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#Video - What Happens When US Citizens Defy Cuba Policy? | Medea Benjamin Responds
https://peertube.world/w/hDBEgfUgfdq36Wa87d3A9E
Duration - 13:19[from #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]
What happens when a US citizen tries to deliver #HumanitarianAid to #Cuba and criticizes the US government’s economic war on #Cuba?
That was what Medea Benjamin did, and now the US government is investigating and intimidating her.
Last March, #MedeaBenjamin, co-founder of #CodePink, traveled to Cuba as part of the #NuestraAmericaConvoy, amid a devastating economic crisis brought about by #US sanctions and an #oil #blockade designed to choke the island.
She came to bring food, medicines, especially to the children’s #hospitals, where the maximum pressure sanctions are killing babies.
Medea explains to BotB what the investigations really are, how she was saved by Cuban #doctors, why #HasanPiker's reach made him a target and why this won’t stop the #solidarity towards Cuba.
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「リビアで拘束されているグローバル救援隊の活動家を解放せよ」 - #CodePink on X (2026年5月26日)https://x.com/codepink/status/2059378629952377332
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ガザ地区へ陸路で向かっていた支援物資輸送隊に同行していた活動家10人が、リビア・アラブ軍に所属する治安部隊によって拘束された。グローバル救援隊は、ガザの人々に医薬品、人道支援物資、連帯のメッセージを届けるために輸送中だったが、月曜日の午後、リビア・アラブ軍に所属する治安部隊によって拘束された。
人道支援ミッションのメンバーは、スペイン、ポルトガル、アルゼンチン、ウルグアイ、ポーランド、チュニジア、イタリア、アメリカ合衆国出身の民間人である。彼らは現在もリビア東部当局に拘束されている（GNS）。
支援物資の配布は犯罪ではありません。私たちは、これらの勇敢な活動家たちの即時釈放を要求し、各国政府に対し、彼らの自由を確保するよう強く求めます。
https://hcommons.social/@adachika192/116644178617466025 -
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@adachika192
「リビアで拘束されているグローバル救援隊の活動家を解放せよ」 - #CodePink on X (2026年5月26日)https://x.com/codepink/status/2059378629952377332
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ガザ地区へ陸路で向かっていた支援物資輸送隊に同行していた活動家10人が、リビア・アラブ軍に所属する治安部隊によって拘束された。グローバル救援隊は、ガザの人々に医薬品、人道支援物資、連帯のメッセージを届けるために輸送中だったが、月曜日の午後、リビア・アラブ軍に所属する治安部隊によって拘束された。
人道支援ミッションのメンバーは、スペイン、ポルトガル、アルゼンチン、ウルグアイ、ポーランド、チュニジア、イタリア、アメリカ合衆国出身の民間人である。彼らは現在もリビア東部当局に拘束されている（GNS）。
支援物資の配布は犯罪ではありません。私たちは、これらの勇敢な活動家たちの即時釈放を要求し、各国政府に対し、彼らの自由を確保するよう強く求めます。
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"Free the Global Relief Convoy Activists Detained in Libya" - #CodePink on X (2026-05-26)
https://x.com/codepink/status/2059378629952377332
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10 activists on an aid convoy traveling by land to Gaza have been detained by security forces affiliated with the Libyan Arab Armed Forces.The Global Relief Convoy was carrying medicines, humanitarian aid, and messages of solidarity to deliver to the people of Gaza when they were detained by security forces affiliated with the Libyan Arab Armed Forces on Monday afternoon.
The members of the humanitarian mission are civilians from Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Uruguay, Poland, Tunisia, Italy, and the United States. They are still being held by Eastern Libyan authorities (GNS).
Delivering aid is not a crime. We demand the immediate release of these brave activists and urge their governments to secure their freedom.
#GlobalSumudLandConvoy #MaghrebSumudOrganization #BreakTheSiege #palestine #Gaza #GlobalSumudFlotilla #FreeThemAll
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"Free the Global Relief Convoy Activists Detained in Libya" - #CodePink on X (2026-05-26)
https://x.com/codepink/status/2059378629952377332
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10 activists on an aid convoy traveling by land to Gaza have been detained by security forces affiliated with the Libyan Arab Armed Forces.The Global Relief Convoy was carrying medicines, humanitarian aid, and messages of solidarity to deliver to the people of Gaza when they were detained by security forces affiliated with the Libyan Arab Armed Forces on Monday afternoon.
The members of the humanitarian mission are civilians from Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Uruguay, Poland, Tunisia, Italy, and the United States. They are still being held by Eastern Libyan authorities (GNS).
Delivering aid is not a crime. We demand the immediate release of these brave activists and urge their governments to secure their freedom.
#GlobalSumudLandConvoy #MaghrebSumudOrganization #BreakTheSiege #palestine #Gaza #GlobalSumudFlotilla #FreeThemAll
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"Free the Global Relief Convoy Activists Detained in Libya" - #CodePink on X (2026-05-26)
https://x.com/codepink/status/2059378629952377332
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10 activists on an aid convoy traveling by land to Gaza have been detained by security forces affiliated with the Libyan Arab Armed Forces.The Global Relief Convoy was carrying medicines, humanitarian aid, and messages of solidarity to deliver to the people of Gaza when they were detained by security forces affiliated with the Libyan Arab Armed Forces on Monday afternoon.
