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As the genocide in Gaza passes its 700th day, the Israeli regime continues to brutalize, starve, and murder the people of Gaza. Yesterday, September 10th, Israel killed 72 people in Gaza. Today, at least 39 Palestinians have been killed, including 10 people seeking aid. And yet, the worst is still to come for Gaza. On…
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Hazami Barmada, a local Washington DC activist who has been on the streets fighting for Palestine consistently since October 2023, has called for a protest tomorrow, Wednesday September 10th, in order to demand an end to the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Barmada has been involved with countless protests in the DC area, including…
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As the genocide in Gaza passes its 700th day, it’s important to remember that Israel does not only want to kill or displace every Palestinian in Gaza but also erase the Palestinian identity. The expression “a land without a people for a people without a land,” often used by Zionists to justify the ethnic cleansing…
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Undeterred from their previous efforts to end the siege on Gaza, dozens of ships with hundreds of crewmembers are sailing to Gaza right now. This kind of action is what us in the Global North need to partake in to help Gaza. The more of us that are united, the harder it will be to…
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Decades ago, the Palestine Liberation Organization and its largest member, Fatah, were once seen as beacons of hope for the cause of liberating Palestine. Now, the PLO and its president Mahmoud Abbas have completely lost legitimacy in the eyes of Palestinians. Abbas’s PLO, which on paper governs parts of the West Bank through the Palestinian…
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Under the guise of “fighting antisemitism,” the Trump administration has charged George Washington University with violating Title VI and discriminating against Jewish and Israeli students. The university has until August 22nd to either capitulate, which would risk students’ rights or to fight the Trump administration in court. George Washington’s Left Coalition, which includes GWU’s Students…
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This Thursday, the Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO will be hosting a labor protest in Dupont Circle at 4PM. According to the DC Labor website, the protest’s main messages are that: In a time where the rights and freedoms of DC citizens are under attack due to the Trump administration’s militarization of the district, it is…
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Hundreds of Thousands of Israelis Protest the War in Gaza Last Sunday, hundreds of thousands of Israelis filled the streets of Tel Aviv and other major cities in Israel to protest the war in Gaza. While the protests in Israel have been primarily about the Israeli governments failure in bringing the hostages home and generally…
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The Amazon Labor Unionist on His Experiences with the Gaza Freedom Flotilla Above all, Chris Smalls is a labor organizer. After being fired from his job at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, Smalls organized the first Amazon union and strikes at Amazon facilities in the United States. Smalls gave a talk at Busboys &…
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Local organizer Hazami Barmada is spearheading an encampment on 400 North Capitol St. NW, the building home to NBC, C-SPAN, and Fox News in the DC area. Named the Gaza Media Accountability Encampment, the goal is to disrupt media broadcasts until these news channels begin to cover Gaza without bias. I went to the encampment…
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