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The demonstration was organized by WE WILL NOT BE SILENT, a group of artists and activists who take the name from the words of the sister and brother anti-Nazi activists in Hitler’s Germany who formed the group known as the White Rose. They were both captured and executed. Scores of people met in Bryant Park, stood in a line while each wore the name of one of the people murdered in Gaza and a member of the group read some of the names of those killed. At noon they began a slow walk of mourning in a single file to the Israeli Consulate. Once they reached their destination twelve members of the group staged a die-in in front of the Consulate bringing traffic to a stop on busy 2nd Avenue. They were arrested for this act of civil disobedience, a tactic frequently used by Dr. Martin Luther King. This week there have been several such acts in New York and in other cities with some being initiated by Jewish Voice for Peace but most others came about through people, in a state of anguish and rage, making connections on facebook and coming together to express their pain, their anger, and their need to say, not in my name.
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Photos © by Bud Korotzer
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