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> Dear Aram
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> *“Gaza fuels our moral clarity, our political will, and our sense of
> responsibility to act with integrity, with vigilance, and with organized
> discipline." *
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> —* Loubna Qutami from the Palestinian Feminist Collective at the second
> annual People’s Conference for Palestine. *
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> It was inspiring to see so many people gathering together for Gaza at the
> second annual *People’s Conference for Palestine*. Coming out of a
> weekend filled with revolutionary optimism and shared responsibility, we
> face the difficult reality that we are privileged enough to talk about the
> suffering around the world from thousands of miles away, *while there are
> real people living through it in real time. *
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> We must always remember that we ourselves live on stolen land, in a
> country complicit in carrying out and sustaining genocide. Even our
> civilian infrastructure is being used to ship off weapons to kill
> Palestinians in Gaza. *For example, we learned at the conference that the
> Oakland International Airport has been involved in at least 280 shipments
> of military cargo to Israel since January 2025.**
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> *👉 **Tell the Oakland Airport to stop allowing the shipment of military
> cargo to Gaza! *
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> With those same weapons, Israel killed the prime minister of Yemen in a
> futile attempt to stifle dissent. Such losses have never dejected the
> popular struggle — leaders come and go, but* the principle of rejecting
> anti-colonialism has and will always remain at the heart of resilience in
> the region. *
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> *It’s obvious that Israel and the U.S. are scrambling.* Surely, they
> thought that the world would have forgotten Palestine after two years of
> non-stop genocide, but the people are not so naive. They could see right
> through the actions of President Trump, when he recently suspended all U.S.
> visas for Palestinians passport holders and barred the Palestinian
> Authority from attending the United Nations General Assembly — where
> several countries are expected to recognize Palestine as a state. It is
> apparent to the world that this is an act of fascistic power aimed at
> upholding Zionism — and in the same vein, allowing our civilian airports to
> be used as transport hubs for war is a reprehensible example of Israeli and
> U.S. solidarity.
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> 👉 *Tell Oakland Airport to choose humanity and stop the shipment of
> military aid to Israel!*
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> Clearly the U.S.-Israel war machine is crumbling, because for the first
> time in history, more countries than ever are recognizing Palestine as a
> state, and some are even sanctioning Israel, like Belgium. *It is unusual
> to witness western countries taking stances that oppose one another when it
> comes to the Middle East, but we aren’t living in a normal timeline.*
> What is happening in Gaza is far from normal, and the world must unite to
> stop the bloodshed and forced starvation.
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> In response to the growing public outcry, *Benjamin Netanyahu* has called
> for a meeting with the Israeli parliament this week to discuss annexing
> more land in the West Bank. I think we have all seen by now that the harder
> Israel pushes its genocidal agenda, the more people around the world wake
> up. *This is Israel’s repeated mistake. *
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> Another lesson I took away from the conference this year is that the
> resilience of the Palestinian people is truly like no other. As a
> Palestinian myself, I already knew this, but it’s different to hear
> first-hand accounts from people who have been to Gaza. For example, we
> heard *Dr. Mohammad Mustafa* talk about his experience as an emergency
> physician who has been on medical missions to Gaza twice since the genocide
> began. He mentioned *a nine-year-old girl* who had arrived at his
> hospital holding her younger brother limp in her arms.
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> She told him that Israel had just bombed her home and killed her entire
> family. She and her brother were the only two remaining, but he was
> unconscious and badly hurt. Even though she herself was injured and
> traumatized, and had no parents or older family members, she had the
> courage to gather her brother in her arms and walk barefoot for miles in
> the dark to get him to the hospital. *She walked all by herself with the
> sounds of drones above her, and the reality that her home and entire family
> had just been destroyed.*
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> *If a nine-year-old girl can face unimaginable odds with such courage for
> the people and land she loves, then we have no excuse. We must give
> everything we can to the struggle we claim to love—nothing less is worthy
> of her sacrifice.* It is our responsibility to mirror the resilience that
> the people of Palestine have shown the world. With the *Global Sumud
> Flotilla* recently starting its journey towards Gaza, and thousands of
> dockworkers threatening mass strikes if Europe blocks them, the people are
> moving forward valiantly and diligently to end this genocide.
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> Israel can annex land, bomb homes, and martyr thousands, but the struggle
> will never be lost. Our hopes and values remain, and we will continue to
> fight until every nine-year-old girl in Palestine is able to live a normal
> and happy childhood.
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> *The least we could do is resist our infrastructure being used to carry
> out genocide. 👉 **Sign the petition to the Port of Oakland!*
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> *👉 Here are more ways to engage:*
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> - *Support the Global Sumud Flotilla!
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> - *RSVP for our Palestine Campaign Focus Weeks!
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> - *Tell LinkedIn to Stop Platforming War Profiteers!*
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> - *Help us reach 10,000 signatures on our Airbnb petition!*
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> - *Register for our Palestine Working Group!*
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> - *Fresh arrivals are here at the CODEPINK Store!*
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> *Until Liberation,**Jenin **and the entire CODEPINK team*
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> ** **Read The Palestinian Youth Movement and Oakland People’s Arm
> Embargo’s Report **here*
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> *Read our People’s Conference for Palestine Report Back here!
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> *Pictured below: CODEPINK community members joined last weekends
> conference participants to support the sailing of the Global Sumud
> Flotilla! *
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