On The Freedom Side LIVE Thurs:
-Will Gaza cost Biden the election?
-US funds more genocide in Gaza, Ukraine war stalls
-UAW vote to authorize UC student strike
-Student repression continues
WATCH at 3pm ET:
UPDATE: Indigenous activists are now blocking the weapons shipment to Israel from leaving the Tacoma Port from the water.
The boat is still unable to leave the port.
Timelapse of the 300,000 people that came to Washington, DC and marched on the White House to condemn Biden for blocking a ceasefire, and for funding genocide in Gaza.
BREAKING: Activists are blocking the entrance of the Port of Tacoma where a U.S. ship believed to be carrying weapons to Israel is docked. Days ago it was blocked in Oakland.
The ship is currently unable to depart.
TODAY: Thousands of high school students across New York City walked out today and were met with heavy repression from the NYPD. Students are still in jail at this time.
The walkouts were demanding 'hands off Rafah' and an end to U.S. aid to Israel.
Columbia University grads dumped their caps and gowns outside the school in protest of the banning of pro-Palestine student groups.
The university admitted to changing school rules to ban Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voices for Peace.
BREAKING: High school students from across Boston walk out of class to join the MIT student encampment in response to the increasing police repression.
Eleven high schools, including private high school Boston Latin, have walked out to stand with Gaza.
Israel is one of the most racist countries in the world.
While Israel works hard to play the victim, it’s actually a racist, Jewish supremacist state that aims to ethnically cleanse Palestine.
BT’s
@KeiPritsker
explains how racism is the core of Israel’s national identity
BREAKING: Protesters in front of Joe Biden’s hotel in Boston denounce his “killing spree” in Gaza. Every city the President goes to, he is being confronted as “Genocide Joe.”
Indonesian Pres. Joko Widodo surprises Joe Biden by calling on the US "to do more to stop the atrocities in Gaza," declaring that a "ceasefire is a must for humanity." Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the world, and millions have rallied there in recent weeks.
BREAKING: After months of protest, Chicago becomes the largest city in the country to call for a ceasefire after passing a city council resolution.
City council voted 23-23 on the resolution and mayor Brandon Johnson broke the tie in favor of ceasefire.
BREAKING: A Palestine solidarity demonstration gathers outside the entrance of the White House Correspondents Dinner, confronting celebs and high-profile guests as they arrive.
BREAKING: Actress
@SusanSarandon
has joined the Palestine solidarity activists rallying outside of Columbia University gates to share her message of solidarity with the students.
BREAKING: Public high school students are occupying Chicago City Hall chanting “Biden Biden you can’t hide, you’re supporting genocide!”
Students are demanding the city council vote YES on a ceasefire resolution.
JUST NOW: A large pro-Palestine march takes over the Westfield Mall in San Jose, California
Protesters are disrupting business as usual on the biggest consumer holiday of the year to demand an end to Israel’s war on Palestine and no more U.S. aid to Israel.
People are passing food and water through the gates to the Columbia University Gaza Encampment protesters.
Columbia has completely shut down access to campus to try to starve the encampment.
NEW: Students at Arizona State University disrupt Nancy Pelosi for her complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza
“The blood of over 15,000 Palestinian babies is on your hands!”
An 88 y/o Palestinian survivor of the 1948 Nakba, now living in Nashville, remembers her home in Akka before it was ethnically cleansed.
"Jewish, Muslim and Christian Palestinians lived together" before Israel existed. "Israel can’t erase what we had and it will come back."
BREAKING: Speaking in front of the White House, United Auto Workers (UAW) becomes the largest union in the country to call for a lasting ceasefire in Gaza.
BREAKING: Pro-Palestine students at Columbia University disrupt a class taught by Hillary Clinton called “Inside the Situation Room.”
Students have also been walking out of her lecture in protest of her support for Israel.
UPDATE: NYPD have begun preparing to arrest the New York Times protesters.
Protesters have been reading the names of Gazans killed by Israel starting with the youngest first. They’ve been reading for over half an hour.
They’ve gotten to three-year-olds.
BREAKING: MIT encampment continues to grow in size with more students joining and pitching tents.
Students stage a sit-in and sing to demand MIT divest from Israel.
The student uprisings for Palestine have gone global.
Students in Paris occupied the campus building at Elite Paris University, launching a major Palestine solidarity protest after a wave of antiwar protests have swept college campuses across the U.S.
BREAKING: Pro-Palestine protesters shut down the streets in front of Macy’s in NYC to disrupt the Black Friday shopping rush.
Protesters are chanting “While you’re shopping bombs are dropping”
BREAKING: students at the University of Vermont stage a die-in in solidarity with Palestine and the three Palestinian students who were shot while wearing keffiyahs in Burlington, Vt. this weekend.
