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NTERCONNECTED STRUGGLES


CONTENTS

This is a Call to Globalize the Intifada
Acting Where We Are: NYC

What is the Intifada?

Wall of Memes

Transcript of a Teach-In on Palestine at a
De-Occupation in NYC, May 2021

Free Palestine Collage



iagram: Analytic of Interconnected Struggles

Operationalizing the Diagram
Columbia University as TestCase

Strike MeMA/Free Palestine: A Call to Action

Organizing Toolkit:

- How to Organize a Rally and March
= Chants

= Know Your Rights

= Community Defense

Organizing Calendar/Upcoming Events

Poem: “I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies,”
by June Jordan
INTRODUCTION

This movement document offers an operational framing and practical toolkit for
the globalization ofthe Inifada in NYC and beyond in the coming weeks and
months, Grounded in the Globalize the Intifada call released in July 31, this
manual is intended to facilitate conversation, relationship-building, and action
in the lead up to @ city-wide convergence on September 17th (S17).
Week by week, gathering by gathering, community by community, things

‘are building toward this date. $17 is not an endpoint. Iris a launching pod
for a season of resistance as the contradictions of setler-colonialsm, racial
capitalism, and liberal imperialism continue to heighten, and the authority of
governing institutions including the university, the museum, politcal partes,
and the police continue to erode. In neighborhood rallies, family gatherings,
study-sessions, banner-making parties, and conversations throughout our
communities and workplaces, we build capaxily for he day of action. On $17
we scale up our power and bring our interconnected struggles together.

This document builds on ten years of movement work in the cy, nourished
in turn by many generations and legacies of struggle from around the
world. It weaves together principles, practices, and lessons of anti-capitalist,
decolonial, abolitionist, and ant-imperialist political formations, and
operates autonomously from any sectarian organizations, political parties,
state regimes, or nonprofit entities.

What time is it on the clock of the world? Ten years after the Arab uprisings
cof 2011, seven years after Ferguson, five years after Standing Rock, one
year alter the George Floyd! uprising, and a few months since a wave of Free
Palestine solidarity swept the world, inspiring an internationalist insurgent
feeling at local and global scales. Palestine brings everyone together,
reorienting away from empire, and toward each other's struggles

Whether we are talking about massive marches, militant disruptions, de-
‘occupations, poetry readings, spiritual celebrations, or building emergent
counter insiutions, our relationships are key. Such relational organizing is
rooted in trust ofiity, and mutuality over fime. The manval aims to make itself
obsolete as we move together along the pathways of collective liberation
— THIS IS A CALL TO —

GLOBALIZE THE
INTIFADA

‘As Palestinians continue to bravely confront ethnic cleansing and genocide,
it's time to globalize the Intifada. This call is rooted in direct action and driven

by the belief that all colonized and oppressed people have the right to take



back their land, to realize self-determination, and to win their liberation by
ony means necessary. We build upon the revolutionary spirit and inspiration
of Palestinian resistance, in the understanding that our own liberation is either
collective or nonexistent, and that it must reflect the interconnectedness of our
struggles in our neighborhoods and homelands. That is why we are organizing
actions every week as we build towards September 17th, « peak day of action

across New York City and beyond.

Globalize the Intifada comes from the urgent need to defend our lands, resist
our oppressors, and break free from the genocidal grip of U.S. imperialism and
Zionism. Waves of solidarity have swept the world in reaction to the Sheikh

Jarrah evictions, the bombardment of Gaza, and the militarist policies of the
U.S.-sponsored Zionist regime. These events have united Palestinians across the
occupied territories and in exile, and also sparked a new unity against colonial
violence in many parts of the world; from Colombia and Mexico, Puerto Rico and
the Dominican Republic, Bangladesh and the Philippines, to the Bronx and Bay
Ridge in New York City. As Palestinians from Gaza and Haifa to ALGuds and
Beita have consolidated their resistance to the Zionist settler-colonial project, we
too must amplify the spirit of Palestine Liberation in the belly of the beast by linking

corms with all those who are confronting U.S. and Israeli aggression globally.
Globalize the Intifada expands the terrain of struggle by creating new
points of leverage for our movements based on the interconnectedness of
our struggles. Although these struggles arise from our specific place in the
world, the forces we are fighting against-the creditor class, the landlords,
the cops, the prison industry, the teargas manufacturers, the multinational
corporations, the mining companies, and the military defense complex-are

all interconnected parts of the same oppressi



system. So we can find points
of convergence in our separate struggles when we join the dots between

what is happening across the street, or ocean, and what we are doing in our



own backyard, With each link, and each mobilization, we are building the
collective power and relationality needed to effectively confront the tyranny

of the settler state.

How can you amplify the message of Globalize the Intifada? Organize an



action in your neighborhood along with other communities who support



Palestinian liberation and who want to channel the spirit and example of
the Palestinian intifada for their own ends. Make it clear that our mutual

liber



n is interdependent, and identify common targets that have an
active hand in the domination of our peoples. To those who participate in,
and profit from, the oppression of people here in the U.S. and around the
world-your days of comfort are coming to an end, In the coming weeks,

the boroughs of this city will become a theater of operations where we can
actualize the interconnectedness of our struggles with a diversity of strategies
and tactics. Globalize the Intifada will be an ongoing strike at the heart of

empire with Palestine as its compass.

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We are writing from the unceded territory of the Lenni Lenape. We
stand in solidarity with Native American and Indigenous peoples leading
the movement for resurgence, decolonization, and reclamation of their
homelands. These lands were stolen to create settlercolonial states,

and those who were dispossessed continue to live under conditions of
siege, surveillance, and extractivist violence. We support land back,

«an imperative addressed to all setlers and settlerinsttutions, including
museums, universities, and the City of New York. AF its foundations,

this city was established on stolen Indigenous land, and shaped and
cultivated by enslaved African peoples. We support the undying fight for
Black liberation and its many manifestations here and across the planet.





