remember aaron bushnell

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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.

global march for rafah

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global march for rafah – san diego, california (2024)

Feb. 17 2024 – Thousands of protestors mobilized in different cities all over the world in solidarity with the Palestinian people in light of the U.S. funded Zionist occupation’s continued genocidal aerial bombardment and ground invasion targeting over 1 million besieged people in the city of Rafah which was designated as a “safe zone” for those displaced. The town of Rafah along the Egyptian border is now one of the most densely populated area in the world and is threatened with an even worse escalation of Israeli military violence.

The global protests demand an arms embargo on Israel and a reinstatement of funding to UNRWA, which was dropped by many Western powers in the midst of a looming Israeli imposed famine in Gaza. The agency provides crucial humanitarian aid to displaced refugees and has been the target of Zionist attacks for years. Protestors continue to call for a ceasefire and an end to the siege and occupation of Gaza as the number of martyrs has reached over 36,000 including over 14,00 children when accounting for those missing and trapped under the rubble.

At UC San Diego Medical Center, healthcare workers for Palestine also highlighted American health institutions double standards on the Ukraine/Russia war and their institutional silence and refusal to condemn the Zionist occupation’s genocidal targeting of Palestinian medical facilities and personnel in Gaza.

west coast national march for gaza

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west coast national march for gaza – san francisco, california (2024)

Jan. 14 2024 – 30,000+ people marched in San Francisco for the West Coast National March for Gaza as the ongoing U.S. funded genocide and siege by the Zionist occupation has continued against the trapped population of Gaza for over 100 days. Protestors also condemned the U.S./U.K. illegal bombardment campaign against the people of Yemen, as the country has been enforcing a trade blockade of Israeli linked ships in the Red Sea in attempts to bring about an end to the genocidal Zionist aggression.

The death toll of the Zionist occupation’s bombardment and targeting of civilian and medical infrastructure in the Gaza strip has reached well over 30,000 martyrs including over 12,000 children when including those missing or trapped under the rubble.

Protest marches continue to mobilize across the world in solidarity with the Palestinian people as Israel faces charges of committing genocide at the International Court of Justice in a suit brought forward by South Africa at the Hague.