SATURDAY, NOV. 4, 2 pm

Their Families Speak: A community forum to stop racist police terror.
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church

The homicidal killing by police of Black people across the country and throughout the South is continuing. Police are going free despite evidence. Mothers, uncles, siblings, and children have pressed on to demand punishment for the murder of their loved ones. While the movement has died down, these courageous efforts continue with determination even as videos are withhold and courts declared police have qualified immunity. Building Bridges has brought together in struggle and mutual support families devastated but fighting on. Folks in our area need to step up to show your support, love and join their struggles as families come forward on Nov. 4th to speak their truth. .Please post and share this event widely and join us that day.

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Women in Struggle – Mujeres en Lucha, a U.S.-based organization and member of the Women’s International Democratic
Federation, condemns the Genocide that the murderous state of Israel is committing against the Palestinian population in the
Gaza Strip, a population composed mostly of women and children.

We also condemn the criminal actions of the United States government that hypocritically repeats ad nauseam the justification
of helping in the “defense” of Israel, sending it powerful weapons so that Israel increases its capacity to devastate this invaded
territory that constitutes the largest prison on the planet. But what else can you expect from a country like the United States
that burned to death tens of thousands of Japanese people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Who launched white phosphorus bombs
against the Vietnamese people? Who provided the white phosphorus, prohibited by International Law, to Israel to use against
Gaza and Lebanon, according to the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW)?

It is also sickening and outrageous that to justify massacring a people, they use the religious fervor of people around the world
as a shield.

We also refuse and condemn the silence of governments that, for their economic interests, excuse and condone this genocide.

We, however, embrace the Palestinian people and support their just struggle of Resistance that has not ceased since the beginning
of the invasion and occupation by Israeli Zionism. We emphasize that the Armed Struggle used against the subjugation of
a colonized people, their right to resist in the way they deem convenient and possible, is valid within International Laws.

Long live Free Palestine!

Declaración de Mujeres en Lucha-Women in Struggle sobre Palestina

Mujeres en Lucha – Women in Struggle, organización basada en los Estados Unidos y miembro de la Federación Democrática
Internacional de Mujeres, condena el Genocidio que el estado asesino de Israel está cometiendo contra la población palestina en
la franja de Gaza. Población compuesta en su mayoría, de niños y niñas y de mujeres.

Condenamos asimismo la actuación criminal del gobierno de los Estados Unidos que hipócritamente repite hasta el cansancio la
justificación de ayudara la “defensa” de Israel, enviándole poderosos armamentos para que de este modo, Israel tenga la capacidad
de arrasar este territorio invadido que constituye la cárcel más grande del planeta. Pero, ¿qué más se puede esperar de un país como
los Estados Unidos que quemaron vivosa decenas de miles de japoneses en Hiroshimay Nagasaki? ¿Que lanzó bombas de fósforo
blanco contra el pueblo vietnamita? ¿Quién le proveyó el fósforo blanco, prohibido por las Leyes Internacionales,a Israel para
usarlas contra Gazay el Líbano según reportó ONG Human Rights Watch (HRW)?

Resulta además asqueantee indignante que para justificar masacrara un pueblo utilicen como escudo el fervor religioso
de las personas alrededor del mundo.

Rechazamosy condenamos asimismo, el silencio de los gobiernos que por intereses económicos excusany condonan este genocidio.
Nos abrazamos sin embargo al pueblo palestinoy apoyamos su justa lucha de Resistencia que no ha cesado desde el inicio de
la invasióny ocupación por el sionismo israelí. Recalcamos que la Lucha Armada en contra de la subyugación de un pueblo
colonizado, su derechoa resistir de la forma que lo crea convenientey posible, es válida dentro de las Leyes Internacionales.

¡Viva Palestina Libre!

