Streamed live on Oct 26, 2025 #RogerWaters#FreePalestine#USB🚨 Labor Uniting for Palestine 🌍✊ Workers across continents are standing together to demand justice for Palestine! 🗓 Sunday, Oct 26 🎙 Featuring Roger Waters, Ubai Aboudi, Chris Smalls, Leandro Lanfreddi, Francesco Staccioli, Suzsne Adely, and Jose Nivoi — uniting labor movements from the U.S., Italy, Brazil, and Palestine. 🗣 “If they block the path to peace, we will block everything.” — USB #LaborForPalestine #WorkersForJustice #UnitingForPeace #LifelineForPalestine #FreePalestine #Solidarity #RogerWaters #UbaiAboudi #USB #WorkersUnite #EndTheGenocide #GlobalSolidarity
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0:22
22 secondsIsrael.
0:53
53 seconds[gasps]
0:54
54 secondsThank you so much, Yse. It’s such an honor to have you with us. Um, it’s also an incredible honor to have with us our
1:03
1 minute, 3 secondsnext guest, uh, Francesco Sti. I’m gonna pronounce it wrong. I apologize. Stacoli or Stakioli.
1:10
1 minute, 10 secondsum who is the national secretary of the Italian Trade Confederation, USB,
1:17
1 minute, 17 secondsorganized the first national strike for Palestine globally, taking millions to the streets of Italy in September and
1:25
1 minute, 25 secondsagain in October and will do it again as we just heard on November 28th. With the
1:32
1 minute, 32 secondsslogan, let’s shut everything down for Palestine. Francesco has played a key role in showing the power of organized
1:40
1 minute, 40 secondslabor to lead the fight to stop the genocide, open humanitarian corridors, and demand that the Italian government
1:48
1 minute, 48 secondsend all political and economic relations with Israel. He has led the USB in repeatedly bringing Italy to a halt with
1:57
1 minute, 57 secondsa general strike to stop the Palestinian genocide and oppose all wars. Franchesco has also worked tirelessly to connect
2:06
2 minutes, 6 secondsthe dots, focusing on the harm that Zionism does to the working to workingclass people in Italy, where, as
2:14
2 minutes, 14 secondsin many other places, the government supports a war economy, allocates enormous resources to rearmament while
2:21
2 minutes, 21 secondscutting wages and public services for workingclass people. Um, so I think we’ll skip uh the clips that we have in
2:29
2 minutes, 29 secondsthe interest of time, Mark. Um, and just go straight ahead uh to Francesco. Thank you so much for joining us, Franchesco.
3:01
3 minutes, 1 secondWinding.
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3 minutes, 15 secondsFore
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3 minutes, 42 secondsstrategy. control.
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3 minutes, 47 secondsThe army
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4 minutes, 8 secondsJose.
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4 minutes, 40 secondscharacterist. Palestinator.
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5 minutes, 19 secondsFore
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5 minutes, 48 secondsgrandchange.
6:05
6 minutes, 5 secondsSponttoch.
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6 minutes, 18 secondsSingle
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6 minutes, 43 secondsuniting for peace.
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6 minutes, 47 secondsFore
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7 minutes, 13 secondsspeech.
7:20
7 minutes, 20 secondsFranchesco, can you please slow down a little? Okay, for the interpreter. Thank you.
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7 minutes, 27 secondsOkay.
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7 minutes, 46 secondsfor
8:06
8 minutes, 6 secondsthe army.
8:19
8 minutes, 19 secondsrender the army versus
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8 minutes, 43 secondsmilitary particular
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9 minutes, 6 secondspossibility.
9:07
9 minutes, 7 secondsThe embargo is
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9 minutes, 34 secondslocal maya.
10:17
10 minutes, 17 secondsTubario.
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10 minutes, 29 secondsFranchesco.
11:06
11 minutes, 6 secondsimperialism.
11:22
11 minutes, 22 secondsUh Jill, do you want to jump in? Thank you so much, Franchesco. Uh you’re muted.
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11 minutes, 31 secondsOkay. Yeah, apologies. Um yes, thank you so very much, Franchesco. Um uh thank you for your inspiring words
11:40
11 minutes, 40 secondsand your actions uh and for um really everything you said. Thank you for your
11:47
11 minutes, 47 secondsrole with the USB which is such an exemplary union that is very much an
11:54
11 minutes, 54 secondsinspiration uh to us all and which takes us to our next speaker uh who we are
12:01
12 minutes, 1 secondalso extremely grateful to have with us today and uh his work Chris Small’s work
12:09
12 minutes, 9 secondsexemplifies how the struggle for the rights of workers are inseparable uh that is the rights of workers in our
12:18
12 minutes, 18 secondshome country is inseparable from the rights of workers and the human rights of people all over the world in
12:25
12 minutes, 25 secondsparticular in Palestine. Uh Chris Smalls is best known for establishing the only
12:31
12 minutes, 31 secondsum union successfully established yet uh against uh or at at an Amazon work site
12:40
12 minutes, 40 secondswhere he was fired actually in 2020 for organizing workers to protect themselves against the um uh very risky uh
12:50
12 minutes, 50 secondsemployment circumstances, crowding and so on uh during the COVID uh pandemic.
12:55
12 minutes, 55 secondsHe was fired and then he went on to organize uh activists at that site without any so outside support from the
13:04
13 minutes, 4 secondslarger unions. Fought really uh as a small band, relatively small compared to a nearly $3 trillion uh company Amazon.
13:16
13 minutes, 16 secondsThey fought and successfully established a union which then went on to affiliate with the Teamsters. Uh that fight
13:23
13 minutes, 23 secondscontinues. at the same time in in the US. Let’s see.
13:31
13 minutes, 31 secondsThere we go. Okay. Uh that fight continues as the fight of oligarchy
13:38
13 minutes, 38 secondsgrows stronger to suppress workers rights in this country where working people are struggling to just keep a
13:47
13 minutes, 47 secondsroof over their heads. Let’s see. We’re getting All right. see if we can correct that. Um,
13:56
13 minutes, 56 secondsso we have a big fight in this country for the rights of workers. And let me pause for just a minute while we get our streams sorted out.
14:09
14 minutes, 9 secondsUm, for some reason we are hearing uh in the English channel, we’re also hearing the Italian. Let’s see if we’re on track now.
14:20
14 minutes, 20 secondsOne moment. I can see they are trying to straighten this out behind the scenes.
14:28
14 minutes, 28 secondsUh I’ll continue. I’ll just pause if the translation voice comes in. Uh but in in this country, you know, we are the US is
14:36
14 minutes, 36 secondsnot only the seat of the empire, the seat of the most um uh you know, as Martin Luther King says, my country is
14:45
14 minutes, 45 secondsthe greatest purveyor of violence in the world today. Said that back in the 1960s. And this country is still the
14:52
14 minutes, 52 secondsgreatest purveyor today.
