We are a community coalition in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, occupying the land of the Massachusett tribal nation
Our Mission
To locally organize around and for Palestinian liberation in our lifetime, while deepening our sense of community, to practice building the world we need and deserve.
What we want
1. Palestinian Self-Determination, Right to Return, permanent ceasefire, and an end to the genocide, apartheid, and occupation
2. Divestment from militarization.
3. A free flow of information in the U.S. and globally and an end to censorship and suppression of dissent.
What we know
1. We recognize our role as visitors and for many as colonizers on this land, we move with an acute awareness that what we do, we do on colonized Pawtucket, Massachusett, and Wampanoag land. We want to return Native land to Native peoples, from Turtle Island to Palestine.
2. We unequivocally support and will not compromise on Palestinian life, dignity, self-determination, the right of return, and the right of resistance against occupation and western colonization.
3. 1948 is internationally recognized as the beginning of the Nakba, yet we know that anti-Palestinian racism, economic disenfranchisement, and mass displacement of Palestinians began long before this date. In the last year, the genocide has escalated.
4. This land is steeped in religious history, but this genocide is not a result of religion, but of colonization. This is about power, land, and resources. We see this in the escalating settler violence in the West Bank and the unceasing bombing of Gaza.
5. The liberation struggle of Palestinians is the struggle for liberation for all colonized peoples across the globe. We should not treat the struggles we face against imperialism, white supremacy, and zionism as separate from one another, because they act as one to endanger, oppress, and eliminate us.
6. zionism is a racist settler-colonial project that weaponizes Jewish trauma. It is the source of violence for generations and endangers everyone in the region. zionism itself is white supremacist and anti-semitic.
7. This is urgent. 2.2 million Palestinians are at imminent risk in Gaza and the West Bank without an end to israeli-US aggression and without massive humanitarian relief. This urgency is also felt by Palestinians in the diaspora.
8. Biden and the United States government are actively committing genocide and as people living in the US, we have a responsibility to fight against this.
9. Members of our community have experienced and continue to experience shock, trauma, grief, and fear. We know that the Free Palestine movement simultaneously challenges anti-Palestinian racism, white supremacy, colonialism, Islamophobia, antisemitism, and fascism both nationally and locally.