A note from Stephanie Rugoff: I am a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), a branch of the State University of New York (SUNY) located in Manhattan in NYC. I have also,…
Category: Reports on Protest & Resistance
NYC Close Guantanamo Now Vigil
Sharing with you a photo from our NYC vigil, part of the global vigils taking place the first Wednesday of each month, on May Day in front of the main public library…
Report on Wednesday May 1: Global Vigils to Close Guantanamo Now
In London, Mexico City, Washington DC, NYC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit, Minneapolis We continue to highlight the 16 men still held in Guantanamo even though they have been “cleared” for release…
Columbia/Gaza
Thursday, we saw the most significant arrests of student protesters since 1968. Columbia University, whose president testified in Congress Monday, promising to crack down on pro-Palestinian voices, called in the NYC police to…
Photos and Report: The Global Vigils for the Closure of Guantánamo on the 22nd Anniversary of the Prison’s Opening
Click here to read the orginal post on andyworthington.co.uk. Campaigners in Washington, D.C., including representatives of Amnesty International, the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT), Witness Against Torture and Dorothy Day Catholic…
December 28 Actions For Palestine
From Jewish Elders: Thousands of New Yorkers marched silently through the streets of Manhattan. The procession was led and organized by Jewish Elders. The marchers carried hundreds of effigies of children wrapped…
So much to be said + we listen
The ravaging of humanity itself by imperialist governments is ramping up so intensely – in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan – that it’s provoking righteous global protest, even here in the belly of the…
The whole world IS watching
Today from Jewish Voice for Peace: 500 Jewish New Yorkers and allies just held an emergency sit-in at the Statue of Liberty to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. We took over…
All our people are in danger
From Stephanie Rugoff: In the midst of the dreadful and continually worsening situation in Israel/Palestine, especially Gaza, there was a beautiful demonstration organized and led by Jewish Voice for Peace in New…
To the people of Okinawa
Debra Sweet | June 21, 2023 On Memorial Day in Okinawa, June 23, I’ve been asked to speak in NYC at an event marking the terrible 1945 battle between the U.S. military…