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7 secondsMy name is Johanna Rockalt. I’m with Labor for Palestine National Network.
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10 secondsLabor for Palestine National Network is uh a huge network of um more than 50 member groups from individual unions, uh
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19 secondscities and states supporting Palestinian liberation. we work together and we coordinate together and help each other
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26 secondsfound find the best ways to build real worker power uh for Palestinian rebel liberation because it’s been getting
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34 secondsworse for so many decades and it’s only still getting worse and the national unions are doing hardly anything about
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41 secondsit. What they’re doing is at most signing a letter saying we’d like a ceasefire and then not following up on
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48 secondsit and not doing anything else. So we really think that needs this needs to be a bottomup grassroots worker power
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56 secondsmovement. And so we’re recruiting as many people as possible to be a strong part of that movement and come together, put our foot down or feet down and and
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1 minute, 6 secondssay enough is enough. We need to put an end to this aparttheid. We need to put an end to this genocide. We need to follow BDS, which is a picket line that
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1 minute, 15 secondsthe Palestinians have asked us to be following for 20 something years, 21 years. Um, and so we need to follow BDS
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1 minute, 24 secondsby refusing to handle Israeli weapons, refusing to ship them, refusing to make them, um, refusing to cooperate with
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1 minute, 31 secondsIsraeli institutions, um, for example, universities or labor unions like the Histadrut. Um, what is the histadr? The Historoot is um
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1 minute, 41 secondsuh a large Israeli labor union. Uh Elizabeth can tell you more about the history. Um but
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1 minute, 49 secondsthe Canadian Labor Congress, I understand, broke relations with the They did. They did. It was so cool. Uh they had this amazingly organized
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1 minute, 57 secondscampaign uh because a lot of unions all around the earth still work with the history of even in Europe where the prop palestine movement is generally stronger
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2 minutes, 6 secondsthan here. a lot of labor unions still work with a histadr and that really is a violation of BDS, a violation of this picket line because BDS is a picket
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2 minutes, 14 secondsline. Um, and so we can’t have that happening. And so the Canadians were able to organize this movement and, you
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2 minutes, 23 secondsknow, get their Canadian labor congress to to say, “No, we’re not going to do that anymore. We’re not going to have
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2 minutes, 31 secondsmeetings with the history and take advice from them.” and and so they’re starting that change now and that’s so very cool and this is just you know one
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2 minutes, 39 secondsexample of the kind of power workers have when we really put our minds to it and work together we just got to be
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2 minutes, 46 secondsenough people working together uh and not giving up um we can make real change and the US is supporting billions of dollars to Israel they want to integrate
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2 minutes, 55 secondsthe US and Israeli military I mean at the same time in this country hospitals are closing uh people can’t get housing
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3 minutes, 2 secondsuh the transportation system is broken down. It seems like the priorities uh for both the Democrats and Republicans is more money to Israel.
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3 minutes, 10 secondsYeah. I mean, like if we weren’t funding our overly bloated military, especially in Palestine, but everywhere, the amount
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3 minutes, 18 secondsof money that we spend on that, if we put that towards, you know, our own people instead, all of us unions, we
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3 minutes, 26 secondswouldn’t even have to be fighting and fighting and fighting over which crumbs to beg for. There wouldn’t be any crumbs. that would be our meal, right?
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3 minutes, 34 secondsLike there’s so incredibly much money that goes into that and the fact that we’re spending our tax dollars on that. It
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3 minutes, 44 secondsit’s absolutely mindboggling to me. Um like there’s so much better uses of that. So much infrastructure
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3 minutes, 51 secondsprotect human beings instead of bombing human beings.
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3 minutes, 54 secondsYeah. Yeah. Uh, we need infrastructure, we need education, we need healthare, we need a social safety net, like we need
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4 minutes, 3 secondsall of these things that are so hard to get and the excuse is always we don’t have the money, but we do. We’re just spending it on bombing people. And
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4 minutes, 11 secondshow can people get in touch with your organization?
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4 minutes, 13 secondsLabor for Palestine.net um has uh a lot of information and also ways to get in touch where you can sign
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4 minutes, 20 secondsup for our newsletter. You you can also register your group uh as a member group. We I think we have 55 now in counting. So if you already have a group
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4 minutes, 28 secondsof labor activists who are working together on Palestine, you can register and be a member group. Um we if you
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4 minutes, 35 secondsdon’t already have a group, get in touch and let’s see if we have people who are very similar to you in the same union or the same state or the same city in the
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4 minutes, 43 secondssame industry. Um and we can put you in touch and you can make a member group.
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4 minutes, 47 secondsUm Okay. Thank you. Very good. Thank you. Good.