Subsequent layers of the city have been built by generations of migrants
cand refugees from other zones of the world violently impacted by
colonialism, racial capitalism, and imperialism. Think of the Mohawk
skywalkers whose labor made possible the Manhattan skyline, and the
Black, Latinx, and Asian workers who maintain the urban infrastructure
today even as they are displaced by realestate developers in Chinatown,
Mott Haven, East New York, and beyond. We support sanctuary for

all migrant communities, and the allied movement for degentrification.

We support the selfcdetermination of oppressed peoples everywhere
fighting against the imperial states, repressive regimes, occupying powers,
comprador elites, and global corporations whose calculations have forced
so many people from their homes in places like Palestine, Puerto Rico,
Haiti, Colombia, Domincan Republic, Philippines, Bangladesh, Kashmir,
Punjab. From within the belly of the beast of U.S. empire, we acknowledge
our responsibility, and act in solidarity with struggles to get free.



We are organizing and building against a system of imperialism,
colonialism, and racial capitalism with gendered violence at its core.
We stand in solidarity with all those who strike against patriarchy every
day, at work, at home, in the fields, in the prisons, in the detention
centers, in the streets, in the shelters. Stolen land, stolen people,

stolen labor, stolen wealth, stolen worlds, stolen horizons. This is the
modernity to which NYC is a monument


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What is the Intifada? the Intifada is the shaking off (uti) of
‘oppression, the unsetling of occupied territory, an uprising for dignity inthe
face of dehumanization, an expression of self-determination grounded in the
relations between people rather than the authority of states and politicians
that claim to represent us

Who is the Intifada? The Intifada is all those seeking to get free in
solidarity with others; ll those who recognize the interconnectedness of
our struggles against setler-colonialism, imperialism, and racial capitalism
across borders and identities; al those who refuse to allow our struggles
to be isolated, segregated, and pitted against each other according to the
classic colonial logic; all those who practice what Huey P, Newton called a
“revolutionary intercommunalism” that sees the modern nation-state as a
hindrance rather than vehicle when it comes to collective liberation

When is the Intifada? The Intifada is now, nourished by roots running
deep into our entangled histories of survival and liberation across centuries
cand continents. In the words of Ghassan Kanafani, “Imperialism has laid its
body over the world, the head in Eastern Asia, the heart in the Middle Eas,
its arteries reaching Africa and Latin America. Wherever you strike it, you
damage it, and you serve the World Revolution.”

Where is the Intifada? The Inifada is everywhere. Its all around
us, within us, between us. In our homelands, in our diasporas, in our
neighborhoods here in the belly of the beast. I lives with each act of



resistance and care from the Bronx to Colombia, from Haiti to Punjab, from
Standing Rock to Gaza

Why the Intifada? To break the binds that setlercolonialism, imperialism,
cand liberalism have placed on our imaginations, relations, ond practices of
life. The Inifada wants todo para todos, in the words of the Zapatistas. The
Intifada is desire-driven, fighting and building simultaneously, culivating our
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TRANSCRIPT OF A TEACH-IN
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DE-OCCUPATION IN NYC,
MAY 2021, BY JKP



Israel's violent repression happening in Palestine now is part of the
settler colonialist Zionist movement that began in the late 1800s and
peaked with the Nakba of 1948. The catastrophe and displacement
of Palestinians continues now in Israel's attempts to forcibly remove
Sheikh Jarrah residents. Again, what is and has been happening in



Sheikh Jarrah is not new- this is part of decades long ongoing policies of
forcibly dispossessing Palestinians of their land. The Nakba did not end
in 1948, it is ongoing. Some of the terms you have heard in mainstream
media include the “Israeli-Arab” conflict. Let us be clear that there is no
conflict, This is a setter colonial occupation. You also hear about needing

“balanced reporting’—but there is no balanced relationship between an



occupying power and the occupied. Balance is not part of a decolonial
lexicon. You hear that the situation is "too complicated and complex”

to take a position on. This refrain is a Zionist tactic that encourages you
to remain silent and reinforce the status quo—think about who says this

as an excuse to avoid standing in solidarity. Palestinians never say it's



too complicated to understand. There is nothing complicated about the
relationship between the colonizer and the colonized. One has the 4th
largest military in the world, including nuclear power, and continually
inflicts violence in any number of ways. The other has been resisting
their colonization through a myriad of tactics, from throwing stones to
the Boycott
is happening now, a resistance movement on multiple fronts in multiple



ivestment and Sanctions movement, because that is what

forms. You hear politicians use the term “disproportionate force” in very
tepid commentary about Israel that ultimately never leads to any global
oF political action against Israel. You also hear debates about the term
whether or not the Israeli occupation is apartheid. While we have called
this apartheid for many decades, Israeli human rights organizations are
finally recognizing that Israel is an apartheid state. Finally, you hear



the media call the Palestinians who live in 48 “Arab Israelis.” 48-ers are
Palestinian, period. Despite correcting them over and over, the media
continues to perpetuate this language because it projects an utterly
false picture of Israeli citizenship and co-existence. You also have been
hearing about pogroms and lynching in what they call “mixed Arab-
Jewish” towns and cities, to perpetuate the fantasy that Palestinians are
treated as neighbors. But these towns, such as Lod and Haifa are deeply
segregated, spatially in terms of where housing, businesses, and schools
are located, as well as economically, in terms of denying Palestinians
resources to develop community infrastructure. There is apartheid in
Israel itself, not just in the occupation.

These are some of the media soundbites that you will hear over and
over again, despite multiple interventions by Palestinian journalists

and activists. For the rest of this presentation, | turn to the specifics of
Gaza, a 14-year blockage of the Gaza Strip that is often referred to as
the world’s largest open-air prison as well as one of the world’s most
densely populated areas. Again, these are easy tropes that we can
break down. What is the blockade exactly and how does it work?

