In solidarity with the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network’s global call to action to confront Israeli annexation and struggle for a free Palestine, we are organizing a local Day of Rage rally at the West SPD Precinct. Along with actions organized by Palestinian communities in exile and diaspora and solidarity movements around the world, Seattle Palestinian, Black and Indigenous communities are organizing a Day of Rage rally against Israel’s annexation of the West Bank of Palestine and against police terrorism in the US. We demand the defunding and dismantling of US police alongside the defunding and dismantling of Zionist colonialism and racist Israeli apartheid. Join us on Wednesday, July 1st from 5:30-7:00 at the SPD West Precinct [810 Virginia Street, Seattle WA 98101]. Bring your masks, uphold social distancing, bring signs and bring your rage.

We are organizing to expose and oppose the deadly exchange of trainings, technologies and weapons between the Seattle Police Department and the Israeli police and military forces. These trainings make US police forces and the Israeli military more dangerous and reinforce these fascist institutions controlled by the state which both take the lives and terrorize oppressed Black and Indigenous people in our communities. We are outraged by the occupation of Palestine. We are outraged by the police murders of Black people. We are outraged by this oppression and call everyone to join us in saying enough is enough!

Our collective demands:
1) Defund the Seattle Police Department
2) End the Deadly Exchange between SPD and Israeli police and military forces
3) End the City of Seattle’s security contract with G4S

The rally will be live streamed and have ASL interpretation. **More accessibility info to come

This event is organized with support from:
Decriminalize Seattle Coalition
Voices for Palestine
Falastiniyat
Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights – WWU
Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights – UW
PACCWA – Palestinian American Community Center of Washington
End the Deadly Exchange Seattle
International League of People’s Struggle Seattle-Tacoma
Bayan Seattle
Jewish Voice for Peace – Seattle

Learn more:
https://samidoun.net/2020/06/ramallah-press-conference-highlights-call-to-action-for-1-july-against-annexation-and-colonization/

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-israel-palestine-black-lives-matter-rejects-annexation-west-bank

https://samidoun.net/2020/06/global-actions-against-israeli-annexation-and-to-defend-palestine-endorse-the-call-and-add-your-event/