Thursday, May 23
Friends,
The Alliance and before it, the Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights, organized an annual standout at Harvard’s commencement. This year, we teamed up with Mass Peace Action; Jewish Voice for Peace; Dorchester People for Peace; Southeast Mass. Coalition for a Free Palestine: Falmouth for a Ceasefire; Medford for Palestine; Peace and Common Security, Watertown Citizens to organize over 175 people to attend a silent vigil. The participants showed up at 7:45 am to leaflet people who come from all over the world to attend commencement.
Here is part of what our leaflet said:
We Must Take a Stand Against Genocide!
We commend the students at Harvard University and across the country who took at moral stand against Israel’s genocidal war the Gaza Strip. They put their futures on the line by demanding an end to slaughter inflicted with US weapon, paid for with US tax dollars for Israel amount to $18 billion this year. The students risked suspension and arrest for denouncing the obliteration of a territory only half the said of Cape Cod with the equivalent of three Hiroshima bombs.
PHOTOS BY C. HOFFMAN