PROTESTS IN cities across the U.S. continued against Israel's devastating assault on Gaza.

-- In San Francisco, 400 people gathered in front ofthe Israeli consulate on November 19 to support the people of Gaza. This was San Francisco's third protest in five days in response to Israel's attack on Gaza and its more than million and a half residents.

Organizations represented were Palestinian Youth Network, Al-Awda, the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, the International Socialist Organization (ISO) and ANSWER. Protesters carried signs which read: "Zionism = Crime" and "End U.S. aid to Israel."

After a few speeches in front of the consulate, the crowd marched down Market to Union Square. With Saks Fifth Avenue as a backdrop, the assembled crowd chanted, "Stop your shopping. Bombs are dropping."

Israel has targeted media, apartment buildings, banks and infrastructure, giving the impression that there is nowhere to hide. Protesters chanted their indictment of both the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and U.S. President Obama, charging them with genocide. Nimit, an educator in the Bay Area, who recently traveled to Gaza and the West Bank, said, "It's time Palestinians stand up."

"Every U.S. and Israeli administration says Israel has the right to defend itself," said Palestinian Youth Network's Loubna Qutami. "We say it has nothing to do with national defense. We say it's genocide." Invoking the spirit of the Arab Spring, she said, "Arab people are readyto live with dignity in their homelands." Qutami called the current assault "a flashback to 2009," adding, "we don't want to do this anotherthree years from now."

"After the election, Obama wasted no time showing his true colors when it comes to peace in the Middle East," said the ISO's Jeff Boyette."Obama doesn't see Palestinians as people. He doesn't see Palestine as astate that has the right to defend itself."

07 Dic. AVN.- Activistas estadounidenses de la Red Judía Antisionista Internacional (Ijan, en inglés) y Red Malcolm X El Poder Popular (MXGM, en inglés) visitan desde este jueves Venezuela para realizar un intercambio de ideas con movimientos sociales mirandinos y profundizar en el proceso revolucionario que vive el país desde hace 14 años, bajo el liderazgo del presidente de la República, Hugo Chávez.

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Members of IJAN, Canada participated in an action disrupting thebestowal of an honorary degree to Canada's Immigration Minister, Jason Kenney, by Haifa University. Itwas a show of solidarity between activists and organizations opposed to Canada's racist immigration policies and Haifa University's complicity with apartheid inPalestine.