remember aaron bushnell – santa ana, california

Feb. 27 2024 – “My name is Aaron Bushnell and I am an active duty member of the United States Air Force. I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest but, compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it’s not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal. Free Palestine!”

These were the final words of 25 year old Aaron Bushnell before he self-immolated in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington D.C. in protest of the genocide in Gaza. The act of protest by the active duty American Air Force man from San Antonio, Texas has drawn more attention to the United State’s complicity in the ongoing mass murder of over 38,000 Palestinians in the last 145 days.

Vigils have been held in Aaron’s honor across the U.S. after he died from his injuries as well as to grieve the thousands of Palestinians martyred during the ongoing genocidal Zionist occupation’s onslaught in Gaza.