Saturday, October 21, 2 p.m.
FLOOD THE STREETS for PALESTINE!
Penn Train Station – Baltimore

March and rally!!
Bombing schools and hospitals is a war crime—US/Israel are responsible.
#freepalestine #freepalestine🇵🇸 #palestinesolidarity #solidaritywithpalestine #internationalsolidarity

On October 13, 2023, the Chicago City Council held a meeting to vote on a “Resolution in Solidarity with Israel.” Gabriel Miller was one of the voices who spoke up against the double standard that is being held in favor of Israel and against Palestine.

In the end, Chicago City Council passed the pro-Israel resolution, despite the protests of people like Gabriel.

Gabriel Miller:

I would like to add my voice to the court here today in opposition to this ridiculous, ridiculous resolution. At a time when the rest of the world is condemning Israel for committing war crime after war crime, Chicago is fiddling around on whether to condemn Hamas. By doing so, Chicago will be doing its part in enabling the genocide of Palestinians, and this resolution acts like it’s on the side of innocent civilians.

So, in that case, I’d like to add, are you considering a resolution for condemning Israel for using white phosphorous against a civilian population? Are you considering condemning Israel for its planned war crime of forced removal of one million Palestinians from Gaza? Are you going to condemn them for cutting off food, water, and electricity to Gaza (another war crime called Selective Punishment)? Did it ever cross your mind to ever condemn Israel when they assassinated Palestinian journalist Shereen Abu Akleh in broad daylight or when they brutalized the people carrying her coffin peacefully? Or when Israeli snipers killed innocent people protesters throughout the March of Return? Did the people in the office before you ever consider condemning Israel at any point since its inception when it crams a country full of people into a 60-mile corner of its own country, creating the largest concentration camp in history, the largest open-air prison in the world?

The answer is a resounding NO. You never considered it, nor did your ancestors. But unfortunately for you, times have changed. The world is increasingly aware of the crimes of Israel and increasingly aware of the framework of politicians who enable their continued apartheid by resolutions such as these. And in a city like Chicago, with a majority Black and Brown people who have experienced the apartheid-like conditions of oppression in the United States, a generation of young people have emerged to understand immediately we have everything in common with the Palestinian people and nothing in common with the brutal Zionists under who they suffer.

A generation of people who are not surprised when we found out that our politicians, up to our president, spread lies about 40 babies being beheaded in order to rationalize genocide. We’re only surprised that they’re forced to walk those lies back, but of course, the damage is done. People are still spewing the debunked lies about rape and massacre of babies even here in this very meeting, when there is endless evidence of Israel having killed over 500 babies in the last 48 hours alone, having dropped more bombs in 24 hours than the US dropped on Afghanistan in one year.

And finally, let it be known that condemning the attack as the actions of some fringe group misses the point of what is actually going on. The attacks were carried out by a broad coalition of groups from every section of Palestinian society, not just a mosque. That coalition represents a people determined to attain freedom at any cost, and they have arrived at this point in the face of a broad coalition of right-wing Zionists and their supporters, like those in the city council who would start a meeting with a prayer calling for their attempts at freedom, a second Holocaust, were so silent you could hear a rat piss on cotton, when innocent, peaceful Palestinians are annihilated day in and day out, like the Native Americans of this country. If it were another time, these same people would be condemning Africans for rebelling against their slave masters and slavery, such as Nat Turner or the Haitian Revolution.

Thank you.

The survivor of the initial attack by the Gaza resistance also says Palestinian fighters treated their captives ‘humanely’ before the arrival of the army

A survivor from the Palestinian resistance offensive on Israeli settlements on 7 October says the Israeli army is “undoubtedly” responsible for killing many of their civilians.

“They eliminated everyone, including the hostages, because there was very, very heavy crossfire,” 44-year-old mother of three Yasmin Porat told the Haboker Hazeh radio program on Israeli Kan radio last week.

