World Can’t Wait on the streets recently in NYC:
We hosted a screening of “We Are Unarmed,” a documentary on the historic, peaceful resistance at Standing Rock in North Dakota, when the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) encroached on treaty land in 2016. The parallels with Palestine are stark – a brutal, militarized response to the Indigenous struggle for justice, colonial environmental and cultural desecration, and the courage of Indigenous people in their determination to remain on their ancestral land. The screening was followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Gwendolen Cates and Hadeel Assali and ended with a poetry reading by Palestinian poet/artist/performer Farid Bitar.
We also participated in the March 5 Rally and March, during the Meeting of States Parties at the UN, calling for the U.S. to sign on to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
Thursday March 13, several of us took part in the non-violent direct action called by Jewish Voice for Peace inside Trump Tower demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil and pointing out that “opposing fascism is a Jewish tradition.”
See the comprehensive report on Democracy Now.
Below, Joan Hirsch, Stephanie Rugoff, Ann Wright.
