On the 24th of November, Orlando area Palestine supporters showed up at City Hall in nearby Winter Park. They set up the same vigil installation with children’s shoes and tombstones that had previously been displayed at Orlando’s City Hall

Publishing this NOW due to the dire situation in the so-called “United” States. Lots of Palestine and election-related protest footage and some battle footage from the front lines in Palestine and Lebanon.

ARE YOU READY TO FUCKING FIGHT? Here is an example of what may happen that seems to be thought through:
https://cheriwilson.substack.com/p/sanctuary-city-crackdowns-what-to

Here is the part detailing Trump’s likely attack mode, MUCH more in the article linked above:

The Plan: Militarization and Raids – After the inauguration, federal agents, backed by military resources, will be deployed to sanctuary cities that have long resisted federal immigration enforcement. President Trump’s plan reportedly includes:

A National Emergency Declaration: This will allow the administration to redirect funds and deploy military resources to support immigration enforcement.

ncreased Federal Presence: Armored vehicles, checkpoints, and heavily armed federal agents will be used to carry out raids and roundups in urban areas.

Targeted Raids: High-density immigrant neighborhoods, workplaces, and public spaces like transit hubs are expected to be prioritized.

In more detail:

The impact on sanctuary cities will be immediate and profound:

1. Federal Forces in Urban Streets
   After the inauguration, cities like Los Angeles and Chicago may see military-grade vehicles rolling down streets and federal agents patrolling neighborhoods. Checkpoints at major highways and transit hubs will monitor movement, and drones and helicopters are expected to provide overhead surveillance. Immigrant-heavy neighborhoods, such as Boyle Heights in Los Angeles or Little Village in Chicago, are likely to face the most scrutiny, with widespread roadblocks and street-level detentions.

2. Early-Morning Raids
   Raids on homes are expected to take place before dawn, targeting individuals and families suspected of being undocumented. Federal agents will force their way into homes, detaining parents in front of their children, often separating families. Similar operations may occur in workplaces, targeting employers and workers alike in industries such as agriculture, construction, and food service.

3. Schools and Hospitals in Crosshairs
   Places once considered safe, such as schools and hospitals, may become flashpoints. Advocacy groups have warned of federal agents waiting outside these facilities to detain individuals, effectively discouraging immigrants from seeking medical care or sending their children to school. This chilling effect will ripple through entire communities.

On the 19th of November, an interfaith antiwar protest took over the atrium of DC’s Hart Senate Office Building. Whistles blew and banners dropped as the protest sowed noisy chaos. Protesters were there to demand that the Senate vote to halt US arms deliveries to Israel in the next day’s vote on the issue.

Corporate news reports many wealthy, powerful, and connected Dems and “liberals” are getting their passports in order and making arrangments to get out of the US. They will be deserting the front, but I guess this is not their war.

On the other hand, it’s quite likely that other nations will close their border to US refugees, possibly for fear of spillover violence

This time around, such protests will be extraordinarily dangerous. The Palestine protest that starts at 11AM in DC on Jan 20 will be at special risk of attack. We don’t know how long it will take Trump to declare his state of emergency and order cops to attack. Presumably the military would not be availabe within the time span of Inauguration protesters but remember that most cops support Trump.

On November 11, pro-Palestine activists held a memoriaL for Aarun Bushnell, the US Airman who set himself on fire to protest US complicity in Israel’s carpet bombing of and genocide in Gaza.

Over the century in which wars have been fought in the air many airmen have died in flames. Only one from the US Air Force died fighting for Palestine though: Aaron Bushnell.

This was not the first time US servicemembers died because of something Israel did however. A number of US Navy sailors were killed at the start of the 1967 war when Israel bombed the electronic intelligence gathering ship USS Liberty. The 2024 vigil in Orlando remembered them too.

The 11th of November is Veteran’s Day, originally called Armistice Day as it marked the end of WWI. It is a day set aside in the US to remember those who served in the US military or especially were wounded or killed in America’s many wars.

Video came to me the day after, I was busy with hurricane repairs so was unable to attend this in person.

Heritage Foundation, authors of Project 2025, has now released a 33 page “Project Esther” document calling for the use of RICO, immigration, “counterterror” and hate crime laws plus the Foreign Agents Registration Act to destroy the pro-Palestine movement.

This might be to support Israel’s plan to depopulate Gaza, it might be an attempt to disable the hard left from fighting Project 2025 by forcing us onto defense, it might be both at once.

The only thing is, this attack has a return address: Heritage and all their top staff. Already Heritage is being counterattacked with protests at both their headquarters and the homes of Project 2025 authors. They have been doxxed and doxxed again. Heritage is not in a good position to open a second front in the war they already declared against us with Project 2025.

The more they push, the more people they will make this conflict existential for. They are going to regret that. Outfits like Heritage depend on donors and corporate partners. As we learned with Huntingdon Life Sciences, such organizations are very vulnerable to activists (even peaceful protesters if this remains possible) standing on their economic air hose by targetting donors and business partners. It doesn’t cost a bank or a stockbroker much to stop donating money to Heritage or to a university seeking to deport student protesters, just as it didn’t cost them much to dump Huntingdon Life Sciences.

It’s just not worth keeping investments much less donation recipients who come with side orders of everything from terrible press to nasty security problems. Believe me, a few of the “high net worth individuals” may stick with Heritage or one of those universites through thick and thin, but enough of them (being just greedy capitalists and nothing more) will bail to bring down the whole mess.

I am still here. Huntingdon Life Sciences is not.