When the interviewer asked if Israeli troops were responsible for civilian deaths, Porat said, “Undoubtedly.” Her interview has been scrubbed from the online version of Haboker Hazeh and the Kan website; however, Electronic Intifada procured a copy and translated it from Hebrew.

“There are five or six hostages lying on the ground outside. Just like sheep to the slaughter, between the shooting of our commandos and the terrorists,” Porat describes.

Porat says that, before the arrival of Israeli troops, she and other civilians had been held by the Palestinians “for several hours” and treated “humanely.”

“They did not abuse us. They treated us very humanely,” Porat said, adding, “They give us something to drink here and there. When they see we are nervous, they calm us down. It was very frightening, but no one treated us violently.”

She recalled one Palestinian fighter who spoke Hebrew saying: “Look at me well, were not going to kill you. We want to take you to Gaza. We are not going to kill you. So be calm, you’re not going to die.”

“I was calm because I knew nothing would happen to me,” she added.

Furthermore, during a lengthy interview on Israel’s Channel 12, Porat speaks of intense gunfire after Israeli forces arrived and elaborates that, although the resistance fighters were heavily armed, she never saw them shoot captives or threaten them with their guns.

She also highlights that the Israeli army announced their arrival at the settlement “with a hail of gunfire,” catching the resistance fighters and their captives by surprise.

Her account echoes that of another Israeli settler who spoke with Channel 12 last week about her experience as a prisoner of war (POW) of Hamas.

The accounts from survivors stand in stark contrast to the widespread claims found in western media outlets that say Hamas forces did everything from “beheading babies” to torturing and raping settlers.

Salah al-Aruri, Deputy Head of Hamas’ Political Bureau, last week addressed claims that resistance fighters were ordered to deliberately kill as many Israeli settlers as possible, telling Al Jazeera TV that fighters from the Qassam Brigades – the military wing of Hamas – were “under strict protocol to not harm civilians.”

He also said that after Israel’s Gaza division disintegrated in the face of the Gaza factions, others rushed the border, “causing chaos.” Furthermore, he notes that some of the deaths of Israeli settlers are a result of the so-called ‘Hannibal Directive,’ which is a protocol that allows Israeli soldiers to use overwhelming force to kill one of their own captured soldiers rather than allow them to be taken, prisoner.

“We are certain that young men [fighters] were bombed along with the prisoners who were with them,” Aruri said last week.

According to the Israeli army, at least 199 settlers were taken as POWs by the Palestinian resistance. The Israeli death toll from Operation Al-Aqsa Flood stands at over 1,300.

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Friday, October 13 – 3:00 pm

Times Square (Broadway between West 41st and 42nd Streets), Manhattan

Friday, October 13, 6 p.m.
STAND WITH PALESTINE – solidarity rally
MLK Blvd. & Howard St., Baltimore

The crimes of Israel are the crimes of the United States and its allies. Israel is a loyal dog on a leash firmly held by the U.S. military-industrial complex.

The people of Palestine are now the ones who require and deserve solidarity from the entire planet, people, and governments alike. Unions, religious institutions, community centers, and student organizations all must come together to demand an end to Israeli apartheid and no U.S. military intervention against the Palestinian people.

Thursday, October 12 at 5 p.m.
LOS ANGELES SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE! END THE OCCUPATION NOW!
Martin Luther King Blvd and Figueroa

Event by Union del Barrio – Los Angeles and Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice – L.A.

Join this emergency action to demonstrate our solidarity with the Palestinan people and their struggle against Israeli occupation of their land!

LOCATION: Martin Luther King Blvd and Figueroa (next to BMO Stadium)

This event is NOT an anti-Semetic event! It is in solidarity w the people of Palestine and against the occupation of their lands by the state of Israel.

This event is being organized and endorsed by Union del Barrio, Socialist Unity Party, Black Alliance for Peace, Jews for Palestinian Right to Return, Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice, Association of Raza Educators, LA4PALESTINE and many more!

If your organization would like to endorse this action please contact us!