coalition, The Peoples Forum, Al-Awda, US Palestinian
Community Network, American Muslim Alliance, US Campaign for
Palestinian Rights, Maryland2Palestine and the Palestinian Feminist
Collective, this march represents a critical moment in the Palestine
struggle, signaling the consolidation of a mass movement in the United
States committed to challenging the decades-long role of the American
government in the genocide of the Palestinian people.
As of this morning, the Ministry of Health in Gaza reported
approximately over 8,000 Palestinians have been martyred, including no
less than 3,342 children, with one child killed every 10 minutes by
the Israeli bombardment. All of this death in just three weeks time.
Still, there are hundreds more buried in the rubble, scattered across
the besieged and leveled neighborhoods. Palestinians cannot count
their dead, and Israelin its never-ending bombardmenthas robbed them
of their mourning. The occupying colonial power has destroyed over
half of all homes in its bombing campaign, displacing 1.4 million
Palestinians within the 140 square miles of what is called the Gaza
Strip. There is no place to hide from this unceasing assault. Even the
places of refuge and medical carehospitals, schools, mosques, and
churchesare brazenly blown to pieces. More US-funded bombs have been
dropped on Gaza over the past two weeks than the United States dropped
on Afghanistan over ten years.
A campaign of relentless destruction and massacre is not cheap. Israel
needs more bombs, more white phosphorus, more soldiers, and ever more
weapons to raze Gaza and fill its mass graves. On October 20, the
White House requested $10.6 billion in additional military aid to
Israel. According to U.S. President Joe Biden, this material support
for the Israeli states escalating colonial depravity is a smart
investment thats going to pay dividends for American security for
generations. Concurrently, Israeli think tanksoperationalizing this
investmenthave openly laid out their blueprints for the complete
ethnic cleansing of 2.4 million Palestinians in Gaza. Israeli
officials have openly called for genocide, the wiping of Gaza from the
Earth, and referring to Palestinians as human animals and children of
darkness. This extermination, as both U.S. and Israeli governments
assert, is essential for national security. Such revolting claims to
national security are not new but predicate U.S. imperialism and the
17-year siege on Gaza: a land, air, and sea blockade that has
transformed Gaza into a concentration camp, where new U.S. and Israeli
weapons and surveillance technologies are field-tested on a captive
population, and Israeli officials proudly exclaim that they are
keeping Palestinians in Gaza on a strict diet.
The movement for Palestine is not confined only to the crowds of big
liberal cities but courageously proclaims its imperative in the
streets of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Jackson, Mississippi. This
movement advances alongside the global peoples struggle to uplift the
Palestinian cause from the streets of Dublin and Sanaa, Jakarta and
Tehran, Toronto and Cairo, and London to Amman, calling for the end of
the U.S.-backed Zionist siege on Gaza. Students walked out of their
classrooms on October 25th on over one-hundred campuses across North
America; Jewish organizers chained themselves to politicians doors
and occupied their offices, along with New York Citys Grand Central
Station; activists are taking direct action against Elbit Systems,
Israels largest weapons manufacturer, in Cambridge Massachusetts;
Palestinian youth and grassroots organizations from Houston to Detroit
organize rally after rally, culminating in some of the largest marches
for Palestine the country has ever seen.
As we march, speak, and sing out our commands for Palestinian freedom
and an end to the genocidal siege, we know that we are not alone or
small. We hear the mighty chorus tremble through our city streets. We
see the feeble Zionist response. It is clear the people are with
Palestine. Yet, the corporate media attempts to portray the movement
as an isolated radical fringe. The numbers in the streets are outright
ignored or under-reported, revising the thousands into hundreds or
fewer. When reported on, the movement is depicted as violent terror
rallies, reinforcing the Biden administrations Islamophobic
incitement of hatred and the dehumanization of the Palestinian people.
With these mass mobilizations have also come state repression and
violence. The FBI has visited homes of Palestinians, workers and
students have been fired from their jobs, and universities have
threatened action against the student movement. Lamentably, these are
not empty threats. Lives have been destroyed. Our precious martyr,
Wadea Al-Fayoume, a 6-year old living with his family in the suburbs
of Chicago, was brutally murdered in his home. And as Zionists attack
peaceful rallies with their cars and fire guns into crowds in another
Chicago suburb, we continue to mobilize in the face of reactionary
violence, resolute in the conviction of the Palestinian cause.
