hitmouse
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This sounds interesting:
Day of Action in Solidarity with the Palestinian Uprising and General Strike: Tuesday, May 18
Hard to find much about it - the fact that airstrikes are also called "strikes" makes it hard to get the right results when searching, but here's a thread about it:
Day of Action in Solidarity with the Palestinian Uprising and General Strike: Tuesday, May 18
Hard to find much about it - the fact that airstrikes are also called "strikes" makes it hard to get the right results when searching, but here's a thread about it:
Palestinian youth, along with a broad range of civil society and other groups, are calling for a national strike on Tuesday across all of historical Palestine. This is a significant development for multiple reasons.
1. It is breaking decades of political fragmentation where Palestinian actors in each subdivision (WB, #Gaza, 48 areas), acted individually. The youth’s initiative to refuse to allow this fragmentation to continue, if it succeeds, further builds up unity not seen in decades.
2. Whereas the last month’s developments mainly included young people, this allows a broader swath of society to engage. This is key at this moment, expanding agency to meet demographics.
3. The PA and Arab party leaders in Israel are working, quietly, to go back to oppressive status quo where they control the street. This, if it succeeds, turns those plans on its heads.
4. This horizontal coordination across spaces, with continued initiative to push forward, can increase pressure on Israel & international community to push towards justice.
5. Lastly, it’s key that popular initiatives continue to expand — and beyond strikes and other actions, agency and actions for impact will need to find creative and impactful new tactics to serve the cause of freedom.
All ideas and initiatives are welcome here — and my plea to Palestinian youth in the diaspora to continue to build on the massive protests they led, and just like in Palestine, to create their own tools and actions of resistance; organizing to build momentum. Until Liberty.