Citizens turn out to support Palestinian rights. Rep. Delgado missing again.

 

Photo by Ellen Davidson

We had no shortage of people coming out to protest Israel's racist military actions in the West Bank and Gaza. There were over 80 who gathered to protest Israeli apartheid and US complicity in these horrendous war crimes. MECR joined JVP-Hudson Valley, Vets for Peace, and Women in Black to hold this vigil and teach-in about the issues.

It is a shame that Rep. Delgado has said or done nothing so far. Part of it must be the free trip he got to Israel at the beginning of his term. Another part is the financial support he gets from the Israel Lobby. He received over $30,000 from the lobby this last year. But our progressive champion is nowhere to be seen in many areas, like universal healthcare, the Green New Deal, and efforts to trim the defense budget. And he certainly is PEP, progressive except for Palestine.

Can't the Democratic Party do better than that? Isn't it time to talk about running someone else in the next primary?

Equal Rights for All in the US, Northern Ireland, and Palestine

 

 Zoom Panel on Equal Rights for All:

Resisting Settler Colonialism and

White Nationalism in the United States,

Northern Ireland, and Palestine 

Sunday, April 11 at 2 pm Eastern Time

Speakers will explore the successes and failures of their various liberation campaigns, with the goal of learning from each other and building international solidarity. The panel will include: 

• Fanon Frazier, a local community organizer with Citizen Action HV from Kingston, NY
• Jim Keys, a filmmaker, cultural activist and guerrilla muralist from Derry, Northern Ireland
• Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh, an internationally known peace and justice activist, author, and natural scientist with the Palestinian Museum of Natural History in Bethlehem, Palestine

Sponsored by Jewish Voice For Peace - Hudson Valley, Middle East Crisis Response, NYC Veterans For Peace, US Boats to Gaza, and Women in Black - New Paltz.

You are invited to watch our Zoom panel

 

Watch the video here:

https://youtu.be/Wh_elSbf348

Friday, Dec. 4 from 7 to 8:15 pm ET

Zoom panel on "How police and vigilantes operate

to attack and undermine minority groups and

progressive movements in the U.S. and Palestine." 

Speakers will explore how we can support local and national movements in overcoming racism and political repression to achieve basic human rights for all. The panel will include a Kingston, NY BLM activist (Anne Ames), the editor of mondoweiss.net (Philip Weiss), and a radical feminist, revolutionary member of Black Alliance for Peace (Asantewaa Nkrumah-Ture). To register in advance for this Zoom meeting, click on the button above. Sponsored by Jewish Voice For Peace - Hudson Valley, Middle East Crisis Response, NYC Veterans For Peace, US Boats to Gaza, and Women in Black - New Paltz.