⏰ Friday, October 24th at 6:30 PM 📍Philly Liberation Center - 147 W Susquehanna Avenue 🤝 Refreshments and childcare provided!

Palestine: The Struggle Never Dies

Join us on October 24th at the Philly Liberation Center for a political forum centered around the struggle for Palestinian liberation and how we can advance it here in the belly of the beast. We’ll be reviewing recent developments in the global struggle for Palestine from the Sumud Flotilla to Israel’s increasing isolation in the international stage, and going over key campaigns everyday people can get involved in to put an end to U.S-backed Israeli apartheid!

The recent ceasefire is a result of the Palestinian people’s steadfast determination and historic international pressure on the U.S and Israel but there’s still a lot of work to be done! Israel has still yet to reach aid goals outlined in the ceasefire deal and casualties continue to mount in Gaza and the West Bank. We must continue to organize together to put an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine!

Instagram / @pslphilly

🗓️ Friday, October 24 at 5-6:30 PM ET — What is abolition when we’re talking about genocide? What is abolition when we’re talking about war?

Join our co-founder Andrea J. Ritchie, organizer, activist, and writer Ray Acheson, and moderator by B. Arneson for an online panel “Making the Case for Abolition” on October 24th at @worldbeyondwar’s #NoWar2025 virtual conference.

This panel will explore abolition as a visionary and necessary approach to dismantling systems of violence, including police, prisons, militaries, and borders, while cultivating communities rooted in justice, care, and collective well-being.

Grounded in feminist, anti-racist, and anti-colonial frameworks, abolition invites us to reimagine safety and security beyond punishment and control. It asks us to understand abolition not as an absence, but as a presence: safety without punishment, solidarity without surveillance, and peace without militarism.

The #NoWar2025 virtual conference will explore intersections between abolitionist movements, learn from successful case studies of abolition, and strategize about how we can truly move towards a world beyond war.

Learn more about it and register to attend this and other panels via our Linktree’s Events section or go to: (the full conference is also listed separately on the NENJP Calendar)
➡️#NoWar2025 Conference - World BEYOND War

(1) Instagram / @interruptcrim

Friday, October 24 · 5 - 7pm EDT - NYC (location shared after RSVP)

TRS Divest Fall 2025 Kickoff

By NYC Educators for Palestine

Join the effort to divest from Israeli apartheid and genocide.

Join NYC Educators for Palestine for an in-person gathering to...

Connect with likeminded educators passionate about ending the genocide and apartheid in Palestine.

Learn about our campaign to divest NYC educators' pensions from the companies that are perpetrating and/or complicit in these crimes.

Explore how you can get involved in our campaign, including actionable next steps to bring to your coworkers and communities.

Can't attend but still want to get involved? Here's how!

Sign our petition to join thousands of other NYC educators in demanding that our pensions not fund genocide and apartheid: https://www.trsnycdivest.com/petition

Reach out to us on Instagram (@nyceducatorsforpalestine) or email (nycedforpalestine@gmail.com)!

TRS Divest Fall 2025 Kickoff Tickets, Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM | Eventbrite

Instagram / @psccunygc

Weekly Fridays, 4:00 PM EDT - in person, intersection of Gaspee and Francis Streets, Providence RI

Protest U.S. led Wars - No to Attacks on Iran and Gaza

by Rhode Island Anti-War Committee

(20+) Protest U.S.-led Wars. No to Attacks on Iran and Gaza. | Facebook

Join us this Friday at 4pm in Filene Auditorium (located in the basement if Moore Hall, Dartmouth) for a teach-in with Mohsen Mahdawi on the importance building solidarity between the movements for immigrant rights and Palestine.

Instagram / @dartmouth_psc

Colt Vigil, No Guns for Israel!
Fridays, 4-6pm
Location: The Colt plant at the corner of New Park Ave and Talcott Ave, West Hartford - 545 New Park Ave - park next door at the Aldi/BJ's
We must be loud and we must be clear: Colt Mfg. Co needs to end all contracts with the state of Israel! Bring your signs, flags, and keffiyehs! Visit the CT Palestinian Solidarity Coalition on social media to learn more. Sign and share this petition: Tell Colt to Stop Arming Israel!

