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Gaza Teach-In
2023-12-01 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Cafe Red, 7148 Martin Luther King Jr Way S, Seattle, WA, 98118
Join the PYM for a teach in on Gaza! Equip yourself with knowledge about history, resistance, and peopel who remain steadfast in teh face of genocide. Come prepared to engage in a discussion about our role as a community and how we actively work towards cultivating conditiosn tha tsupport Palestinian liberation.
Palestinian Youth Movement
@PalestinianYouthMovement
@PSLSeattle

Cease Fire Now Protest at Westlake
2023-12-09 14:00 - 16:00 | Westlake Center, 400 Pine Street, Seattle, WA, 98033, United States
This Saturday we take the streets once more at 2PM (starting at Westlake center)
📣 END THE OCCUPATION
📣END THE GENOCIDE
📣END THE SIEGE ON GAZA
📣CEASEFIRE NOW
🇵🇸 Until liberation, we’ll be in the streets 🇵🇸

Special online event with Mosab Abu Toha on Gaza
2023-12-13 11:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Date: Wednesday, December 13
Time: 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern
Location: Zoom – registration required

Join MECA for this special online event with poet Mosab Abu Toha. The event will honor two dear friends and colleagues Refaat Al-Areef & Doaa Al-Masri who were killed by Israeli attacks several days ago and feature poetry by Refaat as well as Mosab’s own work.

Mosab is the founder of MECA partner the Edward Said Public Library in Gaza. Mosab will be joining us from Cairo to speak about his personal experiences living through seven weeks of Israel’s genocidal attacks.

Register now

Protest for Gaza at Westlake
2023-12-16 14:00 - 16:00 | Westlake Center, 400 Pine Street, Seattle, WA, 98033, United States

Yalla Nemshi: Seattle Edition
2023-12-17 11:00 - 13:00 | Greenlake Boathouse and Coffee Shop, 7351 East Green Lake Dr N #5303, Seattle, WA, 98115, United States
Hi everyone, join me for Yalla Nemshi: Kuffiya Edition. We’ll walk around Green Lake on Sunday Dec 17 at 11 A.M. wearing kuffiyas. Doing it in solidarity with the three guys who got shot in Vermont wearing their kuffiyas while walking. And always in solidarity with Gaza ✌🏽🇵🇸
Share it!

Meet by the Greenlake Coffeehouse and Boat Shop (on the east side of the lake)

Portraits for Palestine - Families for Ceasefire!
2023-12-17 14:00 - 17:00 | Rainier Arts Center, 3515 S Alaska St, Seattle, WA, 98118
Portraits for Palestine – Families for Ceasefire! 🍉  Come support calls for Ceasefire at this family-friendly art event! In partnership with @portraits4palestine we will be making family portraits to deliver to Senator Patty Murray and creating a collective banner.  Sunday, December 17th from 2-5pm – at Rainier Arts Center in the Event Hall  Two ways to participate/join!  1) Join us on Sunday December 17th for an in-person art and community event to create your Portrait for Palestine! Snacks and Art Supplies provided 🖌️🍉🎨  2) Make a portrait for Palestine with your family / friends and post to Instagram with hashtags #familiesforceasefire and tag @senpattymurray @families4ceasefiresea & @portraits4palestine   ***If your account is private and you want to share your portrait, please send a picture or screenshot of it via Instagram Direct Message (DM) to @families4ceasefiresea ***  Access: parking lot & street parking available, space is accessible by ramp through entry from parking lot on downhill smooth concrete.  Masks are encouraged!
Graphic: @makenna.okeeffe

Weekly Peace Vigil
2023-12-22 16:30 - 18:00 | Vigil, 4th & Water St, Olympia, WA, 98501
Come join the weekly peace vigil hosted by Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation. They invite us at to advocate for peace as we mourn the dead. We will bring signs. Or bring your own sign calling for an end to the genocide, and the end of U.S. funding for the Israeli military

Weekly Peace Vigil
2023-12-29 16:30 - 18:00 | Vigil, 4th & Water St, Olympia, WA, 98501
Continue to stand peacefully with the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice, and others, as we grieve for the thousands of lives that have been lost and demand a permanent ceasefire, release of all hostages, protection of Palestinian civilians in both Gaza and the West Bank, and a stop to the genocide occurring in Gaza.
There will be signs. You’re welcome to bring your own.
The vigils continue through the holidays!

Palestinian Youth Movement: Year in Review
2023-12-29 17:30 - 19:30 | Register for Location
An evening with organizers from the Palestinian Youth Movement, reflecting on the work of 2023 and what is still to be done.

