GA Peace and Justice

Connects individuals and organizations working for peace and justice to strengthen the progressive voice in the political landscape of Georgia.

[Palestine Peace CSRA @PalestineCSRA]

.#AugustaGA #peace events: (1) Sat, Jun 13 Panel on Supporting Immigrants (2) Vigil at 15th & Walton Way, Tue, Jun 16, 4 pm- 5:30 pm (3) Attend 1st day of #Georgia legislature special session Jun 17 to stop #JimCrow redistricting https://t.co/K1tWjvWkP2 #WarIsNotTheAnswer #IceOUT

[CODEPINK @codepink]

https://t.co/Vr9Z1WgYku

[CODEPINK @codepink]

🇵🇸 🇱🇧 NOW: We're outside of the American Medical Association Annual Meeting holding a vigil for the Palestinian and Lebanese healthworkers abducted and murdered by Israel.

The AMA must speak out for their colleagues.

[CSRA Peace Alliance @CSRAPeace]

The Georgia legislature is convening in special session June 17. They might redraw the legislative districts in a way which disempowers black voters. Learn more: https://t.co/QIPfUkx0Oa

[Progressive International @ProgIntl]

Rola Abu Dahou, a released Palestinian political prisoner and professor at Birzeit University, reflects on the history of settler-colonial violence and the responsibility of the academic community in Palestine. Available in EN and AR. https://t.co/BWQZqgXHqK

[The Intercept @theintercept]

One top military officer provided a plausible explanation, behind closed doors on Capitol Hill, The Intercept has learned. In the briefing, a high-ranking officer on the Pentagon’s Joint Staff stated that some of the people killed by the U.S. military may have been the victims of human trafficking.

[The Intercept @theintercept]

“No one would smuggle cocaine with 11 people on board their drug-running boat,” said a current government official who spoke with The Intercept on the condition of anonymity, noting that it was a waste of space, fuel, and created security risks. “It just is not done. Full stop.” Get the full story here: https://t.co/foo7vMJI4f

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Video shows Mohammad Abu Giab, a 15-year-old fisherman from Gaza, diving into the sea he loved. He was later shot dead by Israeli forces off Deir el-Balah.

Gaza's Fishermen's Syndicate says at least 238 fishermen have been killed by Israel since October 2023.

[Palestine Peace CSRA @PalestineCSRA]

Caricature by Alaa Lagta https://t.co/nJfM0fzjnv
The text in Arabic is "The Physician Who Treats Children" & "The Murderer of Children." Read more about Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya here: https://t.co/mi0z7sFStb

[Cuban Embassy in US @EmbaCubaUS]

🇨🇺 Cuba has done it again.

Meet VAXIRA® — a therapeutic cancer vaccine developed by Cuban and Argentine scientists that helps the immune system recognise and destroy lung cancer cells. Approved in both Cuba and Argentina for advanced non-small cell lung cancer.

🔬 It works by mimicking a molecule found on cancer cells but almost entirely absent in healthy human tissue — meaning it targets tumours with remarkable precision and very few side effects.

📊 Clinical trials showed a significant improvement in survival for advanced lung cancer patients, with 1-year survival nearly doubling compared to the control group. Real-world data shows median survival of up to 24.5 months in maintenance therapy.

💉 Minimal side effects. Suitable for long-term use. Affordable and accessible — unlike many Western immunotherapies that price patients out of treatment.

And in 2025, VAXIRA® received Cuba's National Technological Innovation Award. All of this achieved by a country under decades of US economic blockade.

The United States spends billions on cancer research. Cuba, under sanctions, develops vaccines the world hasn't seen before. 🇨🇺🔬

#VAXIRA #CubanScience #LungCancer #CancerResearch #Biotechnology

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

Brittany Patterson, Colorado’s 7th district House Rep. calls her constituent “crazy” because she wants to know why Brittany prioritizes giving billions to Israel which has free healthcare & social services while thousands of Colorado kids go hungry

[Palestine Peace CSRA @PalestineCSRA]

You spend 25 minutes calling these Senators. Maybe they'll make the decision to avoid sponsoring Israel's next crime spree.
https://t.co/FJEH9ptiQg

[CSRA Peace Alliance @CSRAPeace]

A comprehensive analysis of economic, environmental, strategic & social impacts of #USA military presence in Hawaiʻi reveals that its economic benefits are overstated, its true costs are hidden, uncounted & enormous and there are better uses for this land https://t.co/5Jpp4bzXHN

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

Israel is weaponizing mountains of garbage in Gaza against the population. The Israeli army is blocking access to Gaza's landfill & banning the entry of trucks or other heavy equipment to the enclave

This created a giant overpopulation of rodents, insects, scorpions & snakes, & rapid spread of diseases

UN says it'd take 180 days to clear out those piles if 50 trucks are used each day

Israeli general (res.) Giora Eiland has called for the deliberate weaponization of disease & starvation in the genocide

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ

[HalifaxCB aka GammaRat @HalifaxCB]

@battleforeurope The article is also available in English:
https://t.co/chypLdpLoM

[Zara Zhar @Boudicca61AD]

"In Solidarity with Palestine"
Posters by Cuban revolutionary artists Faustino Perez and Berta Abelenda, published by the Organization in Solidarity with the people of Africa, Asia and Latin America (OSPAAAL). Cuba, 1968.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Netanyahu is lobbying for Section 224 in the national defense bill, a provision that quietly expands U.S.-Israel military cooperation and weapons development with almost zero oversight.

The American people do not want more U.S. military aid to Israel. We must defeat Section 224.

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

"Blood and limbs and corpses were strewn everywhere, mixed with the flour and spilled oil. Even for the Red Cross team on the site, fresh from the agonies of the Second World War, this was too much. The team described it as "unbelievable horror.""

No, this is not a description from one of the recent atrocities in Gaza, but rather from the original "flour massacre", 75 years ago:
In January 1949 Israel's so-called "War of Independence" was almost over. The artificially-made "Gaza Strip" was already full of refugees expelled from the territory that became known as "Israel".
In the first days of the year, just before the armistice talks between Israel and Egypt began, the newly-founded Israeli air force launched a series of aerial strikes in the towns of Deir al-Balah, Khan Younis and Rafah. Some of those strikes resulted in the first aerial massacres perpetrated by Zionist forces. The worst one was at the main square in Deir al-Balah, where the Israelis bombed a food distribution center, during peak time, killing more than 100 and up to 250 Palestinian refugees who were queuing for their food rations. These people who were just recently expelled from their homes, were now being murdered by the same people who uprooted them.
The excerpt attached here was taken from a book by Palestinian historian Salman Abu-Sitta, back then an infant refugee, who lost his uncle in the massacre.

For some reason, even though this is one of the largest massacres in the 1947-49 war, it is never talked about, and it's not easy to find info about it. If anyone has good sources of information regarding the incident(s), please share. Also, if you have access to the book about the massacre that came out a few years ago, "نزيف دير البلح - صيف ١٩٤٨", please let me know!

[Munther Isaac منذر اسحق @MuntherIsaac]

Wow. Pope Leo XIV just called out the “culture of power,” rejected war and violence as viable solutions, declared the “just war” theory outdated, and confronted those who profit from endless wars and militarization. Timely, prophetic, and desperately needed.
https://t.co/XtLayLyclb