The rally was set to march to the USyd Gaza solidarity encampment, however, protesters were forced to alter their route due to threats of campus bans.
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Honi Soit arrived at the encampment minutes before the protestors entered via University Avenue, and the encampment organisers were pleasantly surprised by the energy of protestors, their chants clearly audible from the Quad lawns.
The march began with a silent procession and then protestors’ voices rang loud and clear through the streets of Sydney’s CBD.
On Sunday April 21, speakers at the Palestine rally demonstrated the importance of our collective and enduring efforts towards Palestinian liberation.
With the brutality noted by the speakers and the continued bombardment of the Palestinians in full view of the world, the words of Walid Daqqa quoted by the first speaker are apt: “I do not need to prove my cause – it is self-evident.”
The rally renewed its weekly calls for a permanent ceasefire, to end the occupation of Palestine, and to stop the siege on, and starvation of, Gaza.
Across the weekend, protests calling for a ceasefire and end to the complicity in genocide in Palestine, at Port Botany, Enmore Theatre and Sydney CBD have been met with increased police brutality.
Palestine Action Group hosted their twenty-third week of protests in the Sydney CBD on March 17. The protesters called on the Albanese government to end all their ties to Israel and condemned the time it took the government to restore UNRWA funding. Over 30,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the most recent Israeli invasion.
Palestine Action Group hosted their 23rd week of straight protests against the ongoing Israeli invasion on Gaza on Sunday March 10. The rally comes as Israel has defied the United States and other allies by continuing its ground invasion of Rafah.
On Saturday, Palestine Action Group Sydney conducted its nineteenth consecutive rally at Hyde Park calling for an end to the…