100,000 surround the White House with the People's Red Line!
In a massive display of solidarity with Palestine, 100,000 people
converged from across the country to form a 2-mile long "People's Red
Line" surrounding the White House to demand an end to the U.S.-Israeli
genocide in Gaza! This huge action brought the nationwide grassroots
movement to the doorstep of the war criminal Joe Biden. Biden said
that the invasion of Rafah would be a red line, but that was a lie --
so the people formed their own red line to call for an end to the
administration's criminal policy of enormous and unlimited military
and political support for the Israeli regime's killing spree.
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Photo: Protesters along Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the
White House hold part of the 2-mile long banner
The mobilization took place on the day that Israel carried out one
of the most heinous massacres of the war. Roughly 300 Palestinians
were killed and 700 wounded in an Israeli assault on the Nuseirat
refugee camp in an atrocity sickeningly portrayed as a "rescue
operation" by much of the corporate media. War crimes are piling up
day after day, but the pressure on Biden and Netanyahu to halt the
assault on Gaza has never been greater. The large-scale, permanent and
creative mobilization of the people is a key factor in this
moment.
Biden could end the genocide with one phone call -- all he has to
do is cut off the flow of weapons from the United States to Israel
that makes the massacre possible. The enormous red banner and sea of
protesters wearing red symbolized the red line that Biden has so far
shamefully failed to enforce.
Photo: A huge crowd gathers to watch the proceedings of the
People's Court of Justice in the Ellipse, just south of the White
House
Immediately following the formation of the People's Red Line,
protesters gathered immediately south of the White House on the
Ellipse to convene the People's Court of Justice. The court conducted
a symbolic trial of Netanyahu, Biden, and other top war criminals in
the U.S. and Israeli governments. Palestinian activists read testimony
from the victims of the genocide in Gaza, describing how the Israeli
regime systematically deprives people of food and medicine while
carrying out horrific acts of brutality. The war criminals are used to
enjoying impunity, but the People's Court of Justice represented the
determination of the massive grassroots movement in solidarity with
Palestine to hold them accountable for their crimes!
Photo: A giant Palestinian flag circled the White House along
the red line
The June 8 national mobilization was another clear example that the
people of this country stand with Palestine. And, we’re not stoping
there! The people will continue to draw the red line that Biden and
all the establishment politicians can’t seem to uphold. We call on
people all around the country and the world to urgently draw the red
line against genocide by organizing actions at the offices of elected
officials and all institutions complicit in the genocide of
Palestinian people!
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