Join the #ShutItDown4Palestine Coalition on Wednesday, March 12 at 11AM in Foley Square, NYC
All Out for Mahmoud Khalil - Rally at the Courthouse, Foley Square
Mahmoud Khalil’s court conference will be held on the morning of March 12th in NYC. We need all New Yorkers to show up and demonstrate the mass global support for Mahmoud’s freedom.So far, over 2 million people have signed the petition for Mahmoud’s release.
The time is NOW to take to the streets to reaffirm our right to protest Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people. We stand firmly with the students and demand ICE off our campuses.
Learn more about Mahmoud’s case: SCOOP: Emails Show Mahmoud Khalil Asked Columbia for Protection a Day Before He Was Detained
Learn more about the Rally: All Out for Mahmoud Khalil: Rally at the Courthouse - CODEPINK - Women for Peace
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Academics, artists, labor leaders, and activists launch open letter calling for an end to Trump’s attacks on immigrant students standing with Palestine in the wake of Mahmoud Khalil's arrest
Public figures have signed an open letter calling for the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to immediately cease its attacks against immigrant students and the unalienable, constitutional right to free speech.
Signatories include actors Susan Sarandon, Sara Ramirez, and Marissa Bode; artists Lauren Jauregui, Alana Hadid, and Samia Halaby; scholars Dr. Judith Butler, Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley, Dr. Etienne Balibar, and Dr. Vijay Prashad; Writer and activist Derecka Purnell; Author Susan Abulhawa; trade union leaders Brandon Mancilla, Director of United Auto Workers Region 9A, Carl Rosen, General President of United, Electrical Radio and Machine Workers, as well as dozens of other labor leaders; organizers People’s Forum Executive Director Manolo de los Santos, ANSWER Coalition National Director Brian Becker, and organizer with The Palestinian Youth Movement Mohammed Nabulsi.
The letter is being launched just days after Palestinian activist and recent Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and detained by agents with the US Department of Homeland Security in New York City. Khalil is currently in an ICE detention center in Louisiana. Under a false pretense of combating anti-semitism, the Department of Justice investigations are part of a broad and multi-pronged attack on both the movement for Palestine and the First Amendment. The Trump administration and its recently launched “Anti-Semitism Task Force” has promised to carry out more arrests, revocations of visas, deportations, and even criminal charges in an attempt to silence dissent.