The members of the humanitarian mission are civilians from Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Uruguay, Poland, Tunisia, Italy, and the United States. They are still being held by Eastern Libyan authorities (GNS).
Delivering aid is not a crime. We demand the immediate release of these brave activists and urge their governments to secure their freedom.
#GlobalSumudLandConvoy #MaghrebSumudOrganization #BreakTheSiege #palestine #Gaza #GlobalSumudFlotilla #FreeThemAll
@[email protected] @[email protected] -
"Free the Global Relief Convoy Activists Detained in Libya" - #CodePink on X (2026-05-26)
https://x.com/codepink/status/2059378629952377332
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10 activists on an aid convoy traveling by land to Gaza have been detained by security forces affiliated with the Libyan Arab Armed Forces.The Global Relief Convoy was carrying medicines, humanitarian aid, and messages of solidarity to deliver to the people of Gaza when they were detained by security forces affiliated with the Libyan Arab Armed Forces on Monday afternoon.
The members of the humanitarian mission are civilians from Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Uruguay, Poland, Tunisia, Italy, and the United States. They are still being held by Eastern Libyan authorities (GNS).
Delivering aid is not a crime. We demand the immediate release of these brave activists and urge their governments to secure their freedom.
#GlobalSumudLandConvoy #MaghrebSumudOrganization #BreakTheSiege #palestine #Gaza #GlobalSumudFlotilla #FreeThemAll
@[email protected] @[email protected] -
"Free the Global Relief Convoy Activists Detained in Libya" - #CodePink on X (2026-05-26)
https://x.com/codepink/status/2059378629952377332
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10 activists on an aid convoy traveling by land to Gaza have been detained by security forces affiliated with the Libyan Arab Armed Forces.The Global Relief Convoy was carrying medicines, humanitarian aid, and messages of solidarity to deliver to the people of Gaza when they were detained by security forces affiliated with the Libyan Arab Armed Forces on Monday afternoon.
The members of the humanitarian mission are civilians from Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Uruguay, Poland, Tunisia, Italy, and the United States. They are still being held by Eastern Libyan authorities (GNS).
Delivering aid is not a crime. We demand the immediate release of these brave activists and urge their governments to secure their freedom.
#GlobalSumudLandConvoy #MaghrebSumudOrganization #BreakTheSiege #palestine #Gaza #GlobalSumudFlotilla #FreeThemAll
@[email protected] @[email protected] -
#CodePink on X (2026-05-25)
https://x.com/codepink/status/2058971824193458485
———>> This Memorial Day, we remember U.S. imperialist intervention across the world.
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#CodePink on X (2026-05-25)
https://x.com/codepink/status/2058971824193458485
———>> This Memorial Day, we remember U.S. imperialist intervention across the world.
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#CodePink on X (2026-05-25)
https://x.com/codepink/status/2058971824193458485
———>> This Memorial Day, we remember U.S. imperialist intervention across the world.
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#CodePink on X (2026-05-25)
https://x.com/codepink/status/2058971824193458485
———>> This Memorial Day, we remember U.S. imperialist intervention across the world.
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#CodePink on X (2026-05-25)
https://x.com/codepink/status/2058971824193458485
———>> This Memorial Day, we remember U.S. imperialist intervention across the world.
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Trump administration targets Hasan Piker, Medea Benjamin over Cuba trip
This past Saturday, Fox News, in collusion with the Trump administration, announced that the federal government was targeting…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #CODEPINK #Cuba #foxnews #hasanpiker #MedeaBenjamin #TrumpAdministration
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Seeing that the Treasury Dept has supposedly issued a subpeona against Medea Benjamin and Hasan Piker supposedly over their trip to Cuba. There are reports of a subpeona on corporate media notably FOX, Medea says so far this is not yet the case.
https://www.codepink.org/subpoenacubastatement
Normally I would call any such subpeona a declaration of war against the entire activist community, but they already DECLARED war on us with NSPM-7. Still, that did not directly name peace groups but rather us antifa. Now this shit might be getting extended to a peace group.
YES, Donald Trump's regime may be declaring war on a peace organization. An attack on one is an attack on all. The US Dept of THEFT can eat shit.
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Seeing that the Treasury Dept has supposedly issued a subpeona against Medea Benjamin and Hasan Piker supposedly over their trip to Cuba. There are reports of a subpeona on corporate media notably FOX, Medea says so far this is not yet the case.
https://www.codepink.org/subpoenacubastatement
Normally I would call any such subpeona a declaration of war against the entire activist community, but they already DECLARED war on us with NSPM-7. Still, that did not directly name peace groups but rather us antifa. Now this shit might be getting extended to a peace group.
YES, Donald Trump's regime may be declaring war on a peace organization. An attack on one is an attack on all. The US Dept of THEFT can eat shit.
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Seeing that the Treasury Dept has supposedly issued a subpeona against Medea Benjamin and Hasan Piker supposedly over their trip to Cuba. There are reports of a subpeona on corporate media notably FOX, Medea says so far this is not yet the case.
https://www.codepink.org/subpoenacubastatement
Normally I would call any such subpeona a declaration of war against the entire activist community, but they already DECLARED war on us with NSPM-7. Still, that did not directly name peace groups but rather us antifa. Now this shit might be getting extended to a peace group.
