The 18th of August was the eve of the Democratic National Convention, and the day chosen for nationwide “Not Another Bomb” protests demanding an embargo on shipments of weapons to Israel. These weapons are being used every day for wholesale slaugher of civilians, for genocide.

Due to the proximity of the Sunday farmer’s market, “event staff” plus the usual Keystone Kops showed up to harassd protesters, demanding that the rally move outside the park to the sidewalk. The cops were reminded their usual next move would be to cry “blocking the sidewalk” but they made no further aggro moves. Eventually, protesters marched around the lake chanting-right by that farmer’s market packed with people.

Below is the flier given out at the Lake Eola “Not another bomb” protest. The listed website notanotherbomb.com and QR code link to a petition demanding an embargo against shipping weapons to Israel from the US

The video reposted here starts with the disruption inside, then an intense confrontation with cops outside. Smoke flares set off, arrests opposed by the crowd, seems to be some rather serious fighting.

Lots more of scootercasterny’s video of this event originally posted to Twitter/X/Birdchan available w/o an account at

https://nitter.poast.org/scootercasterny

Example, the other posts are near this in her timeline:”Breaking: heavy clashes and arrests after pro-Palestine protesters STORMED Democratic afterparty after Kamala Harris event in NYC

https://nitter.poast.org/ScooterCasterNY/status/182389596723555131

The tenth of August was the day after Israel dropped a US-made GBU-39B Small Diameter Bomb on a SCHOOL in Gaza. Over 100 people were killed. Emergency protests for Gaza were no doubt held in many places, one of these was in Tampa, Florida

A speaker from SDS was at the protest, vowing that as University of South Florida(USF) begins their Fall semester, pro-Palestine protests will return. The tear gas attack on April 29 won’t deter activists. The suspensions and expulsions are just more issues to fight over and won’t stop the protests either

The same speaker called out the City of Tampa for its support of the Florida-Israel Business Accelerator. This is a program assisting Israeli businesses setting up “settlements” so to speak of themselves in Florida and especially Tampa. This in spite of Tampa having one of the largest Palestinian communities in the US and the largest in Florida.

Video shows police firing big pepper sprayers at the lead of the march up Capitol Hill on July 24 against Netanyahu. This appears to be a failed attempt by the Capitol Police to prevent the march ascending Capitol Hill.

This was a MAJOR mass macing by many brutal cops. Look closely at the video, it seems several of the cops opened fire with bear spray size pepper sprayers or larger at once. The attack failed: the crowd made it up the Hill and partway around the Capitol before reversing for reasons unknown to me.

This is a snippet from a longer Breakthrough News video posted two days after the march, found on ANSWER’s twitter:

https://nitter.poast.org/BTnewsroom/status/1816981472399577140

x(dot)com/BTnewsroom/status/1816981472399577140

On the 8th of August, pro-Gaza protesters returned to the Orlando office of US Congressman Darren Soto (D-FL-09). They called him out for his uncondtional support for Israel and genocide. A speaker reminded everyone that AIPAC is Soto’s #1 campaign cash pimp, with the second place donor running far behind.

With Soto and his staff refusing to open the door, protesters taped their demands to the door, then withdrew to the street,.

As in the May visit, Soto’s office pretended to be closed, but someone collected the paper notice left on his door as constituants demanded to speak to “their” representative. There was also evidence of movement inside the office, implying staffers were present, hiding, and refusing to meet with voters.

The problem is that “unpaying” constituants have NOT been considered the customers of politicians in generations, if anything they are the product. These bought and paid for, corrupt “representatives” actually represent those who fund their campaigns, and those who pay the piper call the tune.

On the 24th of July, protesters opposing Netanyahu’s genocide of Gaza showed up outside the Watergate where he was staying, for the 3ed night in a row. They banged drums, blew other nisemakers, and projected an “wanted poster” of Netanyahu on the Watergate.

At one point shortly after protesters set off a smoke flare, a poster showing Netanyahu was fed to the hungry flames. Shortly therafter an Israeli flag was burned (not on this video).

Video: street blockades starting with a hard lockdown (w lockboxes), then mobile tactics delay and disrupt Netanyahu’s motorcade. Includes motorcade vehicles (probably advance vehicles) failing to defeat a blockade and having to retreat West back towards the White House

Video: powerful blasts from police munitions near Union Station

Video: US flag comes down, Palestinian flag goes up, and Netanyahu burns in effigy at Union Station

We began with at least one hard blockade on Independence Ave, featuring two crews with lockboxes to hold their ground. Cops pushed back the overall crowd, exposing the locked down protesters who were more difficult to move. This led to several arrests.

After that, protesters switched tactics to multiple roving, mobile blockade crews. These would hold an intersection until things got untenable, then move on and strike again. Sting and move, sting and move.

Intercepted police comms showed chaos, with cops unable to figure out where to send their own forces-and unable to find ANY route for Netanyahu’s motorcade.

Eventually he found a way in, unknown if this was before or after the various blockades picked up and joined into a single large march attempting to surround the Capitol with marchers.

Union Station DID get surrounded, and there things got seriously spicy. One cop tried to charge and arrest someone, only to trip and go down. Cops made a failed attempt to stop the burning of the US flags from the flagpoles, making a couple arrests only to have the entire crowd turn and advance on them with fury and determination. The cops took their hostages and ran, with protesters in pursuit. They were lucky to escape without having to cough up those hostages to get away.

Protesters then returned tp their targets, pulling down and burning the US flags outside Union Station, then burning them. An effigy of Netanayahu was barebecued over one of the flags.

There were also a number of flashbangs, two of them very, very powerful. I directly asked a line of the cops “were those your munitions?” getting no answer. These can thus be assumed to be police flashbangs, with the stone architecture in the area boosting the sound of the blasts.

On the 23ed pf July, hundreds of Jewish antwar activists occupied the Cannon House Office building’s rotunda and refused to leave. Organized by Jewish Voice for Peace, they staged thig high-profile civil disobedience just one day before Netanyahu’s address before Congress.

A pro-Zionist group claimed these protesters “stormed the Capitol” but that claim is only valid if the entry checkpoints are breached or bypassed by force, like what Trump supporters did on Jan 6 2021. Also unlike this peaceful civil disobedience, that targetted the Capitol itself not a House Office Building.

On the 14th of July, pro-Palestine protesters returned to Orlando’s Lake Eola with one message: Fuck Trump, eyes on Gaza! Due to the events of the previous day, the protest was limited to fliering the farmer’s market rather than say, marching through it chanting.

That didn’t stop cops from menacing protesters, in one case almost running over someone’s heel with a bicycle wheel. An event staffer from the farmers market first went to the cops, then whined (on camera) about being filmed! She went on to make excuse after excuse before demanding that activists either NOT HAND OUT LEAFLETS or leave the portion of the park the farmer’s market was in. This can be considered active interference with the objective of stopping the genocide in Gaza.

On the 2nd of July, protesters showed up at the home of Supreme Court “justice” Roberts. This time around, the protest was against his vote to grant Trump and by extension all other presidents absolute immunity for any acts that could plausibly in the line of official business.

A key chant was “we want democracy, not a monarchy” and no head of state claiming jurisdiction over this part of Turtle Island has had this sort of immunity since King George III.