The people of Ireland stand with the people of Palestine. We stand for human rights, for international law, for a two state solution, for aid to flow, for hostages to be released. We stand for peace. We stand for an end to genocide.
"You are standing up for working people across America," Moulton told workers while on the picket line Tuesday, according to WBZ. "Republic is repeatedly failing to put a fair deal on the table. If you just look at what Republic is paying compared to other trash collection companies in the area, they're underpaid."
I can't imagine our community without our immigrant friends and family, and I won't. This moment isn't about valuing people because of what they can do for you: this is about respect for human beings and honoring their lives and protecting their rights.
If ever there was a moment that demands civil disobedience, it is the hour of genocide. We walk in the footsteps of earlier Stanford students who occupied this same plaza to end the Vietnam War and later to force partial divestment from apartheid South Africa. Now that baton passes to us. On October 20, 2023, Stanford students built the nation's first Gaza‑solidarity encampment.
"We are all led to solidarity by a complicated array of emotional, political, material and coincidental experiences. What really matters in the end is what we conclude from all these influences."
"We worked tirelessly to put this together on short notice with the sole purpose of demanding the freedom of Rümeysa, who's in detention right now illegally."
The United States is no longer a free democratic country that WorldPride signed up for, highlighting the gravity of the situation facing LGBTQ+ individuals under the current administration.