15:04
15 minutes, 4 secondsI’ll just pause while we’re getting uh the translation feed into uh the English feed. I’ll just pause uh if that uh
15:12
15 minutes, 12 secondscontinues. So um we are the seat of empire uh and we are also a profound um
15:21
15 minutes, 21 secondsuh seat of the oppression of of working people and the struggle of workers even to organize here in this country is u a
15:30
15 minutes, 30 secondsvery difficult one and becomes more intense really by by the day and uh exemplary of that uh Chris’s work
15:39
15 minutes, 39 secondsestablishing the first union really uh led then to many struggles where Amazon
15:46
15 minutes, 46 secondspoured more and more money and legal action uh into suppressing workers rights. And uh it is to his credit uh
15:56
15 minutes, 56 secondsthat and thank you uh whatever you did behind the scenes there Mark, thank you for straightening out our uh communications lines. Um [snorts]
16:04
16 minutes, 4 secondsthis struggle goes on and uh Chris himself then connecting the dots between the struggle here for workers in this
16:12
16 minutes, 12 secondscountry with the struggle for working people around the world. He too, like several others on this call, was
16:19
16 minutes, 19 secondsinvolved in the uh flotillaa um the uh freedom flotillaa just before the simude
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16 minutes, 26 secondsand was singled out as the only African-American was singled out and horribly uh tortured and mistreated
16:34
16 minutes, 34 secondswhile he was in uh Israeli custody. And with the courage uh that he has shown
16:41
16 minutes, 41 secondsall along, he just, you know, he did not cave. He continued to fight. He was released and he continues to inspire us.
16:50
16 minutes, 50 secondsjust a couple days ago on Friday actually uh at Chris’s um uh behest uh
16:57
16 minutes, 57 secondshe brought together uh activists, workers uh uh those who are opposing the genocide to the uh doorstep of the AFL
17:06
17 minutes, 6 secondsCIO, the largest union federation of unions here in this country where we are bringing the struggle home to the AFL
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17 minutes, 15 secondsCIO which continues to suppress um uh suppress the fight against genocide to
17:22
17 minutes, 22 secondssuppress workers who are trying to organize even just to pass resolutions against it. So Chris is very much uh
17:30
17 minutes, 30 secondsinvolved. We’re so grateful to him for his role connecting the dots, his refusal to be uh silenced uh and for
17:39
17 minutes, 39 secondsgalvanizing the greater power of working people in this country and around the world. And thank you so much, Chris, for
17:47
17 minutes, 47 secondsall you’re doing. and uh taking the time to be with us today. Take it away.
17:54
17 minutes, 54 secondsThank you, Dr. J. I appreciate you and um thank you everybody for being here on this important urgent webinar. It’s
18:02
18 minutes, 2 secondsalways good to see brothers and sisters from around the world come together for one commonality.
18:08
18 minutes, 8 secondsIt’s always good to see like-minded individuals who understand the times that we’re in understand that we have to
18:16
18 minutes, 16 secondsstep up and use our strongest weapon, which is our labor in our bodies. So, thank you all for being here today. Um,
18:25
18 minutes, 25 secondsyou know, I think I I rather um transition to my activism here because I I it’s so much power on this one
18:35
18 minutes, 35 secondswebinar. Um, I I got to make sure I take advantage of this opportunity to talk to
18:41
18 minutes, 41 secondsworldwide uh trade unionists, activists, um, community leaders and and let you
18:48
18 minutes, 48 secondsguys know. Um, I think we all know what the issue is when we talking about speaking truth to power. Well, we
18:56
18 minutes, 56 secondsalready know that the power knows the truth. They know what they’ve been doing. They know that this genocide is
19:04
19 minutes, 4 secondshappening despite of the ceasefire. They know that by neutralizing us in our
19:11
19 minutes, 11 secondsvoices, uh it doesn’t help the movement and we can’t allow that. Um
19:18
19 minutes, 18 secondsspeaking of the flotillaas, you know, I’m glad people uh everybody here has been uh aware. uh we’ve been spreading a
19:26
19 minutes, 26 secondslot of awareness with these uh latest uh initiatives especially with the global sim um but we have to remind ourselves
19:34
19 minutes, 34 secondshow did we get here we got to remind ourselves that this flotillaa mission initiative didn’t just start with the
19:41
19 minutes, 41 secondsglobal sum or the hyundela uh that I was on which was actually flotillaa number 37
19:49
19 minutes, 49 secondsum this flotillaa initiative started 17 years ago And we got to remind ourselves that 17
19:58
19 minutes, 58 secondsyears ago, Israel was still controlling the borders of Gaza.
20:04
20 minutes, 4 secondsAnd we got to remind ourselves that the people of Gaza was facing starvation before October 7th. And remind ourselves
20:14
20 minutes, 14 secondsthat this uh illegal humanitary blockade has been happening for over two decades.
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20 minutes, 21 secondsAnd we can say longer than that. Israel has always controlled the borders of Gaza. Whether it was with food or
20:28
20 minutes, 28 secondswhether it was with with uh product and goods, they’ve always controlled the b the borders of Gaza. So when we talking
20:36
20 minutes, 36 secondsabout our history as the trade union movement, uh our history doesn’t get taught to us in our classrooms. Our history doesn’t
20:45
20 minutes, 45 secondsget taught to us in our media, our legacy media.
20:49
20 minutes, 49 secondsUm, we have to understand that the trade union movement is the resistance.
20:55
20 minutes, 55 secondsPalestinian liberation has always stood hand in hand with the trade union movement. The resistance, the trade
21:03
21 minutes, 3 secondsunion movements have always been handinand since the first Nagba. And we’re now at Nagba 77 this past year.
21:13
21 minutes, 13 secondsUm, and we understand that we’re still in the resistance. But what our opponents and our oppressors don’t
21:20
21 minutes, 20 secondsunderstand is that they can’t kill resistance. They think they can. They believe that they can kill resistance by
21:29
21 minutes, 29 secondsdestroying 95% of Gaza by uh killing over 680,000 innocent Palestinians, men,
21:38
21 minutes, 38 secondswomen, and children. But they don’t understand just how my union here in the US was
21:46
21 minutes, 46 secondsable to take on a $2.2 trillion company, one of the most modern powerful companies in modern times that employs 2.5 million workers worldwide.
21:58
21 minutes, 58 secondsWhen people ask how was you able to defeat such a behemoth, the answer and the formula is simple.
22:07
22 minutes, 7 secondsIt’s actually right here in this call.
22:09
22 minutes, 9 secondsis actually right here in our communities. It is the power of people when we come together and just how we were able to bring
22:17
22 minutes, 17 secondspeople together to take on the richest man, the richest company in the world and defeat them. Gaza, the people of Palestine is doing the same exact thing.
22:29
22 minutes, 29 secondsThey are showing us that we have to bring the world together right now.
22:34
22 minutes, 34 secondsbring people together. Everyday people, whether you’re union or non-union, everyday civilians are coming together around the world for one common cause.
22:47
22 minutes, 47 secondsWe have already won that battle. We have already won the public opinion. We
22:54
22 minutes, 54 secondsalready know what the Zionist entities are doing with our governments, with the influence of politics, with the
23:02
23 minutes, 2 secondssuppression of our censorship on social media and our voices. We already know that they have to do these things in
23:11
23 minutes, 11 secondsorder to divide us because their biggest fear is having all of these countries that’s here on this webinar come together.
23:20
23 minutes, 20 secondsSo what we must do in these times right now, we have to do more direct action.
23:25
23 minutes, 25 secondsWe have to take more escalation. We have to take more risk and we also have to take more sacrifice.
