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Nick Tolliver

By Nick Tolliver

Columbia Heights, Minnesota solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon. | Kim DeFranco/Fight Back! News

Columbia Heights, MN – On Saturday, November 23, over 100 protesters gathered along Columbia Heights’s busy Central Avenue to protest U.S. support for Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians. The protest called for solidarity with the resistance in Lebanon and Palestine, an end to U.S. aid and weapons shipments to Israel, and for the state of Minnesota to divest from Israel.

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Willy Massay speaking about his experiences with healthcare in Gaza.  | Staff/Fight Back! News

Minneapolis, MN – On Sunday, October 27, over 100 people gathered at the New City Center to listen to a presentation given by Willy Massay, a critical care ICU nurse who was one of the few American healthcare workers to go to Gaza since the start of the war last year. The presentation was hosted by the Minnesota Anti War Committee.

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Protest at Minnesota State Capitol demands divestment from apartheid Israel.  | Nick Tolliver/Fight Back! News

St. Paul, MN – On August 10, hundreds of people gathered outside the Minnesota State Capitol to demand that the State Board of Investment, chaired by Governor Tim Walz, divest public funds from institutions complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide and apartheid in Palestine.

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