After much media scrutiny and police intervention, Palestine Action Group’s weekly Sunday protest went ahead, marking one year of Israel’s genocide on Palestine.
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The rally commemorating one year of genocide will go ahead in Hyde Park on Sunday, while a vigil will occur on Monday.
“They’re not made by us, they’re not made by you or their members, they represent the millionaires,” Lees continued. “What we need in this country is a real working class movement that will stand up against genocide.”
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.
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.
