The battle for freedom of Palestine is a battle for humanity. It's not just that 20,000 Palestinians were killed. Israel has committed murder in Gaza 20,000 times. 2023 was a year of failure and of defeat for the Zionist occupation and for the White House and for the US imperial military across the world. This is Michalia with people just sat right now. I'm here marching down Fifth Avenue with thousands of people in the middle of Manhattan who are protesting the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza. Right now almost 22,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel on the Gaza Strip. Right now, Biden himself who has expressed unconditional support to Israel and has sent many weapons to Israel even bypassing congressional approval is facing increasing pressure here in his own country to eliminate all foreign aid to Israel with 55% of registered voters against sending additional military aid to the Zionist state. Here in this march protesters are demanding a permanent ceasefire and end to the occupation and end to the siege on Gaza, release of Palestinian political prisoners and of course the full liberation of Palestine from the Zionist state. I'm here with Claudia Dilla Cruz, a presidential candidate for the party for socialism and liberation here at the March for Palestine and New York City. Claudia, why are you out here today? I think everybody should be out here while people are shopping and businesses continue as usual for capitalists are our siblings our brothers and sisters in Palestine continue to be killed murdered by the thousands. We can't say bye and allow that to happen especially as people living in the United States we have a responsibility to be able to contribute to the liberation of Palestine contribute to the liberation of all those countries that are oppressed and are being killed by U.S. empire and colonialism. Israel is a terrorist state. We have no we should have no mercy for genocide we should have genocide should not be happening across the world knowing Gaza or anywhere and so we are here to demand a ceasefire but more so we are fighting for the total liberation of Palestine. Your campaign has been one of the most outspoken, insupported Palestine. Why do you think that's important? It's very important. Again we have a historical responsibility as people who are living within the belly of the beast. People who, whether we wanted or not, our U.S. tax dollars are contributing to the murder of people across the seas and so for us as a matter of principle and as a matter of responsibility to stand with the people of Palestine until they are free. Okay, Palestine! I'm here with Mohammed from the MIT graduate students union. Mohammed, can you talk about why it's important for workers to show up to marches like this? It's because the labor struggle is connected to a pastime struggle. All these weapons are flowing into Israel that are used for this genocide can be stopped if the workers united if they worked on the ports and stopped harming the ships and working on the ships and transporting the labor. So our labor can't go towards genocide. Can you talk a little bit about how right wing forces have been trying to censor the struggle for Palestine on college campuses? There's been many tactics trying to suspend students, donors threatening to pull out and donors trying to press administrations to suspend us for exercising our rights to protest, freedom of speech and assembly. How are the MIT workers and other workers across college campuses trying to organize against this? At MIT we have the scientists against a apartheid pledge where many MIT students are signing up to say that our labor will not go towards MIT projects funded by the Israeli Ministry of Defense. Currently there are eight projects at MIT funded by the Israeli Ministry of Defense. Today once again the enemy wants us to believe that the Palestinian people have been defeated. Here in the belly of the beast they want you to believe that the movement is unimportant, that our growth has come no impact and are detached from the struggle back home. If this is true then why is Netanyahu crying about growth as in the world? In 2023 the Zionist forces showed us that they are afraid of children. They showed us that they are afraid of the dignified people of last day who have decided and who have shown the world that the only way to live is to live in dignity. And to do that we need liberation. In 2023 was the year that the entire world rose up against Israel and against U.S. imperialism. I'm here with Ana Guava from Uptown for Palestine. Ana can you tell me a bit about the work that you guys are doing? Yes. So Uptown for Palestine is a collective that organizes Washington Heights in Wood and the Bronx. So Uptown is a very diverse community and part of those communities is the Puerto Rican diaspora which as we know is in a perpetual colonial oppressive state. And so Palestinians and Puerto Ricans know well what it is to struggle against the U.S. imperialist, colon, colonialist power.