Nov 10, 2023 Union members and union retirees express anger at leadership of the AFL-CIO who support the Israeli government during its genocidal attacks in Gaza. A banner noted union purchases of Israel bonds. Union silence when U.S. states invest state employee and teacher retirement money in Israel was criticized. The protest took place in Manhattan, New York City on 11/9/2023
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16 secondsunions in this country Union leadership in this country have been complicit with Zionism through a century since the B
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23 secondsfor declaration and have continued this whole Century to be part of the ethnic cleansing and the oppression of
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32 secondsPalestine and that has to stop yeah yeah yes on October
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38 seconds16th of this year Palestinian trade unions issued a call an appeal to workers around the world to say stop the
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48 secondsgenocide stop arming Israel and for workers to take action themselves to
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54 secondsstop weapons to stop support for apar Israel to stop stop support for settler
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1 minute, 1 secondcolonialism and to stand with Palestinian workers and workers around the world who are taking action and we’re not the first ones to do this
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1 minute, 9 secondstoday we may be small in number but we’re loud in voice and we stand on the shoulders of those who from the 1960s on
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1 minute, 18 secondshave stood with Palestine in the labor movement the leak of revolu black workers in Detroit the Arabic black
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1 minute, 26 secondsworkers in 1973 50 years ago last month who struck and why did they strike at
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1 minute, 33 secondsthe auto PLS in Detroit because the UAW International Leadership was supporting Israeli ethnic cleansing and a Bai and
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1 minute, 42 secondsthey went out on strike not at that moment against the companies but against their own Union leadership that were using our Jew’s money and I say this as
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1 minute, 50 secondsa UW member to oppress Palestinians to kill Palestinians to ethnically cleanse Palestinians and that has to stop and
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1 minute, 59 secondsand today there is a growing resistance within labor to stop and to stand on the
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2 minutes, 6 secondsside of Palestine last week workers on the west coast of the block the boat movement and ilw local 10 stopped an
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2 minutes, 16 secondsIsraeli ship from jocking in Oakland as they have done since 2014 consistently those of AC are spreading
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2 minutes, 25 secondsand all that we can say is we will stand with Palestine we will stand for free Palestine from The River To The Sea and
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2 minutes, 32 secondswe will not give up free free Palestine free free Palestine free free Palestine
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2 minutes, 39 secondsfree free Palestine AFL CIO labor Zionism got to
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2 minutes, 48 secondsgo AF CIO labor Zionism got to go AF CIO
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2 minutes, 57 secondslabor zionis got to go CIO labor scientist got to
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3 minutes, 4 secondsgo okay our next speaker is s from palan youth
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3 minutes, 12 seconds[Applause]
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3 minutes, 23 secondsmovement hi everybody um my name is s and I’m here with the Palestinian youth movement woo uh we’re an organization of Palestinian
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3 minutes, 32 secondsand Arab youth organizing across the US Canada and Europe we believe in the total liberation of Palestine and this
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3 minutes, 40 secondsis what we organize towards um today and in this moment we’re make we’re calling three demands an immediate ceasefire an
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3 minutes, 47 secondsend to The Siege on Gaza and an end to the to all USA to the Zionist State we’re all here today because we know
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3 minutes, 55 secondsthat the aflci is complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people the genocide that is happening right now and the genocide that has been happening
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4 minutes, 4 secondsand that has been going on for decades and decades we know that the leadership of the aflcio has tirelessly worked to
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4 minutes, 12 secondssquash efforts by Rank and file workers who have stood in solidarity with the Palestinian people such as in 2020 2021
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4 minutes, 20 secondswhen the aflcio leadership blocked the San Francisco labor Council from debating a resolution on
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4 minutes, 26 secondsBDS but we know we must know is um um comrade Michael also pointed out that the AFL cio’s support of colonization
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4 minutes, 34 secondsand genocide did not just begin in 1948 it began from the very beginning of the imperialist occupation of Palestine in
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4 minutes, 42 seconds1917 when the AFL endorsed the bour Declaration which was the British promise to support the creation of a
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4 minutes, 50 secondsZionist state in Palestine this created the entire backbone of the genocidal project that we’re witnessing
