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Sights and Sounds from Protests Around the World, March 2, Demanding:

“Hands off Rafah! Ceasefire now! Stop the genocide!”

Los Angeles, March 2, 2024: The Revcom Corps banner in the midst of thousands who came into the streets on a rainy day to protest genocide in Palestine.

 

Los Angeles, March 2, 2024: The Revcom Corps banner in the midst of thousands who came into the streets on a rainy day to protest genocide in Palestine.    Photo: @revcomcorps_LA

Pro-Palestine protest in front of Israeli Embassy, Washington DC, March 2, 2024

 

Pro-Palestine protest in front of Israeli Embassy, Washington DC, March 2, 2024    Photo via X: @samhusseini

Pro-Palestine protest in Oslo, Norway, March 2, 2024

 

Thousands call for Free Palestine, in Oslo, Norway, March 2, 2024.    Screenshot from X: @RightsDefenderr

“Hands off Rafah! Ceasefire now! Stop the genocide!”

With Israel threatening to invade Rafah, people around the world held protests and marches demanding “Hands off Rafah! Ceasefire now! Stop the genocide!” All across the US, in scores and scores of cities large and small, people took to the streets to express their outrage and anger at Israel's hideous, US-backed genocide of the Palestinian people. 

New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago saw thousands pour out, many for the first time. In D.C. and many other cities, marches converged on Israeli consulates.

Protests were seen in cities around the world: from Caracas, Venezuela, to Tunis, Tunisia; from Tokyo, Japan to Oslo, Norway, to Perth, Australia. In London, the protests took place one day after the British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, issued a threatening statement declaring “democracy was being targeted by extremists” and calling on the police to come down on the pro-Palestinian demonstration the next day.

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Around the World:

Montevideo, Uruguay: 
More than 12,000 people marched in Montevideo to demand a ceasefire in Palestine.
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Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan: 
People chant, Free Palestine, March 2, 2024.
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London
Thousands protest war in Gaza at Barclay Center in London, March 2, 2024.

 

Thousands protest war in Gaza in London and almost 50 other locations across England and Wales, March 2, 2024. The Palestine Solidarity Campaign said they singled out Barclays Bank because of its ties to companies supplying weapons to Israel. Police viciously blocked the protest.    Photo: AP

Dublin, Ireland
Thousands march in Dublin March 2, 2024 calling for a ceasefire in the war in Gaza while also opposing “racism, hate, and division” at home in Ireland.

 

Thousands march in Dublin March 2, 2024 calling for a ceasefire in the war in Gaza while also opposing “racism, hate, and division” at home in Ireland.    Photo: Niall Carson

Venezuela
Venezuela march against Israeli genocide. 
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U.S. Cities

Detroit, Michigan
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Austin, Texas
Austin, TX, March 2, 2024: Hands Off Rafah rally with sign identifying U.S. imperialism and where revcoms bring revolutionary message.

 

Austin, March 2:  In support of the rally against genocide in Gaza, Revcoms brought the message we need a revolution and a fundamentally different system.    Photo: revcom.us

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