Posts Tagged ‘solidarity’

Palestine solidarity must say NO to Zionism

Israel’s new far-right government is pushing more and more to criticize the country, but the Palestine solidarity movement cannot sacrifice core values for political expediency. Source

People Are Playing ‘Strikle’ Instead of ‘Wordle’ In Solidarity With The New York Times Union Walk-Out

More than 1,100 members of the New York Times union are on a 24-hour strike, after pledging to walk out last Friday if the company refused to meet its demands of a fair contract by December 8. Members of the union have called on the public to avoid engaging with any of the Times’s platforms […]

How union solidarity improves everyone’s health care

“People want to see us being treated well so they’re treated well. We were fighting for everyone.” Source

We are all Palestinian’: Fans Show Solidarity with Palestine ahead of World Cup in Qatar (VIDEOS)

November 20, 2022 Hundreds of football fans converged on Qatar’s Lusail City on Saturday waving Palestinian flags ahead of the start of the World Cup, The New Arab reported. The event was organized by the Qatar Youth Against Normalization group, bringing together locals and fans who had traveled to the Gulf state for the games. […]

Why Does the Queen of the EU Really Demand Our Solidarity?

No, she’s not simply an idiot. Nor do the Hansiatic elites consider us to be so stupid. The nuclear dystopia or frozen future we may all soon experience is all about economics. So, they have us over a barrel, so to speak. Since they control the distribution of energy, which is the only true measure […]

Iran Protests Trigger Solidarity Rallies In US, Europe

WASHINGTON (AP) — Chanting crowds marched in the streets of Berlin, Washington DC and Los Angeles on Saturday in a show of international support for demonstrators facing a violent government crackdown in Iran, sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of that country’s morality police. On the U.S. National Mall, thousands […]

Solidarity with Iran as worldwide protests staged over death of Mahsa Amini

Protests have taken place in cities across the world in solidarity with Iranians outraged at the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini who died after being arrested. Source

Diplomatic Missions in solidarity with Palestinian NGOs active accomplices of Israel’s apartheid

What a humiliating failure for the group of diplomatic missions in Palestine that are now supporting the six Palestinian human rights NGOs that Israel has dubbed “terrorist organizations” and closed down! The irony is that most of these missions are active accomplices of Israel’s apartheid and occupation of Palestine. When South Africa lived under an […]

Shireen Abu Akleh’s death exposes colonial solidarity

The scandalous reactions in Germany and the United States to the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh exemplifies colonial solidarity.

We must fight white supremacy with solidarity: Jews respond to the ADL’s harmful campaign

We are U.S. Jews who are deeply troubled by a recent speech given by the Anti-Defamation League’s CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, in which he defames grassroots and civil rights organizations committed to Palestinian justice and falsely conflates anti-Zionism with far right and violent extremism. Jewish communities must embrace anti-Zionist and non-Zionist voices, along with all other […]

 Abortion Rights Activists Nationwide Solidarity Protest

WASHINGTON (05-14) – Today in over 450 towns and cities across the USA, abortion rights activists rallied under the theme of “Rise up 4 Abortion Rights.” This follows a week of nationwide abortion rights demonstrations, die-ins, banner drops, walkouts, art installations and chalking to bring their message in a show of support for this vital […]

ISM co-founder refuses to show in court in solidarity with Palestinian administrative detainees

An Israeli court issued an arrest warrant for Israeli anti-apartheid activist Neta Golan, after she refused to appear in court in solidarity with a months-long boycott of Israeli courts by Palestinian administrative detainees.  The magistrate court in Ashdod issued a warrant for Golan, co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), on February 21st after she […]

Solidarity with Palestine in Stadiums: When Sports and Politics Conjoin

January 4, 2022 Chants of solidarity show that sports can’t be separated from politics and losing a game by withdrawing for political reasons can be a powerful victory. Fans wave the Palestinian flag during the FIFA Arab Cup 2021 group C football match between Morocco and Palestine at the Al-Janoub Stadium in the Qatari city […]

Emma Watson endorses Palestinian ‘solidarity’ — and Israeli officials lose their minds

Yesterday the British actress Emma Watson, who is an activist on gender issues and has 64 million followers on Instagram, reposted an image from a Palestine rally last May with the message, “Solidarity is a verb,” and a quote about solidarity from Sara Ahmed, the feminist scholar. And to judge from the crazed reaction by […]

Palestine solidarity in the City of Brotherly Love

Podcasts In November, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney delivered a city proclamation in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Michael Arria speaks with Jude Husein, one of the local organizers who helped make it happen. Happy New Year to all of our listeners, and welcome to the first Mondoweiss podcast episode of 2022. In November of last […]

Chuck Kaufman: A Pillar Of Solidarity

Above Photo: Photos taken by Chuck in recent months. Chuck Kaufman, presente! A great comrade and friend to the peoples and just causes of Latin America and the Caribbean has passed on the torch. Chuck Kaufman died on Tuesday, December 28th, and is being remembered for the tremendous impact he made during his decades of […]

Liberal Zionism is collapsing into the Palestinian solidarity movement everywhere but Washington– Beinart

