This Is America #198: Boeing 5, Heath Autonomy Convergence, Deep-Dive on Project 2025

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Welcome, to This Is America, July 29th, 2024.

In this episode first we present an interview on the case of the Boeing 5 in Ohio, anti-war activists who are facing charges for an action which shut down a Boeing facility for its role in the ongoing genocide of Palestinians. We then speak with organizers about the upcoming Health Autonomy Convergence happening in Vermont in October. We then launch into a deep dive into Project 2025.

All this and more, but first, let’s get to the news!

Living and Fighting

Resistance in solidarity with those in occupied Palestine continues. In Arizona:

…clandestine saboteurs struck the Caterpillar facility near…I-10 in Tucson, AZ, in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle against ongoing genocide by the Israeli state. The tires of multiple mobile generators were slashed and a message vandalized the facility wall [reading]: “Bulldoze your butts, not Gaza.” Caterpillar has been a supplier of military equipment used by the Israeli state in their campaign of terror and mass death. Saboteurs have targeted Caterpillar at least twice in Tucson this year. More broadly, clandestine sabotage has been one strategy taken by autonomous actors against the global corporations who produce and supply the material means for the unfolding atrocity.

In Montreal:

On the night of July 19th, a demo of pro Palestine militants took the streets of downtown Montreal, targeting the Quebec Deposit and Investment Fund (CDPQ), Scotiabank, and the Google offices. The media has remained completely silent and has not reported on the demo. So as long as the ruling elites fail to deliver justice, they will never get peace.

Meanwhile in Washington DC, thousands mobilized to block streets during far-Right Israeli prime minister Netanyahu’s speech in front of Congress, while over the course of three nights, protesters rallied outside of the hotel where Netanyahu was staying. Maggots and other bugs were also released inside the banquet hall where Netanyahu was reportedly dining, video of which quickly went viral online. Police responded with pepper-spray and chemical weapons against crowds of protesters, who “vandalized [a] Christopher Columbus statue…near Union Station” with slogans in support of Palestine and pulled down and burned an American flag. During his speech in front of Congress, which responded with a standing ovation, Netanyahu called for a continuation of the genocide in Gaza and attacked pro-Palestinian demonstrators in the US as terrorists and pushed conspiracy theories that the growing protests were simply the result of Iranian influence and funding.

Across the US, people hit the streets to protest the brutal police murder of Sonya Massey, a 36 year-old mother who was shot and killed in her home while standing next to her stove by a sheriff after calling 911 about a possible prowler.

In Houston, Texas, groups like West Street Recovery, Space City Anarchists and Houston Food Not Bombs have been hard at work providing autonomous disaster relief in the face of hurricane Beryl, which has killed at least 36 people as millions were left without power and air conditioning amidst a record heat wave.

In New York, hundreds gathered to discuss ways to mobilize against a proposed Cop City project in Queens.

In Redlands, CA antifascist parents with Safe Redlands Schools organized a ‘back to school’ Really Really Free Market.

A tree-sit has been launched in Lincoln, MA against an Enbridge pipeline that threatens a forest. A statement from a tree-siter posted to social media read:

All fossil fuel fights must be anti-militarist. We are not only against these individual projects, but the entire fossil fuel industry and the largest polluter on the planet: the US military. Solidarity to the protesters in Cambridge shutting down Elbit Systems, the Zionest weapons company profiting from the genocide of Palestinians. From the black birch trees of the Lincoln Forest to the Palestinian Olive Groves, glory to all struggling for a free and breathable world.

Police have made several arrests as the tree-sit and other protests remain ongoing.

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