Fridays @ 3:00 PM EDT

Weekly PSA: Palestine Solidarity Announcements

Weekly updates on what is happening in Palestine, calls to action, and solidarity work for organizations, activists, and supporters particularly in the SF Bay Area. (note: these organizations are very much worth listening too regardless of geographical location)

Co-sponsored by Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC), Bay Resistance, Center for Political Education, and Anti Police-Terror Project.

Register to join live Webinar Registration - Zoom

Weekly Standout Fridays, 1PM @ the Peace Pole, Monument Park, 54 Military St., Houlton ME View Map

WEEKLY RALLY OUTSIDE GENERAL DYNAMICS - ARMS EMBARGO NOW When: Fridays at 2:30pm / Where: 291 North Street, Saco, Maine
Join us in Saco for our weekly rally to call attention to the fact that General Dynamics in Saco builds components for the bombs being dropped on Gaza. General dynamics is the sole manufacturer of bombs used by Israel, according to a recent article published in the Portland Press Herald. The plant in Saco makes guidance systems for the MK-80 series warheads that have been dropped on hospitals, schools, residential buildings and refugee camps from Gaza to Lebanon. People of conscience in so-called Maine demand that General Dynamics leave the state and that GD execs be held accountable for profiting off genocide. More information here: Instagram post: Maine Coalition for Palestine (@mainecoalition4palestine) • Instagram photos and videos

Brunswick Stand-Out, Fridays 5:00 - 6:00 PM, Maine Street opposite Walgreens Pharmacy, 156 Maine Street Brunswick, ME (map) Join PeaceWorks of Greater Brunswick, Maine on Friday at their weekly Vigil for Peace as they call for permanent ceasefire in Gaza. For more information, call 725-7686

Camden Stand-Out, Fridays 5:00 PM 6:00 PM, Camden Village Green, 29 Chestnut Street, Camden, ME (map) - A weekly stand-out held by the people of Camden.

Join us LIVE this Friday, on 24 October 2025 at 1:00PM EST, for our tenth installment of In Defense of Academic Freedom: The Frontlines of Educator Resistance. Featuring guest hosts Peggy Wang and Nic Francisco-Kaho’onei, as well as moderators Anna Feder and Bassam Haddad (@4Bassam).

The assault on academic freedom is intensifying on University campuses. This series takes note of cases of defamation, intimidation, and suspension that faculty are being subjected to in the United States and beyond. We aim to raise awareness regarding the conditions and pretenses under which such violations occur.

In this session, we had the opportunity to hear the stories of faculty under attack at our institutions, but the stories of staff facing repression are harder to come by. Without the protection of tenure and any semblance of academic freedom, they are more vulnerable to coercion and intimidation, and often without the protection or support of unions.

Join us LIVE this Friday, 24 October 2025, at 1:00PM EST here on:
X- Jadaliyya (@jadaliyya) / X
YouTube- Jadaliyya - YouTube

For more information, please visit:
Jadaliyya - In Defense of Academic Freedom: The Frontlines of Educator Resistance (24 October 2025)

(1) Instagram / @jadaliyya

Together for Justice! A Collective Demand for Labor to End its Complicity in Genocide in Gaza and Join the Arms Embargo

DC!! Show up!!! Disarm Genocide.
🗓️ Friday 24 October 2025
⏰ 12-3pm - 815 Black Lives Matter Plaza NW, Washington DC
Sign petition and learn more: bit.ly/DisarmGenocide (case sensitive)

🗣️ On FRIDAY OCTOBER 24th 12pm est Washington D.C.

JOIN US out front of the AFL-CIO Black Lives Matter Plaza

The Largest Union Federation who represents 12.5 Million workers including those who Manufacture or Ship weapons to Israel.

