We started up this year with nothing. No money. No power. No followers.
We finish 2023 with White House meetings, profiles in the Guardian and New York Times, and a record of sowing misery in the lives of "leaders" who cross us. Here we share our top-10 moments from the year.🧵
This is massive. Literally a huge mass of people, but even more so that it represents a tremendous amount of union power. The working class is waking up.
This is huge. This is absolutely monumental. We just shut down an event honoring Exxon CEO Darren Woods. The whole room fled. We showed up & prevented this monster from uttering a word. We will resist him with all we've got. There is no choice.
Bravest politician in this country, in this moment, to go up against the US government in the way that she has, unwavering in her message and principles.
Palestinian children in Gaza hold a press conference outside Al Shifa hospital, speaking English so the world cannot pretend not to understand them: “We come now to shout and invite you to protect us; we want to live, we want peace… we want to live as the other children live.”
⚠️ HAPPENING NOW AT THE STATUE OF LIBERTY: Hundreds of Jews and allies are holding an emergency sit-in, taking over the island to demand a ceasefire in Gaza. We refuse to allow a genocide to be carried out in our names. Ceasefire now to save lives! Never again for anyone! ⚠️
The most blow-your-brains-out American moment of this interview is when this ex-official surmises that more State Dept. officials would speak up if there were universal healthcare and government employees felt that they could afford to lose their jobs.
We are American Jews. We are in mourning. But today, we are at the Capitol to act.
We need leaders in Congress to fight for a #CeasefireNOW.
Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, Hakeem Jeffries, and Katherine Clark: that means you.
And we’re not leaving your offices until you do.
Josh Paul, who just resigned as the top State Dept. official for arms transfers, writes:
“…Israeli requests for munitions started arriving immediately, including for a variety of weapons that have no applicability to the current conflict. These requests deserved the attention we would pay to any large arms package, and I urged a frank discussion. My urging was met with silence — and the clear direction that we needed to move as fast as possible to meet Israel’s requests.”
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If you had stood resolutely with Israel, you can still change you mind. You can see the bombing of a hospital and realize you’ve been misled. I was taught Zionism my whole childhood, until I learned more and changed my mind. You do not need to condone unspeakable atrocities.