23:34
23 minutes, 34 secondsWe don’t do the work that we do without sacrificing something. If [clears throat] you talked about Palestine within the last two years, you
23:43
23 minutes, 43 secondslost something. I can speak from my own experience. I’ve lost so many opportunities, financial
23:51
23 minutes, 51 secondsuh whether it was uh amplifying my calls with Amazon workers, didn’t matter.
23:58
23 minutes, 58 secondsOvernight, people cancelled because we said the word Palestine.
24:03
24 minutes, 3 secondsAnd guess what? We can’t allow these folks to discourage us and distract us
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24 minutes, 11 secondsand diminish our voices. Instead, we have to do more.
24:16
24 minutes, 16 secondsSo, as uh Dr. Jill said on Friday, we took everyday civilians. We took
24:25
24 minutes, 25 secondstrade unionists, workers, activists, community leaders to the doorsteps of the largest federation in the US. the
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24 minutes, 34 secondsvoice for the US labor movement that represents 12.5 million workers who have 60 unions underneath this one umbrella
24:43
24 minutes, 43 secondsthat includes the ILA, the Long Shoreman Association that controls every US port
24:50
24 minutes, 50 secondsin our country, who’s been shipping weapons every 15 hours for the last two years to Israel, who’s been
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24 minutes, 59 secondsmanufacturing weapons, who has been having who has contracts with Israel’s uh stocks and bonds and
25:06
25 minutes, 6 secondspensions. We took our voices and our demands to their doorstep and not only took it there, we delivered our petition
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25 minutes, 16 secondsand it was accepted by the chief of staff that is direct access to the president’s Liz Schultz. And we gave
25:25
25 minutes, 25 secondsthem one week notice. One week notice to respond to this petition signed by thousands of people saying that we want
25:34
25 minutes, 34 secondsall US labor unions to fully divest from Israel. Saying that we want them to
25:42
25 minutes, 42 secondscondemn Israel for its war crimes. We want them to follow suit of calling it a genocide, calling it what it is, and
25:51
25 minutes, 51 secondsabsolutely condemning what happened to myself as a labor leader, what happened to the seven Americans on the Hondella,
25:59
25 minutes, 59 secondswhat happened to all of the Americans on the Global Simula.
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26 minutes, 4 secondsAnd if these demands are not met, if we do not get a response, we will return to
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26 minutes, 12 secondsthe largest federation in the US and escalate more. And we will continue to do that just how we pledged 17 years ago
26:22
26 minutes, 22 secondsto send flotillaa after flotillaa until we break the illegal siege. It’s never about delivering humanitarian aid
26:31
26 minutes, 31 secondsbecause even if we deliver humanitarian aid, there’s a rehabilitation process that we’re not even talking about. The
26:39
26 minutes, 39 secondshumanitarian aid is one piece, but the siege is the main objective. And the
26:47
26 minutes, 47 secondssame thing with this genocide. The genocide will not stop until the weapons stop.
26:54
26 minutes, 54 secondsIf we do not stop the weapon shipments, the genocide will continue to happen.
26:59
26 minutes, 59 secondsTrump just went on the air a few days ago and bragged about how many weapons he’s been given BB Netanyahu. This
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27 minutes, 8 secondsweapon, that weapon, me creating weapons, weapons he doesn’t even know the name of. He’s giving it to them. And
27:15
27 minutes, 15 secondsthat goes by the hands of unionized workers here in the US, which is a shame that we have to call this out.
27:23
27 minutes, 23 secondsBut once again, when our governments fail us, when corporations fail us, when politicians fail us, it is up to
27:32
27 minutes, 32 secondseveryday civilians to step up just how we are doing with the flotilla initiatives. And just how when the USB
27:40
27 minutes, 40 secondscalled that general strike and brought out millions of workers in Italy, it wasn’t just unionized workers. We’re
27:48
27 minutes, 48 secondstalking about students, universities, and even high schools that were occupied. And I’ve learned this from my
27:57
27 minutes, 57 secondsjourney around the world. I was just in Italy last week. I will be returning soon. Hopefully, I will return to any
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28 minutes, 4 secondsother country that has the solidarity that we have here in the US. And I hope to see and continue to build the
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28 minutes, 12 secondsinternational solidarity because that’s also how we will put an end to this genocide by building international
28:20
28 minutes, 20 secondssolidarity, real strong relationships, something that is very unprecedented here in the US because our labor
28:28
28 minutes, 28 secondsmovement has been complicit for far too long. So, I’m here as one individual, but I am the voice of many. And I’m also
28:37
28 minutes, 37 secondsrepresenting uh once again, as Jill said, the first union in American history for Amazon workers. And Amazon has everything to do with this genocide.
28:48
28 minutes, 48 secondsIf you didn’t know, they invested $7.2 2 billion called Project Nimbus, which is the
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28 minutes, 56 secondsintelligence and the web services, Amazon Web Services that is being used to target and kill innocent Palestinians
29:06
29 minutes, 6 secondsevery single day. Amazon has everything to do with this genocide. They are essentially the Iron Dome.
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29 minutes, 14 secondsTheir intelligence is the Iron Dome. the same thing here in the US. Amazon has billions of contracts
29:23
29 minutes, 23 secondswith the Pentagon and the militaryindustrial complex. So if you’re supporting Amazon, you are supporting genocide. But unfortunately,
29:33
29 minutes, 33 secondspeople do not know these things. So, it’s up to us to connect these struggles, connect these dots, and
29:39
29 minutes, 39 secondseducate our neighbors, educate our family members, educate our friends, educate our loved ones, because the
29:48
29 minutes, 48 secondsrevolution that we’re talking about here, the revolution starts with yourself.
29:55
29 minutes, 55 secondsWhat are we as individuals here willing to sacrifice for the greater cause of this Palestinian liberation? Because
30:04
30 minutes, 4 secondsPalestinian liberation is a labor issue.
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30 minutes, 9 secondsThey are a workingass country. So for us, we have a lot of work to do. And if
30:18
30 minutes, 18 secondsyou’re in two categories are in both, one of each. If you’re a leader here on the call, right now is
30:25
30 minutes, 25 secondsthe time to lead. If you’re an activist here on the call, right now is the time to get activist to get active. If you’re
30:33
30 minutes, 33 secondsare both right now, it’s the time to do both. We cannot wait no longer. There is
30:41
30 minutes, 41 secondsno calvary coming for us. Our government is not going to wake up one day and give the people of Palestine what they want.
30:48
30 minutes, 48 secondsOur politicians are not going to lead the people to general strikes. It’s going to be by the people. So, I heard about the date of November 28th.
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31 minutesWhat I hope to do here while we have the opportunity with world leaders and trade unions from around the world, we all
31:08
31 minutes, 8 secondsshould go in the streets November 28th in our prospective countries. Make this an international
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31 minutes, 15 secondsday of action and solidarity for the liberation of Palestine. We need global strikes around the world collectively.
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31 minutes, 23 secondsAnd while we have this opportunity, we all should be planning for November 28th or whatever day we decide to take the
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31 minutes, 32 secondsstreets. But let’s plan a global international day of action for
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31 minutes, 38 secondsPalestine. Starting with the US, who is the number one supplier for weapons and
31:45
31 minutes, 45 secondsmoney because the same week they call ceasefire is the same week Trump gave $6
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31 minutes, 52 secondsbillion of our taxpaying dollars to Israel. So there is no ceasefire.