YES, Donald Trump's regime may be declaring war on a peace organization. An attack on one is an attack on all. The US Dept of THEFT can eat shit.
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Seeing that the Treasury Dept has supposedly issued a subpeona against Medea Benjamin and Hasan Piker supposedly over their trip to Cuba. There are reports of a subpeona on corporate media notably FOX, Medea says so far this is not yet the case.
https://www.codepink.org/subpoenacubastatement
Normally I would call any such subpeona a declaration of war against the entire activist community, but they already DECLARED war on us with NSPM-7. Still, that did not directly name peace groups but rather us antifa. Now this shit might be getting extended to a peace group.
YES, Donald Trump's regime may be declaring war on a peace organization. An attack on one is an attack on all. The US Dept of THEFT can eat shit.
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Seeing that the Treasury Dept has supposedly issued a subpeona against Medea Benjamin and Hasan Piker supposedly over their trip to Cuba. There are reports of a subpeona on corporate media notably FOX, Medea says so far this is not yet the case.
https://www.codepink.org/subpoenacubastatement
Normally I would call any such subpeona a declaration of war against the entire activist community, but they already DECLARED war on us with NSPM-7. Still, that did not directly name peace groups but rather us antifa. Now this shit might be getting extended to a peace group.
YES, Donald Trump's regime may be declaring war on a peace organization. An attack on one is an attack on all. The US Dept of THEFT can eat shit.
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Hasan and Code Pink are being treated as criminals for bringing food, medicine, and diapers to Cuba — a country we're illegally starving. Not one Epstein-linked predator has been arrested, yet this regime has decided humanitarian aid is the real crime.
#Cuba #CodePink #HumanitarianAid #EpsteinFiles #EndTheBlockade
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Hasan and Code Pink are being treated as criminals for bringing food, medicine, and diapers to Cuba — a country we're illegally starving. Not one Epstein-linked predator has been arrested, yet this regime has decided humanitarian aid is the real crime.
#Cuba #CodePink #HumanitarianAid #EpsteinFiles #EndTheBlockade
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Hasan and Code Pink are being treated as criminals for bringing food, medicine, and diapers to Cuba — a country we're illegally starving. Not one Epstein-linked predator has been arrested, yet this regime has decided humanitarian aid is the real crime.
#Cuba #CodePink #HumanitarianAid #EpsteinFiles #EndTheBlockade
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Hasan and Code Pink are being treated as criminals for bringing food, medicine, and diapers to Cuba — a country we're illegally starving. Not one Epstein-linked predator has been arrested, yet this regime has decided humanitarian aid is the real crime.
#Cuba #CodePink #HumanitarianAid #EpsteinFiles #EndTheBlockade
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CodePink y senadores de EE.UU. rechazan amenazas de acción militar contra Cuba
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.telesurtv.net/codepink-senadores-rechazan-amenazas-vs-cuba/
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CodePink y senadores de EE.UU. rechazan amenazas de acción militar contra Cuba
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.telesurtv.net/codepink-senadores-rechazan-amenazas-vs-cuba/
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On Palestinians’ Growing Revolutionary Optimism.
Article republished by Jerry Alatalo | May 15, 2026
[Editor’s note: Jenin M (CodePink) writes:
“Israel believes it can continue what it has always done. It can embark on an outright genocide with the intent of wiping Palestinians off the map, then agree to multiple ceasefires only to break every single one of them. After all, you cannot cease a genocide while the genocidal entity still operates with impunity. The difference this time around is that people around the world actually know what’s going on. Israel, along with its benefactor, the U.S., has backed itself into a corner I doubt it will ever escape from.”
Please share this perceptive, thoughtful, timely and relevant article far and wide. Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments. Thank you very much. Peace.]
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The Fuel to My Revolutionary Optimism
Jenin M for Codepink
As a Palestinian born in the 21st century, I am the generational product of Nakba survivors and the trauma that came with it. As distant as it may seem, I am only two generations removed from the 1948 Catastrophe of Palestine, where over 750,000 Palestinians were displaced from their land, and thousands were massacred. Zionist militias backed by the British Empire razed Palestinian villages, killing, raping, displacing, and imprisoning anyone they could find, all to establish the brand new settler colonial project of Israel. This single day in Palestinian history would stain the soil with blood spilled and trauma gained for decades to come.
Both sets of my grandparents are older than the state of Israel, each born a few years before the Nakba. May 14th, 1948, was probably a rather normal day in my grandparents’ childhood. They would have been inside their homes with their families, or playing outside like any other day.The next day, everything changed. On May 15th, Zionist militias stormed their hometowns, slaughtered their neighbors, and destroyed entire villages. My grandparents’ childhoods were stripped away, and their entire lives uprooted.
After the Nakba, everything changed. The people of Palestine now live under the occupation of racists who despise and dehumanize them. These foreigners decided what rights they could and couldn’t have in their own homelands, and the threat of violence was always present. My great-grandfather was shot in the head by a settler. The Palestinian education system was dramatically defunded, leading my mother’s parents to leave for Europe for university. When they tried to come back home after the 1967 Naksa, foreign soldiers somehow had the authority to bar them from ever entering again. They had to move to Jordan and start a new life. They were only 2 hours away from their families, but they didn’t know if they’d ever be allowed to make the short trip back. My grandmother has only been to Palestine once since then, and my grandfather twice.
