Why You Should Organize

We are living through an inflection point in history. While people toil away working multiple jobs just to put food on their family’s plates, the U.S. and its institutions invest billions of dollars in the destruction of Palestine. Here in Harvard Square, while the University continues to gentrify the area and purchase land all over Boston, they invest that same money into the occupation of Palestine. The same people who ravage our families here are genociding our siblings in Palestine.

The interconnections between the struggle here and the struggle in Palestine are clear. In moments like this, there are two paths one can take: willfully close one’s eyes to these injustices or rise up and join the movement. We know the power that the student movement especially holds. The Black Panther Party started on a campus in Oakland, California; the struggle against the Vietnam War was led by student activists; South African apartheid was toppled as students established encampments across the nation’s universities.

The oppression that we, the people of the world, are facing both here and abroad reflects a decaying system, the dying screams of the old world as a new world attempts to emerge. There are two conflicting histories warring against one another: one where the people of the world remain under the boot of oppression and one where we are truly liberated. So who has the power to decide history? It is us, from our siblings in Palestine, to the students at Harvard, to the mother in the Port and the father in Roxbury. So join the student intifada by joining organizations such as the Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC), Jews for Palestine (J4P), Artists for Palestine (A4P), and the African and African American Resistance Organization (AFRO). Together, we will help birth a new world.