31:59
31 minutes, 59 secondsSo we understand that. We understand what our opponents are doing. We have to do more direct action is what we say
32:07
32 minutes, 7 secondshere. Direct action always gets the goods. So let’s take more direct action.
32:14
32 minutes, 14 secondsLet’s continue to build this international movement, international solidarity and remind ourselves that the
32:22
32 minutes, 22 secondsrevolution starts with yourself. And when people ask us how are we able to defeat corporations,
32:31
32 minutes, 31 secondsbillionaires, uh the evilness of our governments is people power, y’all. Love and solidarity and the power to all people.
32:43
32 minutes, 43 secondsI’m happy to be here with you guys. I’m here. If you need me, please reach out to me. Please take my contact information if you don’t have it. I would love to continue building this.
32:53
32 minutes, 53 secondsI’m not here to deliver a speech. I’m here to deliver a call to action. And I’m asking everybody to join us. Go on our website right now, disarm genocide.org.
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33 minutes, 4 secondsSign our petition. Even if you don’t live in the US, put whatever information you can. Who cares? We just want our signatures. And we’re going to continue
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33 minutes, 13 secondsto escalate. We gave the largest federation one week and we will be back at their doorsteps. We asking for everybody in the trade union movement
33:21
33 minutes, 21 secondsaround the world to join us. Thank you all for having us. Solidarity, y’all. Wow.
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33 minutes, 29 secondsThank you so much, Chris. We’re so honored and excited to have you with us and looking forward to the AFL CIO’s
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33 minutes, 36 secondsresponse. Um, we’re over time. I want to make sure we have time for at least one round of questions. So, I’ll move on to
33:43
33 minutes, 43 secondsour final guest, Suzanne Adalie, who is the president of the National Lawyers Guild, a member of the US Palestinian
33:52
33 minutes, 52 secondsCommunity Network and co-convener of Labor for Palestine National Network.
33:58
33 minutes, 58 secondsI’m also going to add that she’s with the International Association of Democratic Lawyers. In addition to all of that, um, uh, the the the Labor for
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34 minutes, 8 secondsPalestine National Network was founded in 2004 to reclaim the legacy of workingclass solidarity with Palestine.
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34 minutes, 17 secondsSuzanne is a former public school teacher and longtime grassroots and labor organizer who has organized for
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34 minutes, 25 secondsover a decade alongside workers in the US and globally throughout the automobile, agriculture, and food supply
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34 minutes, 34 secondschains. Thank you so much for joining us, Suzanne.
34:38
34 minutes, 38 secondsThank you. And and thank you to Adrian and Jill for um organizing this webinar, inviting me. Um and thank you for all
34:45
34 minutes, 45 secondsthe speakers. Um, as Adrian mentioned, uh, Labor for Palestine was created in
34:52
34 minutes, 52 seconds2004 through the collaboration of union leaders led by anti-ionist socialist
34:59
34 minutes, 59 secondsJewish labor leader Michael Lewin and Palestinian and Arab grassroots organizers in Ala, New York, the Palestine Rights Return Coalition.
35:10
35 minutes, 10 secondsIt was created in response to a growing anti-war movement, particularly a labor
35:17
35 minutes, 17 secondsanti-war movement that refused to take up the issue of Palestine.
35:24
35 minutes, 24 secondsAlso, as Adrian mentioned, we often say um that Labor for Palestine from its inception sought to reclaim the
35:33
35 minutes, 33 secondslegacy of workingclass solidarity with Palestine in the US as reflected in groundbreaking statements by the League
35:42
35 minutes, 42 secondsof Revolutionary Black Workers in 1969 and wildcat strikes led by Arab Auto
35:49
35 minutes, 49 secondsWorkers against the United Auto Workers leadership leadership support for Israel in 1973.
35:56
35 minutes, 56 secondsI actually have a photograph behind me of of of that action.
36:01
36 minutes, 1 secondThese labor actions in the late 60s and early 70s signified the first call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions
36:10
36 minutes, 10 secondsagainst the Zionist entity in the US. It also called for racial justice, for
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36 minutes, 17 secondsworker justice, for union democracy, and for international solidarity with all the workers in the global south who were
36:24
36 minutes, 24 secondsliberating themselves from colonial oppression.
36:29
36 minutes, 29 secondsIn support of the Palestinian call for BDS in 2005, we began by calling for US unions to
36:37
36 minutes, 37 secondsdivest from the sign Zionist project and end their relationship with Histadro.
36:44
36 minutes, 44 secondsThen we called on them to use their labor power to end the siege in Gaza and to end the occupation.
36:51
36 minutes, 51 secondsToday we continue to call for US unions to use their labor power to end the genocide. and we make clear our support
37:00
37 minutesfor the right of resistance of the Palestinian people.
37:04
37 minutes, 4 secondsWe focus on providing organizing support and political education for rank and file and labor officers to challenge
37:14
37 minutes, 14 secondsboth their unions and industry support for the Zionist project.
37:19
37 minutes, 19 secondsSuzanne, I’ve had a request to slow down a little further for the interpreter.
37:23
37 minutes, 23 secondsSorry. Yeah. In the past 20 years, these efforts have never gone unopposed.
37:32
37 minutes, 32 secondsAnd there are forces within the US labor movement who have sought to undermine this solidarity
37:39
37 minutes, 39 secondsthrough anti-democratic tactics at every step.
37:45
37 minutes, 45 secondsWe have written a great deal about the history of US labor support for Zionism.
37:52
37 minutes, 52 secondsAnd it’s important to point out that this support was never inevitable.
37:59
37 minutes, 59 secondsThe early radical worker movements in the US, which included many Jewish labor leaders, were opposed to the Zionist project.
38:11
38 minutes, 11 secondsThere was a deliberate campaign to change that which coincided with a deliberate campaign to purge US unions
38:21
38 minutes, 21 secondsof leftist ideas and to build labor institutions that became aligned with
38:27
38 minutes, 27 secondsthe Democratic Party and supported the status quo of capitalist growth and imperialism
38:35
38 minutes, 35 secondsand fundamentally did not truly respect worker democracy.
38:41
38 minutes, 41 secondsThis is one of the reasons why yesterday’s action was so important,
38:48
38 minutes, 48 secondsescalating our demands against the AFL CIO, which has played a role in stifling
38:54
38 minutes, 54 secondsworker democracy and has in various ways supported the imperialist Zionist agendas all over the world, including in
39:03
39 minutes, 3 secondsplaces like Venezuela, where the US has been attempting regime change for years. and is now threatening with an illegal war.
39:14
39 minutes, 14 secondsOur movement has grown slowly with an upsurge of rank and file support every time there was an escalation of Zionist genocidal violence.
39:26
39 minutes, 26 secondsParticularly in Gaza, we learned that every fight for Palestine solidarity within our unions
39:34
39 minutes, 34 secondshelped to build class consciousness, helped to build internationalism, and strengthened worker democracy.
39:43
39 minutes, 43 secondsHistorical rank and file fights against apartheid South Africa by port workers had the same impact and are a part of the same legacy.
39:56
39 minutes, 56 secondsIn the past two years, the network has grown into over 50 affiliates around the country in various sectors and industries.
