Pro-Palestine March Takes Over The Streets In Portland, Maine For Land Day 2024

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Portland, Maine turned out 1,000 people to rally, march, and die-in for Land Day 2024. The close ties of Palestinian people with their lands, their villages, and their olive groves were celebrated with music and dancing while speakers made the connection between land theft in Wabanakiya (parts of which are now called Maine) and in Palestine. 

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Others spoke of massacres in history and more recently. Per the Maine Coalition for Palestine's press release:

Land Day commemorates the protest of March 30th, 1976, a day when Palestinians rallied against the theft of their lands, and six were tragically killed by the Israeli military. It also marks the sixth anniversary of the Great March of Return, a peaceful march led by Palestinians to reclaim the lands from which they were ethnically cleansed. After 18 months of protest, 230 Palestinians were killed, and 36,000 were brutally injured.

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You can hear the speeches on Health Care Workers for Palestine (@hcw4p) Instagram feeds here, here, and here. Following speeches, protesters took to the streets with pace cars carrying people living with disabilities. About 60 staged a die-in on Congress Street where they remained for over an hour without arrests or even warnings to disperse.

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Portland's hometown paper the Press Herald published a full report with reporter Ray Routhier interviewing several people from the Maine Coalition for Palestine. Included was organizer Rosemary Corkins, who was also interviewed for television by NewsCenterMaine.

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Unfortunately, newscentermaine chose to center the voice of genocide supporter Senator Susan Collins talking about October 7 in a way that clearly revealed that real information does not make it through her Zionist bias. Yes, Susan, many Jewish people did die that day including many who were killed by the Israeli military itself implementing the Hannibal directive: execute Jews rather than allow them to be taken hostage. Israel has also bombed and subsequently starved many hostages to death since October and that is not on Hamas. They have consistently called for release of the thousands of Palestinians in Israel's prison in exchange for releasing the remaining hostages.

Guess what else, Susan: thousands upon millions of protesters worldwide turned out to commemorate Land Day.

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The tide has turned, and the U.S. government's days of no accountability for enabling massacres of tens of thousands of children, doctors, and journalists in Gaza are numbered.