EARTH DAY RALLY AND MARCH, 4/21: From Little Earth to Palestine! 📣🇵🇸 Fight back against environmental racism! Divest MN from apartheid Israel! Shut down Smith Foundry! No greenwashing genocide! More info below 👇

🗓️Sunday April 21st
⏰1:00PM
📍Smith Foundry (28th and Longfellow Ave, MPLS)

HOW ISRAEL USES GREENWASHING:

Greenwashing: the act of framing one’s actions or policies as environmentally friendly — “green” — as a means of concealing some other harm.

Greenwashing is a tactic used by settler colonies that attempts to deceivingly characterize the genocidal and intrinsically capitalistic annexations of land by occupation forces as “environmentally progressive”.

Israel’s exploitation of Palestinian land and resources has locked Palestine into a captive market, effectively creating an economic relationship rooted in manufactured dependence and cyclical debt.

This is especially prevalent in the energy sector in Palestine where Gazans have two sources of electricity: the frequently bombed Gaza Power Plant which depends on fuel—a resource that Israel has substantially restricted access to due to its “dual purpose” categorization—and the Israel Electric Corporation (IEC).

Israeli green energy corporations like SolarEdge build solar fields on stolen and illegally occupied Palestinian land to sell to the IEC. Palestinians are forced to depend on Israel for access to their own resources and the global West is deceived into believing that renewable energy sources are being developed from a place of ethical benevolence.

The systemic dispossession and exploitation of Palestinian land with resources deemed profitable for the occupation’s endeavors contributes to the de-development of Palestine—worsening conditions for Palestinians and making it increasingly difficult for Palestinians to achieve sovereignty under Israel’s apartheid regime.

Initiated by Climate Justice Committee and Anti-War Committee. Endorsed by the Free Palestine Coalition, EPNI, WAMM, and others.