As we deliver our demands to SHUT IT DOWN FOR GAZA 🇵🇸

NO MORE WEAPONS FROM ALL U.S. PORTS FULL DIVESTMENT FROM ISRAEL

GENOCIDE WONT STOP UNTIL WEAPONS ARE STOPPED

Please sign and share!✊🏽 🔗⬇️

https://secure.ngpvan.com/FygyRgBN1EKc_S_Ab1kehg2

(1) Instagram / @hazami

(1) Instagram / @chrissmalls

Fridays @ 12:00 PM EDT - Zoom

Last Friday marked our 100th Action Hour for Palestine. While we wish we never had cause to create the Action Hour, we’re extremely proud of the work that we’ve done and the community that we’ve built together. Zoe and I reflected on this Action Hour milestone in a blog for the AFSC website. Read it here and consider supporting our work! 

This Friday we’ll have time in breakout rooms, so you can meet others in your geographic area and strategize about future action together! You can use this link to join every Friday at 12pm ET / 9am PT and you’ll also get a reminder email an hour before the Action Hour begins. Reminder, the link for the agenda document doesn’t change week to week, so you can always access it!

Yousef’s Gaza Update - Here is Yousef’s update for this week. You can find all of Yousef’s past Gaza updates on Gaza Unlocked. Please share these updates, it is vital that this information reaches as wide an audience as possible.  

Yousef also runs a podcast, where he recently interviewed a Global Sumud Flotilla participant. Listen to PalCast!

Watch this AFSC video featuring the heroic work of AFSC’s staff in Gaza over the past year of genocide, take a look at a timeline of our work over the past year, and read our public statement on the anniversary of October 7th.

Donate today  to support AFSC’s Gaza emergency response in Gaza. Over the past year, our staff have reached over a million Palestinians in Gaza with aid, including water, fresh vegetables, hygiene kits, school supplies, and hot meals.  See our new resource for peer-to-peer fundraising at afsc.org/fundraise. 

To register: AFSC Action Hour – Ceasefire Now

FRIDAYS@FETTERMAN’S

We are a weekly peace vigil conducted outside the Philadelphia office of U.S. Senator John Fetterman (D-PA), calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza.

Join Our Vigil - Every Friday afternoon until the senator publicly supports our demand.

11:15 am – 12:15 pm at the United States Custom House, 200 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA

More info: (20+) Facebook

New for October 24 - 🍉 Mark Fridays @ Fetterman’s 100th consecutive peace vigil for Gaza by attending a special vigil/rally on 10/24 at 11:15 AM at Sen. Fetterman’s Philadelphia office at 200 Chestnut Street. The rally will features guest speakers and special performances and will be followed by a 24-hour peace camp with hourly activities, such as learning circles, outreach, poetry, music, and meditation.

🕊For more information: terry@greenseedsgrants.com

☮ Registration link: Fridays @ Fetterman's 100th Vigil for Gaza Resistance • Resilience • Reimagination Friday, October 24th 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM

🕊Link to confirmed speakers & performers: Home - Fridays @ Fetterman's

Weekly Vigil: Rockaway for Ceasefire, 9:00 AM, 67-12 Rockaway Beach Blvd, Arverne, NY - Every Friday we will demand that U.S. Representative Meeks calls for a permanent ceasefire and save lives. Join us! We will not demobilize until we are all liberated - Instagram / @rockawayrevolution

🗓️ Fridays 4:30-5:30 PM 📍 36th Street and 3rd Avenue 🌅 Sunset Park, Brooklyn (Outside Industry City) - The ICJ has ruled that Israel’s blockade on aid and restrictions on UNRWA violate international law. It’s up to member states—and primarily the US—to hold them accountable. Meanwhile, our representative, @repdangoldman , is cosplaying as a progressive, running to every photo op and interview to talk about ICE raids and Trump’s continued dismantling of our democracy. It’s precisely because he and other elected politicians have allowed and enabled the genoc de in Palestine that we now see these same repressive tactics coming to NYC and cities across the country.

Join us at our new time on Friday evenings as we call on Goldman to block the bombs, support an arms embargo, and restore funding to UNRWA.
(1) Instagram / @ny10neighbors

(next on 10/17) - THETFORD, 7:30 - 8:15 AM every 1st and 3rd Friday of the month, on the Green across from the Congregational Church, Route 113. Ceasefire and Stop Arming Israel.

Fridays - MONTPELIER, at Noon in front of the old (now flooded-out) Federal Building on State Street.