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4 minutes, 57 secondstoday so from 19 197 to now the AFL has directly aligned itself against the Palestinian people it has aligned itself
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5 minutes, 6 secondswith the bosses the capitalists and the imperialists it has aligned itself not only against the Palestinian people but
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5 minutes, 13 secondsagainst all exploited and and oppressed people against the very workers it claims to represent but the afl’s support of the
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5 minutes, 22 secondsZionist Colonial project was not just in words it was also in action it was through material support from 19 20 the
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5 minutes, 30 secondsAFL helped to to raise funds for the HR the colonial militarized movement that the Zionist created and occupied
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5 minutes, 38 secondsPalestine under the guise of a labor movement but the histadrut was not a labor a labor unit it was an arm of the
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5 minutes, 45 secondsIsraeli state that helped to build capitalism in occupied Palestine this supposed labor union was a movement that
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5 minutes, 53 secondshoused the colonial militias that committed the 1948 Nea from the 1940s and on the AFL
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6 minutescreated programs to give hundreds and thousands of dollars to subsidize and finance the colonial institutions of the
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6 minutes, 9 secondshisr now this relationship between the AFL and the hist is a relationship of imperialist solidarity a relationship of
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6 minutes, 17 secondscapitalist solidarity it is an orchestrated and reactionary class alliance against the Palestinian people
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6 minutes, 25 secondsand not only that the AFL was an active actor in funding the creation of militarized colon colonies in occupied
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6 minutes, 32 secondsPalestine there is literally an American colony in the north of occupied Palestine in the Galilee that was directly funded by the AFL in the 1930s
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6 minutes, 42 secondsthis colony is on the land of Palestinian refugees who still for over 75 years have not been able to return to
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6 minutes, 49 secondstheir land and the the president of the AFL William green was one of the main funders of this Colony he helped Shame
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6 minutes, 59 secondsShame he helped to put on fancy dinner parties right here in Manhattan to raise thousands and thousands of dollars for
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7 minutes, 7 secondsthe creation of military colonies that would go on to occupy Palestinian land and Carry Out horrific crimes against our
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7 minutes, 15 secondspeople these colonies that the AFL funded played a direct role in building the fascist Colonial project that we are
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7 minutes, 22 secondswitnessing today the same project that has wiped out over 10,000 people in one month the same project that has wiped
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7 minutes, 30 secondsentire families off the face of the planet the same project that is bombing down hospitals and refugees the same project that is dropping white
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7 minutes, 38 secondsphosphorous on children the children women and men of Gaza what I’ve said today is just one sliver of information of the afl’s
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7 minutes, 46 secondshorrific support for imperialism and Zionism but as We Gather here all of us today and across the world um we see the
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7 minutes, 55 secondsthe mass support for Palestine Rippling Rippling across New York City Rippling AC across the US and across all all
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8 minutes, 1 secondcorners of the world um and we we’re witnessing today hundreds of actions that are shutting it down for Palestine across the city
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8 minutes, 10 secondsalone and with this it’s clear that the masses of people stand with palestin it is clear that the AFL CIO has and
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8 minutes, 19 secondscontinues to carry out a policy of the US and Zionism against the masses of people as the Palestinian revolutionary
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8 minutes, 27 secondshen canani said the Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only but a cause for every revolutionary wherever
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8 minutes, 35 secondshe is a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses and because the Palestinian cause is a cause for every revolutionary
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8 minutes, 44 secondsbecause it is a cause for the exploited and oppressed masses it is also true that the dirty and shameful history and
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8 minutes, 51 secondsongoing practice of the AFL CIO and its support for imperialism and genocide will be forced to an end it will be
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8 minutes, 59 secondsforced to an end by the masses across the world who stand on the side of justice and Liberation and when Palestine is free
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9 minutes, 8 secondsthose people and institutions and States who orchestrated genocide those forces who collaborated with and supported
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9 minutes, 15 secondscolonialism and imperialism they will be the ones who are written into the history books by us as shameful shameful