40:05
40 minutes, 5 secondsThis growth was not only in response to the depravity of the genocide, but because of the inspiration of the Palestinian resistance.
40:15
40 minutes, 15 secondsWe are inspired by the workers in Italy, Greece, Brazil, around the world, and we repeat the call of Gaza’s unions.
40:25
40 minutes, 25 secondsCalls for ceasefire are not enough.
40:28
40 minutes, 28 secondsResolutions are not enough. We must build the capacity, build the labor power to stop the genocide supply chain.
40:37
40 minutes, 37 secondsnot only to support the Palestinian labor struggle, but to ultimately dismantle the whole imperialist economy in the US.
40:47
40 minutes, 47 secondsThe forces of fascism have consolidated around the world and continue to consolidate.
40:54
40 minutes, 54 secondsTherefore, the resistance must consolidate.
40:58
40 minutes, 58 secondsThe conditions of fascism have always been here. They live within colonialism, within imperialism and capitalist exploitation.
41:07
41 minutes, 7 secondsIn the US, the conditions live on live on the political spectrum on a political spectrum of both Democrats and Republicans.
41:18
41 minutes, 18 secondsThe inhuman genocide and the heightened repression of those challenging the genocide, increasing racist violence,
41:26
41 minutes, 26 secondsmilitary law are all expressions of a US hedgeimonyy that is desperate to hold on to its power in the face of a changing
41:34
41 minutes, 34 secondsworld. A crisis of capitalism and imperialism.
41:38
41 minutes, 38 secondsInternational worker international worker solidarity frightens them. The international support for Palestinian
41:45
41 minutes, 45 secondsresistance terrifies them. As workers in the US, we must build a united front to challenge the repression of our
41:53
41 minutes, 53 secondsmovements, to challenge the genocide, to restore our labor rights, and to challenge the threat of war in places
41:59
41 minutes, 59 secondslike Venezuela. We must do that in a way that uplifts the truth of Zionism and imperialism.
42:07
42 minutes, 7 secondsAs workers in the imperialist corps, we need to also be part of an international united front and understand that we must
42:16
42 minutes, 16 secondswhat we must do to dismantle Zionism and imperialism. Now is the time.
42:23
42 minutes, 23 secondsI think that there’s a great deal that we can say about all of these topics.
42:27
42 minutes, 27 secondsUh, but I just want to leave uh with a quote from another Labor for Palestine co-convener
42:34
42 minutes, 34 secondsum union leader and and people scholar Karina Mullen. No amount of fascist violence can reverse the rising dawn of liberation for the global majority.
42:45
42 minutes, 45 secondsPalestine, much like Algeria before it, has become, as another insurgent thinker of of an earlier generation, France
42:53
42 minutes, 53 secondsFenan, put it, the hornets’s nest, where US-led imperialism has gotten stuck, its infinite hopes devoured by the very liberation it sought to crush.
43:05
43 minutes, 5 secondsWe must continue to build the vision uh for a working-class movement both in the US and internationally
43:13
43 minutes, 13 secondsum to support to continue to support the Palestinian liberation struggle and to continue to support
43:20
43 minutes, 20 secondsa future uh without the violence of colonialism, imperialism and capitalist exploitation. So, thank you very much.
43:31
43 minutes, 31 secondsWonderful. Thank you so much Suzanne. Um this is a perfect way I think to wrap up the the panel itself. Um such a great
43:39
43 minutes, 39 secondsoverview and background. Um, I wanted to start out with uh just one quick question for um let’s see for Jose and
43:49
43 minutes, 49 secondsFrancesco and also Suzanne if you want to jump in because I know I ADL has
43:56
43 minutes, 56 secondsendorsed um the USB and IADL have endorsed uniting for peace um as uh the
44:05
44 minutes, 5 secondsthe plan that is proposed by uh President Petro of Colombia to send a
44:11
44 minutes, 11 secondsprotection force to Palestine and is what Ubai has spoken with us about to
44:18
44 minutes, 18 secondsstart out with. Um I want to ask if you could say a few words about why that is
44:24
44 minutes, 24 secondsimportant and um and what it has to do, how it connects with your work as uh as labor leaders.
44:36
44 minutes, 36 secondsUm, okay.
44:56
44 minutes, 56 secondsArmyaliano.
45:28
45 minutes, 28 secondsLaborator. story.
45:58
45 minutes, 58 secondsChina
46:16
46 minutes, 16 secondsBNB. Fore! Foreign! Foreign!
46:39
46 minutes, 39 secondsIsrael.
47:01
47 minutes, 1 secondWestern International.
47:42
47 minutes, 42 secondsblock the embargo army general.
48:00
48 minutesFore.
48:22
48 minutes, 22 secondsUm, should I try to answer? Yeah. Um so as Adrienne mentioned um I’m also a member of the bureau of the
48:30
48 minutes, 30 secondsinternational association of democratic lawyers and we um have consultive status
48:37
48 minutes, 37 secondsin the UN and we have uh progressive legal associations from around the world and we have been supporting uh this
48:46
48 minutes, 46 secondsuniting for peace resolution because what is fundamental about it is that it calls for the nations of the world to
48:54
48 minutes, 54 secondsuse its power to bypass the corruption of the Security Council and um to demand
49:01
49 minutes, 1 seconduh that there be accountability for for genocide, that there be a stop to the genocide, that there be um inter that
49:09
49 minutes, 9 secondsinternational law and human rights are honored. And it’s been a very long time since the General Assembly has been has
49:16
49 minutes, 16 secondsused its action the way it should be used. We know that it has it has succeeded in in for example
49:25
49 minutes, 25 secondsuh voting um for against a blockade. It has succeeded in um you know passing uh
49:32
49 minutes, 32 secondsresolutions against against apartheid you know in support of Palestine. But it has to really test it. It’s imperative
49:40
49 minutes, 40 secondsthat it really works to test its p its power as a global majority as an assembly that represents the global
49:49
49 minutes, 49 secondsmajority. And we know that the western powers are doing everything they can to stop that from happening. Which is one
49:57
49 minutes, 57 secondsof the reasons why they elected this for former German uh minister to be the head of general assembly right now which we
50:06
50 minutes, 6 secondspro which we uh protested right where we we tried to protest uh because they’re trying to control the way that
50:14
50 minutes, 14 secondsconversations are having are you know are developing in the general assembly.
50:18
50 minutes, 18 secondsSo, you know, until we can build an alternative international legal system, we need to continue to fight within the
50:26
50 minutes, 26 secondsone that we have, right? And as much as as as folks might think that that is a waste of time, we need to demand that
50:36
50 minutes, 36 secondsthat this UN institution do what it was meant to do in you know and and honor
50:43
50 minutes, 43 secondsthe you know honor the sentiments of the global majority who are saying end the genocide, end the occupation, free
50:50
50 minutes, 50 secondsPalestine, right? Um, and the IDL is is thinks that they what they ultimately
50:58
50 minutes, 58 secondsmust do is uh expel Israel from the United Nations to begin with and also to
51:05
51 minutes, 5 secondspass a resolution saying uh that the creation of the state of Israel itself was illegal, right? Um we like there’s
51:13
51 minutes, 13 secondsno we cannot go back from here. We we cannot go back from this than this colonial Zionist genocidal entity. We
51:22
51 minutes, 22 secondsneed to use the UN system to dismantle Zionism in every way that we can.
