What We Stand For: Building an Anti-Imperialist, Anti-War movement
Free Palestine!
We stand in complete solidarity with the Palestinian liberation movement. As an indigenous population facing a violent colonial occupation, the Palestinian people have the right under international law to resist their occupiers by any means necessary. Without compromise and without reservation, we support Palestinian resistance in all its forms in the struggle for a Free Palestine.
End U.S. Aid to Israel
Going back to its origins in the 1917 Balfour Declaration, the State of Israel has always functioned as an imperial outpost in the Middle East. The Zionist colony could not continue its displacement and extermination of the Palestinian people -- nor could it routinely attack its neighbors with impunity -- without constant financial and military backing from the United States. The Biden administration has the ability to stop the bloodshed in Gaza at any time, but it has instead given Netanyahu a blank check and complete diplomatic cover. We know that the murder and destruction will continue, in one form or another, until this material support comes to an end.
Stop the Genocide on Gaza
As Israeli officials make clear through their own declarations, the ongoing siege is meant to wipe Gaza off the map. A generation after transforming Gaza into a walled-off concentration camp, the Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) now cuts off food, water and fuel; carpet-bombs residential quarters, hospitals, even schools; guns down unarmed civilians fleeing to designated "safe zones"; and targets doctors, teachers and journalists for assassination. The vast majority of the dead and injured have been women and children. We join peace-loving people from around the world in demanding an immediate and unconditional end to this genocidal siege.
From The River To the Sea.
Externally imposed solutions to the conflict, most notably the so-called "two-state solution", were always a betrayal of Palestinian aspirations. By encouraging widespread settlement beyond the 1967 borders, the US and Israel have now made these half-measures all but impossible to implement. We call for the complete liberation of Palestine, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, and we uphold the Palestinian people's right to determine their own future course.
Broader Anti-Imperialism
Pass the Philippines Human Rights Act
Passing the Philippines Human Rights Act (PHRA) is critical to building an anti-imperialist, anti-war movement. Right now, the U.S. is trying to green light $2.5 billion in military aid to one of the most notorious military and police forces for human rights abuses. The Philippine military and police force are well known for their targeted, extrajudicial killings, torture, land theft, and abductions of Filipino farmers, peasants, students, journalists, workers, Indigenous peoples.
The PHRA puts restrictions on military aid to the Philippines until the military and police stop violating human rights, the military is withdrawn from domestic policy, and protections are established to safeguard the rights of Filipino people. We won't allow our government to send billions of dollars of taxpayer money to fund the Philippine military and police force that continue to repress, harass, and kill the Filipino people with impunity. U.S. out of the Philippines! From Palestine to the Philippines, stop the U.S. war machine!