Upcoming Events
Rally: Say No to Genocide Joe!
Join us Sunday morning, May 19 at Malcolm X Park, as the people of Atlanta show Genocide Joe that he’s unwelcome in our city!
In the face of concerns and protests from students and faculty, Joe Biden is set to give the 2024 Commencement Address at Morehouse College on Sunday. This address comes in the middle of a massive student movement against Biden’s genocidal policy in Palestine.
May 19 also marks the birthday of Malcolm X, Black revolutionary leader and anti-imperialist. In the spirit of Malcolm X, the student uprisings, the Palestinian resistance, and the global mass movement, join us to send a very clear message: Genocide Joe has got to go!
Rally and March for Palestine!
ATLANTA: Join millions across the globe this Saturday in a day of action to stop the genocide in Palestine.
Israel not only blocked a ceasefire but has continued their invasion of Rafah where over 1.5 million Palestinians are seeking refuge and have nowhere else to go. The people of the world have taken action and filled the streets in the millions, without pause, for 7 months and we’re not going anywhere!
Come rally and march with us! Now is more urgent than ever! We will continue to rise up until every last demand is met!
Emergency Rally for Rafah!
Stay in the streets for Palestine!
Join us for an emergency rally on Tuesday, May 7th at the Israeli Consulate in Atlanta.
Palestinian resistance has accepted a proposal by international mediators that would lead to a withdrawal of Israel from Gaza. However, today Netanyahu ordered 100,000 Palestinians to evacuate a section of Rafah and has escalated a heavy bombing campaign on the tiny, 25 square-mile city where millions have fled. Due to mass pressure, Biden has supported the deal — now all eyes are on Netanyahu to see if Israel will accept.
We must keep up the pressure in this urgent moment! Demand a permanent ceasefire now! End all US aid to Israel!
Georgia Students Stand with Gaza!
High school students stand with Gaza!
High school students call on ALL students and people of conscience in Georgia to rally to demand an end to apartheid Israel and Biden’s genocide in Gaza and show solidarity to the courageous nationwide student movement fighting for a free Palestine!
End all U.S. aid to Israel! Permanent ceasefire now! End the occupation!
Walkout and Rally: Kennesaw State University
Join us at KSU this Wednesday on May Day for another walkout and rally for Palestine!
KSU students are joining thousands across the country demanding that our university disclose and end all investment in apartheid Israel!
We will continue to disrupt business and school as usual until the U.S.-Israeli war machine ends its genocide of the Palestinian people!
Walkout and Rally: SCAD Atlanta
Join SCAD Students as they walk out of classes in solidarity with Columbia University students in support of an immediate ceasefire and to call for divestment by SCAD from Israeli companies!
SCAD students condemn the blatant disregard from SCAD regarding the Palestinian people’s suffering in Gaza at the hands of Israel, and the overwhelming number of partnerships with companies that not only directly contradict SCAD’s claim to create an inclusive environment advancing diversity and equity, but directly contribute to tens of thousands of deaths, the cruel, remorseless murders of tens of thousands of Palestinian people, primarily women and children. This is purely hypocritical, opportunistic, and inhumane on behalf of SCAD, and the students are heartbroken to know their tuition contributes to an alliance with such corrupt corporations.
The students will not have blood on their hands for pursuing an education.!
Emory: Divest Now! Rally & March
🇵🇸 Join us on Tuesday April 30th at 5pm at Asbury Circle to continue the movement for Palestine at Emory and demand the administration divest from Israel! We will not stop until our demands are met! Emory must cut all ties with Israel and drop all charges against protestors! 🇵🇸
KSU Protest for Gaza!
Walkout and Rally for Gaza!
Students & faculty walkout of classes and join us at 11:30am on the green at KSU to demand a permanent ceasefire and end to the genocidal occupation in Palestine!
We stand with the brave students at Columbia University and universities across the country who are standing up for justice and freedom for Palestine — no matter how much repression they face!
Free Palestine!
Earth Day Rally for Palestine
This Earth Day, join Emory students in opposing the human and environmental destruction caused by the US-Israeli military machine!