Students launched an encampment for Gaza at Ohio State University — the third largest university in the country.
After police swept the camp this morning, students and community have returned to protest in full force.
BREAKING: In the pouring rain in New York City, actress
@SusanSarandon
joins over 100+ cities around the world in today's global day of action for Rafah.
Activists say millions around the world are standing up today against Israel's threats to intensify the genocide.
India sees its largest pro-Palestine protest since the start of Israel's siege on Gaza. Protesters denounced PM Narendra Modi for bringing India closer to apartheid Israel and “Crime Minister Netanyahu” in recent years.
📍Kerala, India
BREAKING: Belgian transport unions will stop all weapons shipments to Israel.
"While a genocide is underway in Palestine, workers at various airports in Belgium see weapons leaving for a war zone. Loading and unloading these weapons helps provide organizations with the ability
BREAKING: Media workers have taken over the lobby of the New York Times headquarters in NYC in protest of their biased coverage of Palestine.
They are reading from newspapers bearing the names of the thousands of Gazans murdered by Israel in the last month.
BREAKING: Joe Biden interrupted by Palestine solidarity activists during his campaign rally in Atlanta, GA.
Protesters demanded an immediate ceasefire, end to aid to Israel, and to end the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange GILEE, where U.S. police are trained by
Pro-Palestine protesters are blocking the entrance of the New York Times Headquarters this morning.
Protests have been called worldwide in response to a global call from Palestinian society to go on strike in protest of Israel’s massacre.
“We killed our colleagues.”
Protesters who occupied the New York Times Headquarters made their own newspaper called the New York Crimes, with the names of thousands of Gazans killed by Israel.
It calls out NYT’s silence and complicity in the murder of Palestinian journalists.
NOW: Palestine solidarity activists disrupt Nancy Pelosi's speech at a political fundraiser, calling out her complicity in the murder of millions Palestinians, Afghans and Iraqis.
BREAKING: Puma has announced it is dropping its sponsorship of the Israel Football Association, including the national soccer team.
Puma has long been a target of a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign for sponsoring teams in illegal settlements.
BREAKING: Pro-Palestine activists are occupying the lobby of BlackRock headquarters in NYC, a major investor in Israeli apartheid.
The protesters have unfurled a banner with the names of over 4,000 Palestinian children murdered by Israel in the last month.
While the media’s attention was fixed on celebrities flaunting expensive gowns at the lavish Met Gala, Palestinians in Rafah faced heavy carpet-bombing and more ruthless slaughter by Israel
You’d never know it from the Western media, but there’s a major theme of this year’s UN General Assembly: Global South countries condemning the cruel US blockade of Cuba.
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NOW: Pro-Palestine demonstrators totally take over the Christmas tree lighting ceremony outside of the Westlake Center shopping mall in downtown Seattle, Washington.
You probably saw this viral Instagram post claiming that the Iranian government sentenced 15,000 protesters to death.
The post got almost 900,000 likes before being taken down for false info but the incident proved how disinformation can be used to manufacture consent for war 1/
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@pslweb
activist disrupts OAS chief Luis Almagro at a Summit of the Americas event, calling out his role in the 2019 Bolivia coup.
The coup overturned the victory of the elected socialist president Evo Morales and inaugurated a right-wing reign of terror that left scores dead.
NOW: “You are a war criminal! The people of Libya, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Palestine!"
Protesters interrupt Hillary Clinton multiple times while speaking on a panel at Columbia University.
Massive crowd gathers in New York City to mourn the over 500 Palestinians murdered by the Israeli airstrike that destroyed Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza
BREAKING: UT Austin students link arms as Texas State Troopers approach on horseback after making several arrests.
But the students are undeterred.
“APD, KKK, IDF they’re all the same!”
Pro-Palestine activists in San Jose interrupted Kamala Harris during her speech on her “Fight for Reproductive Freedom” tour demanding a ceasefire in Gaza.
Activists called Harris a hypocrite for claiming to be pro-woman while supporting the genocide of Palestinians.
Israeli soldiers calling Palestinians "n*ggers," singing about incinerating Gazans, and proudly proclaiming their real intention to "conquer, expel and settle" all of Gaza. These are some of the things Israelis post online as the genocide against Palestinians continues.
Tech workers and pro-Palestine protesters gather at Google offices in San Francisco to call for an end to their $1.2 billion contract with Israel. The AI-based “Project Nimbus” assists Israel in surveillance and expansion of settlements.
BREAKING: Enormous crowd joins early morning rally in Havana, Cuba to demand “Hands Off Rafah!” President Diaz-Canel and members of his cabinet stand at the head of the rally wearing keffiyehs.