What is the blockade?

The blockade is a form of “logistical governance.” That means that the
logistics of how, when, and why goods and people are allowed in and
out is not a by-product of the blockage, but it’s actual purpose. So,
when Israel says it is no longer occupying Gaza, they are attempting to
erase the “remote control” of Gaza that happens through the control of
logistics. In other words, logistical control is a form of population control.



The blockade not only keep things out and keeps people in. It also
creates a perpetual state of uncertainty. You never know when the
electricity will urn off. You never know if your medical permit to receive
medical care in the West Bank will take one month or 6 months to be
approved, though you never assume it will actually be approved. You
never know if you the Rafah border with Egypt will sill be open by

the time you get there, and for how long it might be closed if itis not,
You never know when medicines might be available, or surgeries that
you need might be possible. You can’t count on the regular supply
of clean water. Sometimes you get what you need and sometimes
you don’t, but you don’t know which of those will happen when.
That's part of the logistical governance, to subject a population to
endless uncertainty. Gazans have been living like this for 14 years
now. In 2014, during the last raid on Gaza, the UN declared Gaza
uninhabitable by the year 2020. Well, that was last year, and 1.7

jon Gazans continue to exist and resist and fight for their right for
the siege to end. Clearly, what is deemed “uninhabitable” does not
speak to a universal threshold of human existence, because Gazans
are living the unlivable. Remember also that the bombardment of
Gaza is happening during a time when the pandemic has already
stretched the medical infrastructure of Gaza. According to the World
Health Organization, only 6% of 5 million Palestinians living under
Israeli occupation have been vaccinated. Contrast that to more than
50 percent of Israelis.



What would it mean for the siege to end? It would mean that
Gaza could reopen an airport. It would mean that Gazans could
travel to see relatives and friends in the West Bank, 48, and East
Jerusalem—and beyond! It would mean the Gazan economy could
grow and unemployment which is often around 70 percent could be
mitigated. It means Gazans could enjoy their seashores and their
homes in peace.

Why Injuries Matter:

We are watching in horror the death toll in Gaza and elsewhere in
Palestine rise by the hour. We must also register and understand the
horror of the growing number of injured Palestinians, currently in

the mid-hundreds. Israel has used injury to try to strip Palestinians

of their bodily capacity for resistance. During the first intifada, they
used the infamous “break their bones” policy created by the Defense
Ministry. There were about 2000 killings during the first intifada. But
the number of injuries is staggering, estimated by some to be at least
30,000 injured Palestinians. During this time Israel had very specific
discussion about using injury and maiming to keep the death toll so
a8 not to solicit global attention and disapproval


Disability is a big part of life in Gaza. From the siege of 2014, the
stats say about 2000 deaths but the number of injuries is again
staggering, estimates starting in the 10s of thousands. Because Israi



targets and destroys medical infrastructure, wounds that could be




treated often become “permanent disabilities.” Gaza was still dealing
with a huge wave of disabled people when 2018 happened. You might
recall that during the Great March of Return, which began on Land
Day, March 30, 2018 and was a by and large peaceful resistance
along the so-called boundaries between Israel and Gaza, the Israeli
military openly and brazenly injured 10's of thousands of protestors
during the first months of the Great March, including 7000 Gazans

in the lower limbs. You saw these sensationalizing pictures of men in



wheelchairs and with crutches on the pages of the New York Times
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injuries. Many of these injuries required amputation, many



.d multiple surgeries, and again, the medical infrastructure is so

flux.





Targeting limbs, especially lower limbs and k



, is both symbolically
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‘abled Palestinians are



and literally an attempt to foreclose Palestinian mot



to resist. And yet, we see repeatedly that
often on the frontlines of protests. We can also connect the tactical use
of injury to Kashmir, where hundreds of resisters have been shot in the



e and many blinded, again the targeting of the eyes is both symbolic
and literal. We can also connect these tactics to the hundreds of blinded
protests from the Chilean uprisings in 2019, and the increased use
globally of what is purportedly “nonlethal” weapons such as rubber
bullets and tear gas for crowd control and protests, and frankly towards
deliberate disabling of insurgent resisters of state violence.

Solidari



Tomorrow is Nakba Day, a day that commemorates the violent



expulsion of Palestinians from their land 73 years ago. Tomorrow th



will be mass mobilization around the world that includes every possible



movement you can imagine, from Black Lives Matter to Puerto Rican

Sovereignty to the Farmer’s Protest to those fighting the occupation of
Kashmir, and so many more. From Angela Davis we understand that
iv indivisible, and we learn this lesson over and over again from
black, indigenous, queer, Arab, from Palestinian feminists, who call for
the adoption of their statement “Palestine is a Feminist Issue.”



In solidarity and as a tribute to the fierce resistance of the Palestinian
people, | want to end with a paragraph from Ghassan Kanafani’s

1957 short story “Letter From Gaza,” where he refers to Gaza as an
“amputated town.” Here his narrator is revising injury and resistance
after visiting the hospital to see his niece who had had her leg amputated

My friend ... Never shall | forget Nadia’s leg, amputated from the
top of the thigh. No! Nor shall | forget the grief which had molded
her face and merged into its traits forever. | went out of the hospital
in Gaza that day, my hand clutched in silent derision on the wo
pounds | had brought with me to give Nadia. The blazing sun filled
the streets with the color of blood. And Gaza was brand new,
Mustafal You and I never saw it like this. The stone piled up at the
beginning of the Shajiya Quarter where we lived had a meaning,
and they seemed to have been put there for no other reason but to
explain it. This Gaza in which we had lived and with whose good
people we had spent seven years of defeat was something new. It
seemed to me just a beginning. | don’t know why I thought it was
just a beginning. | imagined that the main street that | walked along
on the way back home was only the beginning of a long, long road
leading to Safad. Everything in this Gaza throbbed with sadness
which was not confined to weeping. It was a challenge: more than
that it was something like reclamation of the amputated leg!