My other set of grandparents remained on the land, but now had to live a life of heavy restriction and limited movement. It’s hard for me to imagine what it was like to witness the plundering of our homeland by foreign invaders, but I can never truly understand the magnitude of seeing the gradual colonization that seemed to only get worse throughout the decades. I will never forget when my grandfather, who was a bus driver back in the day, told me that he was once able to drive to Beirut or Baghdad, and then return home on the same day. Now, such an idea is unfathomable.
Ever since I was old enough to comprehend things, I knew Palestine was my homeland and that it was being hurt by something called Israel. Israel was the reason my mom was born in Jordan instead of Palestine, the driving force that led my parents to move to the U.S. for better education and work. It is the thing that separates me from the rest of my extended family, preventing me from knowing them wholly and truly. Israel is why I only see my grandparents every few years, why I have to watch my younger cousins grow up through a phone screen. As a Palestinian who grew up in the States, I was immersed in Western culture and disconnected from my own, and Israel is the reason.
This was my norm, the reality I was born into. After a while, the daily reminders of being disenfranchised, the cruelty of it all, become something you just get used to. You begin to get settled with the unsettling feeling that this may be the fortune of a Palestinian in this world: a life of displacement and diaspora, with the occasional travesty, like the previous bombing campaigns of Gaza in 2008, 2012, and 2014. This process of desensitization is imprinted in my generational DNA; I was practically born already accustomed to the injustice of being Palestinian.
The brutal truth was that the Nakba never ended. We all instinctively knew this, but especially after the Oslo Accords’ normalization efforts, a sense of false comfort plagued the Palestinian community for the two decades following its signing. The reality before October 2023 was the occasional protest and the occasional outrage, only to be quelled by half-hearted statements of sympathetic apathy by politicians. I became involved in student organizing for Palestine in 2021, and although we were constantly working, the landscape back then was much quieter and smaller.
Then, two and a half years ago, the current stage of genocide in Gaza began. I don’t think I will ever experience life the way it happened that fall. I had gone to sleep on October 6th, where everything was relatively “normal”, then I woke up for my morning shift at 4:30 AM to my phone practically blowing up with notifications. I remember going to my barista job with headphones in the whole time, watching Al-Jazeera while I made coffee for people who had no idea what had just shifted in the world.
In the wake of October 7th, the protests became consistent, the outrage became something so eternal that you felt like it could consume you and burn you to ash. What was once a few hundred people in the streets became thousands, and in some places, millions would turn out.
It was the beginning of a period of exhaustion, having something so important to organize for every single day, to the point that my studies didn’t even matter anymore. It was tough, but what was happening to those in Gaza was far worse, and it became a matter of expending everything you have for those who have nothing. Millions felt the same all over the world, and this sparked the mass-education and mobilization of the Palestine solidarity movement we see today.
Since October 2023, the images out of Gaza resembling the Nakba have flooded our timelines. After nearly three years of the most inhumane, dehumanizing, genocidal campaign by the U.S. and Israel, one might assume that a sense of hopelessness would take hold, as it did after the 1948 Nakba. But I see this moment as the catalyst for the exact opposite to happen.
Israel believes it can continue what it has always done. It can embark on an outright genocide with the intent of wiping Palestinians off the map, then agree to multiple ceasefires only to break every single one of them. After all, you cannot cease a genocide while the genocidal entity still operates with impunity. The difference this time around is that people around the world actually know what’s going on. Israel, along with its benefactor, the U.S., has backed itself into a corner I doubt it will ever escape from.
And that’s the fuel to my revolutionary optimism. Sometimes, it’s hard to think liberation is near when faced with so much death and destruction. But it’s even harder to ignore the cracks in the facade of the U.S. and Israeli machine. They were both built on false foundations that were already rotten and cracked, and nothing built on the crushed livelihoods of millions will ever persevere. People are seeing the rot come up to the surface, and they are utterly disgusted with the state of our world that has perpetuated genocide, all held together by an ultra-wealthy ruling class, agonizing capitalism, and white supremacy.
When Israel was once known as the democracy of the Middle East, it’s now the stain, the villain that has reigned chaos, death, and destruction all over the region. When getting AIPAC money once meant you were a strong candidate, now it’s a sure death sentence in local American elections. When American institutions like the American Medical Association once deemed it acceptable to stay silent on Palestine, they are now condemned for it. When our media and news outlets operated as tools of Israeli propaganda, they are now seen as tools of war and oppression. It is our work and dedication as activists that have changed the perception of all these things that were once deemed normal.
In 1948, a time when news traveled slowly, Israel and the West believed they had conquered a territory forever. In 2026, that “forever” territory is still fighting back against years of occupation and genocide. That’s the difference: the struggle for Palestine was built on the sacrifice of our martyrs and revolutionaries, on principle, and on love for our land and people. It is a beautiful, rich foundation that can withstand whatever force attempts to tear it down.
Most of my family remains on the land, or near it in Jordan. I see this as a consistent win against the oppressor every day. As long as we keep our homes, livelihoods, and stories, the Palestinian identity will never die, and my family is fighting that battle every day. If desensitization has an imprint on my DNA, so does resilience and the steadfast faith that Palestine will be liberated soon.
