Categories: Palestine

L.A. protesters shut down Wilshire Boulevard in solidarity with Lebanon

SLL photo: Maggie Vascassenno

On Sept. 24, hundreds of demonstrators shut down Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. The march was in response to the over 500 people killed in one day in Lebanon by the U.S.-backed and supplied Israel. The Palestinian Youth Movement initiated the protest at the Westwood Federal Building. Many Palestinian and progressive organizations endorsed and mobilized for the rush hour action.  

John Parker of the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice (pictured here) recalled the stories from his father of seeing Black men lynched/hanging from trees. “We recognize this genocide. We cannot tolerate this genocide. It is no surprise that it was South Africa, with a deep memory of apartheid, that brought this current Israeli apartheid and genocide to the International Court of Justice. We need the money for housing and healthcare not for the bombs they are sending to Israel.”

 

Maggie Vascassenno

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