#in iraq it's a protest

[palestinestuffff]

Similarities between Iraq War protests and Palestine Protests.

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[sayruq]

Tunisia ⤵️

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[moonshynecybin]

other cool vale stuff from oxley's twitter

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

New York City: Defend Syria, Palestine and Lebanon!

Resist U.S.-Zionist invasion and occupation

Sunday, December 15 - 1:00 p.m.

Union Square, 14th Street and Broadway, Manhattan

Hosted by Bronx Anti-War Coalition

Join us in solidarity with the Axis of Resistance—Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, and Yemen—as we rally to oppose the Zionist entity’s invasion, occupation, and destruction of Arab and regional lands.

Over 350 airstrikes have devastated Syria, annihilating ancient cities like Latakia as IOF tanks advance on Damascus.

In Palestine, genocide continues as 200,000+ are massacred, families displaced, and illegal settlements expand.

Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, and Yemen are under constant threat from US & Zionist aggression, airstrikes, destabilization efforts, and imperialist attacks.

Unity across the region is essential to defeat the imperialist Greater “Israel” project and dismantle the Zionist entity, which has full US back.

[notyourtoday]

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"The land of isreal is safe" which land you think they mean by that...?

By @abdul.eyad on Instagram.

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[eretzyisrael]

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[futurebird]

The day after 9/11 my brother hovered on the phone in his midtown apartment where I'd been crashing while I started my new job. He was convincing my folks not to come and get us.

CNN kept repeating the same things over and over in the background.

I was very young. I thought a team: a cross between the NAVY SEALS (as seen in US film and TV) CSI and maybe Law and Order who would bravely and precisely find whoever was responsible. Then there would be a trial.

Because that's what would be right.

In the years that followed? An incomprehensible horror. Slowly being an anti-war protestor became less dangerous.

At one of the first protests I remember a woman screaming: they had attacked her home city. As if I didn't live in the same city too.

Took about two years for it to become obvious to most that whatever our government was doing it had little to do with justice, or preventing terrorism.

About that same time the rest of the country remembered it'd never liked NYC anyways.

[opendirectories]

[nando161mando]

Iraqi protesters break into KFC restaurant in Baghdad in protest against the US support for Israel’s crimes in Gaza.

[alphacrone]

love seeing high school kids organize real protests for actual world issues bc when i was in high school the only time my peers and i managed to actually pull a protest together was when we organized a sit-in to protest the new rule that we weren’t allowed to sit in the hallways during lunch

[susansontag]

absolutely ridiculous. what you are ‘discovering’ here is no more than the western corporate press’s tendency to exclude certain stories for political and economic reasons. the british government funds those civilian deaths in yemen, obviously they don’t want too much media scrutiny being given to it. and honestly, support for palestine is actually a novelty in this regard, because the israeli military is trained and funded by the most powerful imperial state on earth, and american media moguls control a large percentage of the mainstream media, including the avenues where smaller presses source their own international news.

the propaganda actually is pro-israel, in the same way that all propaganda in the corporate press is pro- western allies, client states, or strategic partners. the fact some are seriously arguing popular movements in favour of palestinian liberation or simply for a ceasefire are evidence of some lobby funding pro-palestinian propaganda shows total ignorance of which governments and corporations have influence in the corporate-owned media.

absolutely the media sometimes must make concessions when ignoring masses of people protesting on the streets would become too obvious, but this does not mean the ideological frameworks within which reporters are writing favour the ‘unworthy victim(s)’. journalists writing for corporate-owned media with reliance on business for advertising revenue to subsidise the publication they are writing for will absolutely self-censor or are censored somewhere along the way to publication, who could have thought.

it’s incredibly self-righteous and ridiculous to blame ordinary people for only focusing on issues that are reported on in the media. where the hell else are people meant to get their news? it’s designed like this for a reason. the majority of people are not reading marginalised or independent media with very little audience reach (not that the people who posted this even care for the viewpoints of those journalists or researchers anyway). sorry they’re not talking about yemen — maybe write to CNN or whatever to ask why they’re not covering it instead of positioning ordinary people as brainless idiots.

the implication here that people are angry about mass civilian death of a population trapped in a strip of land without drinkable water because they’re antisemites, idiots who only read the news made available to them (which, as I’ve said, is overwhelming pro-israel in its orientation anyway for very clear political and economic reasons), and that they need to prove their virtue by protesting about all massacres equally, places the blame on ordinary populaces of people with an ordinary capacity for horror and outrage rather than on a corporate-run media landscape that caters to the views of western business and political elites who do not care when they fund muslim deaths in countries they hate and want to bomb into submission. I’ll have to block @a-room-of-my-own and her circle of idiots now because their imperial apologism is frankly ongoing and deluded at this point.

[fartshals]

Still can't wrap my head around how up in arms the west is over Gaza considering how much more apathetic most people were about it up til last year

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

U.S. cities join world in solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon

Oct. 7 marks the one-year anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, the Palestinian people’s heroic break through the concentration camp walls built by the Zionist regime around Gaza. 

It is also the one-year anniversary of the U.S.-Israeli genocide, while these imperialists have launched a horrific war on the Lebanese people, murdering over 2,000. The resistance forces of Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and other parts of the region remain undaunted. This weekend of Oct. 5-6, people worldwide from Caracas, Venezuela, to Baltimore, Maryland, have demonstrated solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon. 

[notyourtoday]

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Footage emerging from Iran shows air defence systems blocking ariel attacks in the sky. Citing a senior US official, ABC News reported that Israeli missiles have struck a site in Iran. According to Anadolu Agency, Iranian media reported an explosion near Isfahan's airport, impacting the 8th Shekhari air force base.

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[quotian]

People make fun of us because we lost, but we tried to turn the ship around. Millions of us around the world, half a million in New York City alone, banging our drums, marching in the streets, shouting “Wake up!” Less than twenty percent of Americans supported that war. No one wanted to send their sons and daughters to die in the desert, but generals gathered in their masses, right? And look at the world they made. how to sell a haunted house - grady hendrix

[angelkarafilli]

The Day The World Said No To War

Piccadilly Circus,  London

15 February 2003

Protesters march through Piccadilly Circus in London, 15 February 2003. After assembling at different points, the two mass groups of protesters converged at Piccadilly Circus.

On 15 February 2003, mass marches were held to protest against a planned invasion of Iraq led by the United States. The invasion was part of an aggressive American military strategy against extremist Islamic terrorism following the 9/11 attacks in 2001. The US Government accused Iraq's leader, Saddam Hussein, of having links with al-Qaeda, the terrorist group that had carried out the 9/11 attacks. It was also claimed that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.

The British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, strongly supported US President George W Bushand his plans for invasion. However, other countries such as Canada, France, Germany and Russia urged continued diplomacy. There was also no United Nations resolution to support the action. 

Anti-war groups around the world organised a number of protests. The event on the 15 February 2003 was the largest and involved an unprecedented amount of international coordination. 

Some of the largest protests took place in Europe. In Rome in Italy, around three million people were involved in a protest that entered the Guinness Book of Records. Thousands took part in a demonstration in the Turkish capital of Istanbul, despite local authorities having banned the protest. The events of 15 February were recorded as the largest protest of its type in human history.

In the UK, a huge protest was organised by the Stop the War Coalition (StWC) in partnership with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and the Muslim Association of Britain. It attracted a diverse group of people, many of whom had never taken part in a protest before. London's march involved up to 2,000,000 people – a record for any British protest. 

Despite the international protests and the lack of support from the UN, troops from the US, UK, Australia and Poland launched the invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003. 

Source and more on:https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/5-photographs-from-the-day-the-world-said-no-to-war