Jenin is CODEPINK’s Palestine Campaigner. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago in December of 2023. For over five years, Jenin has been a community organizer and dedicated individual focused on the Palestinian movement through advocacy, digital storytelling, and grassroots mobilization. She is a firm believer in intertwined struggle and liberation for all.
(Source: ScheerPost.com)
#CodePink #History #Illinois #Palestine #Philosophy #ScheerPostCom #UniversityOfIllinois #WhatIsTheNakba -
On Palestinians’ Growing Revolutionary Optimism.
Article republished by Jerry Alatalo | May 15, 2026
[Editor’s note: Jenin M (CodePink) writes:
“Israel believes it can continue what it has always done. It can embark on an outright genocide with the intent of wiping Palestinians off the map, then agree to multiple ceasefires only to break every single one of them. After all, you cannot cease a genocide while the genocidal entity still operates with impunity. The difference this time around is that people around the world actually know what’s going on. Israel, along with its benefactor, the U.S., has backed itself into a corner I doubt it will ever escape from.”
Please share this perceptive, thoughtful, timely and relevant article far and wide. Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments. Thank you very much. Peace.]
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The Fuel to My Revolutionary Optimism
Jenin M for Codepink
As a Palestinian born in the 21st century, I am the generational product of Nakba survivors and the trauma that came with it. As distant as it may seem, I am only two generations removed from the 1948 Catastrophe of Palestine, where over 750,000 Palestinians were displaced from their land, and thousands were massacred. Zionist militias backed by the British Empire razed Palestinian villages, killing, raping, displacing, and imprisoning anyone they could find, all to establish the brand new settler colonial project of Israel. This single day in Palestinian history would stain the soil with blood spilled and trauma gained for decades to come.
Both sets of my grandparents are older than the state of Israel, each born a few years before the Nakba. May 14th, 1948, was probably a rather normal day in my grandparents’ childhood. They would have been inside their homes with their families, or playing outside like any other day.The next day, everything changed. On May 15th, Zionist militias stormed their hometowns, slaughtered their neighbors, and destroyed entire villages. My grandparents’ childhoods were stripped away, and their entire lives uprooted.
After the Nakba, everything changed. The people of Palestine now live under the occupation of racists who despise and dehumanize them. These foreigners decided what rights they could and couldn’t have in their own homelands, and the threat of violence was always present. My great-grandfather was shot in the head by a settler. The Palestinian education system was dramatically defunded, leading my mother’s parents to leave for Europe for university. When they tried to come back home after the 1967 Naksa, foreign soldiers somehow had the authority to bar them from ever entering again. They had to move to Jordan and start a new life. They were only 2 hours away from their families, but they didn’t know if they’d ever be allowed to make the short trip back. My grandmother has only been to Palestine once since then, and my grandfather twice.
My other set of grandparents remained on the land, but now had to live a life of heavy restriction and limited movement. It’s hard for me to imagine what it was like to witness the plundering of our homeland by foreign invaders, but I can never truly understand the magnitude of seeing the gradual colonization that seemed to only get worse throughout the decades. I will never forget when my grandfather, who was a bus driver back in the day, told me that he was once able to drive to Beirut or Baghdad, and then return home on the same day. Now, such an idea is unfathomable.
Ever since I was old enough to comprehend things, I knew Palestine was my homeland and that it was being hurt by something called Israel. Israel was the reason my mom was born in Jordan instead of Palestine, the driving force that led my parents to move to the U.S. for better education and work. It is the thing that separates me from the rest of my extended family, preventing me from knowing them wholly and truly. Israel is why I only see my grandparents every few years, why I have to watch my younger cousins grow up through a phone screen. As a Palestinian who grew up in the States, I was immersed in Western culture and disconnected from my own, and Israel is the reason.
This was my norm, the reality I was born into. After a while, the daily reminders of being disenfranchised, the cruelty of it all, become something you just get used to. You begin to get settled with the unsettling feeling that this may be the fortune of a Palestinian in this world: a life of displacement and diaspora, with the occasional travesty, like the previous bombing campaigns of Gaza in 2008, 2012, and 2014. This process of desensitization is imprinted in my generational DNA; I was practically born already accustomed to the injustice of being Palestinian.
The brutal truth was that the Nakba never ended. We all instinctively knew this, but especially after the Oslo Accords’ normalization efforts, a sense of false comfort plagued the Palestinian community for the two decades following its signing. The reality before October 2023 was the occasional protest and the occasional outrage, only to be quelled by half-hearted statements of sympathetic apathy by politicians. I became involved in student organizing for Palestine in 2021, and although we were constantly working, the landscape back then was much quieter and smaller.
Then, two and a half years ago, the current stage of genocide in Gaza began. I don’t think I will ever experience life the way it happened that fall. I had gone to sleep on October 6th, where everything was relatively “normal”, then I woke up for my morning shift at 4:30 AM to my phone practically blowing up with notifications. I remember going to my barista job with headphones in the whole time, watching Al-Jazeera while I made coffee for people who had no idea what had just shifted in the world.
In the wake of October 7th, the protests became consistent, the outrage became something so eternal that you felt like it could consume you and burn you to ash. What was once a few hundred people in the streets became thousands, and in some places, millions would turn out.
