On July 9, over one thousand Palestinians and their supporters came together in downtown Chicago to stand up against the latest round of oppression and terror being levied against Gaza by the Israeli government.
The rally started off in front of the Israeli Consulate in Chicago, then marched all over downtown, including to the headquarters of Citigroup, an institution that boasts on its website of its close relationship with the Israeli government, and which bankrolls the military hardware necessary to maintain the expensive security apparatus of a modern apartheid state. The building’s austere facade belies the way its profits are made, but the crowd knew better, chanting, “We know what this building’s for: occupation and war!”
The militant protesters also marched on the corporate headquarters of Boeing, which makes exorbitant profits by supplying the drones and other weaponry being used right now by the Israeli government against the Palestinians. Speakers brought the corporation (which is also the largest beneficiary of state and federal subsidies in the United States, slated to receive $13.2 billion dollars of public money in 2014 alone) to task for its complicity in the continuing occupation, while nearby police and private security forces looked on silently.
Stop the Bombing of Gaza! End U.S. Aid to Israel! U.S. Out of the Middle East!