* Ghassan Konafari, “Letter from Gozo," Marsists.rg, May 2014, hitps://www.marnists
org/archive/kanafani/1956/leteriromgaza him (accessed November 17, 2020)



**Remarks made at Post MoMa Plaza



In 1977, on the 30th anniversary ofthe 1947 UN pastion plan snd in commemoration ofthe
ongoing colonization and ethnic cleansing ofthe Palestinian people, the UN marked November
29th “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.” While UN resolution 194
(assed December 1948) guaranted the right of return to all Palestinian refugees who were
Aisplaced daring the Nakbs, 72 years later we are sil fighting for ou right wo return home.

‘As we reflect onal of the UN resolations and broken promises to Palestinians on the
limernational stage for generations, we also ground ourselves inthe uncompromising support that
wwe have received, and continue to receive, rom oppressed and colonized people around the
sword



‘This collage features artwork by Palestinian painter Ismail Sharnmout, posters from the archives
ofthe Organization of Solidarity with the Peoples of fica, Asia and Latin America, Malcolm
X's 1964 meeting with the PLO, and signs that our Mexican, Carribean and Filipino comrades
have brought to our protest here in New York City



‘While the zionist entity and thei reactionary partners seck to normalize the ongoing annexation
of Palestinian land and genocide ofthe Palestinian people, the masses ofthe world stand with
Palestine, and will continue o struggle alongside us until we have achieved liberation within our
lifetime

‘AaterationalDayOtSolidarity WithThePalestinianPeople #LongL.ivelmtemationalSoidarity
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The Intifada



Thirty-three years ago today on December Sth, 1987, the
decades after the Nakiba and twenty years aftr the Naksa in 1967.



‘The event that sparked the First Intifada took place in Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza, when a
-ionist ruck driver ran over a group of Palestinian workers, murdering four young men,



In response, thousands of Palestinians took to the strets in protest. Te next day, on December
‘th, 1987, the Palestinian youth of Jabalia camp directly confronted occupation forces with only
stones in hand, launching a new chapter of the Palestinian struggle for national liberation

From Gaza, the Intifada spread to the West Bank, and then on to every comer of historic
Palestine. Over the course ofthe next six years from 1987-1993, the First Intifada was led by the
Palestinian masses, who not only took tothe streets to protest and resist the occupation, but also
formed local committees to organize poplar education when schools shut down and coordinated
‘general strikes, economic boycotts of israeli goods and the withholding of taxes tothe
‘occupation. Women’s organizations, youth and students and labor union in particular took a
leading role in these commits.





‘Today we honor all those who took part in the First Intifada, all those who were arrested, jailed,
‘and tortured by the occupation, and the over 1,100 Palestinians martyrs who were murdered
While fighting for their freedom. In their memory, the Intifada continues, =


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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY AS TEST-CASE

With Palestine as our compass, the diagram on the preceding
page is offered as a tool for identifying sites of convergence
for our interconnected struggles as we globalize the Intifada in

NYC and beyond.





How can campus organizing can be strategically linked to
globalizing the Intifada? The university exists on the same plane of
colonial violence as the rest of settler-society, and it is riven with
ever-heightening contradictions. It is full of discontented workers,
students, and faculty who are already organizing on various
campuses across NYC, each with its own specific conditions and
legacies of struggle, from the CUNY system to NYU and Columbia,

As a testcase, let’s apply the diagram to Columbia University. The
following checklist is a preliminary scaffolding, to be fleshed out in
the course of sharing knowledge and building relationships as we
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land. The University was chartered as King’s College by King George

in 1754 in Lower Manhattan, and to this day Columbia remains one

of the largest landowners in so-called New York In its name and
symbolism, Columbia is also monument to colonization and patriarchal
violence. After the American Revolution, the in: n was renamed
Columbia, in honor of the the mythical spirit of Christopher Columbus,
the same genocidal conquistador and rapist whose likeness stands above
Columbus Circle several ’s south at Broadway and 59th street.











Between 1754 and the U.S. Civil War, half of the men who presided
over the school “owned” enslaved African people, and all were prime
pheric plantation system. That system and

its legacies remains inseparable from the general structure of global
capitalism that Columbia as an institution has always been dedicated to
growing and preserving, as is evident in the list of Wall Street oligarchs
who continue to make up the board of trustees. Their accumulation of
wealth has always been founded on the dispossession, incarceration,
and brutalization of of racialized populations.









ation. Columbia University is an agent of gentrification,
cannot be understand apart from the intersecting matrix of set
colonialism and racial capitalism. Columbia is an ever-expanding land:
grabbing machine, especially in Harlem. Its ongoing 17-acre, $6.3 billion
1n northward of 125th street continues to be met with resistance
from local residents. Columbia has always had a predatory relation

to Harlem. The 1968 campus uprising was catalyzed by protests from
Harlem residents against the proposed placement of a Columbia athlet
facility over the majority of Morningside Heights Park. This “Gym Crow’
development was but one in a long history of expansion projects by the
University into the surrounding area, a process of racialized displacement
condemned by community organizers as “the Big Steal.












Poverty Wages. Columbia University is a place of class conflict
Precarious graduate student workers have recently been on strike,
and workers of all kinds are resisting in a diversity of ways all the time,
unionized and not. How are student-worker struggles building with the
struggles of other workers on campus and in the city at large in the face
of an institution that is in its very structure hostile to workers power of
any kind? What kind of class solidarities are necessary to create the
kind of political formation we need and desire?




