#MILITARISM AT HOME AND ABROAD

A Conversation with #JoshRuebner, lecturer @ Georgetown U. & director of the #IMEU Policy Project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DvZtNn4Ctk
#USpol #USpolitics #USMiddleEastPolicy #Palestine #Gaza #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #stateViolence #stateRepression #activism

'The United Kingdom's High Court has ruled that #Palestine Action should never have been proscribed as a "terrorist" organization. As the case winds its way to a final decision, what does this mean for the thousands of Britons who have been arrested — and for the future of Palestinian solidarity in the UK?'

guest: Huda Ammori, co-founder, #PalestineAction

https://omny.fm/shows/the-take/she-took-on-britain-s-palestine-action-ban-then-she-won
#Gaza #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #stateRepression #civilLiberties #activism #UKpol #UKpolitics

RE: https://mastodon.design/@abed_in_gaza123/116030505087159092

Please donate to support my family from Gaza
chuffed.org/project/162499…

#gaza #supportgaza #prayforgaza #gazaunderattack #savegaza #gazafamily #standwithgaza #gazaaid #gazasolidarity #gazaneedshelp #gazasupport

I am a mother trying to survive in very difficult conditions. I have five children who need me.

I have a chronic illness that causes hypocalcemia and my husband needs hearing aids.

Please help me and my family!

🔗 https://chuffed.org/project/kawthar?s=09

✅ My campaign was verified by @mommunism on BlueSky and I have a video call scheduled with @gazaverified

#Gaza #palestine #gazasolidarity #genocide #gazagencide #gazamutualaid #StopIsrael

Dear friend's,

I have been hospitalized again.

I need at least 600$ to perform all the exams prescribed. I have a chronic pathology that causes hypocalcemia...
I also need to feed my children...
Can you help me and my family ?

🔗 https://chuffed.org/project/kawthar?s=09

✅ My campaign was verified by @mommunism on BlueSky and I have a video call scheduled with @gazaverified

#Gaza #palestine #gazasolidarity #genocide #gazagencide #gazamutualaid #StopIsrael

Hello friends.
Lately I was sick again and went to the hospital. They asked me to get tests, an X-ray, an ultrasound, and to buy medication, but I can't afford all of that, and I really need it.

Please I need your help to get treatment.

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#Gaza #palestine #gazasolidarity #genocide #gazagencide #gazamutualaid #StopIsrael

"For decades, American Jews were assumed to be uncritical supporters of #Israel. But Israel’s war in #Gaza transformed Jewish politics in the US and irrevocably undermined the legitimacy of institutions that sustain Zionism."

#BenjaminBalthaser | How October 7 Remade Jewish Politics in America

https://jacobin.com/2026/01/us-jews-jvp-palestine-gaza
#Palestine #USpolitics #USpol #JewishAmericanPolitics #USleft #JewishAmericanLeft #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #studentProtests #activism #peaceMovement #JVP

A Call for Mass Struggle Against U.S.-Led War on Venezuela and the Caribbean

The U.S. empire, unable to accept the sovereignty, progress, and moral example of the Bolivarian Revolution, is escalating its aggressive attacks against Venezuela. This is by no means an isolated struggle — what started as aggression against Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution has already claimed several dozen lives of working-class people in the Caribbean and Pacific, extended to threats against Colombia and its President, been linked to the militarization of Ecuador and Panama, and re-militarized Puerto Rico. This is yet another front in the struggle against U.S. imperialism, and it is interlocked with our movements for liberation in Haiti, Palestine, throughout Our Americas, across the Global South, and within the borders of the United States.

It is the wider ongoing pattern of regional militarization and imperialist control that fundamentally violates the principles of a Zone of Peace, as the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) has systematically transformed the Caribbean into a staging ground for its hegemonic projects. Puerto Rico, a colonial territory, is consistently used as a strategic site for the deployment and launch of military exercises, normalizing its status as a forward operating base, while nations like Guyana and Trinidad & Tobago are treated as subordinate “puppet states” that risk their own sovereignty to facilitate U.S. objectives. Simultaneously, Haiti has been cast as a laboratory for imperial policy, where an accelerated militarization and occupation over the last four years has provided a blueprint for intervention. The racist and cynical designation of Haitian paramilitary armed groups as “terrorists” to be eradicated by US-led occupation has done nothing to relieve impoverished, marginalized Haitians from the violence of these “gangs” — because they are a direct consequence of imperialism. And yet, the excuse and label of “terrorism” has now been directly exported to the case of Venezuela. There, the U.S. Department of War cynically compares Caribbean people in fishing boats to Al-Qaeda, a transparent tactic to manufacture a pretext for full military invasion and attack.