It was the beginning of a period of exhaustion, having something so important to organize for every single day, to the point that my studies didn’t even matter anymore. It was tough, but what was happening to those in Gaza was far worse, and it became a matter of expending everything you have for those who have nothing. Millions felt the same all over the world, and this sparked the mass-education and mobilization of the Palestine solidarity movement we see today.
Since October 2023, the images out of Gaza resembling the Nakba have flooded our timelines. After nearly three years of the most inhumane, dehumanizing, genocidal campaign by the U.S. and Israel, one might assume that a sense of hopelessness would take hold, as it did after the 1948 Nakba. But I see this moment as the catalyst for the exact opposite to happen.
Israel believes it can continue what it has always done. It can embark on an outright genocide with the intent of wiping Palestinians off the map, then agree to multiple ceasefires only to break every single one of them. After all, you cannot cease a genocide while the genocidal entity still operates with impunity. The difference this time around is that people around the world actually know what’s going on. Israel, along with its benefactor, the U.S., has backed itself into a corner I doubt it will ever escape from.
And that’s the fuel to my revolutionary optimism. Sometimes, it’s hard to think liberation is near when faced with so much death and destruction. But it’s even harder to ignore the cracks in the facade of the U.S. and Israeli machine. They were both built on false foundations that were already rotten and cracked, and nothing built on the crushed livelihoods of millions will ever persevere. People are seeing the rot come up to the surface, and they are utterly disgusted with the state of our world that has perpetuated genocide, all held together by an ultra-wealthy ruling class, agonizing capitalism, and white supremacy.
When Israel was once known as the democracy of the Middle East, it’s now the stain, the villain that has reigned chaos, death, and destruction all over the region. When getting AIPAC money once meant you were a strong candidate, now it’s a sure death sentence in local American elections. When American institutions like the American Medical Association once deemed it acceptable to stay silent on Palestine, they are now condemned for it. When our media and news outlets operated as tools of Israeli propaganda, they are now seen as tools of war and oppression. It is our work and dedication as activists that have changed the perception of all these things that were once deemed normal.
In 1948, a time when news traveled slowly, Israel and the West believed they had conquered a territory forever. In 2026, that “forever” territory is still fighting back against years of occupation and genocide. That’s the difference: the struggle for Palestine was built on the sacrifice of our martyrs and revolutionaries, on principle, and on love for our land and people. It is a beautiful, rich foundation that can withstand whatever force attempts to tear it down.
Most of my family remains on the land, or near it in Jordan. I see this as a consistent win against the oppressor every day. As long as we keep our homes, livelihoods, and stories, the Palestinian identity will never die, and my family is fighting that battle every day. If desensitization has an imprint on my DNA, so does resilience and the steadfast faith that Palestine will be liberated soon.
Jenin is CODEPINK’s Palestine Campaigner. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago in December of 2023. For over five years, Jenin has been a community organizer and dedicated individual focused on the Palestinian movement through advocacy, digital storytelling, and grassroots mobilization. She is a firm believer in intertwined struggle and liberation for all.
(Source: ScheerPost.com)
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⭕Deux militantes ont perturbé le sommet sur la sécurité #Lockheed-Martin-Politico à #Washington ce matin, en protestation contre la complicité de l'entreprise dans le génocide à #Gaza et les agressions au #Liban et en #Iran. Via : #CODEPINK
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⭕Deux militantes ont perturbé le sommet sur la sécurité #Lockheed-Martin-Politico à #Washington ce matin, en protestation contre la complicité de l'entreprise dans le génocide à #Gaza et les agressions au #Liban et en #Iran. Via : #CODEPINK
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⭕Deux militantes ont perturbé le sommet sur la sécurité #Lockheed-Martin-Politico à #Washington ce matin, en protestation contre la complicité de l'entreprise dans le génocide à #Gaza et les agressions au #Liban et en #Iran. Via : #CODEPINK
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⭕Deux militantes ont perturbé le sommet sur la sécurité #Lockheed-Martin-Politico à #Washington ce matin, en protestation contre la complicité de l'entreprise dans le génocide à #Gaza et les agressions au #Liban et en #Iran. Via : #CODEPINK
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⭕Deux militantes ont perturbé le sommet sur la sécurité #Lockheed-Martin-Politico à #Washington ce matin, en protestation contre la complicité de l'entreprise dans le génocide à #Gaza et les agressions au #Liban et en #Iran. Via : #CODEPINK
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⭕Lors du dîner des correspondants de la #Maison-Blanche de la nuit dernière, des militantes de #Code-Pink ont brandi une photo #d'Amal_Khalil, la journaliste #Libanaise assassinée par #Israël, dénonçant la mise à mort systématique des journalistes par #Israël à #Gaza et au #Liban.
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⭕Lors du dîner des correspondants de la #Maison-Blanche de la nuit dernière, des militantes de #Code-Pink ont brandi une photo #d'Amal_Khalil, la journaliste #Libanaise assassinée par #Israël, dénonçant la mise à mort systématique des journalistes par #Israël à #Gaza et au #Liban.