/ Empire: Columbia University is designed to be a knowledge factory
for the global ruling class, supplemented by the pursuit of the “public
good.” From the Business School, to the Law School, to the the School
of International and Public Affairs, to the School for Architecture,
Preservation, and Planning, and across the arts, sciences, and humanities,
Columbia is in the business of preparing elites for power, and integrating
select non-elites into the apparatus of liberal governance. As is the
case with its fellow Ivy League institutions, significant portions of the
university's programming and faculty are explicitly devoted to serving the
interests of capital and empire. Others cite cultural expression, historical
understanding, public service, and even social justice as their missions,
but remain within the operational frames of academic research, policy:
making, or the nonprofit industrial complex. But we know that radical
formations of anticolonial counter-knowledge are alive at Columbia,
channeling the tradition of scholars like Edward Said “whose intellectual
work was embedded organically in the work of movements.” When we
identify a shared place where our interconnected struggles converge,
those counter-knowledges can come to fruition in the course of unsettling
the imperial university.

Strike €olumbie, Globalize the Intifada
te Ad

A CALL TO ACTION

(Moy 21, 2021)



We the undersigned artists, critics, scholars, and organizers are writing to
‘express our support for the Palestinian struggle agains Israeli colonial rule
cond its apartheid system. We feel itis urgent to highlight the connections
between the ongoing violence of Israel against the Palestinian people

cond a leading institution of the art system, namely the Museum of

Modern Art (MoMA). This leer aims to build decolonial solidarity across
borders by drawing attention to MoMA’s entanglement with the mutually
reinforcing projects of setilercolonialism, imperialism, and racial capitalism
in Palestine, the U.S. and around the world. When we focus on the
interlocking directorate of the MoMA board, the museum becomes visible
18 a shared site of action for our interconnected struggles. This works
‘against the alltoo-frequent isolation and exceptionalization of Palestine,
cand strengthens the bonds between Free Palestine, Indigenous sovereignty,
Black Freedom Movements and all other movements for land, life, and
liberation, from Puerto Rico to Kashmir and beyond.

Violence against Palestinians has intensified in recent weeks, first with the
‘ongoing forcible displacement of families in Sheikh Jarrah, then with the
violent incursion into the Al-Aqsa Mosque, followed by the carpetbombing
of Gaza, and a series of organized settler attacks across occupied
Palestine. This has included attacks on spaces for media, culture, and art,
most recently Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research in Bethlehem. At
the same time, these attacks have united Palestinians both on the ground
and in the diaspora, with resistance proliferating in a diversity of forms:
yesterday, a General Strike shut down the entirety of historic Palestine,
‘and massive marches have taken place in cites throughout the world, with
‘#PalestineSrike as a shared declaration of agency, dignity, and solidarity.

Cultural institutions are part and parcel of struggles against setiler-colonial
Violence. 600+ cultural workers have announced a boycott of Zabludowicz
Art Trust in London on account of that organization's fies to the Israeli
military. The Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) movement is gaining
momentum, including the affiliated Palestinian Campaign for the Academic
‘ond Cultural Boycott of Israel. As part of the Palestine mobilizations in
New York last week, hundreds gathered at MoMA, where a young man
‘was arrested and beaten by the NYPD. The police had been called to the
scene by the museum, which on the same day announced that it would be
permanently banning five organizers from stepping foot in the museum.

Why show up at MoMA? Why now? Because many members of the
MoMA board are direclly involved with support for Israels apartheid
rule, artwashing not only the occupation of Palestine but also broader
processes of disposession and war around the world. Consider Steven
Tananbaum, CEO of GoldenTree, « hedge fund known for profiteering
from the Puerto Rico debt crisis. Tananbaum’s foundation donated 1.8
million dollars to “support Israel by sending young adults to Israel
via the Art Insitute of Chicago, dwarfing his $400,000 contribution

to MoMA itself that year. Daniel Och, CEO of Och-Ziff Capital, also
known for its plunder of Puerto Rico, is @ current member and former
chairman of the Birthright Foundation, which is also partly funded by the
Israeli state. Birthright tours aim to recruit Jewish youth from around the
world, especially American Jews, to the Zionist cause while sanitizing
the occupation and erasing Palestinians. Leon Black, best known for his
connections with Jeffery Epstein, has donated more than 1 million to
Birthright as well. Paula Crown's wealth comes from her husband, James
Crown’s armaments company General Dynamics, whose Land Systems
division works closelywith Israeli military technology companies, and the
Israeli Occupation Forces themselves (General Dynamics products have
also been used in the bombing of Yemen by the Saudi government]. The
MK-84 bombs being dropped on Gaza by the Israeli air force are made
by General Dynamics. The Paula and James Crown Creativity Lab on the
second floor of the museum stands while homes, schools, hospitals, and
media offices in Gaza are flattened.





Finally, MoMA’s Honorary Chair Ronald Lauder is president of the
World Jewish Congress, which has long campaigned in defense of
Zionist policies, and, most recently, has lobbied numerous heads of

state including those of Britain and Germany to adopt the International
Holocaust Remembrance Association's definition of anti-Semitism. This
definition is widely used to conflate criticism of Israel with AntiSemitism,
and has resulted in the proscription and criminalization of speech in
support of Palestinian liberation (including but not limited to BDS) as a
nefarious form of racism~a development that should concern everyone in
the arts. This definition of AntiSemitism also serves to collapse a plurality
of Jewish identities into one identity indissociable from the state of Israel,
tacitly condoning the violence it perpetrates in their name. This is a form




of psychological warfare that defines Jewish people who speck out
against the occupation as “traitors,” “selhating Jews,” or even unworthy
of having their voices considered Jewish at all. With this in mind, it is

also worth mentioning the fact that Lauder is a close friend and donor to
Donald Trump, and is closely connected with the prosrael evangelical
Right. This reliance on Trumpism and the Christian Right for Zionist support
has ironically fuelled the growth of real movements for white supremacy
and anti-Semitism in the U.S.