With Israel attempting to plunge the whole region into a wider war, it’s critical that we call for no war on Iran! End the genocide in Gaza! US hands off the Middle East!
Join Students for Socialism at Asbury Circle on Monday April 22nd at 5:00 pm to demand that the Emory administration call for an immediate permanent ceasefire and the divestment of ALL Emory funds from Israel and companies that profit from Israeli apartheid!
Protest for Palestine
The mass movement for a free Palestine will not stop! Join us, let’s stand together on the right side of history!
Biden and Neytanyahu’s horrific genocide in Gaza is now threatening to draw the whole region into a war. Israel has carried out another act of aggression towards Iran—a second act of war following the April 1 attack on the Iranian embassy in Damascus. End the genocide now! Permanent ceasefire now!
End all U.S. aid to Israel! U.S. out of the Middle East!
Meet PSL Vice-Presidential Candidate Karina Garcia
Socialist Vice-Presidential candidate Karina Garcia will be in Georgia this Saturday! Don’t miss out!
Join us to meet Karina—a working-class Chicana organizer and popular educator who since she was 17 years old has helped lead campaigns against U.S. imperialist war, landlord abuses, wage theft, police brutality, as well as fights for reproductive justice, immigrant rights, student financial aid reform, and more. She is a founder of the Justice Center en El Barrio in NYC and is a member of the Central Committee of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
On Saturday, Karina will speak to the issues facing working class people in Georgia and the South and why we should vote socialist this November!
Learn more about the 2024 Vote Socialist Claudia and Karina campaign here!
Rally and March for Palestine!
We won’t stop fighting for Palestine!
Join us on Saturday, April 13, at 3 PM in East Atlanta Village as we rally and march for Gaza.
More than 6 months into this genocide, Israel and the U.S. now face unprecedented global pressure for an immediate ceasefire and an end to the brutal occupation. Join the worldwide mass movement and take to the streets for Palestine!
Rally for Palestine!
We won’t stop fighting for Palestine!
Join the Free Quds, Palestinian Youth Movement, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation at the CNN Center on Friday, April 5–Al Quds Day—at 4 PM to take a stand against the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people.
The people demand a permanent ceasefire, an end to the occupation, and the end of all aid from the U.S. to Israel!
Land Day Rally for Palestine
On Saturday, join millions around the world taking the streets for Palestine, calling for a permanent ceasefire and an end to all U.S. aid to Israel!
No business as usual so long as the US and Israel continue their genocide!
The UN has passed a resolution for an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan, with the US abstaining for the first time. But this is not enough! The people demand a permanent ceasefire!
The U.S. shamelessly continues to give cover to Israeli occupation, and refused to allow the UN resolution to call for a permanent ceasefire.
But this UN resolution is significant as it shows that the people of the world aren’t giving up and stand with Palestine.
Land Day commemorates the Palestinian people’s steadfast resistance against the illegal and forced displacement and confiscation of their lands by Israel. Since 1976, the day has recognized the sacrifice of those who have bravely stood up against the Israeli occupation with strikes, protests, and demonstrations.
Each year’s commemoration amplifies the call for justice, liberation, and the right to return for the Palestinian people. This year’s Land Day is especially urgent as the Israeli occupation’s violent and genocidal actions continue.
We must continue to do our part and take to the streets!
SHUT IT DOWN FOR PALESTINE!
Signature-Gathering Launch!
Join us as we kickoff our effort to gather 17,000 signatures to get the socialist candidate for president, Claudia De la Cruz, on the ballot in the state of Georgia!
An openly socialist Presidential candidate has not been on the ballot in Georgia in more than 80 years. Now, as we face the crises of racism, poverty, environmental destruction, and war, it’s time to take a stand and fight for a new system!
Getting socialism on the ballot will be a tremendous effort, but it can be done with the help of an army of volunteers. We need YOUR help to make it happen! Join the movement today!
Let’s end capitalism before it ends us!
Women on the Frontlines of Liberation Movements: Study Group
Honor Women’s History Month by studying women’s revolutionary leadership!
