No Enterprise As Ordinary Amidst a Genocide! Inventive, Disruptive Protests in NYC and San Francisco
Wednesday morning, March 13, hundreds of protesters converged at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) to cause a major disruption. One of their banners read “Stop the World for Gaza.” In a local news coverage of the protest, as the protesters are heard in the background chanting “Shut it down! Shut it down!” the reporter says, “Well, it was anything but business as usual at SFO’s international terminal today. A large group of pro-Palestine, anti-war protesters descended on the terminal and effectively shut down the security gates. The group calling for an end to the violence that officials say has now left nearly 30,000 Palestinians dead.” The organizers planned for the protest to last for exactly 153 minutes—one minute for each day since Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza began in October.
One of the protesters said, “So many lives have been lost and so many more are at stake, and we cannot sit idly by as our government is complicit in arming and justifying these atrocities against Palestinians in this moment, and for the past 75 years. As people of conscience, it is a necessity for us to take action to stop this escalating genocide.”
Elsewhere…
Some of the other recent protests around Palestine:
Portland, Oregon, March 15: Hundreds of high school students and some teachers walked out of school and converged at the Portland Public Schools headquarters.
Staten Island, New York City, March 15: Students at Wagner High School walked out chanting “Free Palestine”; they also alleged discrimination by school officials against Palestinian and Arab students.
Bakersfield, California, March 13: Protesters chanting “Ceasefire now!” disrupted a city council meeting, demanding that the council adopt an official resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Cleveland, Ohio, March 9: A protest car caravan shut down parts of major highways, including near the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, and then disrupted traffic in the downtown area.