With figures like Lauder, Crown, and Tananbaum on its board, MoMA,
cannot pretend to stand apart from the attack on Gaza or the Occupation
of the West Bank and Jerusalem more broadly. Because the corporate
power and wealth that sis atop the museum suffuses all ofits operations,
there are no clean hands. Given these entanglements, we must understand
the museum for what itis: not only a mullipurpose economic asset for
billionaires, but also an expanded ideological battlefield through which
those who fund apartheid and profit from war polish their reputations and
normalize their violence. For MoMA’s board members, the tral of their
malfeasance leads in many directions, from fueling climate crisis to support
for the NYPD Foundation to the extractivist violence of the Cisneros
empire. But there is no denying that Palestine is one of the crime scenes of
the MoMA board. We do not expect, nor do we call for, any statement of
concern from MoMA. Let us remember that a year ago after the murders
of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Ahmaud Aubery that museums issued
statements of solidarity with Black Lives Matter, only to board up their
windows as the rebellion unfolded.

For those who love Palestine, we have waited too long for this moment
to not say what needs to be said despite the fear, the risk, the cos,

of speaking out and naming things for what they are. We stand with
Palestine, or we stand with silence, aiding and abetting the disaster. We
unequivocally denounce the continuation of the Israeli settler colonial
project, ts apartheid regime, and the interlocking technologies of power
and violence that enable it. We unequivocally support the right of return
for all Palestinian refugees. We call upon our friends, colleagues, and
‘communities to join the struggle for a free Palestine.

This Friday, May 21 at 4 PM Est. people will gather at MoMA. We call

con the museum to respect people's right to protest, and to refrain from
involving the NYPD, which creates an unsafe environment for everyone
involved. For those who are not in New York City or who otherwise cannot
Participate in person, an online assembly will also be held.

HOW TO ORGANIZE A RALLY AND MARCH



Globalizing the Intifada allows us to thread our material struggles
through action. This is a non-comprehensive list of what
you may need at a rally.

1 Logistics
* Determine level of publicity and decide on social media strategy
+ Design flyer informed by this zine’s analysis

* Create a blurb for people to share

+ Make a banner with message, e.g. “Free Palestine /
Unsettle Everything”

* Approach allied communities and groups to co-sponsor and
get involved

* Contact legal observers, e.g. National Lawyers Guild

+ Let people know which hashtags to use, e.g. “Hclipthelocks
Hglobalizetheintifada #interconnectedstruggles #bronx”



+ Prepare and circulate a press release to circulate on social me-
dia ond local media outlets, and with allied influencers the night
before or early the day of the rally

* Maybe after rallying an unpermitted march or walk around the
neighborhood to spread the message and connect with folx



* Create a security plan for those that attend the rally to
ensure their safety particularly from Zionist, NYPD, and/or
Facists disruptors

*Be prepared to do jail support in case any protesters are arrested

* At each gathering announce upcoming actions and events and
let people know #September17 #517 is citywide, cross borough
mobilization and convergence to globalize the intifada

1 Outreach

Campuses: contact student organizations and see if you can
build a relationship together and connect struggles, and if they can
share the action on social media,


Coalitions: invite any coalitions with shared politics you may be a
part of fo not only endorse but attend, speak, and volunteer with
security and other demanding tasks.

Local neighborhood: Not everyone is online. Organize physical
outreach if you live near a Palestinian community. Ask local stores
to advertise your rally in their windows. Go around and tape Ay-
ers to polls and bus stops and give them out fo those that may be
interested. Finally, remember: we are all outreach!



m Materials
Signs

Markers to write down legal observers/lawyers number who
agreed to observe

Banners.

Bullhorn/speakers + mic/sound

Drums

Flags

Poles

Flyers/handouts
Clipboard for sign up sh



Iv Roles

MC

program coordinator with Speakers list
live stream

Video

Photography

Security coordinator

Outreach coordinator

Media coordinator

v Follow Up

Posting Statement + pictures on Social Media/ website
Internal assessment + debrief + next steps

Resistance + Building Party to dance and share spac
vi Chants When Palestine is under attack,
What do we do?
Stand up! Fight Back!



We will free Palestine!

Within our lifetime!
Hey hey, ho hol
ionism has got to go!

There is only one solution!
Intifada revolution!
Hey hey, ho hol
Israel has got to go!

Resistance is justified

When people are occupied!
From the river to the sea
Palestine will be free!

Palestine is our demand!

No peace on stolen land!
From Palestine to Mexico,
Apartheid walls have got to go!



Hage Cydlauald Ayal Ayal) Ga

Min il-maya lal maya,

falasteen 3arabiye From New York to Gaza
{from the river to the sea, Globalize the intifada!
Palestine is Arab) Free, free Palestine!
igSSal (Je (Sai ay Long live Palestine!
igi Nitya gla

Long live the intifada!
Bidna nihki al makshouf, sahyouni Intifada, intifada!
ma Bidna Nshoof
(Say it loud say it clear, we
don’t want zionists here)


This is not acceptable,
Jerusalem's our capitall

Stop the U.S. war machi
From Palestine to the Phil



Itis right to rebel,
Israel go to hell!

Sellers settlers go back home
Palestine is our home!

Occupation is a crime,
From New York to Palestine!



Not just annexation!
Not just occupation!
Fight for Liberation,
Bring the whole thing down!

Not another
Not another dime!
No more money

for Israel's crimes!



Israel you can’t hide!
You're committing genocide!

Out of Afghanistan, out of Iraq,

Out of Palestine and don’t come back!

Occupation is a crime,
From New York to Palestine!

From the river to the sea,
all our lands will be free

There is only one solution!
Intifada revolution!