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9 minutes, 22 secondsfootnotes among a sea of pages and pages about the steadfast Palestinian people the supporters of genocide will be
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9 minutes, 30 secondsburied in footnotes by pages and pages about those who struggle for Palestine and about those millions of people who
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9 minutes, 38 secondsheroically contributed to its Liberation free free Palestine free free Palestine
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9 minutes, 45 secondsfree free free Palestine free free free Palestine from the river to the sea from
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9 minutes, 51 secondsThe River To The Sea palese will be free Palestine will be free woo
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10 minutesW thank you across the labor movement in New York City from many different unions many different fronts of the workers
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10 minutes, 7 secondsstruggle next up we have Luigi from uh the teamsters who a UPS
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10 minutes, 13 seconds[Applause]
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10 minutes, 15 secondsdriver hi everyone I will try to speak as loud as possible I’m Luigi I’m a socialist I’m member of
10:23
10 minutes, 23 secondsLeo I work at UPS but I am a warehouse worker work my time there different from the drivers I’m team
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10 minutes, 32 secondsmember and for me it’s very important that we are here I’m super grateful to un for Palestine for organizing this
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10 minutes, 39 secondsbecause I think it’s very important to to call out fio and other big Union that are not doing anything they’re not even
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10 minutes, 47 secondsmention in the war Palestine when there is a genocide going on that is already taking the life of 10,000
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10 minutes, 54 secondspeople and they are not even taking into account the persecution that many workers are living here in the
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11 minutes, 1 secondUS for standing up for Palestine so they’re not only betraying the international working class but they are also leaving behind lot of workers Rank
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11 minutes, 9 secondsand fire workers I want to stand out I want to speak up you know to bring the Palestinian C here in the US and as it was mentioned
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11 minutes, 18 secondsbefore FC has a long history of standing for imperialism Israel is nothing more than a project
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11 minutes, 25 secondsto be the Safeguard and outpost for us that is interest in the region and I’m from I’m an immigrant I’m
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11 minutes, 34 secondsfrom Argentina my family is also Chilean and in both countries we have suffered of terrible detector that were backed by
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11 minutes, 42 secondsthe US in my case 30,000 student workers organizers were killed thisa chure in Chile same
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11 minutes, 50 secondsthousand of workers were have the same Destiny and both detector were backed by the US Israel had especially a
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11 minutes, 59 secondssupported the Chan dictatorship so fighting against Israel is not only a fight for Palestine but also fight for many other countries that have been
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12 minutes, 8 secondsaffected by us imperialism because many times most of the time they interest are together and in my case you know I’m
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12 minutes, 17 secondsa sster I I hope that teer would out Le statement calling for
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12 minutes, 25 secondsSE fire or calling to stop this genocide and to break all the US military aid and financial aid to give that is given to
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12 minutes, 33 secondsto Israel and hopefully others big unions and Federation take the same path but we know that these unions are
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12 minutes, 42 secondsvery adapted to the US imper system and many times all these efforts come from the rank fight and I think
12:51
12 minutes, 51 secondsit’s very inspiring seeing how the St of workers are taking this issue how I think one of the following speakers is
12:58
12 minutes, 58 secondsAmazon union worker but in this new generation that is a whole new wave of
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13 minutes, 6 secondspeople that is taking conclusion from a very early age in the label movement so I feel like there is a lot of Hope in
13:13
13 minutes, 13 secondsthe future this movement is still growing each project is larger and larger and it’s not only the you know
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13 minutes, 20 secondsone of our power is to block uh stop the shipment of farms Etc but if our unions represent more than 12 million workers
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13 minutes, 28 secondsin the United States with stand for pistan it will also create a lot of problem here like Biden is having lot of
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13 minutes, 35 secondsa trouble to be better prepared for the election because it’s losing lot of voting lot of sectors don’t believe
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13 minutes, 44 secondsanymore in the L tactic because the two options are totally willing to kill the Palestinian
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13 minutes, 52 secondspeople so hopefully this movement keeps growing hopefully our Union stes this struggle and see you f
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14 minutes, 1 secondw free free palestin free free Palestine free free Palestine free free Palestine
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14 minutes, 9 secondsfree free free Palestine free free free Palestine thank you Luigi next up we have comrade suana from the Amazon labor