The Foundation for Middle East Peace had a webinar about the state of U.S. politics on Israel/Palestine as the year ends, and here are some of the takeaways. Peter Beinart — the former liberal Zionist who came out a year ago for one democratic state — said that liberal Zionism is becoming discredited among progressives […]

A Dozen United Airlines Customers Walk Off Flight In Solidarity With Man Removed For Using Panties As A Mask

A Dozen United Airlines Customers Walk Off Flight In Solidarity With Man Removed For Using Panties As A Mask Date: December 18, 2021Author: Nwo Report Floridian with “Let’s Go Brandon” shirt kicked off flight for wearing ladies underwear as a Covid mask Source: Kelen McBreenUnited Airlines passenger Adam Jenne was kicked off his flight and […]

Solidarity Action Rebukes Navy Over Toxic Water Pollution

Above Photo: One of the messages displayed onto the USS Balao Conning Tower outside of the U.S. Navy Museum in Washington D.C. on December 12, 2021. CodePink. ‘Shut Down Red Hill.’ “Any amount of petroleum in our water is too much. 350 times the ‘safe limit’ is absolutely intolerable.” Activists with CodePink, in solidarity with Hawaii-based […]

German MEP Declares Solidarity With Australians Battling COVID Tyranny: ‘We Will Fight’

A German official has announced her “full solidarity” with Australians and others battling authoritarian governments as they roll out unprecedented medical tyranny across the globe. by Dan Lyman Christine Anderson, a Member of European Parliament (MEP), has broken with the vast majority of her contemporaries in staunchly opposing COVID restrictions and injection mandates. “Dear citizens […]

Words of solidarity with the Palestinians and acts of alliance with Israel

The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, which falls at the end of November of each year, differs in its current circumstances and facts from the past decades, since its was approved by the UN General Assembly on November 29, 1977, in accordance with resolution 32/40 B. It is the same day that […]

International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People: a reflection

Today is International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.  Today is a reminder that the Palestinian people are grounded in Palestine’s fragrant jasmine and in the beauty of the anemones and wild flowers that embroider her flowing fields.  A reminder that we are a proud people humbled as we lay our heads on the […]

Militant Solidarity With Cuba On Display In 80+ Cities Worldwide

Above Photo: The Images That Mass Media Are Not Going To Show Today Or Tomorrow Because They Tell A Different Story. @CUBAONU / Twitter. Demonstrators Support Cuba’s Productive Revival And Reject U.S. Interference Against Peoples And Revolutions That Act With Sovereignty. https://t.co/gfjytnOafl — Carnation Movement (@carnationmvmt) November 16, 2021 Solidarity movements with Cuba, political parties, […]

Global funders pledge solidarity with Palestinian civil society following Israeli ban on human rights groups

Editor’s Note: The following open letter was issued on November 16, 2021 by Funders for Palestine, a group of more than 100 global foundations and donors, most of them U.S.-based. To add your name as a signatory see here. Mondoweiss occasionally publishes press releases and statements from organizations in an effort to draw attention to overlooked issues. […]

Five Great Solidarity Songs from Classic Hindi Films We Can Never Forget

Great solidarity songs never die. There will always be more struggles where these will be hummed and sung to strengthen resolve and unity. This is certainly true of the five great songs from classic Hindi films we discuss here. Decades after these were created, these songs still continue to inspire. [embedded content] Songs of solidarity […]

Internationalism and solidarity today

The following is a transcript of remarks delivered at Making Worlds Bookstore, Philadelphia, on November 9, 2021. I’m going to ask for your patience and possibly forgiveness at the outset.  I haven’t done any public speaking in a while, a practice that has always been a source of mixed feelings for me.  I normally speak […]

‘Girls Night In’: UK bars and clubs close in solidarity with anti-spiking boycott

Several bars and nightclubs in the UK have said they are closing on Wednesday to “stand in solidarity” with a nationwide protest at the number of young female clubbers being drugged on nights out – often as a prelude to attempted sexual assault. The closures coincide with a one-night boycott of venues in over 30 […]

Poems that plumb the mystery of solidarity

BELOVED BROTHER, BELOVED SISTERPoems for Palestineby Kevin Hadduck114 pp. Blue Heron Poetry. $0-$5 There was a tall, broad-shouldered, white-bearded, man in Montana, who was deep into the wide-open spaces, the trackless forests, and the wildlife. He had filled his office with stuffed animals. The animals never lived, had never been killed. They were the soft, […]

Solidarity With Longtime Anti-War Activist Joe Lombardo!

Above Photo: Anti-War Activist Joe Lombardo is a consistent, unequivocal and vocal opponent of all forms of U.S imperialism. On the heels of its defeat in Afghanistan, the United States government has made it clear it is now once again setting its sights on anti-war activists in the United States. Their latest target is Joe […]

Cuban And Mexican Presidents Strengthen Solidarity

Above Photo: Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel (L) And Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (R), Sept. 16, 2021. @UpdateCuba) / Twitter. The independence of Mexico and of Cuba, got a big hearing in Mexico City on September 16.  On that day in 1810, in Dolores, Mexico, Catholic priest Miguel Hidalgo called upon parishioners to join […]

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