Everywhere we go,
People wanna know,
Who we are,

So we tell them,

We are the people
The mighty mighty people
Fighting for Justice

& Black liberation,
Palestinian liberation,
Puerto rican liberation,
x liberation



Resistance is justified
When people are colonized
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS

WE ARE ABOLITIONISTS. WE DO NOT BELIEVE THE POLICE OR THE
LARGER CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT SYSTEM OPERATES TO MAKE
PEOPLE SAFER. WE SHOULD NOT IGNORE POLICE POWER, SO WE'RE
DEDICATED TO FINDING WAYS TO KEEP OURSELVES - AND
PARTICULARLY THE PEOPLE TARGETED FOR POLICE ABUSE - SAFER.

WE LIVE IN A RACIST POLICE STATE, WHERE PEOPLE ARE SUBJECT TO
ARREST AND SURVEILLANCE BY JUST LIVING, PARTICULARLY IF YOU
‘ARE BLACK, INDIGENOUS, LATINX, CASH-POOR, TRANS, POLITICALLY
ACTIVE AGAINST THE STATE - AND ANY COMBINATION OF THOSE AND
OTHER TARGETED GROUPS.

BY PARTICIPATING IN STREET PROTESTS, YOUR RISK OF A POLICE
ENCOUNTER AND ARREST GOES UP.

PREPARATION IN ADVANCE OF ACTION

GO TO THE ACTION WITH FRIENDS. HAVE AN ARREST PLAN, IN CASE.
LET THEM KNOW WHOM THEY SHOULD CALL AND WHAT THEY
SHOULD DO, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE HELD OVERNIGHT. YOU SHOULD
MEMORIZE THEIR PHONE NUMBER OR WRITE IT IN PERMANENT
MARKER ON YOUR ARM (OR A LESS VISIBLE PART OF YOUR BODY).

IF YOU HAVE HEALTH ISSUES, PREPARE YOURSELF KNOWING THAT IF
YOU ARE ARRESTED YOU MIGHT NOT GET URGENT MEDICAL
ATTENTION RIGHT AWAY. KEEP ANY URGENT MEDICATIONS ON YOU
IN THEIR ORIGINAL CONTAINER, BUT KNOW IT WILL BE TAKEN AWAY
IF YOU ARE ARRESTED.

SET UP YOUR MOBILE PHONE TO LOCK IMMEDIATELY OR AFTER JUST
‘A FEW MINUTES; SET UP AND USE A LONG DIGIT-BASED PASSCODE
(NOT FINGERPRINT OR FACE). BRING IDENTIFICATION; GOVERNMENT
OR INSTITUTION-ISSUED.
IF YOU ARE ARRESTED

IF YOU ARE ARRESTED, IT IS MUCH SAFER NOT TO RESIST AND TO

‘SAY ALOUD I’M NOT RESISTING, ESPECIALLY IF THEY START
SAYING “STOP RESISTING.”

\F YOU ARE ARRESTED, THE POLICE CAN PAT DOWN THE OUTSIDE
OF YOUR CLOTHING, TO SEARCH FOR WEAPONS.

THEY CAN AND WILL SEARCH THE INSIDE OF YOUR CLOTHING AND
BELONGINGS. NYPD ROUTINELY OVERSTEPS WHAT, HOW, AND WHY
THEY SEARCH. TO FIGHT AN ILLEGAL SEARCH LATER WITH A
LAWYER, YOU MUST OBJECT TO A SEARCH AS IT HAPPENS. YOUR
SILENCE DURING A SEARCH = PERMISSION. SO SAY ALouD: | DO
NOT CONSENT TO THIS SEARCH. THOSE WORDS WILL NOT

‘STOP THE SEARCH, BUT WILL GIVE YOUR LAWYER THE ABILITY TO
CHALLENGE THE SEARCH IN COURT. IF ANY OTHER OFFICER BEGINS

‘SEARCHING YOUR BELONGINGS, REPEAT! DO NOT CONSENT
TO THIS SEARCH. iF LATER, THE SAME OR ANOTHER COP
BEGINS SEARCHING YOUR STUFF, REPEAT | DO NOT CONSENT
TO THIS SEARCH. REMEMBER SILENCE OR SAYING “SURE” OR
“WHATEVER” OR “FUCK YOU" = CONSENT. SO THESE WORDS COME
TO YOU AUTOMATICALLY, REPEAT THEM NOW: | DO NOT
CONSENT TO THIS SEARCH // 1 DO NOT CONSENT TO
THIS SEARCH.

IF YOU ARE ARRESTED, YOU SHOULD PUT POLICE ON NOTICE THAT
YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE INTERROGATED. YOU NEED TO SAY: I’M.
NOT TALKING WITHOUT MY LAWYER. THis TRIGGERS
YOUR RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT AND YOUR RIGHT TO AN
ATTORNEY. THE POLICE MIGHT LAUGH AT YOU, MOCK YOU, TRY TO
TRICK YOU INTO SPEAKING WITH THEM. BUT KNOWING THESE
WORDS AND THEN REMAINING SILENT IS POWERFUL FOR YOU AND
YOUR COMMUNITY. AFTER SAVING THESE WORDS, DO NOT TALK
TO THE COPS.
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THREE WAYS TO BE BETTER COMRADES AT A PROTEST
IF YOU ARE WHITE CIS GENDERED, LGPL ACT Sau ead

+ YOU HAVE THE PRIVILEGE AND POWER TO BEHAVE IN WAYS
AND GET AWAY WITH THINGS THAT FOLKS OF COLOR, THE
UNDOCUMENTED, TRANSGENDER FOLKS DO NOT HAVE

+ YOU FACE FEWER RISKS AND LESS SEVERE CONSEQUENCES FOR
YOUR ACTIONS AND IN CRIMINAL PROSECUTION

+ YOUR ACTS CAN BE A PRETEXT FOR POLICE VIOLENCE AGAINST
MORE VULNERABLE PEOPLE AROUND YOU, INCLUDING PEOPLE
LIVING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, NOT EVEN PARTICIPATING IN THE
PROTEST

GENERALLY EVERYONE SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE VIBE AND LOOK
TO THE ORGANIZERS FOR CUES, SO WE MOVE AS A COMMUNITY.

