As Israeli genocide continues: Protesters for Palestine stay in the streets
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Special to Workers World Mass demonstrations in solidarity with Palestine are continuing across the U.S., many honoring the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on Nov. 29 and others held during “tree lighting” events. Hundreds demonstrated in Center City Philad

“Activists with the Palestinian Youth Movement and Students for Justice in Palestine at Rice University and the University of Houston held a dynamic teach-in followed by a poetry session on Nov. 30. Hundreds packed the venue, spilling outside onto the driveway as they snapped and cheered and chanted. The Palestinian poetry was dramatic, horrifying and inspiring, and the crowd was electrified by the originality and reality it presented.

On Dec. 1, Houston activists disrupted Mayor Sylvester Turner’s Holiday Spectacular Tree Lighting Ceremony at City Hall under the theme “Make Palestine Unavoidable!” With lots of huge Palestinian flags, banners and bullhorns, the protest was what was “spectacular.”