Seattle Space Needle - Shut It Down For Palestine
2023-12-31 22:00 - 23:30 | WA
10pm
Rally at South Fountain Lawn

Fast for Gaza
2024-01-04 | WA
Fast for Gaza
December 21, 2023: Sunrise to Sunset
Continuing every Thursday until a permanent ceasefire is called

We have had enough.
This is a call to fast.
Because we have had enough.
As Gaza is devastated by

The loss of countless lives
The destruction of homes, schools, hospitals, archives, mosques, churches, and all allegedly safe spaces
The blockade of humanitarian aid, food, water, electricity, and communication
The silencing of voices on the ground and around the world

We are witnessing an unfolding catastrophe in real time. The toll is indescribable, incalculable, and indefensible.
Fast for Gaza extends a global invitation to people of all faiths, and those who adhere to none, to abstain from food for one day in solidarity with the people of Gaza, and to break the fast together at sunset. The fast will continue every Thursday until a permanent ceasefire is called.
While you fast:

Donate to humanitarian efforts in Gaza.
Refrain from spending on non-essential goods
Spread the word that we have had enough.
Write to government and business leaders demanding they recognize this tragedy and support an immediate and permanent ceasefire.
Educate yourself on BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction), and join the boycott of goods that exploit and oppress Palestininians.
Educate yourself on and join PACBI (Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel).
Read and share art, writing, films, and music by Gazan artists.
Be in community with others who need, want, feel a conversation isn’t enough.
Make Gaza present.

The Fast for Gaza campaign is organized and sponsored by Mizna, RAWI (Radius of Arab American Writers), W.A.W.O.G. (Writers Against the War on Gaza), Action for Hope, University of Minnesota Palestine Studies Working Group, Palestine Writes, and the Arete Foundation for Arts and Culture.
Individuals and organizations interested in joining Fast for Gaza can view and download our media kit and sign up here.

Mountlake Terrace Protest for Gaza
2024-01-06 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-01-13 11:00 - 12:00 | Mountlake Terrace Park and Ride, 6001 236th St SW #1, Mountlake Terrace, Washington, 98043

Protest for Gaza - Starbucks Roastery
2024-01-06 12:00 - 14:00 | Starbucks Roastery, 1124 Pike Street, Seattle, WA, 98101
NO BUSINESS AS USUAL WHILE PALESTINIANS FACE GENOCIDE
NEW LOCATION Starbucks Roastery 1124 Pike St
Join us next week on Saturday at 12 PM to tell Seattle that there can be no business as usual while Palestinians face ongoing genocide, mass displacement, famine, siege and occupation. Arrive prepared to shut it down. Escalate more in 24!
As part of a symbolic action we are requesting community assistance in making pretend “bodies” wrapped in white sheets! Scroll to second slide for more info.
Steadfast until liberation, from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
END THE GENOCIDE
FREE ALL PRISONERS
BREAK THE SIEGE ON GAZA
CEASEFIRE NOW
END WESTERN MEDIA COMPLICITY
END THE OCCUPATION

Kite Making Workshop
2024-01-11 17:00 - 19:00 | Muslim Assocation of Puget Sounds (MAPS), 17550 NE 67th Ct, Redmond, WA, 98052, United States
Come make kites for the upcoming Palestine protest in Olympia.
Supplies will be provided

Emergency Rally for Yemen
2024-01-12 18:00 - 19:00 | Seattle Central College Plaza, Broadway and E Pine, Seattle, WA, 98122
🇾🇪📣‼️ SEATTLE – EMERGENCY RALLY FOR YEMEN ‼️📣🇾🇪
Stop the US-UK bombing of Yemen! Join us Friday at 6pm at Seattle Central College Plaza (corner of Broadway and E Pine) for an emergency rally in response to the United States’ bombing of Yemen and escalation of war. The Biden administration is threatening to escalate a regional war with this retaliation against Yemen’s principled solidarity with Palestine. The people of Seattle say HANDS OFF YEMEN, US OUT OF YEMEN, UK OUT OF YEMEN

Protest in Olympia
2024-01-13 13:00 - 14:00 | Heritage Park – Olympia, 5th Ave SW and Water Street SW, Olympia, WA, 98051
March on the Capitol and Shut it Down for Palestine!
Bring banners, kuffiyehs and your own voice.
Get ready to be loud!

