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15 November 2023

Last week, we joined countless people across the world to #ShutItDownForPalestine.

In Chicago, President Biden was met with protests at every stop. As he rallied with union workers to celebrate their hard-fought wins, we disrupted his speech. He can’t pretend to stand with working people as he drops bombs on the working people of Palestine. Solidarity has no borders.

While our co-director told Biden to call for a ceasefire, Palestinian youth & allies rallied outside against him. When he went downtown, thousands chanted “Genocide Joe!” so loud his funders inside the event could hear.

In Boston, Vice President Harris got the same reception.

Even in Seoul, South Korea, Secretary Blinken was met with fierce opposition for his support for the ongoing Gaza genocide.

Other protests to highlight:


Goleta, CA: Protest at a Raytheon factory, which supplies weapons to arm Israel

 


Dartmouth, Canada: Protestors blockade GeoSpectrum, a subsidiary of Elbit Systems, Israel’s biggest weapons supplier


London, UK: Protestors blockade the offices of Thales, an arms company that partners with Elbit and arms Israel


Kent, UK: Trade unionists blockade a BAE Systems factory, which makes components for F-35s


MIT


University of Toronto


Cornell


Georgia University


University of Rochester


University of Utah 


Whitman College


Harvard: students spend 11 hours to write the names of 7000 of over 10,000 Palestinans who have been killed by Israel


LSE


Cambridge, MA: A Palestinian woman who has lost 68 family members in Gaza confronts Senator Warren


Portland, OR: Students walkout of Reed College and stage a sit in at Senator Jeff Merkley’s office to demand he call for a ceasefire


Rep. Carbajal’s office


Washington, D.C.: CODEPINK sit in Senator Tammy Baldwin’s office to demand she call for a ceasefire


Vancoucer, CA: UBC event shut down where Canada Foreign Affairs Minister was scheduled to speak


Genoa Port, Italy: Port workers and trade unionists block weapons transport at Genoa Port


Vancouver, Canada: protestors shut down an office of ZIM, an Israeli shipping line, active in genocide


NY, NY: Protestors occupy the NY headquarters of BlackRock, a major investor in Israel which profits off of genocide


Vancouver, Canada: protestors shut down an office of Scotiabank, which holds the largest foreign share in Elbit Systems


Toronto, Canada.: Protestors occupy Union Station to demand Trudeau back a ceasefire in Gaza


India: All of India’s major trade unions have demanded plans to export Indian workers to Israel be scrapped


Tokyo, Japan: thousands protested in support of Palestine 


NY, NY: Thousands take to the streets of Manhattan to demand amend to US complicity in genocide and justice for Palestine 


Atlanta, GA: Protestors in Atlanta demand an end to all US funding to Israel 


Egypt: Tens of thousands of football fans chant in support of Palestine


Somalia: children protest in support of Palestine


NY, NY: Protest outside of the UN calling for an end to genocide in Gaza


Philadelphia, PA: Healthcare workers in Die in at City Hall


Washington, D.C.: Protestors shut down the Department of State for Palestine


London, UK: Healthcare workers protest outside the Department of Health and Social Care to call for the UK to stop arming Israel


San Diego, CA: Protest outside Northrop Grumman office complex, which supplies weapons and missile systems to Israel


Hamilton & Toronto & Montreal, Canada: Protestors simultaneously blockade three L3Harris factories, which manufacture components for Israeli weapons


West Hartford, CT: Protestors blockade a Colt factory, manufacturing arms for Israel

 


Manchester, UK: Trade unionists occupy the offices of Fisher German, the landlord of an Elbit Systems factory in Shenstone, UK


NY, NY: Media workers occupy the lobby of NYT headquarters and read the names of Gaza’s martyrs