Across the country, some organizers have started building community networks to provide mutual aid for those most affected by politicians’ ineptitude and spinelessness. At the same time, activists are on the streets making their voices heard.
Last Sunday outside a Chevron station on E Fowler Avenue near the University of South Florida, protesters joined a nationwide action by the Palestinian-led BDS Movement, which staged a three-day boycott of the company. The movement—which calls for boycotts, divestment and sanctions—says Chevron not only contributes to global warming, but supplies energy and money to the Israeli government’s ongoing assault on the Gaza Strip.
The calls for divestment have not fallen on deaf ears, and some cities (like Portland, Maine and Hayward, California) have actually decided to cut ties with companies with ties to Israel.
The Bay area, for its part, does not look to be headed that direction. Last summer, according to Axios, nearly all Hillsborough County Commissioners (except for Pat Kemp) voted to allow up to $25 million in Israeli companies.
