U.S. Day of Action Tells Biden: We Are the Red Line – End the Genocide!

On June 8, in Washington, DC 100,000 people joined in a mass action, completely surrounding the White House with the People's Red Line against genocide, in a national action to mark the eight months of Israel's war on Gaza.

The name of the action referred to U.S. President "Genocide Joe" Biden's claim in March that an Israeli invasion of Rafah was his "red line" and that he would not countenance the Israelis crossing it. Nonetheless, the Israeli invasion of Rafah has been underway since May and continued U.S. support has given the Zionists carte blanche to commit one increasingly depraved massacre after another in Rafah and elsewhere.

The action started at Lafayette Park in front of the White House, then protesters wearing red clothes surrounded the building with a two-mile-long red banner, covered in the names of Palestinians killed by Israel. Protestors chanted, From DC to Palestine, We Are the Red Line! and Biden, We Are Your Red Line!, and carried flags and signs saying, Genocide Is Our Red Line, Biden's Red Line Was a Lie, Hands Off Rafah! Stop the Genocide, End All U.S. Aid to Israel!, Stop Arming Israel, Lift the Siege on Gaza Now! and Arms Embargo on Israel! among many others.

The action in DC affirmed that it is the people who determine what is acceptable -- based on their demands for peace, justice and the rights of the Palestinian people -- not the warmongers in their self-serving pursuit of control over peoples and territories, and pursuit of profits from arms sales.

A mass action was organized in Los Angeles in conjunction with the national action for those on the west coast who could not travel to Washington DC.