On April 18, SEIU 1021’s San Francisco Union Hall will host a Solidarity Panel and Fundraiser from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. All donations will go directly to the Palestine New Federation of Trade Unions. 

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Mari B. said, “I’m a Black library worker and rank-and-file member of SEIU 1021. I’m attending the April 18th BDS event with PNFTU as both an Oakland native and resident because I believe it is our duty as Oaklanders to engage in all direct actions that promote the power of the people and especially in cases of extreme and inhumane violence. As a Black woman who has been displaced through the gentrification of my historically Black neighborhood, I understand how your home can be taken from you without reason or resolve. Palestinians are experiencing displacement to the highest extent of brutality, in ways that I simply cannot imagine. It is our duty to disrupt this in as many ways as possible utilizing all of what lies at our feet. I encourage people to show up, to listen intently, to participate and meet other like-minded workers who do not want the results of their hard-earned labor to be used to fund genocide.”

Mark “Osta” Ostapiak said, “I am a rank and file member of SEIU 1021. One of the main demands of Palestinian organized labor is to honor their picket line–no labor for genocide! The genocide won’t end until international labor solidarity on this level is achieved, and U.S. working people won’t be free until Palestine is free! U.S. Labor has its work cut out for itself. It cannot afford to simply fight for its own interests at home, for each time the U.S. genocide machine funds Israel to slaughter Palestinians it is a tragedy for Palestinians and kneecaps U.S. labor, as countless billions of dollars are drained from the needs of working people here at home. I’m attending the PNFTU solidarity event to continue building the vital international connection that strengthens labor at home and provides vital support for our siblings in Palestine.”

Fabi J., another 1021 member, said, “We can only use our collective power through organized resistance and education. Our own exploitation funds this genocide. They take from our pockets to drop bombs over Palestine. We should be angry and we should be talking about it. I’m joining the event because oppressed people have the right to self defense and BDS provides us with a means of resisting imperialism. The only remedy is to organize and fight for the rights of Palestinians, workers, and oppressed people everywhere.”