Join the PSL for a study group this Sunday at 3pm to learn how integral the work of women has been in anti-colonial struggles across the world, including Palestine and the Congo. We stand on a legacy of women as militants—not passive victims!
We will read excerpts from Andreé Blouin’s autobiography, discussing her development as a Pan-Africanist organizer and integral part of Lumumba’s government in the Congo. We will also pull from Breaking the Chains Magazine and the 2023 book “Bury the Corpse of Colonialism: The Revolutionary Feminist Conference of 1949.”
No revolution without women’s liberation!
Rally and March for Palestine!
Stop the Genocide!
The apartheid state of Israel grows more and more isolated on the world stage under the pressure of the global mass movement of millions that continues to shut it down for Palestine and refuses to accept Israel’s genocide of Palestinians as the new normal.
The U.S. government is fully complicit in this genocide. It can stop the genocide today by calling for a permanent ceasefire and ending all military aid to Israel. There will not be a moment of peace for the war criminals politicians and the corporate war profiteers until the demands of the movement are met!
Permanent ceasefire now! End all U.S. aid to Israel! End the siege of Gaza! End the occupation! Free Palestine!
Protest Lockheed Martin!
Stop the bombs!
This Saturday, Mar 16, 2PM, protest for Palestine at Lockheed Martin at the Dobbins Airforce Base in Marietta!
Lockheed Martin is the world’s and the U.S. government’s largest weapons and military technology contractor that produces weapons that are sold to the racist apartheid state of Israel. Lockheed Martin is fully complicit in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians and directly profits off the deaths of millions of people abroad. Shut it down! Not one more penny for the U.S. war machine!
End all U.S. aid to Israel! Permanent ceasefire now! End the occupation of Palestine!
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Georgia Tech Walk Out for Palestine!
GA Tech: No business as usual in a genocide!
On Thursday, Mar 14, we call on all students, faculty, and staff of conscience at Georgia Institute of Technology to walk out of class in solidarity with the Palestinian people! Refuse to be complicit in genocide!
We are five horrific months into the U.S. backed racist-apatheid Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Israel has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians, destroyed the majority of civilian infrastructure, and is starving over 2 million people under siege. Israel is now planning a ground invasion of Rafah, to carry out its worst massacre yet. We join the global mass movement of millions that demands an end to the siege of Gaza and Rafah, a permanent ceasefire and an end to the 76-year colonial occupation of Palestine.
We condemn Georgia Tech’s complicity in Israeli apartheid and U.S. imperialism. Georgia Tech must end all the academic programs supporting the U.S. military industrial complex. Science and technology should be used only for the benefit of humanity, not to terrorize and bomb oppressed nations abroad.
Palestine Rally March 13
ATLANTA WILL JOIN THE WORLD IN THE STREETS FOR GAZA: NO MOVING ON FROM GENOCIDE!
Today marks the deadline set by the genocidal Israeli regime for the beginning of the most brutal phase of its war on Gaza: the invasion of Rafah. With every passing moment, the need becomes more urgent. On March 13, the global day of action for Palestine, we will take to the streets to demand an immediate ceasefire and an end to the siege on Gaza. After massacring tens of thousands of Palestinians over the last five months, Israel continues to starve over 1.5 million Gazans seeking refuge in Rafah.
The U.S. government is fully complicit in this genocide. We demand an end to all U.S. military aid to the racist state of Israel, a permanent ceasefire, and an end to the 76-year colonial occupation! Take a stand for a free Palestine and demand an end to Neytanyahu and Biden’s genocide!
Poets for Palestine
Calling all poets for Palestine!
On Monday, March 11, at Black Coffee ATL, Volunteers for Palestine 🇵🇸 and PSL Atlanta will be hosting an open mic poetry event for Palestine.
We encourage all writers and poets to come read their work or the writing of others about the Palestinian and anti-imperialist struggle, and we invite anyone who is interested to attend to listen and support.
If you are interested in doing a reading please fill out the form here! All are welcome and encouraged to participate!
Claudia and Karina Presidential Campaign Volunteer Session
Build the people’s campaign!