51:34
51 minutes, 34 secondsAdrienne, if I could just jump in quickly. Thank you so much uh to all of the speakers and to your remarks Suzanne
51:42
51 minutes, 42 secondsabout using the system that we have. The current proposals that are moving uh
51:49
51 minutes, 49 secondsinto the security council now seek to impose a Haiti type occupation force
51:57
51 minutes, 57 secondsfrom the UN on Palestine. And it’s very important that we use this system that we have to prevent that from happening.
52:07
52 minutes, 7 secondsAnd as many speakers have said, we are actually winning this war in the court of public opinion. Overwhelmingly,
52:16
52 minutes, 16 secondsthe people of Palestine have the support and sympathy of people around the world and even people in the United States who
52:24
52 minutes, 24 secondshave been so propagandized, so poisoned by non-stop uh falsehoods through our corporate media. Even here, the people
52:33
52 minutes, 33 secondsof Palestine are winning. And the numbers in the US show that there is twice as much opposition to Israel as
52:42
52 minutes, 42 secondsthere is support. So the forces of democracy both here and around the world are very strong in favor of Palestine’s
52:49
52 minutes, 49 secondsliberation and specifically the UN took a vote a year ago through this uniting
52:55
52 minutes, 55 secondsfor peace mechanism which means that it works in the general assembly the people’s institution so to speak in the
53:04
53 minutes, 4 secondsUN rather than the security council which is the institution of the elite and powerful uh countries of militarism, empire and oligarchy.
53:13
53 minutes, 13 secondsThat vote one year ago was 90% in favor of the UN taking action,
53:21
53 minutes, 21 secondsconcrete action to compel Israel to comply with the rulings of the international court of justice saying
53:30
53 minutes, 30 secondsthat uh Israel must end its occupation, its apartheid and its acts of uh
53:37
53 minutes, 37 secondsgenocide. So the will is there, the means is there, the mechanism is there.
53:43
53 minutes, 43 secondsWe should not allow this opportunity to be stolen from us, which is what the Trump plan is attempting to do to insert
53:52
53 minutes, 52 secondsa so-called stabilization force. What are they stabilizing? They seek to stabilize occupation and ongoing chronic
54:01
54 minutes, 1 secondgenocide. So, it’s very important that we say no to that and stand up and support the uh uniting for peace
54:09
54 minutes, 9 secondsalternative which uh President Pro has promised to put forward. And again, people can uh help make that happen by
54:16
54 minutes, 16 secondsgoing to Lifeline for Palestine. We too have a petition and many um uh many
54:23
54 minutes, 23 secondsactions that you can take right now to help put the brakes on to stop this attempt to steal from the people of the
54:33
54 minutes, 33 secondsworld the real opportunity that we have right now to uh do what the UN has done before but in a much more powerful way
54:41
54 minutes, 41 secondsand under um extremely compelling and uh desperate circumstances. And um with
54:48
54 minutes, 48 secondsthis I think we are going to uh transition to uh Roger. Um is that
54:56
54 minutes, 56 secondscorrect Adrien? Do you want to jump in just to give us guidance now on our next steps here? Nope. That’s correct.
55:04
55 minutes, 4 secondsOkay, great. Uh since we are we we’ve had such wonderful speakers, we’re a little bit over time, so we’re going to
55:12
55 minutes, 12 secondshold off on the Q&A. Maybe we will have a follow-up session. Um but we will have followup. Uh I think that’s the
55:20
55 minutes, 20 secondsoverwhelming uh conclusion I think of this discussion is that there is so much
55:27
55 minutes, 27 secondspower uh so much wisdom so much integrity that is concentrated uh on our
55:34
55 minutes, 34 secondsscreens right now in the work that our participants are doing in the work that all of us as labor activists or
55:43
55 minutes, 43 secondscommunity activists as human beings uh that we are [snorts] uh really full now
55:51
55 minutes, 51 secondsin force to use that power. I’m going to end just saying uh quoting Malcolm X who said we are not outnumbered, we’re just
56:00
56 minutesout organized and the organizing that’s reflected in this conversation is unbelievable. And when we cross-link our
56:09
56 minutes, 9 secondsorganizations uh to keep this going and build uh we are going to be absolutely unstoppable together. So I want to encourage people
56:18
56 minutes, 18 secondsto just stay tuned. We will be coordinating followup on um the many projects that were mentioned including
56:26
56 minutes, 26 secondsuh November 28th a day of general strike which uh as Chris said should certainly
56:34
56 minutes, 34 secondsbe uh a global uh general strike maybe not just for a day. uh and the various
56:41
56 minutes, 41 secondsplatforms that people can go to in order to support um these very important movements
56:48
56 minutes, 48 secondsincluding disarmed genocide.org or to really move uh the power of unions to
56:56
56 minutes, 56 secondsget the AFL CIO out of the hands of the Zionists and also to follow up with uh
57:03
57 minutes, 3 secondsLifeline for Palestine where we will seek to coordinate uh much of the uh very exciting projects that you’ve heard
57:12
57 minutes, 12 secondsabout today. Projects and movement building. This is not about a single um uh objective. This is about really
57:20
57 minutes, 20 secondschanging uh uh challenging empire, oligarchy, uh capitalism uh and the very dismal future that they have created for
57:28
57 minutes, 28 secondsus. We together are an unstoppable power to change that future. And to summarize this for us, we’re going to turn it over
57:36
57 minutes, 36 secondsnow to Roger Waters, who um needs no introduction as an incredible musician,
57:44
57 minutes, 44 secondsartist, humanitarian, and advocate for Palestinian human rights and the human rights of us all. Um we’re really
57:52
57 minutes, 52 secondshonored to have Roger’s voice and his uh momentum and his activism as part of this cause and to have his leadership.
58:01
58 minutes, 1 secondSo, with that, uh, we’re going to have a few words from Roger. Uh, and then we will end with a really beautiful song, a
58:10
58 minutes, 10 secondsnew version of it that I think I don’t know if this has been publicly played before. Last night was the first time I
58:17
58 minutes, 17 secondsheard it uh, in previewing the tape, and it’s a particularly beautiful and compelling uh, version of his latest song inspired by the Simude Flotilla.
58:28
58 minutes, 28 secondsSo, take it away, Roger. give us um some of your concluding thoughts before we go out with your song.
58:36
58 minutes, 36 secondsOkay. Well, it’s been deeply inspiring to sit here and listen to Chris and Suzanne and all the other uh union
58:45
58 minutes, 45 secondsleaders and speakers uh who’ve spoken to us this afternoon. I’m deeply encouraged by it. Um I’m not going to I’m not going
58:53
58 minutes, 53 secondsto ramble on and on. I just want to try an experiment here. All I can see at the moment is a is a still of me thinking
59:02
59 minutes, 2 secondsabout singing my song Simood, which I gather we’re going to do in a minute.
59:07
59 minutes, 7 secondsOkay. But before we do that, um I’m just going to play something on in here. You will hear now a woman singing. When
59:16
59 minutes, 16 secondsshe’s finished, I’ll tell you what it is. I hope you can hear this. Can you show me where it hurts?
59:27
59 minutes, 27 secondsMother sound
59:31
59 minutes, 31 seconds[singing]
59:56
59 minutes, 56 secondsHe was settled.
