I’m not sure I’ve ever seen something so simultaneously absurd and disturbing: the House will vote
Monday on a bill that would punish Americans for participating in boycotts of Israel with fines of up to $1 MILLION or prison terms up to TWENTY YEARS.
Monday on a bill that would punish Americans for participating in boycotts of Israel with fines of up to $1 MILLION or prison terms up to TWENTY YEARS.
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They should know, but they don't until they do.
The President was black once so DHS is good.
We cannot vote to stop this.
Gottheimer, meanwhile, is running for governor of New Jersey.
Both are, separately, grounds for prosecution (persecution) under this prospective legislation!
furnishing information about whether someone is associated with charitable or fraternal organizations that support the boycotted country.”
This means mentioning someone works for AIPAC or Betar or Canary Mission.
https://bsky.app/profile/thejenniwren.teamlh.social/post/3lof7h3prp22u
While they create new anti bds laws that have to again be challenged?
This is awful news and will destroy families in the meantime to defend foreign fascists killing babies
Then, it will be left to the SCOTUS.
Could very well be the end of the First Amendment.
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/05/21/multimedia/kristof-tiananmen/kristof-tiananmen-superJumbo.jpg
https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/cu-05-08-23/
OK maybe we're not that stupid. 😂
NY is basically Texas at this point, w/ NYC being Austin, seems scarily close though. 😱
I think I just drove through there, coming back home from RIT in Rochester to Long Island.
Well at least you aren't Cohocton. I had to stop there once for my kid to vomit in a gas station bathroom. Never again. I needed an "I survived Cohocton" t-shirt. 😂
They know strikes, organizing, and boycotts are the defense of We The People against the bad behavior of those in power. So they’re coming for them.
Remind your reps you have First Amendment rights, and they will not take them from you.
https://5calls.org
It's Calvinball time now.
just not in the same way or for the same reasons it used to
No they don't
Hasn't been anything done about it.
Join me in declaring your intentions loudly. If they're gonna stomp on 1A let's make sure EVERYONE knows what they're doing , and give others courage to stand up as well.
The fascists are NOT in charge. Make them work for every inch. The revolution is NOW.
Or are you telling me that I need the government of the day’s approval before I can do anything?
All the Second Amendment rights folks: this is the government overreach you were so afraid of. Where are you?
It's absolutely ludicrous in EVERY way and won't stand for five seconds under any sort of judicial review.
If Citizen’s United found that money is speech, then wouldn’t this be a violation of the First amendment?
(BTW, I am not a lawyer and I am genuinely curious what the answer is here.)
(If Congress had proposed a law to criminilize boycotts after the Alabama bus boycott, this is very much that kind of legislation.)
Zionists HATE the https://BDSmovement.net because it is effective.
Available here:
https://justvision.org/boycott
https://bsky.app/profile/nkalamb.bsky.social/post/3lobbd7d3os2p
https://Generalstrikeus.com
There are definitely work arounds. I think it would mostly result in people talking about how bad the products are instead of using the word "boycott."
Then I remember they wouldn't care. TO THE CAMPS WITH US ALL.
20 yrs for NOT buying some Israeli shit takes it where Stalin and Mao could only dream of going.
Just like humanity, cruelty also doesn't have a country or religion.
Y'all need to contact your reps on this one. This law is a joke and will just waste money in court costs.
“What kind of sandals are those?”
“Chacos”
“Straight to jail!”
Even organized protest attendees are not a homogeneous group with many of different beliefs/agendas/grievances often participating.
https://bsky.app/profile/nkalamb.bsky.social/post/3lobbd7d3os2p
*as they dragged me to detention*
The amendment proposes to insert the words “or international governmental organization" after “foreign country” each place it appears.
The fines have been in effect since 2021.
The article is misleading.
"I didn't buy a sodastream."
(The *s are because they name-search, and are like Fetterman when it comes to Israel.)
Omnifizz absolutely slaps
I've had plenty of starbucks and it's coffee-adjacent sugar water.
I have tried chick-fil-a and it's bone dry. like a desert in my mouth.
I've made strawberry lemonade from the store into fizzy lemonade, and I carbonate my morning energy drink without worrying that the powder will cause a foamover.
"shield"
"nonviolent"
ok so explain to me _exactly_ what it is that's being shielded. and from what.
Opposition: we ❤️ nonviolent boycotts.
Israel lobby: 20 years in prison, you violent criminals!
Tells you loud and clear who our politicians are REALLY working for regardless of party affiliation.
Freeing Palestine will free us all
But if you choose not to spend your money somewhere, it's illegal?
Senate needs to squash this like a bug.
Zelensky is Jewish
How does the average a-political person not look at this, look at govt decisions over the past 2 years, the media coverage & not reach the conclusion "jews appear to control everything"
N it only takes a lil pushing from right wingers to reach "maybe hitler was right"
Scary times
None of this shit is protecting Jewish people.
their end times prophecy starts with the second holocaust (and most evangelical psychos insist it'll be nuclear hellfire, so) and this is the shit they WANT to make happen
and I give my reason as the mom and pop don't invest in Israeli settlements and Starbucks do
I can be prosecuted ?
I will boycott Starbucks if they start making the most delicious coffee in the world
Because I wish to boycott any corporation that supports Israel
Thank you
"If you didn't see that snow white movie that looked bad, pay $1 million or go to jail"
and when asked why, you give your reason as Starbucks investment in Israeli settlements
You can be prosecuted
What are they gonna do? Fine you? Arrest you for poor crimes? Send in the pauper police???
And not a peep about the price of food staples