Fridays - HANOVER, NH, 2:30 - 3:00 PM. Wo/Men In Black, dress all in black for this silent Vigil at the corner of Wheelock and Main Streets.  

Fridays - NEWPORT, VT, 3:00 - 4:00 PM, 100 Main Street at the fish statue

Every Friday - UPPER VALLEY, 4:00 – 5:00 PM Vigil for a permanent Ceasefire Now! in Gaza and the West Bank on Ledyard Bridge between Hanover, NH and Norwich, VT.

River Valley for Palestine weekly End US Military & Economic Aid to Israel standout, in front of Northampton City Hall, Fri, 10/17, noon-1 pm

Weekly Standout for Palestine & Lebanon. Field Park/Traffic Circle, Williamstown MA, 3:30 - 4:30 PM. every friday since november 17, 2023 (with one exception when there was a tornado) we have been standing out to show our support for a ceasefire, for a free palestine, for peace, for liberation from occupation. we are not an organized group- we are individuals with diverse backgrounds who all want the killing to stop. we are jewish, muslim, christian, non religious, young, old, in between. we are artists, writers, teachers, organizers, parents, small business owners, restaurant workers, any number of other professions and identities because we are not a monolith. all are welcome to stand with us if you want peace and believe all humans deserve safety, life, love.
most weeks we light the shabbat candles at the end, anyone who wants to can sing the blessing together.
we have extra signs, or feel free to bring your own. Instagram post: Williamstown for Palestine 🇵🇸 (@williamstownforpalestine) • Instagram photos and videos

Sunderland Standout, weekly @ 4 - 5pm, intersection of Rtes 116 & 47 - Western Mass Coalition For Palestine (@westernmasscoalition4pal) • Instagram photos and videos

JVP Standout at the Roundabout - Every Friday, Hello all of you dedicated supporters and comrades! Please take note that we have a TIME CHANGE for our JVP weekly Friday STANDOUT: 4 - 5 PM at the roundabout on the Northampton side of Coolidge Bridge. Please tell your friends! Signs & banners are always available if you don’t bring one along. Northampton Round-about Location: Northeast side of the roundabout in Northampton, by the Norwottuck Rail Trail park & ride bike-path parking lot off of Damon Rd, at end of the Coolidge Bridge over the CT River. Instagram / @jvpwesternma

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DAILY - Join the Somerville school standout for Palestine 7:15-7:45 am on Highland Ave and between Putnam and Vinal Ave every weekday. It’s a great way to be energized for the rest of your day. Organized by Somerville for Palestine. 

DAILY - Join Cambridge4Palestine’s at our standouts! Come say hi, pick up flyers, and learn more about our mission!🇵🇸🕊️🗳️❤️‍🔥
🌅Monday-Friday 12pm-1pm
🌌Monday evenings 5:30pm-6:30pm during City Council’s Monday meetings.
🏛️All standouts are outside Cambridge City Hall!🏛️

Friday 24 October 2025 - 6:00 AM EDT - 10:00 UTC (GMT)

Livestream: The Palestine Laboratory: A conversation with Antony Loewenstein

IUS Editors
iuscientists.org
Streaming on YouTube: LINK
Streaming on Rumble: LINK
Streaming on X.com/Twitter

Live interview with award-winning journalist Antony Loewenstein on the chilling political economy of Israel’s military-industrial complex and how the occupation of Palestine functions as a laboratory for testing weapons on civilians. How do scientists and engineers sustain this cycle of destruction, and how we can confront it.

Source: Livestream: The Palestine Laboratory

How the Media is Complicit in Genocide

🚨Last week, israeli collaborators murdered Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi.🚨 At home, our mass media has been collaborationist, whitewashing israel’s crimes while the Tufts Daily doxxes your fellow students. Come to Braker 222 (Tufts Univ) on Thursday, 10/23 at 9pm to learn about media bias against Palestine. See you there! 🇵🇸🫵

Instagram / @medfordcpl

Thursdays, 9pm ET - Online

Progressive Democrats of America Campaign to Victory Weekly Call
Join us as we share good news about campaigns and candidates we can easily get involved with that will turn US politics around for a safer, more peaceful, more prosperous, and more generally-progressive world for us all. You'll leave more hopeful, energized and organized. Invite your progressive friends!

