Palestine support vigil way up Maine's coast

This is what the small fishing village of Lubec, Maine looks like

This is nearby Quoddy State Park - a wondrous place to  visit

  

 

It was a 5 hour drive home to Brunswick from Lubec, Maine. We held one of our monthly statewide Palestine solidarity vigils there on Saturday. Thirteen people came from as far away as Massachusetts, Solon, Dover Foxcroft, Hancock, Biddeford, Surry, Brunswick and Lubec. 

We've been finding lately the numbers of honks and waves are steadily increasing as corporate owned media is starting to cover the story of the mass death in Gaza while people starve and are repeatedly assassinated by US mercenaries who are supposedly running the food distribution areas in Gaza. 

I asked my wife why she thinks the mainstream media is now covering the story more and she replied that due to overwhelming social media attention outlets like BBC, NPR, CBS, and New York Times are being forced to do so if they wish to remain 'relevant' to their viewers. 

In other words they don't really give a damn about the genocide - they just don't want to get left behind the growing global concentration on the Israel-US extermination project in Palestine.

After the peace vigil was over a few of us walked around the town for a bit and then met at the nearby home of Lynn Bradbury and her daughter Mo. They have been leading activists in Lubec for many years and made the astonishingly profound 'white ribbon' display that they strung out all along the spot where we had assembled. They also used it in Lubec's recent 4th of July parade which must have been a real attraction on that day.

Since Sunday was my birthday (July 27) everyone was invited to their home (a former one room school house) for a celebration. It was a beautiful evening and several of us spent the night there. 

Lynn and Mo have come south a few times to join our protests so we decided a while back that we just had to reciprocate by bringing our monthly vigil to Lubec - a place that not all Mainers ever get to experience. No one regretted the drive. 

Our next monthly vigil will be in Brunswick on Saturday August 9 at 1:30 pm and will be held at the very busy corner of Pleasant & Mill Streets along Hwy US 1. 

The latest horrifying numbers reveal that Israel (with full US & UK help) has killed 20.7% of Gaza’s population. That’s 434,800 people.

We must keep the heat on Israel and the US to end this outrageous immoral, evil genocide in Palestine. 

When we stand on the street with our signs and flags it encourages others to wake up, speak out and join the movement for sanity with real justice and peace.

Bruce