In Support of Joint Struggle
More than six thousand Israeli Jews and Palestinians assemble in Tel Aviv, waving Palestinian flags and denouncing Israeli policy as apartheid. Thousands of young Ethiopian-Israelis march against police brutality, blocking highways, even throwing stones at police, and some chanting, “Free Palestine.” Mizrahi Jews petition Israel’s High Court to reject the Nation-State Law as anti-Arab and therefore both anti-Palestinian and anti-Mizrahi. An increase in draft-dodging leads Israel’s army to lament a “decreased motivation to serve” among the population.
Such incidents from the last couple years remain absent from Haymarket’s anthology
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, published in December 2020, and from Steve Leigh’s review published late last month in
Former Treasure Island residents report radiation and chemical poisoning during Feb. 8 SF Supervisorsâ hearing
March 1, 2021
Asia William worked for just under a year as a mobile patrol officer on Treasure Island. What she saw and experienced of developersâ handling of island radioactivity while there was enough to cause her to both move away and pursue her own investigating alongside Carol Harveyâs. âTo this day in 2021, there are still no signs warning people who go in there that these areas are toxic. I suspect that the redevelopment continues because the truth is hidden.â
by Carol Harvey
On Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, during a San Francisco Board of Supervisors Land Use Committee hearing, San Franciscans learned for the first time that their neighbors on Treasure Island are sick from contamination by radiation, chemicals, lead, asbestos and black mold that the Navy left behind after decommissioning the base.