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⭕Lors du dîner des correspondants de la #Maison-Blanche de la nuit dernière, des militantes de #Code-Pink ont brandi une photo #d'Amal_Khalil, la journaliste #Libanaise assassinée par #Israël, dénonçant la mise à mort systématique des journalistes par #Israël à #Gaza et au #Liban.
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⭕Lors du dîner des correspondants de la #Maison-Blanche de la nuit dernière, des militantes de #Code-Pink ont brandi une photo #d'Amal_Khalil, la journaliste #Libanaise assassinée par #Israël, dénonçant la mise à mort systématique des journalistes par #Israël à #Gaza et au #Liban.
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———>> After renaming the “Department of Defense” the “Department of War,” Secretary Pete Hegseth oversaw the United States’ entry into several new wars, requested billions more in Pentagon spending, and seemingly ordered the bombing of an Iranian elementary school to inaugerate his disastrous war against the people of #Iran. After ordering bombings and directing a war that is killing countless civilians—while continuing to support the genocidal state of Israel and seeking to funnel more American taxpayer dollars into endless wars— **it’s time to arrest Hegseth for war crimes.**
>> We are demanding answers to the questions Hegseth refused to address when Congress raised them …
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———>> After renaming the “Department of Defense” the “Department of War,” Secretary Pete Hegseth oversaw the United States’ entry into several new wars, requested billions more in Pentagon spending, and seemingly ordered the bombing of an Iranian elementary school to inaugerate his disastrous war against the people of #Iran. After ordering bombings and directing a war that is killing countless civilians—while continuing to support the genocidal state of Israel and seeking to funnel more American taxpayer dollars into endless wars— **it’s time to arrest Hegseth for war crimes.**
>> We are demanding answers to the questions Hegseth refused to address when Congress raised them …
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———>> After renaming the “Department of Defense” the “Department of War,” Secretary Pete Hegseth oversaw the United States’ entry into several new wars, requested billions more in Pentagon spending, and seemingly ordered the bombing of an Iranian elementary school to inaugerate his disastrous war against the people of #Iran. After ordering bombings and directing a war that is killing countless civilians—while continuing to support the genocidal state of Israel and seeking to funnel more American taxpayer dollars into endless wars— **it’s time to arrest Hegseth for war crimes.**
>> We are demanding answers to the questions Hegseth refused to address when Congress raised them …
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Join the campaign to Arrest Hegseth! - CODEPINK - Women for Peace
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———>> After renaming the “Department of Defense” the “Department of War,” Secretary Pete Hegseth oversaw the United States’ entry into several new wars, requested billions more in Pentagon spending, and seemingly ordered the bombing of an Iranian elementary school to inaugerate his disastrous war against the people of #Iran. After ordering bombings and directing a war that is killing countless civilians—while continuing to support the genocidal state of Israel and seeking to funnel more American taxpayer dollars into endless wars— **it’s time to arrest Hegseth for war crimes.**
>> We are demanding answers to the questions Hegseth refused to address when Congress raised them …
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Join the campaign to Arrest Hegseth! - CODEPINK - Women for Peace
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———>> After renaming the “Department of Defense” the “Department of War,” Secretary Pete Hegseth oversaw the United States’ entry into several new wars, requested billions more in Pentagon spending, and seemingly ordered the bombing of an Iranian elementary school to inaugerate his disastrous war against the people of #Iran. After ordering bombings and directing a war that is killing countless civilians—while continuing to support the genocidal state of Israel and seeking to funnel more American taxpayer dollars into endless wars— **it’s time to arrest Hegseth for war crimes.**
>> We are demanding answers to the questions Hegseth refused to address when Congress raised them …
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‘What I Saw in Cuba Was Resilience’
A Cuban American’s Story from the #NuestraAméricaConvoy
https://world-outlook.com/2026/04/02/what-i-saw-in-cuba-was-resilience/from #WorldOutlook
April 2, 2026“I traveled to #Cuba this month,” writes Gerardo Delgado. “As a #CubanAmerican, that sentence carries the weight of longing born of an estrangement from my roots. For much of my life, Cuba existed as a distant story, a place I knew only through descriptions from my father.
“I was there as part of an international solidarity convoy; over 500 representatives from more than 30 countries, united by a simple conviction: no country has the right to strangle another simply because it chose a different path. I cannot stand by while the island of my family’s heritage is suffocated.”
Delgado is an educator in Miami, Florida, working with the Miami Coalition to End the #US Blockade of Cuba. He recently returned from Cuba, where he went with #CODEPINK’s delegation to the island as part of the #NuestraAméricaConvoy.
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‘What I Saw in Cuba Was Resilience’
A Cuban American’s Story from the #NuestraAméricaConvoy
https://world-outlook.com/2026/04/02/what-i-saw-in-cuba-was-resilience/from #WorldOutlook
April 2, 2026“I traveled to #Cuba this month,” writes Gerardo Delgado. “As a #CubanAmerican, that sentence carries the weight of longing born of an estrangement from my roots. For much of my life, Cuba existed as a distant story, a place I knew only through descriptions from my father.
“I was there as part of an international solidarity convoy; over 500 representatives from more than 30 countries, united by a simple conviction: no country has the right to strangle another simply because it chose a different path. I cannot stand by while the island of my family’s heritage is suffocated.”