1:00:17
1 hour, 17 secondsOkay. Now, that is a is a Palestinian singer called Mona Miari who lives in
1:00:23
1 hour, 23 secondsNew York City. And I try to do something every day to join Chris Smalls and
1:00:30
1 hour, 30 secondsSuzan’s army of ordinary people. Just one thing. And and these past couple of
1:00:37
1 hour, 37 secondsweeks I’ve been working with Mona on uh a remade version of my song Comfortably
1:00:44
1 hour, 44 secondsNumb. And that’s her singing over a verse of Comfortably Numb. And as you can hear, she’s singing in Arabic. Okay.
1:00:53
1 hour, 53 secondsThis is what I sing back to her in in my I’ve got the lyrics here. I’ve written them out. I’ve had to put my glasses on
1:00:59
1 hour, 59 secondscuz it’s a bit small. This is why I say I feel your pain from New York City. I
1:01:08
1 hour, 1 minute, 8 secondsfeel your pain across the sea. That distant ship on the horizon is reaching
1:01:15
1 hour, 1 minute, 15 secondsout to you and me. And I will never become comfortably numb.
1:01:21
1 hour, 1 minute, 21 secondsWe never knew about the Nakba. I was only 5 years old in 48.
1:01:29
1 hour, 1 minute, 29 secondsWe were unaware what was happening over there. It breaks my heart I came on
1:01:37
1 hour, 1 minute, 37 secondsboard so late. You’ve reached us all with your rallying call. Now we stand
1:01:44
1 hour, 1 minute, 44 secondshere at the gate. The time has come for a new beginning. A time to draw a new
1:01:52
1 hour, 1 minute, 52 secondsline in the sand. It’s time to wipe the slate. Go back to 48
1:02:00
1 hour, 2 minutesbefore the settlers stole the land. When grandma’s key unlocked the door and we
1:02:08
1 hour, 2 minutes, 8 secondsprotected every olive tree and every child’s life was sacred, everyone,
1:02:17
1 hour, 2 minutes, 17 secondseverything in tune under the sun, every child, every tree,
1:02:25
1 hour, 2 minutes, 25 secondsevery life, all sacred, everyone.
1:02:31
1 hour, 2 minutes, 31 secondsIs that a lullabi? Is that your child’s name? Can I hear you through the rubble?
1:02:36
1 hour, 2 minutes, 36 secondsCan I feel your pain? I hear you every morning. I hear you every night. I feel
1:02:43
1 hour, 2 minutes, 43 secondsyour steadfast perseverance when I’m turning out the light. What is that you’re singing?
1:02:51
1 hour, 2 minutes, 51 secondsIs that a lullaby? I’m sorry. I’m get a bit over emotional. But so anyway, that’s what I’ve been working on for the
1:02:58
1 hour, 2 minutes, 58 secondslast couple of weeks. Um, and if you want to play my song Simood now, please do. I made this film for Gerald Sente
1:03:08
1 hour, 3 minutes, 8 secondsand Randy Kredico and others who were doing a a meeting in a field in upstate
1:03:14
1 hour, 3 minutes, 14 secondsNew York a week ago. There were about 100 people there. So now we a few more people. This is me listening to my song
1:03:24
1 hour, 3 minutes, 24 secondsSimood. So I dedicate this to all of you people who are on the flotilla out there
1:03:30
1 hour, 3 minutes, 30 secondsfollowing the mavara and and and all the other flirtillas that Chris was talking about. I know we’ve been sitting here a
1:03:38
1 hour, 3 minutes, 38 secondslong time so I’ll shut up now but thank you very much and more power to the people. Okay. Thank you.
1:03:56
1 hour, 3 minutes, 56 secondsThere is a word. There is a word in Arabic.
1:04:16
1 hour, 4 minutes, 16 secondssteadfast perseverance. Yeah.
1:04:22
1 hour, 4 minutes, 22 secondsParticularly in resistance to the to the occupation of your homeland.
1:04:36
1 hour, 4 minutes, 36 secondsMark, maybe you can sound and not video.
1:04:40
1 hour, 4 minutes, 40 secondsCan you can anyone hear me? Yes, this is this is a disaster. I can’t You need to turn it off and I can talk for
1:04:50
1 hour, 4 minutes, 50 secondsbecause I can’t hear it and I bet nobody else can either. It’s the sound is impossible to hear. It’s not or is it is it only me who can’t hear the song?
1:05:02
1 hour, 5 minutes, 2 secondsUm well, one thing we could do would be to turn off the the camera. Mark, can you turn off the video and just try the uh audio and see if that will do it?
1:05:10
1 hour, 5 minutes, 10 secondsLet’s give that five seconds and if it doesn’t work, we’ll turn it back to Roger to just uh finish us out.
1:05:20
1 hour, 5 minutes, 20 secondsTurn off the camera.
1:05:31
1 hour, 5 minutes, 31 secondsCan you turn off the video on that, Mark? They did. I’m still seeing it.
1:05:41
1 hour, 5 minutes, 41 secondsYeah, it’s still it’s still broadcasting the video.
1:05:45
1 hour, 5 minutes, 45 secondsI tell you what I’ll do. Shall I Can you hear me? Yes, we we can.
1:05:50
1 hour, 5 minutes, 50 secondsWhy don’t we abandon abandon ship on on that one?
1:05:53
1 hour, 5 minutes, 53 secondsAbandon that particular ship. Do not abandon ship. Okay. But listen, I’ll tell you
1:06:00
1 hour, 6 minuteswhat I’ll do. I I’ll post this video somewhere where people can find it. We can put out a link and anybody who wants
1:06:07
1 hour, 6 minutes, 7 secondsto see me singing that song, they can go they can go and look at it. Okay. But but but um what else have I got to say?
1:06:17
1 hour, 6 minutes, 17 secondsNothing much. As I said at the very beginning of my few remarks, um I’m deeply moved by listening to all
1:06:25
1 hour, 6 minutes, 25 secondsthese voices of all these Union people from all from all over the world and uh fascinated to hear about uh Italy and uh
1:06:35
1 hour, 6 minutes, 35 secondsand the steadfast perseverance with which ordinary working people all over the
1:06:41
1 hour, 6 minutes, 41 secondsworld are standing up to the criminally insane Jeff Bezos’s. is of this world.
1:06:49
1 hour, 6 minutes, 49 secondsUm it it it it’s been deeply moving for me to sit here for a couple of hours this afternoon and listen to the fact
1:06:57
1 hour, 6 minutes, 57 secondsthat this is going on and we are not going to stop. We’re not going anywhere.
1:07:01
1 hour, 7 minutes, 1 secondWe’re here to stay. We are at the gates and the people of Palestine know it.