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14 minutes, 19 seconds[Applause]
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14 minutes, 26 secondsunion hey all right hi guys good afternoon yeah uh my name is paana and I am an organizer
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14 minutes, 36 secondswith the Amon labor union democratic reform caucus and a union of rank and file workers and
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14 minutes, 44 secondsthe first in history to win an election at an Amazon warehouse yeah um I’m here today to unequipped
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14 minutes, 51 secondspleas denounce the ongoing genocide and the 75-year militarist occupation committed by the settler Tomy Israel against against the Palestinian people
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15 minutesyeah the ongoing Slaughter of men women and children in Palestine is fully facted by the US Administration and both capitalist political parties in this
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15 minutes, 9 secondscountry are complicit in Israel’s war CRI us Administration does not speak for the American people across this entire
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15 minutes, 17 secondsnation across the entire Globe the International Community has been mobilizing around Palestinian Liberation in an unprecedented way today on the day
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15 minutes, 26 secondsof national shutdown after from Palestinian Liberation everywhere are taking direct action through walkouts Sittin speak outs and all forms of
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15 minutes, 35 secondsprotests directed at the zist institutions which fund invest profit and collaborate with Israel’s genocide
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15 minutes, 42 secondsand the ociation of Palestinians today my fellow Franken file unionists and I choose to stand in
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15 minutes, 49 secondsfront of the AFC uh the AFL CIO regional office in New York to demand an end of the ongoing complicity and active
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15 minutes, 57 secondsparticipation in Israel’s settler colonialist genocide and the repression of Palestinian labor solidarity by this Trade union
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16 minutes, 5 secondsbureaucracy the AFL CIO does not serve to protect the interests of the millions of workers it represents and instead has
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16 minutes, 12 secondsbeen imposing the pro-israel line of the Biden Administration and us imperialis in a one paragraph statement
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16 minutes, 21 secondspublished October 11 the AFL CIO Trade union Federation denounced Hamas for unspeakable atrocities and Carnage and
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16 minutes, 28 secondsterrorism a statement shed crocodile tears about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza without naming its source the
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16 minutes, 35 secondsIsraeli and American government it said nothing about the bile atrocities Mass Slaughter and war crimes being committed by the Israeli military against
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16 minutes, 44 secondsPalestinian civilians who have the unequivocal right I’m going to emphasize this unequivocal right to resist their
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16 minutes, 52 secondscolonial uh
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16 minutes, 53 seconds[Music]
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16 minutes, 54 seconds[Applause]
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16 minutes, 57 secondsoccupation what the the statement meant in not so many words is the AFL CIO bureaucracy fully backed the genocide of
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17 minutes, 5 secondsPalestinians shame in heaing the direct request of the Palestinian General Federation of
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17 minutes, 12 secondstrade unions there has been growing support for Action to block the transfer of weapons and equipment to Israel amongst the working P Americans one
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17 minutes, 21 secondsrecent resolution passed unanimously by the thir St Louis Mason Central labor Council in the state of Washington declared it was opposed and principle to
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17 minutes, 30 secondsany Union involvement in the production or transportation of weapons destined for Israel in the resolution they called
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17 minutes, 38 secondson the AFL CIO to demand an immediate ceasefire and equal rights for Palestinians and Israelis and resolve to
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17 minutes, 45 secondsinvestigate ways Our member unions may be participating in this war the AFL CIO
17:52
17 minutes, 52 secondsintervened to overrule this resolution and president Liz Scher sent out a memo to all state federations area and
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18 minutesCentral labor Council declaring only the national AFL CIO is authorized to take public positions on National and
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18 minutes, 8 secondsinternational issues and that their position must be clear consistent unified and unambiguous in other words
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18 minutes, 15 secondsonly the party line set by the aflci executive council is permissible and no avert opposition will be
18:24
18 minutes, 24 secondstolerated the unity invoked by Schuler is a Unity of the train I bureaucracy against Rank and file workers the union
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18 minutes, 32 secondsbureaucracies which comprise the AFL CIO function as extensions of the democratic party and the state department in addition to selling out workers
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18 minutes, 41 secondsday-to-day needs for the last half century the AFL CIO has a notorious record of collaborating with the CIA in