RSVP Here

You'll leave energized, organized, and more hopeful. Invite your progressive friends! All are welcome.

We look forward to seeing you!

In solidarity,

The PDA National Team

Medical BDS: A Workshop on Boycotting Israeli Pharmaceuticals
Thursday, October 23rd, 7:30-9:30pm
Virtual event: link in bio
Representatives from the Boycott Teva USA campaign will lead a workshop on the role of Israeli pharmaceutical manufacturing in medical apartheid and genocide in Palestine, focusing on the medication manufacturer Teva Pharmaceuticals.

Thu Oct 23 2025 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm EDT - Chez Vous Roller Skating Rink | 11 Rhoades St, Boston, MA

Skate For Mutual Aid in Gaza

by Palestine South Shore Alliance

Come skate and have fun while raising funds for families in Gaza. There will be a raffle, silent auction, and vendors there too.

All fundraising money will be split equally amongst each family. The goal is to be able to rasie a minimum of $500 for the 17 families in Gaza.

Although every family in Gaza needs help, these are people that Omama personally has built relationships with over the past year.

Raffles will be sold $5 a piece, you can get 6 raffle tickets for $25. There also be vendors there to support local business.

Food is sold by the venue and has no relationship in the fundraising. If you would like to be a vendor or a sponsor, please reach out to Omama at Oma.yas3421@gmail.com

Source: Skate For Mutual Aid in Gaza, Chez Vous Roller Skating Rink, Boston, 23 October 2025

October 23, 6:30pm - Online & in person at the People’s Forum, 320 West 37th Street (between 8th & 9th Avenues) New York, NY

THE CARCERAL REPUBLICS - A PROBING CONVERSATION ON POLITICAL PRISONERS IN THE U.S., INDIA, & PALESTINE

Join us on October 23 for a probing conversation on political prisoners in the United States, India, and Palestine. Highlighting three books written by or highlighting political prisoners—Manifestations of Thought, The Trinity of Fundamentals, and How Long Can the Moon Be Caged?—we’ll explore the criminalization of dissent, the laws and courts that enable repression, and the solidarity that persists behind bars.        

At a time when states across the world are silencing dissent, the stories of political prisoners offer an unflinching map of resistance. Join us for a conversation focusing on three “democracies” — the United States (often styled the “oldest”), India (the “largest”), and Israel (branded the Middle East’s “only”) — to trace how they mobilize courts, police, and prisons to suppress political movements.        

From Black political prisoners targeted for confronting white supremacy, to Indian activists and scholars charged under sweeping security laws, to Palestinians held as hostages in Israeli jails, resistance persists in the face of carceral control. What solidarities are needed to meet the moment?

Held in-person at TPF and streamed online.

RSVP: The Carceral Republics: Political Prisoners in the U.S., India, and Israel Tickets, Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM | Eventbrite

October 23, 6 PM (Reception) 7 PM (Dinner) - The Capital Hilton, 1001 16th Street NW, Washington, DC

Journalists of Gaza to receive Gibran Special Recognition Award

by Arab American Institute

Bearing witness. This is why they have been targeted and why they endure. And it is why we are honored to present the Gibran Special Recognition Award for Excellence in Reporting to the Journalists of Gaza at the 22nd Annual Kahlil Gibran Spirit of Humanity Awards Gala on Thursday October 23, 2025 in Washington, D.C. 

For nearly two years, the journalists of Gaza have reported, photographed, and investigated what is happening to the people of Gaza and the place they call home. From the network journalists to the seasoned freelancers, from the professional photojournalists to the children using their phones, they have risked everything to document what is happening in Gaza. As of this writing, at least 245 have been killed in what the Committee to Protect Journalists calls “the deadliest and most deliberate effort to kill and silence journalists that [we have] ever documented.”  In the face of this unprecedented targeting, it is their lenses and words that have documented Israel’s crimes, detailed Gaza’s pain, and given their people a voice.   