EAMICEY MTP IH tf YOU WILL TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS OR VIDEO AT
‘A PROTEST, BE THOUGHTFUL ABOUT WHAT IMAGES YOU SHARE.
POLICE AND DA OFFICES - AND OTHER WHITE SUPREMACISTS -
REVIEW SOCIAL MEDIA FOR EVIDENCE. IN GENERAL, REVIEW
BEFORE POSTING AND AVOID SHARING ANYTHING THAT COULD BE
PROBLEMATIC FOR YOU OR ANYONE ELSE (WOULD YOU WANT TO
EXPLAIN WHAT YOU ARE SHOWN DOING BEFORE A JUDGE?).
SHARING IMAGES IS IMPORTANT FOR DEFENSE, TOO, ESPECIALLY
WHEN FUCKERY HAPPENS. SO TO BALANCE THAT NEED AND
PROTECTING ONE ANOTHER,USE APPS TO COVER FACES AND FILM
IN A WAY TO AVOID IDENTIFYING PEOPLE.

+ IF YOU FILM AN ARREST, IT’S BEST NOT TO SHARE ANYTHING
THAT SHOWS ANYONE EXCEPT POLICE. CONNECT WITH NLG, JAIL
‘SUPPORT TEAM, OR ORGANIZERS, SO YOU CAN SEND YOUR
EVIDENCE PRIVATELY TO THE PERSON WHO WAS ARRESTED OR TO
THEIR LAWYER.

« IF YOU ARE COPWATCHING - FANTASTIC. BE SURE YOU ARE
FILMING THE POLICE, NOT YOUR COMRADES.

; IF ANYONE ASKS YOU NOT TO FILM OR PHOTOGRAPH THEM,
RESPECT THAT. DELETE THE IMAGE, IF THEY ASK.
LATE TTL Lg NYPD USES AGITATORS TO CAUSE CONFLICT AT
PROTESTS. WE MENTION THIS HERE NOT TO SCARE YOU AND NOT
TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO DISTRUST OTHERS OR EVEN TO FOCUS ON
OUTING SUSPECTED AGITATORS AT A PROTEST. THIS iS IMPORTANT
TO DISCUSS, SO YOU AND OTHERS AREN’T TRICKED BY NYPD AND
SO YOU CAN BE READY TO DISENGAGE AND DE-ESCALATE. THESE
ARE ALL EXAMPLES SEEN IN PRACTICE:

+ ANYONE WHO WANTS TO ESCALATE BEYOND WHAT OTHERS ARE
DOING, DON'T FALL FOR IT - AVOID THEM OR DE-ESCALATE AND
HELP OTHERS AVOID THEM.

+ ANYONE INSULTING OTHERS OR ACTING AGGRESSIVELY
TOWARDS CERTAIN PEOPLE, DON’T ENGAGE AND HELP OTHERS
AVOID THEM.

+ ANYONE SPOUTING OFF POLITICS THAT ARE OBVIOUSLY
CONTRARY TO THE REST OF THE GROUP, AVOID THEM OR
DE-ESCALATE.

YOU CAN ALERT ORGANIZERS OR MARSHALS, IF ANYONE IS
AGITATING LIKE THIS. CALLING THEM OUT PUBLICLY AS AGITATORS
COULD GAIN THEM THE ATTENTION AND ENGAGEMENT THEY
WANT, SO BE SMART, AWARE OF YOUR ENVIRONMENT, WHEN
PROTECTING YOURSELF AND OTHERS.

** All "Know Your Rights” and

“Community Defense” content is the
work of the KYR Radical Collective.

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| Must Become a Menace to My Enemies

by June Jordan

Dedicated fo the Poet Agostinho Neto,

President of The People’s Republic of Angola: 1976

1
| will no longer lightly walk behind
‘2 one of you who fear me:
Be afraid.
| plan to give you reasons for your jumpy fits
‘ond Facial ict
| wll not walk politely on the pavements anymore
‘ond this is dedicated in particular
to thote who hear my footsteps
‘oF the insubstantial rating of my grocery
cart
then turn around
‘ond hurry on
‘away from this impressive terror | must be:
| plan to blossom bloody on an afternoon
surrounded by my comrades singing
terrible revenge in merciless
‘accelerating
rhythms
But
| have watched a blind man studying his Face.
| have set the table in the evening and sat down
to eat the news.
Regularly
have gone to sleep,
There is no one to forgive me.
The dead do not give a damn.
ive lke @ lover
who drops her dime into the phone
just as the subway shakes into the station
‘wasting her message
canceling the question of her call:
fulminating or forgetful but late
‘ond always after the fat that could save or
‘condemn me

| must become the action of my fate

2
How many of my brothers and my sisters
will thoy kill

before I teach myself

retolition®

Shall wo pick a number?

South Arica For instance:

do we agree that more than ten thousand
in less than a year but that less than

five thousand slaughtered in more than six
months will

WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH ME?

| must become a menace to my enemies.

3

‘And if

iF ever let you sl

who should be extirpated from my universe

who should be cauterized from earth

completely

(lowandorder jerkofs ofthe first the
terrorist degree)

then let my body fail my soul

in its bedeviled lecheries



And if
iF 1 ever let love go
because the hatred and the whisperings
become @ phantom dictate lo:
bey in liev of impulse and realities
(the blossoming Ramingos of my
wild mimosa trees)
then let love freeze me
out.
| must become
| must become a menace to my enemies.