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How do we pressure for an arms embargo from below?
The past two years have shown us that we cannot appeal to the morality of the ruling class to stop the zionist genocide in Gaza. An arms embargo must be fought for by grassroots movements. On this panel, we will hear from different campaigns about the strategies and tactics they employ to win a people’s embargo.
Kimia Talebi is an organiser with Energy Embargo for Palestine
Inès is an organiser with the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), a transnational, independent, grassroots movement of Palestinian and Arab youth in exile struggling for the liberation of their homeland. The PYM's Mask off Maersk campaign seeks to implement a people's arms embargo on Israel by pressuring the logistics giant Maersk to stop shipping military cargo that facilitates the genocide in Palestine.
Charlie Thomas is a researcher and organiser. His current research focuses on the call for a liberated Palestine and its relationship to trade unionism globally. He is a member of Workers for a Free Palestine
Nae is an activist based in Lancashire and founder of Preston People’s Collective a grassroots collective focused on education to promote action, part of a wider collective that has been regularly blockading a BAE systems site in Lancashire since 2023.
Saorsa is a member of the Shake the CIV - a London-wide divestment campaign set up to force the London CIV (Collective investment vehicle) to stop using London City Council pensions to bankroll genocide and apartheid in Palestine.
