¡Chinga la migra!—Palestine x LA Will Free Us All!
Labor for Palestine National Network, June 11, 2025
The Labor for Palestine National Network stands with LA’s mass resistance to ICE abduction of hundreds of immigrant workers, and to Trump’s illegal deployment of National Guard and Marines, abetted by Democratic politicians who condemn that deployment, while unleashing LAPD rubber bullets and other forms of violence against immigrant defenders.
An injury to immigrant communities is an injury to all, as bipartisan settler-colonial genocide in Palestine is mirrored by a settler-colonial blitzkrieg at home. From Palestine to LA and throughout this country, resistance is justified and necessary—just as it was during the historic anti-racist LA uprisings of 1965, 1992, and 2020. No one is illegal on stolen land, and from Palestine to Mexico, all the walls have got to go!
Ron Gochez of Unión del Barrio explains: “We’re seeing resistance right now, from the people in Gaza resisting and fighting for their lives, to us right here on our own historic homeland, our Indigenous land here. We’re fighting for our lives, as well. And we’re going to continue to do so, whether it’s the police, the National Guard.”
As the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions-Gaza has pointed out, “your struggle for workers’ rights in the United States is inseparable from our struggle against occupation and colonialism.”
We stand with LA’s immigrant community in:
- Demanding an immediate end to state terrorism against immigrant communities, freedom for all those abducted, and the abolition of ICE; withdrawal of all federal agents, military, LAPD and other police; dismissal of all charges against protesters, including SEIU-USWW President David Huerta; and an end to the Deadly Exchange of militarized Israeli “crowd control” weaponry and training tested against Palestinians and now deployed by the LAPD to brutalize and criminalize working-class neighborhoods of color.
- Uplifting Unión del Barrio’s call on workers in military service: “STAND DOWN! Do NOT Use Violence Against Your Own Gente!” (Those with questions about illegal or unjust orders can contact the Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild at 619-463-2369 for referral to an attorney to discuss their rights.)
- Urgently mobilizing workers’ immense power across the US to shut down genocidal wars on the working class—from LA to Palestine—by any means necessary, including mass meetings, demonstrations, and strikes. As PGFTU-Gaza says: “True labor solidarity is demonstrated through actions, not just words.”
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