Join us on Saturday, March 9 at 11 AM at the Atlanta Liberation Center to plan and execute ways to spread the word about the Claudia De la Cruz campaign and popularize socialism and anti-imperialism in Atlanta and beyond!
It will take a mass movement to defeat capitalism and imperialism—but together, a better future is possible!
Register for the event here!
International Working Women's Day: Rally and March for Palestine
This International Working Women’s Day, we take to the streets to shut it down for Palestine!
IWD calls us to follow the example of working class women around the world who have led the struggle against imperialism.
March 8 will also mark five months since the beginning of the genocide on Gaza. In this time, Israel has carried out its genocidal project by murdering over 35,000 Palestinians, more than half of whom are women and children, continued to destroy critical infrastructure such as schools and hospitals, and carried out horrific attacks of sexual abuse and humiliation against Palestinians.
Women continue to be at the forefront in the fight for peace and liberation. Since the beginning of the Zionist occupation, Palestinian women have played a critical role in the mass struggle against the Israeli occupation as combatants, streategists, and leaders in the fight for a Free Palestine. We honor their sacrifices, and commit ourselves to fighting from within the belly of the beast.
Over the last five months, our movement has only grown stronger, and pressure on the U.S. and Israeli governments that facilitate this genocide has increased exponentially. WE DEMAND: STOP THE GENOCIDE! PERMANENT CEASEFIRE NOW! END THE OCCUPATION!
KSU Walkout for Palestine
On Thursday, KSU students will join millions around the world who are taking urgent action for Palestine this week calling for a permanent ceasefire and an end to all U.S. aid to Israel!
Join us to walk out of class and rally on the green. No business or school can continue as usual so long as the US and Israel continue their genocide!
Israel announced a March 10 deadline for an invasion of Rafah - a city of only 25 square miles but holding more than 1.5 million refugees.
The UN reports that Israel has already killed, injured, or disappeared over 100,000 Palestinians since October 7th. UNWRA reports that over 500,000 Palestinians are facing “catastrophic hunger.”
Meanwhile Biden continues to fund billions in weapons to Israel. Blood is on the hands of Biden, Netanyahu, and all institutions that fund the imperialist war machine!
All people of conscience must stand in solidarity with Palestine and demand an end to the genocide!
"Tomorrow's Freedom" Film Screening
March 6 film screening and discussion of “Tomorrow’s Freedom”
“Occupation imprisons our bodies, but our minds are free.”
The film tells the story of popular Palestinian leader and political prisoner, Marwan Barghouti. He was falsely imprisoned in 2002 and is currently serving five life sentences. Like the thousands of Palestinians illegally held by Israel, Barghouti has suffered unimaginable, inhumane conditions, but his commitment to the resistance has never wavered.
Come to the ALC and watch the story of “Palestine’s Nelson Mandela.
Fight Sexism and Racism: Rally and Vigil
Join us at City Hall to say: "Stop scapegoating immigrants! Fight racism! Fight sexist violence!”
Right wing forces are gathering at city hall to call for increased policing and anti-immigrant measures following the politicization of Laken Riley’s tragic murder by figures such as Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Brian Kemp, and others. Except increased policing would not make Athens more safe and does not solve the issue of sexist violence against women.
These figures are framing this tragedy as a migrant issue, because the alleged perpetrator is an immigrant from Venezuela. Already, the Georgia State house has used this tragedy to pass a bill that would allow police to arrest anyone they suspect to have “illegally” immigrated. This is a racist, disingenuous distraction from the true root of the problem–patriarchal violence.
If we do not stand up and speak out, the right-wing will seize complete control of the narrative of Laken Riley’s murder to further their racist agenda.
We must make it known that THE RACIST SCAPEGOATING OF IMMIGRANTS IS NOT WELCOME HERE!
Volunteer Meeting for Palestine
Volunteer for Palestine!
Join our next volunteer meeting for Palestine this Monday at the Little Five Points Community Center, 7 PM!
