03/04/2024
Yesterday some of our crew traveled to Seattle to participate in global actions in solidarity with Palestine. Thousands of people turned out in Seattle and took a few blocks in the center of Seattle with chants in the streets, led by youth organizers in connection with
We distributed hundreds of pamphlets from our publication studio while talking with other people who had come out to the march.
The tone in the streets was safe, with a tight crowd and without any sign of disruption from the police. The march moved very slowly for just a few blocks, with cars and bicycles escorting it and police encircling it at a distance. We had numerous conversations with people who wondered how much longer the bombardments could last, and wished for more ways that they could actively disrupt the violence or leverage our collective power.
The march ended at the base of Seattle’s Space Needle. Some of the crowd began to disperse, but for those who remained, we witnessed a powerful display of cultural resilience from the youth chant leaders, as the drums kicked up the rhythm and the chants shifted from English to Arabic, allowing everyone there to feel that despite the USA continuing to fund the genocide that we’ve been made to witness unfolding online, their culture would remain strong, and when the empires of colonialism fall, they will still survive to return to their homeland!
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