Every reform, every step forward, has come about not because of the actions of politicians or corporate journalists, but because of the actions like Aaron Bushnell and like EGN everyone of us. Aaron did not take his own life. He gave it to a cause. It is astounding the lengths they will go to defame our bravest people because what brings Americans closer to violence and injuries and realism. This is Natalia with People's Dispatch. Right now I'm outside a vigil for Aaron Bushnell, 25 year old active duty member of the Air Force. This week, look himself on fire and protest of his complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Of course, the United States being a massive funder of Israel and the United States Army facilitating the genocide. Right now there are hundreds of people gathered here in Times Square, New York City. In honor of Aaron Bushnell's sacrifice, there are veterans here of the U.S. Army who have been speaking Palestinian activists and youth and anti-imperialist organizers who are here to honor and remember Aaron Bushnell's sacrifice so that it may continue to be an inspiration to the growing and continuing mass movement in solidarity with Palestine. During the Vietnam War, U.S. soldiers, U.S. Marines, U.S. sailors became the vanguard of the U.S. anti-war movement. Naturally, many people actually know that but tens of thousands of American GIs decided to stand up and fight back and say no to the war. They not only deserted, they took the struggle against the military brass right on the front lines and Vietnam. That's why the Vietnam War ended. It wasn't because Richard Nixon or Henry Kissinger or any of the corrupt politicians in Congress did anything. It was those young people 18, 19, 20 years old or like Aaron Bushnell, 25 years old who said, I would rather fight and give my life against you. I would rather fight and give my life against you, against the perpetrators of genocide in Vietnam than to live and be complicit in your genocide. That's the tradition of Aaron Bushnell. What brings Americans closer to violence is our government's funding of genocide in Palestine. What brings us closer to violence as tech workers is when Google and Amazon greedily chase a $1.2 billion contract with a settler colonial state that is actively committing genocide. What brings us all closer to violence is when companies and places of work insist on a relationship with the Zionist entity whose entire existence is constructed upon and held up through violence. So thank you Aaron Bushnell because in your sacrifice you have once again exposed the hypocrisy of the rich and powerful. Your memory serves as a reminder that the ruling class polices our protests not because of some fake love of morality and some fake love of non-violence but because they just want to see us in silence. Unsurprisingly, the gift of this sacrifice is being described by Zionists as an act of immensely ill person. They suggest this in order to diminish it and to diminish him. They do so to remove his agency, to denature the force of his voice, cycle, asking it into the law of dreams of suicide. We reject this. All forms of protest are symptoms of an uninhabitable world. There is no way to respond safely to what is happening in Gaza. Gaza is a normal sea that is not normal and we are here to fight against that. Aaron sacrificed his brave and bold act of protest. Really marks a shift in the consciousness of the American people and the courage of the American people. The fact that an active member of the Air Force is willing to step forward to defy everything that he has told he should say, believe and do in the name of the US War Machine and make the ultimate sacrifice in the name of Palestinian liberation. I think we will undoubtedly inspire more people to take action. Not only in the US military but those that saw and so many of us saw his sacrifice and his protest. I think there is no going back to what we have all been pushed to believe that we have to give unconditional support to Israel. We have to give the people every day and every sector of our society are saying no, we actually recognize that we have so much in common with the people of Palestine. We actually don't want our tax dollars going to funding occupation and funding genocide. We recognize Israel for what it is in a part-time regime and we don't want that done in our names and we don't want to be a part of a system that commits these atrocities. That is just in Palestine but around the world. I think the fact that Aaron showed us the level of dedication we have to commit ourselves to. We are out here in New York City in Times Square and it's raining and hundreds of people came out in his honor and really not just to honor him in this moment and the sacrifice he made but to recommit ourselves to fighting for Palestine. Thank you.