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18 minutes, 48 secondscountless us back poops from G gu Mala and Iran to Brazil and Chile and
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18 minutes, 55 secondscontinues to operate on behalf of Eur us imperialism to this day I’m going to end by saying this it
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19 minutes, 4 secondsis not the Democratic party or the train trade Union bureaucrats will stop imperialist form the ongoing occupation
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19 minutes, 12 secondsand horrific genocidal Siege against the Palestinian people will only be stopped through the independent and unified
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19 minutes, 19 secondsinitiative of the international working class in solidarity with Palestinian resistance yeah yeah
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19 minutes, 28 seconds[Applause]
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19 minutes, 30 secondsfree free pal free free palese thank you so much sulana next up we have the president of the national Riders Union
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19 minutes, 38 secondsLarry goldber it’s uh it’s very good to be part of this act of international
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19 minutes, 46 secondssolidarity and uh I’m glad to say that our Union was one of the first in North America to issue public station against the genocide and against the EIC
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19 minutes, 54 secondscleansing going on in gazel I I also want to bring International greetings from our sister Union the
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20 minutes, 4 secondsPalestinian journalist Syndicate uh when I was at the PJs Congress last spring half of the members
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20 minutes, 13 secondsof the Union had to attend virtually because they weren’t allowed to travel from Gaza to the West Bank to
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20 minutes, 21 secondsparticipate in Congress and we God only knows what the situation is now more than a a
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20 minutes, 30 secondsjournalist that day has been killed uh more than 50 media uh Outlets
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20 minutes, 37 secondshave been destroyed and these are targeted assassination uh journalists have had their whole bomb their family is wiped
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20 minutes, 46 secondsout it’s not just getting caught in the crossfire they’re the target very similar to Shireen Abu akla who was
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20 minutes, 55 secondskilled by an Israeli sniper uh 2 years ago at the uh refugee camp in
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21 minutes, 3 secondsJanine and 2 weeks ago the IDF killed her again they plowed down a memorial to
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21 minutes, 10 secondsher at the site where she was killed I bulldozer in there to to Clow down this
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21 minutes, 18 secondsMemorial so on behalf of uh the PJs nwu and the 600,000 members of the
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21 minutes, 28 secondsInternational Federation of journalists we stand in solidarity with with the people of Palestine and with the
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21 minutes, 35 secondscivilians in Israel who are standing up to that government and demanding a SE and while we’re making demands on the
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21 minutes, 44 secondsAFL CIO we’re not waiting on them yeah and I just want to end with this
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21 minutes, 51 secondsannouncement uh the 13,000 member ATU local in Washington DC Transit workers
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21 minutes, 59 secondsled by black workers majority black workers passed the follow resolution yesterday and the night before at two
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22 minutes, 7 secondsdifferent membership meetings we resolved that ATU Local 689 calls for end to military a to Israel
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22 minutes, 15 secondsfor a ceasefire in war against
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22 minutes, 19 seconds[Applause]
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22 minutes, 22 secondsPalestine free free Palestine free free Palestine free free free pal Palestine
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22 minutes, 28 secondsfree free free Palestine we will free Palestine we will free Palestine within our lifetime within our LIF thank you
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22 minutes, 38 secondscomrade lar and it’s so fantastic to hear about the ATU there and next we’ve got a UFT retiring and a campaign with d
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22 minutes, 45 secondsIsrael B Stan
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22 minutes, 48 seconds[Applause]
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22 minutes, 51 secondsyeah okay thanks for the honor of putting me in the UFT you never been in the UFT I come down down from
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22 minutes, 58 secondsConnecticut I’ve been a member of the AFT American Federation of teachers in West Haven Connecticut in the 40 years
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23 minutes, 8 secondsthat I taught and then in the retired chapter in the last 13 years so that’s been a number of years I want to talk
23:17
23 minutes, 17 secondsabout some of the Practical things the practical ways that the unions have been
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23 minutes, 24 secondssupporting apartheid Israel and one of it has got to do with money your
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23 minutes, 31 secondsmoney Go’s money and your pension money we were I was at an AFL CIO
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23 minutes, 40 secondsconvention about 20 years ago and they gave out the treasurers report incredibly interesting as you can