For more than two decades, the Gibran Gala has honored those whose work and vision embrace and embody the ideals of the great poet who hails from Lebanon—inclusion, compassion, and justice. In the face of unfathomable challenges and risks to their very lives, the journalists of Gaza exemplify this spirit. 

We are honored to share that joining us to accept the award on behalf of the journalists of Gaza will be award-winning photojournalist Motaz Azaiza. As someone who grew up photographing the daily resilience, hardship, and joy of life in Gaza, the 26-year did not foresee that his camera lens would capture the unfolding genocide in real-time to millions of people worldwide. Given that Israel forbids press to enter Gaza, Motaz and his fellow journalists became the only way the world could see and bear witness to the devastation—and to be moved to action. When Time named Motaz one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2024, they highlighted a central message of his work and that of his colleagues: “What is happening in Gaza is not content for you,” he said. “We are not telling you what is happening ... for your likes or views or shares. No, we are waiting for you to act. We need to stop this war.” 

While this remains a difficult time for all of us struggling to stop the war on Gaza and its people, we know we must all continue to elevate Gaza and a Special Recognition Award at this year’s Gibran Gala is one way to do just that. And to have Motaz, whose powerful images shared the story of the people of Gaza to many previously unfamiliar with the Palestinian struggle, accepting the award in person on behalf of his fellow journalists is an additional honor. 

I know you will want to be with us as we honor Motaz and the journalists of Gaza—and to keep the global spotlight on Gaza. 

We hope to see you on October 23rd.  

Maya    

Tickets: Gibran 2025 — Arab American Institute

For more information about this year’s Gibran Gala, including to reserve tickets, book hotel accommodations, and read about the history of the awards, please visit: https://www.aaiusa.org/gibran-2025.  

Thursday, October 23, 2025, 6:00 pm (Eastern) / 5:00 pm (Central) / 4:00 pm (Mountain) / 3:00 pm (Pacific) - Zoom

Solidarity with Palestine, Strength in Community: A Supportive Space for UCC Clergy 

This is an invitation for UCC clergy (and adjacent folks - you do not have to be clergy or UCC) to be supported, connected, and resourced as we seek to respond to the call of our Palestinian partners for solidarity.

Register Here

Hosted by the United Church of Christ Movement for Palestinian Solidarity (formerly UCC Palestine Israel Network). 

Join us on October 23 at 6pm in the Sackler Room at Clark Univ (Worcester) for a Palestine Talk-In with Worcester Multifaith for Palestine member Yaser Najjar. This event is organized by @clarkumenasa and @clarkumsa

Instagram / Worcester for Palestine

Join us on Thursday 10/23 in Tawes (6 PM, Univ of MD, College Park) for a screening of “Where Should The Birds Fly”

This is not just a film. It is the reality of Gaza, told by those who lived it.

Through the eyes of two young women living in Gaza, this documentary exposes the brutal reality of occupations’s siege and it’s 2008-2009 attack on Gaza. It is the firsthand testament to the resilience of Gazans who still live under genocide.

Do not forget: our university allows and hosts war criminals. This screening is an act of defiance against UMD’s decision to platform and UMPD’s choice to protect the IOF, the very butchers who enacted the siege and genocide. The administration’s priority is clear: it is a safe haven for genocide enablers.

Come witness the truth they don’t want you to see. Hear the stories from the ground. And join us in building a movement to ensure our university never again platforms war criminals.

Instagram / @umd_sjp

🗓️ Thursday, October 23rd, 6-9 PM 📍 The People’s Forum, 320 West 37th St.

Art Build # 2🔥

Join us at The People’s Forum on Thursday, October 23rd from 6 pm to 9 pm to create banners, picket signs, and art targeting TCS’ complicity in genocide. Come meet comrades and make propaganda ✊🏽#TataByeBye #droptcs

- Thursday, October 23, 6 pm - 7:30 pm

- Sunday, October 26, 3 pm - 4:30 pm

DOCUMENTARY FILM - Severed

Virtual screening centers the voices of Palestinians disabled by Israel's relentless genocidal attacks.

Part of global campaign during National Disability Awareness Month.

Registration needed to view film online - Register