Photo: New York City demonstration at Times Square
Today was a historic day for the movement in solidarity with Palestine. In dozens of cities and towns across the country, tens of thousands took to the streets to support the Palestinian people’s just struggle for liberation with less than 24 hours notice.
While the government that speaks in our name signs the checks that pay for [neocolonialism’s] massacres, the impressive scale of these emergency actions made it clear that the people stand with Palestine. The ANSWER Coalition is proud to have joined with other organizations in helping to organize and initiate many of these actions. And this struggle is just beginning — mobilizations are continuing nationwide.
Washington, D.C.
Los Angeles, California
San Francisco, California
The unrelenting oppression, murder, torture and occupation carried out by the [neocolonial] apartheid régime has precipitated a counter-offensive by Palestinian resistance forces. The [neocolonial] war machine, and its attendant systems of oppression, are bought and paid for by U.S. [neo]imperialism. U.S. tax dollars fund the grinding oppression of the Palestinian people to the tune of $4 billion each year.
Many of the actions today were slandered and vilified by politicians who shamefully stand with the apartheid government in [the Middle East]. Protesters refused to be silenced and proudly took to the streets. We know that we are on the right side of history – and those who stand with a racist regime that systematically and horrifically violates fundamental rights are on the wrong side.
The nationwide protests demanded the U.S. immediately end all aid to [the neocolony]. The actions also raised demands for the freedom of Palestinian political prisoners and an end to the blockade of Gaza. As [the apartheid government] pledges to wage a war of annihilation and the Palestinian people remain steadfast in their determination to resist, this movement will continue to take to the streets until Palestine is free!
Tampa, Florida
Providence, Rhode Island
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Upcoming demonstrations
Cleveland, OH
Monday, October 9
5:30 p.m.
Market Square on Lorain & W 25th
Sponsored by: Party For Socialism and Liberation - Northeast Ohio, The Palestinian Youth Movement, Al-Awda - The Palestinian Right to Return CoalitionMinneapolis, MN
Monday, October 9
6:00 p.m.
Senator Klobuchar’s office @ 1200 S Washington Ave Minneapolis
Sponsored by: Anti-War CommitteeAlbany, NY
Monday, October 9
4:00 p.m.
Corner of Wolf Road and Central Ave
Sponsored by: Grannies for PeaceNew York City, NY
Monday, October 9
2:00 p.m.
Zionist embassy (800 2nd Ave.)
Sponsored by: Within Our Lifetime, Samidoun, CUNY School of Law Students for Justice in Palestine, Decolonize This Place, Existence Is Resistance, CUNY for PalestineOrmond Beach, FL
Monday, October 9
4:00 p.m.
SE corner of Granada & Beach
Sponsored by: Daytona Workers’ LeagueNew Haven, CT
Monday, October 9
3:00 p.m.
New Haven City Hall (165 Church Street)
Sponsored by: Connecticut Democratic Socialists of America; Yalies for Palestine; Semilla Collective; Greater New Haven Peace Council; Wesleyan Students for Justice in Palestine; and the Party for Socialism and LiberationAlbany, NY
Tuesday, October 10
4:00 p.m.
Townsend Park
Sponsored by: Palestinian Rights Committee, ANSWER CoalitionDes Moines, IA
Tuesday, October 10
6:30 p.m.
Cowles Commons (221 Walnut Street)
Sponsored by: Party for Socialism and Liberation - IowaManchester, NH
Wednesday, October 11
7:00 p.m.
Senator Jeanne Shaheen’s office (1000 Elm Street)
Sponsored by: PSL Southern NH and ANSWER Southern NHIndianapolis, IN
Thursday, October 12
5:30 p.m.
Monument Circle
Sponsored by: Students for Justice in Palestine - Butler University, ANSWER Indiana, Jewish Voice for Peace - Indiana, Party for Socialism and Liberation - Indianapolis
(From an email by the ANSWER coalition. Emphasis original.)
Resistance is justified by all means? So raping and murdering German citizens and kidnapping kids is justified now?
Resistance to oppression is always justified just as it’s not for those who are privileged enough not to understand what that oppression feels like to judge how the oppressed resist.
I guess I’m just too privileged to understand how rape is a justified form of resistance.
I never said the action was justified just that resistance was, way to show you can’t comprehend this simple idea.
Resistance is justified by all means? So raping and murdering German citizens and kidnapping kids is justified now?
Resistance to oppression is always justified
They were specifically asking whether those acts were justified under the umbrella of “by all means” and you said how resistance to oppression is “always justified”.
You might want to rephrase that if your intention was something other than justify rape as a form of resistance.
As long as there is oppressed peoples there will be injustices, both for the oppressed and for anyone unlucky enough to be caught in the inevitable lash out.
You will never get me to condem oppressed peoples and I will always side with oppressed peoples against fascist states.
If you are not antifascist then what are you?
There were two ‘Reigns of Terror,’ if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the ‘horrors’ of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break?
What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror–that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.
Mark Twain
You will never get me to condem oppressed peoples
We’re condemning them raping people. Can you not even get yourself to condemn that?
Did you even read the Mark Twain piece?