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23 minutes, 49 secondsimagine but we did notice what is this line about Israel bonds and they
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23 minutes, 56 secondshad thousand I forget how much they started with they had1 $20,000 worth of Israel bonds and we
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24 minutes, 5 secondsquestion that that day we got a but we couldn’t do much about it but
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24 minutes, 13 secondswe persisted it took us about 5 years but finally they they roll they refused to roll them over so when it uh renewed
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24 minutes, 22 secondsthey didn’t renew C Connecticut aflc got rid of its dirty nasty
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24 minutes, 30 secondsIsrael um later and this wasn’t my effort but after I retired members of
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24 minutes, 37 secondsthe Union brought in a Palestinian from a Palestinian Union in the West Bank he
24:44
24 minutes, 44 secondsspoke that kind of got things going and the next year they passed a resolution saying all you great gods of the
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24 minutes, 53 secondsleadership of the aflcio please come consider BDS and that pass was a fight for the
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25 minutes, 2 secondspass they got slapped down the next week how dare you little people have an idea
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25 minutes, 9 secondsto even ask us big people to consider getting rid of in
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25 minutes, 16 secondsIsraeli Investments so that you know deflated things but there’s efforts all over the place and you ought to ask
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25 minutes, 24 secondsabout your union I wrote to the AFT in 2009 the national and then within a couple weeks they did right back they
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25 minutes, 33 secondssaid we have 300,000 invested in Israel by now that was then who knows what they
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25 minutes, 41 secondshave now and how about New York City how about Mike mul has anybody asked him I see teachers for Palestine I don’t know
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25 minutes, 50 secondsif you’re here but this should be transparent the union should tell you what they’re investing in so you should
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25 minutes, 58 secondsform some committee you should write a letter it might even be the law that they have to tell you there maybe people
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26 minutes, 6 secondsshould when they do these shut them Downs walk into an office into a uh an
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26 minutes, 14 secondsarea of the UFT and say we want to know the information there’s another way besides
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26 minutes, 22 secondsthe union taking your dues the money get that gets deducted
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26 minutes, 28 secondsfrom the teachers and from state workers and that goes up to New York State and
26:36
26 minutes, 36 secondsthen our state in Connecticut and they invest that and uh in Connecticut little
26:43
26 minutes, 43 secondstiny Connecticut uh a year or so ago they had $100 million invested in Israel
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26 minutes, 50 secondsit wasn’t just Israel bonds there was all kinds of 200 companies Israel bonds and sh
26:58
26 minutes, 58 secondsthey speculated in in in currency so that can be challenged too
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27 minutes, 5 secondsand of course the unions can be talking about it it’s their members money why aren’t the unions screaming and yelling
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27 minutes, 12 secondscould there be something else that they could use this money for maybe something with jobs in the United States something
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27 minutes, 20 secondson work getting I’m going to end uh
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27 minutes, 28 secondswith maybe a chant n to to you we use it up in Connecticut Rita T has been
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27 minutes, 35 secondsslammed you know cuz she said from the rivers to the Sea and so they say oh that means mass murder genocide and so
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27 minutes, 44 secondson so we we still say from the rivers to the sea free Palestine yeah well we go from
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27 minutes, 54 secondsThe River To The Sea Justice and equality so maybe we can try that from the river to the sea from The
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28 minutes, 3 secondsRiver To The Sea Justice and equality Justice and equality from the river to the sea from The River To The Sea
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28 minutes, 12 secondsJustice and equality Justice and equality thank
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28 minutes, 17 seconds[Applause]
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28 minutes, 18 secondsyou boycott di sanction strike sanction strike workers of the
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28 minutes, 26 secondsworld you workers of the world boyot div sanction
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28 minutes, 32 secondsstrike boy div sanction workers of the World Unite workers of the world un
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28 minutes, 41 secondsthank you so much comrades we’ve got uh one more speaker here I’ve got Gabriel from the Bram workers
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28 minutes, 48 seconds[Applause]
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28 minutes, 55 secondsUn Hi everyone thank you than you uh my name is Gabriel I’m with an organization called brand workers uh we are a worker
