Fight Back News
St. Paul, MN – Palestine solidarity advocates vowed to press ahead with demands for Minnesota divestment from Israel’s crimes after the State Board of Investment (SBI) released data showing it held just one remaining Israel Bond after a series of bond sales and non-renewals. At a Monday, November 10, press conference at the State Capitol rotunda, speakers from local organizations explained the significance of the disclosure and outlined next steps for divestment. The press conference was organized by local groups Minnesota BDS [Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions] Community and the Minnesota Anti-War Committee (AWC). Israel Bonds are debt securities that function… […]
Tacoma, WA – In the early afternoon of November 9, around 100 people rallied for “Masks-Off ICE” to prevent ICE and DHS from operating anonymously. The Pierce County Immigration Alliance (PCIA or La Alianza) organized to demand community accountability and spread the word about need for rapid response. The Franklin Pierce Radical Teachers Caucus spoke about ICE out of schools and the power of people's movements. Malaya Tacoma and Tanggol Migrante demanded ICE out of hospitals and justice for detainees in need of medical care. Matt Price from the Franklin Pierce Association’s Radical Caucus: Fight Injustice and Reimagine Education (FPEA… […]
Tampa, FL – On Saturday, November 8, over 100 protesters gathered at Tampa City Hall to call for the immediate release of Mohammed Ibrahim, a 16-year-old Palestinian American from Palm Bay, Florida, who had been illegally detained by Israeli forces since February, while visiting family in the occupied West Bank. Charged with two counts of stone throwing, Ibrahim has been held in an Israeli prison since then, without access to phone calls or family visits. Due to the conditions of the prison, he has contracted scabies, a rash caused by skin parasites, and has lost nearly a third of his… […]
Washington, D.C. — A group of 20 community organizers and activists gathered outside the Metropolitan Police Department’s Sixth District station on Saturday, November 8, to demand transparency from the city’s officials – including Mayor Muriel Bowser and Chief of Police Pam Smith – around the October 17 cover-up, where an HSI agent shot into the car of an unarmed Black man. The Metropolitan Police (MPD) then lied about it on the police report. The action was organized by the DC Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (DCAARPR). The protest began with chants of “No Trump, no KKK, no racist USA!”… […]
San Jose, CA – On October 23, over 200 community members rallied together at San Jose City Hall to protest the Trump administration’s deployment of over 100 ICE and CBP agents into the San Francisco Bay Area, and to demand an end to the terror inflicted on Chicano and immigrant families by ICE. Uriel Magdaleno of the Community Service Organization (CSO) San Jose addressed the crowd, “We do not back off of our movement, we do not cower at a time like this, we continue to push our mass movement.” Magdaleno continued, “we will not back down, we will not… […]
Minneapolis, MN – On the evening of Saturday, November 8, the Minneapolis Federation of Educators, Local 59 (MFE59) announced that they had reached a tentative agreement between MFE59 and Minneapolis Public Schools. This announcement came less than three days before union members were set to go out on strike. Negotiations between MFE59 members and the school district’s negotiating team included months of bargaining with countless proposals and counter-proposals as well as mediation sessions to try to reach a deal. Now after all of that negotiating there is finally a tentative agreement on the table for MFE 59’s members, who will… […]