Delgado is an educator in Miami, Florida, working with the Miami Coalition to End the #US Blockade of Cuba. He recently returned from Cuba, where he went with #CODEPINK’s delegation to the island as part of the #NuestraAméricaConvoy.
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‘What I Saw in Cuba Was Resilience’
A Cuban American’s Story from the #NuestraAméricaConvoy
https://world-outlook.com/2026/04/02/what-i-saw-in-cuba-was-resilience/from #WorldOutlook
April 2, 2026“I traveled to #Cuba this month,” writes Gerardo Delgado. “As a #CubanAmerican, that sentence carries the weight of longing born of an estrangement from my roots. For much of my life, Cuba existed as a distant story, a place I knew only through descriptions from my father.
“I was there as part of an international solidarity convoy; over 500 representatives from more than 30 countries, united by a simple conviction: no country has the right to strangle another simply because it chose a different path. I cannot stand by while the island of my family’s heritage is suffocated.”
Delgado is an educator in Miami, Florida, working with the Miami Coalition to End the #US Blockade of Cuba. He recently returned from Cuba, where he went with #CODEPINK’s delegation to the island as part of the #NuestraAméricaConvoy.
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‘What I Saw in Cuba Was Resilience’
A Cuban American’s Story from the #NuestraAméricaConvoy
https://world-outlook.com/2026/04/02/what-i-saw-in-cuba-was-resilience/from #WorldOutlook
April 2, 2026“I traveled to #Cuba this month,” writes Gerardo Delgado. “As a #CubanAmerican, that sentence carries the weight of longing born of an estrangement from my roots. For much of my life, Cuba existed as a distant story, a place I knew only through descriptions from my father.
“I was there as part of an international solidarity convoy; over 500 representatives from more than 30 countries, united by a simple conviction: no country has the right to strangle another simply because it chose a different path. I cannot stand by while the island of my family’s heritage is suffocated.”
Delgado is an educator in Miami, Florida, working with the Miami Coalition to End the #US Blockade of Cuba. He recently returned from Cuba, where he went with #CODEPINK’s delegation to the island as part of the #NuestraAméricaConvoy.
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‘What I Saw in Cuba Was Resilience’
A Cuban American’s Story from the #NuestraAméricaConvoy
https://world-outlook.com/2026/04/02/what-i-saw-in-cuba-was-resilience/from #WorldOutlook
April 2, 2026“I traveled to #Cuba this month,” writes Gerardo Delgado. “As a #CubanAmerican, that sentence carries the weight of longing born of an estrangement from my roots. For much of my life, Cuba existed as a distant story, a place I knew only through descriptions from my father.
“I was there as part of an international solidarity convoy; over 500 representatives from more than 30 countries, united by a simple conviction: no country has the right to strangle another simply because it chose a different path. I cannot stand by while the island of my family’s heritage is suffocated.”
Delgado is an educator in Miami, Florida, working with the Miami Coalition to End the #US Blockade of Cuba. He recently returned from Cuba, where he went with #CODEPINK’s delegation to the island as part of the #NuestraAméricaConvoy.
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[Zoom Webinar] “Cuba Report Back” - CODEPINK
Mon. March 30, 8PM ET/5PM PT
https://www.codepink.org/03302026cuba
———>> The Nuestra América Convoy, a coalition of organizers and activists, including more than 160 people with #CODEPINK, has just returned from #Cuba, where 11 million people are being collectively punished by U.S. policy.
>> Now, those who witnessed it firsthand are reporting back.
Speakers:
• Katie Halper
• Rev. Dr. Stephany Rose
• Renée Quarterman, MD
• Danny Valdes
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[Zoom Webinar] “Cuba Report Back” - CODEPINK
Mon. March 30, 8PM ET/5PM PT
https://www.codepink.org/03302026cuba
———>> The Nuestra América Convoy, a coalition of organizers and activists, including more than 160 people with #CODEPINK, has just returned from #Cuba, where 11 million people are being collectively punished by U.S. policy.
>> Now, those who witnessed it firsthand are reporting back.
Speakers:
• Katie Halper
• Rev. Dr. Stephany Rose
• Renée Quarterman, MD
• Danny Valdes
+ Additional delegation voices -
[Zoom Webinar] “Cuba Report Back” - CODEPINK
Mon. March 30, 8PM ET/5PM PT
https://www.codepink.org/03302026cuba
———>> The Nuestra América Convoy, a coalition of organizers and activists, including more than 160 people with #CODEPINK, has just returned from #Cuba, where 11 million people are being collectively punished by U.S. policy.
>> Now, those who witnessed it firsthand are reporting back.
Speakers:
• Katie Halper
• Rev. Dr. Stephany Rose
• Renée Quarterman, MD
• Danny Valdes
+ Additional delegation voices -
[Zoom Webinar] “Cuba Report Back” - CODEPINK
Mon. March 30, 8PM ET/5PM PT
https://www.codepink.org/03302026cuba
———>> The Nuestra América Convoy, a coalition of organizers and activists, including more than 160 people with #CODEPINK, has just returned from #Cuba, where 11 million people are being collectively punished by U.S. policy.
>> Now, those who witnessed it firsthand are reporting back.
Speakers:
• Katie Halper
• Rev. Dr. Stephany Rose
• Renée Quarterman, MD
• Danny Valdes
+ Additional delegation voices