To oppose this militarization and violence, and expel the nefarious forces of imperialist, colonial violence from our region, we must be steadfast in guaranteeing Our Americas as a Zone of Peace. This guarantee can only be built from the bottom up, through grassroots coordination and popular struggle that elevates/focuses on/highlights anti-imperialist national sovereignty. This is why the Popular Steering Committee for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas launched the U.S./NATO Out of Our Americas (UNOOAN) earlier this year. The UNOOAN is the mass organizational structure of the Zone Of Peace campaign designed to educate the public and strengthen an Americas-wide consciousness among the peoples of the region.

To move towards meeting this moment, BAP has joined with dozens of organizations calling for local actions during the week of November 15 – 23 to Defend Venezuela’s Sovereignty and connect our struggles. This week of action is a crucial beginning, but the gravity of the moment demands a coordinated and powerful response that moves from mobilization to sustained organization. Our movements must pull together our forces to expose the imperial lies that cynically label popular resistance as terrorism, broadening our analysis to expose the interlocked assaults on sovereignty across the region. And we must advance our collective consciousness beyond merely exposing these lies and toward challenging state violence and repression through popular power.

This mobilization must fuel the concrete building of national coalitions against SOUTHCOM and local self-defense networks, learning from the powerful examples of Venezuela’s communal militias and projects that embody popular democracy. The steadfastness of the Venezuelan people, who have joined these militias by the millions to defend their homeland, is not just an act of national resistance; it is a living proof that alternatives to imperial domination exist. The U.S. empire seeks to destroy the Bolivarian Revolution precisely because it shows we can fight for People(s)-Centered Human Rights (PCHRs) and for a true, just, militant peace. In unwavering solidarity with the Venezuelan people, we therefore commit to continuing this fight, organizing in solidarity with their masses and popular movements across the Americas to defend sovereignty, dignity, and the right to forge a different future.

Defend Venezuela’s Sovereignty!
U.S. & NATO Out of Our Americas!
Make Our Americas a Zone of Peace!

source: Black Alliance for Peace

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=23301

#aggression #blackAllianceForPeace #colonialism #gazaSolidarity #imperialism #southAmerica #venezuela

#Bollywood For #Palestine #fundraiser at Oaklands Community Centre.
2827 Belmont Avenue.
Nov. 15, from 3:30pm to 8:30pm.

All cultures, ages, and experience levels are welcome to an hour-long #dance #workshop led by Bollywood actor Shivam Patil, a dinner, and a #FilmScreening of 2019 film Gully Boy.

The film will be followed by a half-hour discussion facilitated by Shivam, enabling participants to process and connect the film to this event's larger themes of cross-cultural and cross-issue #solidarity. RSVP and pay what you can at the door - no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

* 3:00 Doors open for dance workshop
* 3:30 - 4:30 Dance workshop hosted by Shivam Patil
* 4:30 Doors open for movie
* 4:30 Dinner
* 5:15 Film screening: "Gully Boy" (2019)
* 8:00 Discussion hosted by Shivam Patil

Since the beginning of this year, The Bartholomew Collective has been forming a relationship of mutual aid with Sara Abu Rida. Sara is a dear friend of ours from Gaza, doing everything she can to keep her loved ones alive. Her family includes her mother, nieces and nephews, extended family, and community. Since the escalation of the genocide, her family home has been destroyed by bombs, and her family has been displaced numerous times. Amongst rampant starvation, sickness, unending violence, and the complete destruction of Palestine's economy, Sara and her family have a constant need for funds.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/bollywood-for-palestine-tickets-1840643336769

#VictoriaBC #YYJ #CommunityEvent #CulturalConnections #CulturalEvent #POC #FreePalestine #FeedPalestine #PalestineSolidarity #PalestineFundraiser #HelpGaza #GazaSolidarity #UnitedForPalestine #CommunitySharing #RaisingFundsForPalestine #HelpPalestinians #CommunityFundraiser #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #ImmigrantsHelpingRefugees #Humanity