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Flashback: As published by the Jewish Telegraph Agency, on March 23, 1965: “Hundreds of Negro freedom marchers today wore yarmulkes (skullcaps), in respectful emulation of rabbis who participated in demonstrations in Alabama as Jewish participation in the march from Selma to Montgomery. The Alabama Negroes called the yarmulkes “freedom caps.” The demand for yarmulkes was […]
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Flashback 1965: MLK’s ‘Negro Freedom Marchers’ in Selma Alabama Wore Yarmulkes
January 16th, 2024 
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Tags: Alabama, flashback, Freedom, marchers, negro, selma, yarmulkes 
No Comments »Rainbow flag burned and marchers assaulted at Zagreb gay pride march
July 5th, 2021 Awake Goy Croatian police have detained several people over incidents during and after this weekend’s Pride march in the capital of Zagreb. The incidents included verbal and physical attacks on some participants and the burning of a rainbow-colored LGBT flag, the Zagreb police said Sunday. Police are still looking for some of the perpetrators. Franko Dota, from […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: assaulted, burned, march, marchers, pride, rainbow, Zagreb No Comments »Cops Brutalize And Arrest Queer Marchers On Anniversary Of Stonewall
July 2nd, 2021 Awake Goy Above Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images. On early Sunday evening, after the Queer Liberation March and the Stonewall Protests’ Pride March, the police brutally arrested eight people. We must fight for the charges to be dropped, against the racist police and for the right to free, public space. Just one day before the 52nd […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: anniversary, arrest, brutalize, marchers, queer, stonewall No Comments »Tear Gas For BLM, Red Carpet For MAGA Marchers
November 24th, 2020 Awake Goy [embedded content] We ask why police suddenly left all their tear gas and rubber bullets at the office while Trump supporters took to the streets for the Million MAGA March in Washington, DC. Core organizer for BLM DC April Goggans, journalist Chuck Modiano, and TRNN investigative reporters Taya Graham and Stephen Janis join host Kim […]
Nationalist marchers in Kyiv say Ukraine is under ‘occupation’ by ‘Jewish clan’
October 15th, 2020 Awake Goy JTA — Participants in a nationalist march in Ukraine raised an anti-Semitic banner on Wednesday decrying the country’s “occupation and robbery” by a “Jewish clan.” The banner, aimed at Ukraine’s Jewish president, Vlodymyr Zelensky, appeared at the annual OUN-UPA March, which is named for Ukrainian nationalist movements that for a time sided with Adolf Hitler […]
While marchers can’t breathe, people like you are making sure their stories spread around the world
April 21st, 2018 Awake Goy The photos of homemade gas masks above and several more we posted earlier this week show the ingenuity and unrelenting dedication of Palestinians participating in the Great March of Return. That persistence — the courage people are showing by putting their bodies in snipers’ sights — has sparked admiration and solidarity around the world. While […]
New York Times sides with Israel as it kills Gaza marchers
April 1st, 2018 Awake Goy Michael F. Brown Media Watch 31 March 2018 A wounded Palestinian is evacuated after Israeli forces opened fire at participants in the Great March of Return, near the Gaza-Israel boundary, 30 March. Fifteen Palestinians were killed and more than 1,400 injured by the Israeli military. Ashraf Amra APA images The New York Times quickly put […]
