Bay Resistance
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We are a powerful network defending our beloved communities, our movements & our earth. (bayresistance on FB, IG) cover photo https://t.co/n2OARegvIj
San Francisco, CA
Joined January 2017
Voters in CA can use the power of their vote to pressure @POTUS into calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza! By writing in “CEASEFIRE” during the March 5th Presidential Primary, you can send the message that we demand a permanent CEASEFIRE NOW! #VoteCeasefire
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Pledge to vote for pro-peace candidates Election Day and get involved: https://t.co/Tg3g2NOSNn
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Our demands for Chevron: ❌Shut down the Tamar & Leviathan gas fields. ❌Divest from Israel & stop fueling apartheid. Our commitment: ✅#BoycottChevron until there is a permanent ceasefire and an end to the occupation of Palestine Join us Feb 3: https://t.co/xMXGPbxlQc
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Bay Area: Pack the court for the Bay Bridge 78! Tell SF DA @BrookeJenkinsSF to DROP THE CHARGES We will not be silent while the DA targets 78 community members who took action for a ceasefire and an end to US military aid to Israel! Learn more at https://t.co/0oZPcCF5Wf
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Follow @AROCBayArea live tweeting the Federal Court case against @POTUS @SecBlinken for their complicity in the genocidal war in Gaza
The next plaintiff, Wael El Buhaissy shares testimony “Over 100 members of my family have been killed or injured. My mothers last name was in the news many times because many were massacred. My first cousin, Mohamed who was 65, his son Hamdan who was 33, and his daughter Nour who
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I’m inside the US federal court where Palestinian plaintiffs are suing Biden, Blinken & Austin for failure to prevent -& complicity in - Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza It’s unprecedented that the case made it this far. Palestinians w family in Gaza will testify soon @ajplus
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Monadel of @uspcn: “we have lost 7 members of my family. One of whom was a 4 year old girl named Ward. Ward in Arabic means flower. I was wondering how many more flowers should we cut before the whole world recognizes that these are people who have been targeted for no reason?”
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Basim El-Karra, one of the plaintiffs states that he filed this case because “it is the least I can do to help stop the genocide of my family and my people.” During the break, while standing outside the courtroom, he learned that his cousin was killed and two are missing.
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Pro-Palestinian messages painted outside the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building U.S. Courthouse in Oakland. Inside, a judge was hearing a case brought by Palestinian-rights groups accusing President Biden and top officials of aiding genocide in Gaza. 📸: Noah Berger / Special
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“Laila is describing the toll this has had on her family here - her children are suffering because she cannot give them the attention and care they need: “I tell them, what can I do, my family is being killed on my dime” Laila is describing her memories in Gaza - taking her son
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Dr. Omar Al Najjar is giving testimony on Zoom from a hospital in Rafah City in Gaza. He is in sitting in the hallway on the floor of administrative building. He grew up in Khan Younes. His grandparents were forcibly displaced in 1948 from Yaffa.
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Abu Ful on his own family’s situation due to the genocide: “My own family is affected by this, my father’s side of the family lost 60 members, 15 in 1 strike in the north. We are still unable to retrieve the bodies of many of them who remain uner the rubble
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Laila Al-Haddad is next to give testimony. She gives powerful testimony on why she is here today: “Israeli forces have masacred numerous members of my family with US arms support, political support and i felt it was my duty as an american whose taxes and govt have been directly
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Dr Al Najjar closes with this harrowing statement: “I share a glimpse of a heavy burden in my heart. I have lost everything in this world. My home was targeted, the family house, the mosque, my neighborhood, my friends I haven't seen in a while and many I have lost, my professors
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Very emotional moment in the court as @gazamom describes the horrors her family has endured in the last 16 weeks - Her surviving critically injured cousin had to collect the body parts of his mother and bury her in a mass grave because there was nowhere else to bury them.
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Judge White presses the DOJ, who have yet to answer clearly: HOW does the state implement of the genocide convention to guarantee relief? DOJ: The state states that congress has outlined their implementing as criminal proceedings against individuals who violate the treaty.
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Plaintiffs: “The law must be applied to foreign policy. And no one, not even the president, is above the law.” #WeChargeGenocide #StopArmingIsrael
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We’re tuning in to the court’s livestream here:
cand.uscourts.gov
HAPPENING NOW: @theCCR, @DCIPalestine, @alhaq_org, and several Palestinians, including Palestinian Americans, are accusing @POTUS, @secBlinken, and @SecDef of aiding and abetting Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza in federal court. Watch live now:
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Plaintiffs rebuttal to the Dept of Justice: “Here the question is a legal one: whether the actions of the US fail to prevent a genocide. And uphold the genocide convention.” These are not policy decisions, but a legal one. #WeChargeGenocide
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