Palestine solidarity in Rockland, Maine after big storm

 

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On Sunday we gathered in Rockland, Maine for a solidarity vigil with Palestine. We had been scheduled to hold this event the day before but had a whopper of a snow-sleet-ice and wind storm that ended up shutting off electrical power to large portions of the state – including at our own home in Brunswick.

In storms like this, we usually put our car in the community garage at our place. When we went to get the car out of the garage on Sunday morning, we remembered that we could not open it because the door is hooked up to an electric door opening motor. So, in a moment of severe disappointment that we might not make it to Rockland we made some calls to friends.

In the end we got two offers of a loaner car and thanks to Eric Herter we took his car to Rockland where 28 people gathered from around the state despite the cold and rough driving conditions.

We got a nice response from the cars passing through the Highway 1 intersection where we stood. Young people were particularly animated with lots of honking and cheering and waving. Older people who showed us support tended to just wave or flash a peace sign or a thumbs up.

In our closing circle at the end, we heard many excellent reflections from those gathered. One young woman had driven by and spotted us and came back to join the circle. Another woman spoke about feeling frozen because of the genocidal actions against the Palestinian people by Israel-US (and their Zionist allies around the world) but she felt being there with us was uplifting and helped her not feel so alone.

After things were over about half the group went to a local bar that served food and we spent another hour or so talking with one another. As it turns out we had a good representation of people from Rockland – some didn’t know one another which was a good sign of growth.

Our next monthly statewide peace protest (we’ve been doing these since February 2022) will be on Saturday, April 13 in Brunswick at 1:30 pm at the intersection of Pleasant Street and Maine Street just in front of the Tontine Mall.

(Each Thursday from noon to 1:00 pm a few of us hold signs in the same spot – we’ve also been doing this since February 2022.)

Terror in Moscow

My heart is additionally sad after the massive terror attack against the concert crowd in Moscow in recent days. It was alarming that immediately after it happened US ‘intelligence agencies’ claimed that ISIS had done the barbaric deed. I was immediately suspicious asking myself, ‘How would they know and so soon’? We soon heard that some of the alleged terrorists were captured trying to sneak into Ukraine. And then we heard that Ukrainian military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov had uttered some really nasty words essentially saying the attack on Moscow was good and that they needed more of the same.

It left me with little doubt that this was likely arranged by the triple terrorist network of the US-UK-Ukraine intel operatives.

Don’t we know by now that Washington and London can’t win wars they start in Afghanistan-Iraq-Syria-Libya-Ukraine? But they are good at unleashing terrorism in order to create chaos and destabilization over a long period. Just witness what is going on in Gaza and the West Bank.

That is the signature of the ‘Empire of Lies’.

Bruce 

~ Photos by MB Sullivan