In spite of these attempts to silence and violently suppress the
movement, we know that Palestinians in Gaza and throughout the lands
of Palestine hear us and see us. We know, just as they have remained
steadfast throughout 75 years of occupation and ethnic cleansing,
throughout 17 years of blockade, and in the face of the current
bombardment of Gaza and reinvigorated effort at eliminating Palestine,
our struggle is not in vain, and we too must remain steadfast in
mobilizing day in and day out to end the siege on Gaza and stop the
genocide of the Palestinian people.
The national march on November 4th in Washington, DC, is a call to all
progressive forces steadfastly fighting against exploitation and
oppression: the Palestinian cause is your cause. Transportation is
being organized all over the country, from cities including Chicago,
New York, Atlanta, Boston, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, Indianapolis,
Albuquerque, Providence, Philadelphia, and more. Over 200
organizations have endorsed the march and are joining together on Joe
Bidens doorstepwith the combined energy and strength the movement
has brought to cities, towns, workplaces, and schools across the
country demanding, loud and clear: CEASEFIRE NOW! END THE SIEGE ON
GAZA! END ALL U.S. AID TO ISRAEL!
Palestine in DC on November 4th
There is an emergent mass movement in the United States unwavering in
its struggle for the liberation of Palestine. Join us in Washington,
DC on November 4 for the largest march for Palestine in U.S. history:
the Palestinian cause is your cause.
Loading Image...
We are witnessing an emergent movement in the United States, one that
upholds Black Lives from Ferguson to Minneapolis, champions Native
sovereignty from the Hawaiian mountains to the Plains of the Dakotas,
knows no borders from the Texas deserts to the California valley and
reclaims our stolen labor from the classrooms of Oklahoma to the
factories of Michigan and the hotels of Los Angeles. It is a mass
base, cross-coalition movement unwavering in its struggle for the
liberation of Palestine. Although it may appear disparate at times,
its compass is the world-historical refusal of the downtrodden, and as
the Palestinian revolutionary intellectual Ghassan Kanafani makes
clear, Palestine unites us, for the Palestinian cause is not a cause
for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary wherever he
is, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed.
This movement did not begin two weeks ago but builds on decades of
grassroots and youth-led struggle wherever Palestinians, Arabs, and
those who stand with them against Zionist colonialism find themselves.
On November 4th, this movement will make its way to Washington, DCs
Freedom Plaza, to march for an end to the siege on Gaza, a ceasefire,
and an end to the U.S. aid to Israel. Organized by the Palestinian
Youth Movement (PYM), National Students for Justice in Palestine,
ANSWER Coalition, The Peoples Forum, Al-Awda, US Palestinian
Community Network, American Muslim Alliance, US Campaign for
Palestinian Rights, Maryland2Palestine and the Palestinian Feminist
Collective, this march represents a critical moment in the Palestine
struggle, signaling the consolidation of a mass movement in the United
States committed to challenging the decades-long role of the American
government in the genocide of the Palestinian people.
As of this morning, the Ministry of Health in Gaza reported
approximately over 8,000 Palestinians have been martyred, including no
less than 3,342 children, with one child killed every 10 minutes by
the Israeli bombardment. All of this death in just three weeks time.
Still, there are hundreds more buried in the rubble, scattered across
the besieged and leveled neighborhoods. Palestinians cannot count
their dead, and Israelin its never-ending bombardmenthas robbed them
of their mourning. The occupying colonial power has destroyed over
half of all homes in its bombing campaign, displacing 1.4 million
Palestinians within the 140 square miles of what is called the Gaza
Strip. There is no place to hide from this unceasing assault. Even the
places of refuge and medical carehospitals, schools, mosques, and
churchesare brazenly blown to pieces. More US-funded bombs have been
dropped on Gaza over the past two weeks than the United States dropped
on Afghanistan over ten years.