Over the past weeks, volunteers have helped the movement for Palestine reach thousands of people across Metro Atlanta. In this critical moment of escalation in Rafah, we must continue our work to break through the mainstream US-Israeli narrative on Palestine and pressure the genocidal politicians!
At these meetings we hold political orientation, discussion, and plan future outreach initiatives and events. We will not stop until Palestine is free!
RSVP here!
March for Palestine!
ATL JOINS MILLIONS IN THE STREETS FOR GAZA!
Gaza is facing famine, its hospitals are besieged, threats of ground invasion in Rafah loom near, and Israel continues to unleash its onslaught on the over 2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
The mass movement for Palestine has led to the isolation of the US and Israel on the world stage. With growing internal divisions and heightened political pressure on Israel and the United States, it’s time to push even harder. Our mobilization in this moment can be more decisive than ever, and we must show our full strength now to ensure a lasting ceasefire and an end to the siege on Gaza.
Everyone out on the streets March 2nd on the global day of action! All out for Rafah! All out for Gaza! Stop the genocide!
Film Screening: Deacons for Defense
Black History Month Film Screening
To close out Black History Month, join us for a screening and discussion of “Deacons for Defense” on Thursday, February 29th @ 7pm at the Atlanta Liberation Center!
The film is loosely based on the activities of the Deacons for Defense and Justice in 1965 in Bogalusa, Louisiana. The African-American self-defense organization was founded in February 1965 as an affiliate of the founding chapter in Jonesboro, Louisiana, to protect activists working with the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE), others advancing the Civil Rights Movement, and their families.
Bogalusa was a company town, developed in 1906–1907 around a sawmill and paper mill operations. In the 1960s, the area was dominated by the Ku Klux Klan. During the summer of 1965, there were frequent conflicts between the Deacons and the Klan. This film depicts some of this struggle in service of the overall fight for civil rights and justice against racist vigilantes.
Vigil for Aaron Bushnell
Honor Aaron Bushnell!
ATLANTA: EMERGENCY VIGIL, TUESDAY FEBRUARY 27th at 7:30PM. 1100 SPRING ST NW.
On February 25th, 2024, Aaron Bushnell, a 25 year old active duty member of the US military, self-immolated outside the Zionist embassy in Washington, D.C. Aaron lit himself ablaze in protest of the United States’ ongoing complicity in the genocide on Gaza. In making the most extreme sacrifice a human being can in support of a moral cause — his own life — Aaron sent a message on behalf of the masses of the US and of the world, that people of conscience everywhere will refuse complicity in the unfolding genocide against the Palestinian people until our last breath.
While US media is already spinning the story as one of a mentally ill, troubled youth, Aaron’s own message in the seconds prior to his act demonstrate the moral clarity and foresight with which he pondered and ultimately decided upon his act. Aaron is now the second person to self-immolate in protest of the US-backed genocide on Gaza, the first being a woman in Atlanta who lit herself on fire outside the Zionist consulate in Atlanta, Georgia.
There is perhaps no metaphor more powerful for US empire than the response of police at the scene. Instead of running to put out the flames with fire extinguishers and save Aaron’s life, cops drew their weapons and pointed them directly at Aaron as he stood burning to death.
The word for martyr in Arabic, “shaheed,” translates to “witness,” or one whose final moment in life is as a witness to injustice. Aaron Bushnell is a martyr, whose final moment was spent in the heat of one naked, unflinching truth: the moral conscience of every human being, from the belly of the beast to the farthest reaches of the Earth, demands immediate attention and action to end the horrors before us.
Let’s honor Aaron’s last words and legacy together as we continue the fight for a Free Palestine and the liberation of all oppressed people.
Volunteer Meeting for Palestine
Join our next Volunteers for Palestine meeting this Monday at the Little Five Points Community Center, 7 PM!
In the last few weeks, Volunteers for Palestine have organized outreach sessions, art events, and pickets have been organized all around the metro Atlanta area, building the mass movement for a free Palestine.
At these meetings we hold political orientation, discussion, and plan future outreach and events. Now is not the time to slow down, but to grow our movement—we have to organize!
RSVP here now!
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