A group of Chicago writers brought together by the worker/owners of Pilsen Community Books gathered to support and raise resources for our comrades in Atlanta fighting to Stop Cop City. But events ran ahead of us, as they often do, and by the time we gathered, the preannounced genocide against the Palestinian people was in full swing. The connections were clear: militarism and violence abroad, out-of-control militarized police forces at home; land seizures and occupation everywhere; repression and the violent suppression of dissent. We stood up and spoke out—for an immediate ceasefire, for an end to the genocide in Gaza and the murderous violence in the West Bank, for an end to Cop City in Atlanta, for self-determination for the Palestinian people and for an end to US aid to Israel.
Resources
- The Hundred Years War Against Palestine, by Rashid Khalidi
- One Day in the Life of Abed Salama, by Nathan Thrall
- The One Democratic State Initiative
- On Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism and Dangerous Conflations from Jewish Voice for Peace
- Curriculum on Antisemitism from a Framework of Collective Liberation
- Ta-Nihisi Coates on Israeli Apartheid
- SUPPORT the Atlanta Stop Cop City Legal Defense Fund
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