Millions expected to march today worldwide in over 100 cities
📸 :
@ldejesusreyes
Hundreds of students gathered at the University of Havana to condemn the police repression of US student protesters and show their support for Palestine. On the same steps, students were repressed by the Batista dictatorship in the 1950s — one of the sparks of the revolution.
“Palestinian women deserve their independence, freedom and sovereignty.”
Cuban women express their solidarity with Palestinian women on International Women’s Day, honoring them as leaders against colonial occupation.
BREAKING: Palestine solidarity activists have shut down the San Francisco International Airport.
Activists are disrupting traffic and blocking gates using banners that say "Stop the World for Gaza," "Permanent Ceasefire Now" and "Stop Arming Israel."
"Police being here doesn't mean we lost...it means we won in the most glorious way possible. This university offered us an empty deal. We did not concede. We did not fall for their bribes"
Columbia University encampment protester speaks on NYPD's invasion on students.
Protesters demanding justice for Tyre Nichols take to the streets in Memphis shortly after the release of police footage of his death.
Protesters demands are clear, they say to shut down the scorpion unit, a special police unit, responsible for killing Nichols.
BREAKING: Yale University students are occupying Beinecke Plaza on campus.
Several students have been on a hunger strike for the last week calling for Yale to divest and denounce the genocide.
UPDATE: A massive group of students have surrounded the Columbia University Palestine solidarity encampment to express their support for the protesters
BREAKING: Students at Wayne State University in Detroit were attacked by police while demanding the university Board of Governor’s divest from Israel.
The Student Senate passed a resolution in Nov. calling on the university to boycott Israel, which the board has ignored.
Protesters in New Mexico effectively shut down an Israeli diplomat’s speaking tour.
After a flood of phone calls, the Santa Fe hotel venue was forced to cancel her visit. Then the protests followed her to Albuquerque where she also had to close the event to the public.
BREAKING: Google just fired 20+ more workers in retaliation for the sit-in protests against its ties to Israel.
Organizers say they fired many non-participants who simply asked about the sit-in as they walked by.
Here's why Google is retaliating:
Protesters in Boston disrupt the City Council to denounce their complicity in the Israeli genocide. The city send $10 million dollars annually to the Israeli military, and the supposedly “progressive” council has not even called for a ceasefire.
BREAKING: Students at the University of Utah have staked out a Gaza solidarity encampment.
They join dozens of college campuses around the world ramping up pressure on academic institutions to divest from Israel.
BREAKING: Protesters have shut down both sides of the Golden Gate Bridge in the Bay Area, CA.
Today will see direct actions and strikes for Gaza with widespread disruptions of commerce and business as usual worldwide.
BREAKING: Hundreds of Yale students have restarted a campus encampment following dozens of arrests this past Monday and a state-wide march and rally in New Haven of over 1,000 today.
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has died at 100. As the media prepares to sanitize his legacy, history will not forget his true record of bloodshed and war crimes in the service of Empire
.
@AbbyMartin
calls out hypocrisy of Sec Blinken: you lecture about press freedom but do nothing when Shireen Abu Akleh and Jamal Khashoggi, two journalists and US citizens, are murdered.
Why are you buying bullets for the worst abusers of journalists like Saudi Arabia & Israel?
“No more business as usual.”
Protesters in over 300 cities protested in unison against pro-Israel corporations and institutions in a global day of action.
BT’s
@KeiPritsker
tracked the different protests in NYC and around the world.
BREAKING: Dozens of anti-war activists with
@codepink
interrupt Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a Senate hearing to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza
"Joe Biden, don't come to Los Angeles like you've been some vanguard for human rights!"
@CornelWest
goes off on the crimes of the U.S. empire, and calls for democracy from the bottom-up rather than neoliberal identity politics.
Minneapolis Police and National Guard patrolling resident neighborhoods stopped to fire on residents peacefully filming them from their own front porch.
#MinneapolisPoliceMurderdHim
TODAY: Palestinian and Irish-American activists marched for Gaza in Rochester, NY on St. Patrick’s Day.
Participants proudly displayed banners with Palestinian and Irish flags that read, “Occupation is a crime from Ireland to Palestine.”
BREAKING: "What about the women in Palestine having C-sections without anesthetic?"
Activists in Phoenix, Ariz. disrupt Kamala Harris on International Working Women’s Day, calling out the hypocrisy of her “Reproductive Freedoms” tour.
NOW: Timelapse of thousands in Cambridge, MA who marched in the streets in the rain for Palestine.
They join over 100+ cities in a global day of action for Rafah.
Stanford students sustained a Gaza solidarity encampment on campus for 112 days before the admin tore it down in February.
Now, students have staked out a second Gaza encampment, building off new momentum and remaining totally undeterred by Stanford’s ban on such protests.