Seattle: Shut It Down for Palestine
2024-01-20 18:00 - 20:00 | WA
🚨SEATTLE: SHUT IT DOWN FOR PALESTINE THIS SATURDAY 1/20 🇵🇸
As part of the international day of action to #shutitdown4palestine, we will be demonstrating at the U-District light rail station to denounce the links between the publicly-funded Sound Transit and multinational conglomerate, Siemens, who works to enhance Israeli occupation and colonisation in Palestine.
Over $118,000,000 of our state taxes already directly fund the Israeli military, but unfortunately, our taxes and economy are even more intertwined with Zionist occupation and U.S. imperialism. In 2016/2017, Sound Transit entered into a $714,718,000 contract with Siemens to acquire 152 light rail vehicles. This is despite the fact that another company can produce the same vehicles and is not actively breaking international law by supporting Israeli occupation and colonialism.
Right now, the Sound Transit board is in the process of acquiring 10 more light rail vehicles from Siemens at the cost of over $96 million dollars, paid for by our tax dollars!
* We demand an end to the Sound Transit contracts with Siemens!
* Sound Transit, cut ties with genocide!
* End all U.S. aid to Israel!
* Immediate ceasefire on Gaza!
* End the Siege on Gaza!
* Release all Palestinian prisoners!
* End the occupation!

Global General Strike to End the Seige on Gaza
2024-01-21 - 2024-01-28 | WA
URGENT CALL TO ACTION! @wizard_bisan1 has called for a global general strike to end the siege on Gaza and call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire. It has been over 100 days of this continued genocide in Gaza. Palestinian and Palestinian solidarity organizations in Seattle have joined forces to uplift this call from Gaza. Swipe through the slides to see how you can participate in the economic boycott and strike and stay tuned to see actions we will be uplifting throughout the week.
In Bisan’s words, “we are human beings like you. We had beautiful cities, many lives and dreams. They were destroyed. You can make a difference and stop this genocide. Do not despair and continue until the ceasefire” #FreePalestine #StopTheSeigeOnGaza #PermanentCeasefireNow #EndTheOccupation #FromTheRiverToTheSea #GlobalStrike #GeneralStrike #BDS

Ceasefire Vigil on Bainbridge Island
2024-01-21 12:45 - 14:15 | WA
ACROSS FROM ART MUSEUM close to ferry terminal.

Sunday, 21st, 12:45-2:15 PM ( and every other Sunday)

Discussion: Intersection of Global Struggles for Liberation
2024-01-26 13:00 - 15:00 | Evergreen State College, 2700 Evergreen Pkwy NW, Olympia, WA, 98505
The Reinterpreting Liberation program and the Center for Community-Based Learning and Action (CCBLA) at The Evergreen State College present a discussion about how global struggles for liberation intersect.

With a focus on the genocide in Gaza, Nada Elia and Jesse Hagopian will discuss how global struggles for liberation intersect and how this informs their work as activists and educators. This event, which is open to the community, is moderated by Jen Marlowe, founder of DonkeySaddle Projects, author, and filmmaker.

Jesse Hagopian has been an educator for over twenty years and taught for over a decade at Seattle’s Garfield High School, the site of the historic boycott of the MAP test. He is an editor for the social justice periodical Rethinking Schools and the book More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing. He is a co-editor of Black Lives Matter at School, Teaching for Black Lives, Teacher Unions and Social Justice, and an organizer with the Black Lives Matter at School movement. In 2011, Jesse participated in the Interfaith Peace Builder’s historic first African Heritage Delegation that brought 14 African Americans to Israel and Palestine to meet with civil society organizations, human rights groups, and grassroots activists to better understand the conflict. Jesse will join the panel over Zoom.

Nada Elia teaches Arab American Studies and Cultural Studies at Fairhaven College, WWU, where she is affiliated with the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program. A scholar-activist, Nada is a member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective, and regularly publishes editorials about gender, activism, and transnational struggles. She is the author of Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine. She has co-edited Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader, the INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence Activist Toolkit, and the award-winning The Revolution Will Not Be Funded, and has contributed chapters to numerous anthologies, including, most recently, Palestine: A Socialist Introduction. T

lack Palestinian Solidarity: Struggle for
Joint Liberation
Friday, January 26
1:00-3:00PM
Purce Hall 1 – The Evergreen State College