1:07:08
1 hour, 7 minutes, 8 secondsAnd even speaking about the people of Palestine brings up images that I would much rather have lived my life without
1:07:17
1 hour, 7 minutes, 17 secondshaving to witness them, as we all would have done. But they’re there. They’ll always be there. They’ll always be there
1:07:23
1 hour, 7 minutes, 23 secondsin our group memory. Um, but we will all work ceaselessly and tirelessly
1:07:30
1 hour, 7 minutes, 30 secondsuntil, as Suzanne just said, the Zionist experiment is over forever. and there
1:07:37
1 hour, 7 minutes, 37 secondswill be peace in the Middle East. As I’ve said on many occasions before, the only possible answer is a free Palestine
1:07:45
1 hour, 7 minutes, 45 secondsfrom the southern borders of Lebanon to Egypt and from the Jordan River to the sea where all the people, all of them,
1:07:54
1 hour, 7 minutes, 54 secondsall of them, including Jews and Drews and Christians and agnostics and Muslims and atheists. All of them have equal
1:08:04
1 hour, 8 minutes, 4 secondsreligious, civil and political and human rights. all of them. No exceptions. The
1:08:12
1 hour, 8 minutes, 12 secondsage of religio or national supremacy should have died with the Nazis
1:08:20
1 hour, 8 minutes, 20 secondsand it hasn’t. But it has to die now. So to see working people organizing themselves all over the world to stand
1:08:29
1 hour, 8 minutes, 29 secondswith their brothers and sisters and bring Zionism to an end is deeply warming to me. So thank you all. I thank
1:08:38
1 hour, 8 minutes, 38 secondsyou from the bottom of my heart. And that’s all I have to say. Now I’ve got to go and watch Arsenal and Crystal
1:08:45
1 hour, 8 minutes, 45 secondsPalace. Okay. Who’ve been playing all this time. And don’t tell me the result, whoever you are. I’m sorry to make light
1:08:52
1 hour, 8 minutes, 52 secondsof that, but Jill, thank you for having me.
1:08:57
1 hour, 8 minutes, 57 secondsThank you, Roger. It’s really such an honor to have you and to be working with you. Um, I’m going to let Adrienne say a
1:09:05
1 hour, 9 minutes, 5 secondscouple of uh thank yous to this amazing crew, uh, our interpreters who have made
1:09:12
1 hour, 9 minutes, 12 secondsthis, uh, first of a kind conversation, at least that I’ve been a part of, a simultaneous multil- language uh,
1:09:21
1 hour, 9 minutes, 21 secondsmultinational convergence of the power of working people and the power of labor
1:09:27
1 hour, 9 minutes, 27 secondsto shut down this war and and this war, this genocide and the larger war against
1:09:34
1 hour, 9 minutes, 34 secondsworking people. Um we have a lot of work to do together. Go ahead Adrian and thank if you will for all of us the
1:09:41
1 hour, 9 minutes, 41 secondspeople who made this amazing uh event possible. [snorts] Sure. I just want to thank the workers
1:09:49
1 hour, 9 minutes, 49 secondswho have uh who who have joined us today. Thank you Leandro Yose
1:09:56
1 hour, 9 minutes, 56 secondsum uh Francesco. Thank you Suzanne. And thank you to some of my favorite workers
1:10:04
1 hour, 10 minutes, 4 secondsin the world. The interpreters without you. International solidarity is not possible and the work you are doing here
1:10:12
1 hour, 10 minutes, 12 secondsas volunteers as in solidarity with Palestine is so deeply appreciated. Um so thank you from the bottom of my heart. Uh we will continue to organize.
1:10:24
1 hour, 10 minutes, 24 secondsI love all of the ideas that have arisen in this webinar alone and we will make sure to follow up on them. Um and I’m
1:10:34
1 hour, 10 minutes, 34 secondsjust leaving deeply inspired. um want to draw people’s attention to the website uh No Harbor for Genocide which is a
1:10:43
1 hour, 10 minutes, 43 secondsgroup that has been been doing a tremendous amount of research um to support the work of port workers who
1:10:50
1 hour, 10 minutes, 50 secondswant to um block uh do the kind of work that that our comrades here are doing. Um and just thank you again.
1:10:59
1 hour, 10 minutes, 59 secondsSo with that um we will let everyone go on to their busy uh day and their uh busy lives uh resolving that uh this is
1:11:09
1 hour, 11 minutes, 9 secondsjust the first step. This has been such an amazing uh inspirational discussion.
1:11:15
1 hour, 11 minutes, 15 secondsI’m really excited for us to uh follow up uh very soon uh with some kind of a
1:11:22
1 hour, 11 minutes, 22 secondsuh newsletter or or written communication and we can follow up specifically on the suggestions uh and
1:11:30
1 hour, 11 minutes, 30 secondsthe projects that are going full boore right now including preparing for this general strike uh on the 28th following
1:11:37
1 hour, 11 minutes, 37 secondsup to support uniting for peace uh and uh to prevent the UN Security Council from making this far worse. We need to
1:11:46
1 hour, 11 minutes, 46 secondsstop that and uh use the uh the power of humanity across the world that wants to put an end to the genocide now. And the
1:11:55
1 hour, 11 minutes, 55 secondsprotection force for uh Palestine could actually do that, could shut down this genocide very quickly. Uh also the
1:12:03
1 hour, 12 minutes, 3 secondseffort to uh put the AFL CIO back on the right side of history. That’s going to be a difficult struggle, but we uh have
1:12:11
1 hour, 12 minutes, 11 secondsthe numbers and we have the power to really change the dynamics on the ground here. And those are just a couple of the very exciting uh projects that we’ll be
1:12:19
1 hour, 12 minutes, 19 secondsfollowing up on. So, thank you all so very much for your inspirational work.
1:12:23
1 hour, 12 minutes, 23 secondsThank you for being a part of this today and we will be in touch soon. Free Palestine and uh free all of us who are
1:12:31
1 hour, 12 minutes, 31 secondsstruggling for the justice and the peace that we deserve. Thank you so much. Yeah.
1:12:37
1 hour, 12 minutes, 37 secondsAnd I forgot to mention Chris Smalls in my list of labor leaders. So thank you if possible. No problem.
1:12:44
1 hour, 12 minutes, 44 seconds28 will be general strike in Italy. 29 national rally national miv station.
1:12:50
1 hour, 12 minutes, 50 secondsEverybody of you is welcome in Italy. If you want to come, we welcome you hardly.
1:12:56
1 hour, 12 minutes, 56 secondsNational rally 29th of November. Thank you. Bye-bye.
1:13:01
1 hour, 13 minutes, 1 secondThank you. And also a big shout out for Mark Elboro who’s been uh running the ship behind the scenes down there in the
1:13:09
1 hour, 13 minutes, 9 secondsboiler room putting up with all of the emergencies one right after the other fighting those fires. Thank you so much Mark for enabling us to uh
1:13:18
1 hour, 13 minutes, 18 secondsthank Ubi for always being at the leadership. Thank you for Pingo’s incredible work. Thank you for really
1:13:25
1 hour, 13 minutes, 25 secondsfor for framing this and and for giving us the guidance that we need as a global social movement to truly stand in
1:13:33
1 hour, 13 minutes, 33 secondssolidarity with Palestinian civil society.
1:13:36
1 hour, 13 minutes, 36 secondsAnd I also have to thank Adrian for her incredible blood, sweat, and tears every step of the way making sure that this
1:13:45
1 hour, 13 minutes, 45 secondshappened. Um so really great job Adrien and to be continued. I hope we can keep
1:13:51
1 hour, 13 minutes, 51 secondsyou on this uh and you can continue to uh endure the slings and arrows of this uh very high stakes organizing. Thank you.
1:14:00
1 hour, 14 minutesThanks everyone. Thank you. Bye bye. Thank you so much.
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