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29 minutes, 2 secondsCenter based out of queens and we uh work with food manufacturing workers to help build their organizations and build their unions we’ve essentially brought
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29 minutes, 11 secondsour almost our entire New York staff out here today because because like we
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29 minutes, 18 secondsbelieve that Palestine is a working class issu and as an organization that’s rooted in the working class rooted in
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29 minutes, 26 secondsNew York City working class last struggle the struggle of the Palestinian people is not something that they
29:33
29 minutes, 33 secondsthey’re trying to tell us that this is something outside of our communities and outside of our homes outside of like where we live and where we work but
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29 minutes, 41 secondsPalestine is about who we are our communities our families and that’s why we brought out essentially the whole
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29 minutes, 48 secondsteam um yeah yeah so Palestine is a worker thank you Palestine is a working class issue
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29 minutes, 57 secondsPalestine is an issue that we are here based on the movement principle the labor movement principle that an injury
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30 minutes, 6 secondsto one is an injury to all and so we are here because we are hearkening back to like those
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30 minutes, 13 secondsfoundational principles of the labor movement uh that’s why we’re here thank you all for coming out and supporting and uh
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30 minutes, 25 secondsthanks boy come die sanction strike die sanction St workers of the
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30 minutes, 33 secondsWorld Unite workers of the world boy div sanction strike boy div sanction strike
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30 minutes, 43 secondsworkers of the world un workers of the World Unite excellent okay um that was
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30 minutes, 50 secondsgoing to be our last speaker but I would like okay if want to do it I just want to say a few words as a member of the
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30 minutes, 57 secondsprofessional staff Congress cun’s Union we’ve been fighting in cun’s Union to adopt a pro Palestinian position for
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31 minutes, 5 secondsyears I’m also a member of Ki for Palestine which is the Federation of uh activists across the Ki system all
31:12
31 minutes, 12 secondsfighting for the same goal that we as teachers in the City University of New York system and his staff members and
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31 minutes, 19 secondshis students refuse to stand by and have our name assigned to the brutality visited on Gaza on the West Bank and the
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31 minutes, 27 secondspeople of Palestine right to that end we passed a resolution back in 2021 uh that stood in solidarity during the sacking
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31 minutes, 35 secondsof shik Jah with the Palestinian people against the Israeli power since then we’ve had an ongoing struggle between
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31 minutes, 42 secondsthe forces of Justice in the union and the forces of Zionism and it’s a constant and ongoing struggle but I’m
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31 minutes, 49 secondsproud to be part of the group within the professional staff Congress that’s fighting for the right cause I just want to say is uh wrap
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31 minutes, 58 secondsthings up for today that I want to put the AFL CIO on notice I want to put the labor bureaucrats on notice to put the
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32 minutes, 6 secondslabor hierarchs on notice I want them to know that this is just the beginning all right this isn’t even the beginning we’ve looked around the world today we
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32 minutes, 14 secondscan look around the world today and we can see what kind of fighting force labor has for showing solidarity with Palestine right Belgian ship workers
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32 minutes, 24 secondsItalian ship workers activists in Melbourne Australia shutting down trucks on their way to
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32 minutes, 31 secondsload Zim lines these are the sorts of actions that we need to start talking about in New York City we need to start talking about blocking the boat we need
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32 minutes, 39 secondsto start talking about the material change that we can make as laborers in the city of New York great on that point my friends uh I want to bring this to a
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32 minutes, 48 secondsclose with a few chance and say thank you all for coming out and showing solidarity today free free Palestine
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32 minutes, 55 secondsfree free Palestine free free Palestine free free Palestine Long Live Palestine
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33 minutes, 3 secondsLong Live Palestine Long Live Palestine Long Live Palestine from the river to
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33 minutes, 10 secondsthe sea from The River To The Sea Palestine will be free Palestine will be free from the river to the sea from The
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33 minutes, 20 secondsRiver To The Sea Palestine will be free Palestine will be free cuz we will free
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33 minutes, 27 secondsPalestine we will free Palestine within our lifetime within our lifetime we will
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33 minutes, 34 secondsfree Palestine we will free Palestine within our lifetime within our LIF
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