Protest at Adam Smith's Office
2024-01-26 16:00 - 18:00 | WA
Come and demand that our congress-critter from Boeing do the right thing and stop funding genocide
Friday January 26
4 PM
Corner of Rainier Ave S and S Grady way, Renton – around the corner from Smith’s district office
Seattle DSA and allies are also circulating an online petition demanding that Adam Smith
Signs onto Rep. Cori Bush & Rashida Tlaib’s “Ceasefire Now Resolution” (H. Res 786) to end the siege on Gaza
In his capacity as ranking Democrat in the House Armed Services Committee, refuses to support or vote for any funding of the Israeli military so that money can be spent for urgent needs such as affordable housing, education, and healthcare.
Oppose all escalations and US military operations towards a new regional war in the Middle East.
Please sign the petition at
https://tinyurl.com/adamsmithceasefire

Eastside Freeway Bannering for Palestine
2024-01-28 11:00 - 13:00 | WA
on 85th street overpass in Kirkland.
Every Saturday and Sunday from 11am-1pm

Vigil at Kola Kole Park (Kingston)
2024-01-28 13:00 - 14:30 | WA
PERMANENT CEASEFIRE IN GAZA AND ISRAEL!
Vigil Sunday 28, 1:00-2:30 PM (Every other Sunday)

Near Kingston Ferry Terminal: Kola Kole Park
sidewalk across from Coffee Oasis.
Join Resisterhood to call for an end to the war.

From Haiti 2 Palestine [Virtual] Teach In
2024-02-03 08:00 - 17:00 | WA
VIRTUAL TEACH IN! SAVE THE DATE! On Sunday March 3rd we are co-hosting a teach in featuring speakers from @samidounseattle and @haitiaction to bring to light the dire situation in Haiti right now.
On February 29th, 2004 democratically elected president Jean Bertrand Aristide was kidnapped and flown out of Haiti and into exile by US forces. Since, the country has had an array of US backed governments that have resulted in the crisis Haitians are living today.
In October 2023, around the same time that the Pal3stinian resistance breached the wall in Gaza, the UN approved a US backed Kenyan led 12 month military mission to “bring peace” to Haiti. Yes, the UN approved to fly Kenyan soldiers to Haiti to bring “stability”.
There’s plenty that Haiti and Pal3stine have in common and we want to bring that to the fore during this teach in, especially during this important 20 year anniversary of the coup that took Aristide and the Fanmi Lavalas Party out of power.
The teach in will take place March 3rd over zoom from 11am – 12:30 pm pst. Please register at the link below! You will see the zoom information once you complete the short form 🙏🏽
tinyurl.com/H2Pteachin
We will start with a historical situationer for both Haiti and Palestine before listening to a discussion between organizers from Samidoun Prisoner Solidarity Network and the Haiti Action Committee. This teach in is intended to give you the context and information you need to help uplift the Haitian narrative and deepen your understanding about Palestine solidarity work.
See you there!

Eastside Freeway Overpass Bannering for Palestine
2024-02-03 11:00 - 13:00, 2024-02-04 11:00 - 13:00 | WA
Ceasefire!
Every weekend from 11-1
Off NE 85th Street Exit Kirkland from 405.
Turn right off the exit, immediate right on 120th near Taco Time, antoher right on 80th, go around the bend and you’ll see the walkway on your right side. Park on side of the road.

Shut It Down for Palestine: Choose Your Own Adventure!
2024-02-04 | WA
FEBRUARY 4 – THE SHUTDOWN CONTINUES! The next global day of action to #ShutitDown for Palestine is February 4. As the Zionist-led, US-backed assault on Palestine and the wider region continues, we call upon people of conscience everywhere to organize rallies, shutdowns, and other actions in your cities and locales.
Both the political establishment and media in the imperial core are relying on the length of this genocidal campaign to tire us out and wear us down. But our movement for liberation has not waned, and will only continue to grow stronger and amass more power with time. Until all our demands are met, we will continue to shut it down and prevent business as usual from continuing. Against the wishes of Joe Biden, Justin Trudeau, and other Western imperialists funding and signing off on this genocide, we will keep raising our voices loud and putting our bodies on the line.
In the words of the revolutionary Samah Idriss, “If we abandon Palestine, we abandon ourselves.” At this critical juncture for our movement, it is our responsibility to raise the stakes and increase the momentum of all that we have built. The struggle continues — we’ll see you in the streets on February 4!

Ceasefire Vigil on Bainbridge Island
2024-02-04 12:45 - 14:15 | WA
ACROSS FROM ART MUSEUM close to ferry terminal.

Every Other Sunday, 12:45-2:15 PM

Eastside Freeway Overpass Bannering for Palestine
2024-02-10 11:00 - 13:00 | 85th Street Freeway Overpass (Kirkland), 12303 NE 75th St, Kirkland, WA, 98033
