Crystal Zevon

#FreePalestine #EndGazaGenocide #BlackLivesMatter #IndigenousLivesMatter #NoBordersNoWalls #Decolonize #GeneralStrike

[Medea Benjamin @medeabenjamin]

In Washington DC, we joined celebrations of Chinese culture.

While Trump wants to push war against China, we want peace.

China is not our enemy.

[Medea Benjamin @medeabenjamin]

Trump just designated Palestine Action a “terrorist organization,” a British group known for disrupting the weapons industry fueling Israel’s genocide on Gaza.

Trump is using “terrorism” laws to criminalize dissent and this should concern everyone. Today it’s them. Tomorrow it could be any movement that challenges war and those who profit from it.

[Medea Benjamin @medeabenjamin]

I am ashamed to be a Columbia alum.

[Medea Benjamin @medeabenjamin]

WTF is wrong with the Dem leadersip??? They know their base wants to CUT TIES with Israel, so they make the most Zionist @RepMoskowitz the new ranking member for the Middle East? They are tone deaf and so corrupt. Still wedded to AIPAC/Israel. It's sickening.

[Sam Husseini @samhusseini]

If you stay anchored to the Democratic Party, you’re allowing the empire to weaponize your dissent for imperial zionists.

[Crystal Zevon @nanazevon]

Ms. Rachel has courageously amplified the voices of Palestinian children. Now we’re asking her to listen to Cuba’s children too. 💗

Add your name and help us reach her. 👇 https://t.co/PtOYMrWDV3

[Crystal Zevon @nanazevon]

@palyouthmvmt PYM THANK YOU for all you do. YOU give me hope.

[Palestinian Youth Movement @palyouthmvmt]

being granted the right to set up shop at the entrance to Columbia’s campus in order to intimidate, harass, and incite violence against Palestinian students and the Palestine movement on campus. (2/4)

[Medea Benjamin @medeabenjamin]

Gaza may be out of the headlines, but the suffering hasn’t stopped.

That’s why activists are taking the boycott directly into their communities with bake sales for Gaza outside Tatte, a Zionist bakery with ties to illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

Instead of spending your money there, grab something homemade, talk to your neighbors about what’s happening in Gaza, and raise money for Palestinians.

Boycott. Bake. Organize. Keep Gaza visible.

[Suivi Ebola RDC @EbolaTrackerRDC]

@vijayprashad @WHO If anyone's interested: I run a daily tracker of this outbreak based on official SitReps, with an interactive map (https://t.co/l7wKmSveo8), epidemic curve and health-zone-level data.

[Medea Benjamin @medeabenjamin]

Rep. Randy Fine said "Jihadi Mamdani does not belong as Mayor of NYC. He needs to be denaturalized and sent back home to Uganda. I’ve had enough of his garbage." Have you had enough of @RepFine? Denaturalize him and send him home to Israel??? Like this if you agree.

[Medea Benjamin @medeabenjamin]

AI-powered license plate readers are tracking our movements across the country recording where we go, when we go, what we drive, and even identifying features like bumper stickers.

This mass surveillance doesn’t stop at city limits. Data collected by companies like Flock Safety can be searched by thousands of law enforcement agencies and civil liberties advocates warn it has been used to track immigrants, abortion seekers, and protesters.

But people are fighting back.

From August 16–22, hundreds of actions are taking place across the country demanding an end to warrantless surveillance. (Find out more: https://t.co/NgjgCnKS2b)

Our movements are not government property. Our communities are not surveillance zones.

STOP SPYING ON US.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

URGENT! Those of us who can, should consider travelling to the West Bank and Jerusalem to help Palestinian families under attack and the activists deployed to protect them.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

This image was sent to me from the field. These are messages US servicemen in the Persian Gulf have scribbled on the dust of an aircraft flap.

"Be a good guy and do what Israel tells you to"

"Operation Epstein Fury"

"Peace deal #64 incoming... ALL THIS FOR THE HOLY LAND"

I have no frame of reference, I can't compare it to the sentiments of US soldiers in previous conflicts. But I suspect these are new sentiments, or at least a new willingness to express them this openly and directly.

But as one serviceman told me: "What people in the media don't understand when they compare past conflicts to this one, is this operation has no morale behind it. That makes a world of difference to service members deployed to undesirable locations indefinitely."

Read that last part again: No morale. Deployed to undesirable locations INDEFINITELY.

My own conclusion: When a war has no morale behind it, winning means that you simply end it. There is no other "winning" in such an unjust war.

[Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad]

Iran Has Changed the Question. My Globetrotter column at Counterpunch: https://t.co/44u5bHYdSX
Thanks to @JeffreyStClair3

[CODEPINK @codepink]

This week, CODEPINK activists:
☮️ Toured communities to expose the links between ICE & the arms industry in Vermont
☮️ Called out the Pentagon budget's disastrous impacts on Hawai'i
☮️ Asked CNN to keep pushing the Pentagon for transparency on its war crimes
& much more!

Check it out:
https://t.co/goDxtKucLJ

[Crystal Zevon @nanazevon]

Tonight the CODEPINK Vermont Trailer Tour will be supporting Mohsen Mahdawi at the UU Church in Montpelier.

[Crystal Zevon @nanazevon]

CODEPPINK Vermont started our tour at Bread & Puppet on Aug. 2nd. Yesterday, Ben Cohen joined us at the Montpelier Farmers Market.

[Crystal Zevon @nanazevon]

CODEPINK_Vermont is on the move with our Pink Trailer Tour.