A campaign of relentless destruction and massacre is not cheap. Israel
needs more bombs, more white phosphorus, more soldiers, and ever more
weapons to raze Gaza and fill its mass graves. On October 20, the
White House requested $10.6 billion in additional military aid to
Israel. According to U.S. President Joe Biden, this material support
for the Israeli states escalating colonial depravity is a smart
investment thats going to pay dividends for American security for
generations. Concurrently, Israeli think tanksoperationalizing this
investmenthave openly laid out their blueprints for the complete
ethnic cleansing of 2.4 million Palestinians in Gaza. Israeli
officials have openly called for genocide, the wiping of Gaza from the
Earth, and referring to Palestinians as human animals and children of
darkness. This extermination, as both U.S. and Israeli governments
assert, is essential for national security. Such revolting claims to
national security are not new but predicate U.S. imperialism and the
17-year siege on Gaza: a land, air, and sea blockade that has
transformed Gaza into a concentration camp, where new U.S. and Israeli
weapons and surveillance technologies are field-tested on a captive
population, and Israeli officials proudly exclaim that they are
keeping Palestinians in Gaza on a strict diet.
The movement for Palestine is not confined only to the crowds of big
liberal cities but courageously proclaims its imperative in the
streets of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Jackson, Mississippi. This
movement advances alongside the global peoples struggle to uplift the
Palestinian cause from the streets of Dublin and Sanaa, Jakarta and
Tehran, Toronto and Cairo, and London to Amman, calling for the end of
the U.S.-backed Zionist siege on Gaza. Students walked out of their
classrooms on October 25th on over one-hundred campuses across North
America; Jewish organizers chained themselves to politicians doors
and occupied their offices, along with New York Citys Grand Central
Station; activists are taking direct action against Elbit Systems,
Israels largest weapons manufacturer, in Cambridge Massachusetts;
Palestinian youth and grassroots organizations from Houston to Detroit
organize rally after rally, culminating in some of the largest marches
for Palestine the country has ever seen.
As we march, speak, and sing out our commands for Palestinian freedom
and an end to the genocidal siege, we know that we are not alone or
small. We hear the mighty chorus tremble through our city streets. We
see the feeble Zionist response. It is clear the people are with
Palestine. Yet, the corporate media attempts to portray the movement
as an isolated radical fringe. The numbers in the streets are outright
ignored or under-reported, revising the thousands into hundreds or
fewer. When reported on, the movement is depicted as violent terror
rallies, reinforcing the Biden administrations Islamophobic
incitement of hatred and the dehumanization of the Palestinian people.
With these mass mobilizations have also come state repression and
violence. The FBI has visited homes of Palestinians, workers and
students have been fired from their jobs, and universities have
threatened action against the student movement. Lamentably, these are
not empty threats. Lives have been destroyed. Our precious martyr,
Wadea Al-Fayoume, a 6-year old living with his family in the suburbs
of Chicago, was brutally murdered in his home. And as Zionists attack
peaceful rallies with their cars and fire guns into crowds in another
Chicago suburb, we continue to mobilize in the face of reactionary
violence, resolute in the conviction of the Palestinian cause.
In spite of these attempts to silence and violently suppress the
movement, we know that Palestinians in Gaza and throughout the lands
of Palestine hear us and see us. We know, just as they have remained
steadfast throughout 75 years of occupation and ethnic cleansing,
throughout 17 years of blockade, and in the face of the current
bombardment of Gaza and reinvigorated effort at eliminating Palestine,
our struggle is not in vain, and we too must remain steadfast in
mobilizing day in and day out to end the siege on Gaza and stop the
genocide of the Palestinian people.
The national march on November 4th in Washington, DC, is a call to all
progressive forces steadfastly fighting against exploitation and
oppression: the Palestinian cause is your cause. Transportation is
being organized all over the country, from cities including Chicago,
New York, Atlanta, Boston, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, Indianapolis,
Albuquerque, Providence, Philadelphia, and more. Over 200
organizations have endorsed the march and are joining together on Joe
Bidens doorstepwith the combined energy and strength the movement
has brought to cities, towns, workplaces, and schools across the
country demanding, loud and clear: CEASEFIRE NOW! END THE SIEGE ON
GAZA! END ALL U.S. AID TO ISRAEL!