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Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP; Western Massachusetts): The largest progressive Jewish anti-Zionist organization in the world. For the past two years, our local chapter has been organizing against Israel's genocide in Gaza, calling for a permanent ceasefire and en to U.S. military aid and funding. We envision a world where all people — from the U.S. to Palestine — live in freedom, justice, equality, and dignity.
IG: @jvpwesternmass
Stop L3Harris (Western Massachusetts): A coalition of individuals in Western Mass organizing to shut down L3Harris
IG: @stop3lnoho
Science for the People (SftP; Western Massachusetts): SftP first formed in the US in 1969 out of the anti-war movement and lasted until 1989. With radical analysis and non-hierarchical governing structure, Science for the People tackled the militarization of scientific research, the corporate control of research agendas, the political implications of sociobiology and other scientific theories, the environmental consequences of energy policy, inequalities in health care, and many other issues. In 2014, about two hundred people came to UMass Amherst for a conference on the history and legacy of SftP, leading to the revitalization of the organization and its magazine. The Western Mass chapter is one of about a dozen chapters internationally that subscribe to a robust set of principles of unity; it offers workshops, fairs, and other events that foster critical thinking and organizing to harness STEM for social justice.
Dissenters STEM Caucus: A subgroup of UMass Dissenters committed to fighting against the use of imperialism, colonialism, racism, capitalism, an dother oppressions in STEM fields. We work to demilitarize STEM departments on campus, educate students, faculty, and community, and promote ethical research and employment opportunities.
IG: @stemcaucusumass
Email: umassdissentersstemcaucus@gmail.com
Smith Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP): Smith College's chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. The group holds protests for divestment, fundraising events, teach-ins, and annual Israeli Apartheid Week programming. In March and April of 2024, SJP occupied Smith's College Hall for 13 days to demand that Smith divest from war profiteers fueling Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people.
Email: smithsjp@protonmail.com
IG: @smith_sjp
Hampshire College Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP): A student organization dedicated to raising awareness of the oppression, suffering and displacement Palestinian people have been and continue to experience under Israeli occupation and apartheid. We as an organization believe in Palestinians' right to self-determiniation, their right to return, and support the calls for a one state solution. The three main goals of this organization are education, BDS, and community building.
UMass Amherst Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP): We organize against the genocide in Gaza through political education, direct action, and confrontation of Zionism on our campus.
IG: @umass_sjp
Email: umass_sjp@proton.me
UMass Graduate Employee Organization Palestine Solidarity Caucus (GEO PSC): We provide a space for sustainable discussion, education, and collective action regarding the ongoing settler-colonial occupation of Palestine. We recognize the relationship between organized labor and international humanitarian causes. We seek to reaffirm GEO's 2003 resolution for divestment from Israeli occupation and 2016 endorsement of BDS. We call on UMass, UAW International, and UAW local 2322 to divest from the Israeli occupation, call on the government to end military aid to Israel, and to donate to Palestinian relief efforts.
Email: geo.palestine.solidarity@gmail.com
IG: @umassgradworkers4palestine
UMass Professional Staff Union Solidarity Caucus (PSU SC): We aim to defend the rights of all workers. As UMass workers we demand a truly anti-racist, anti-imperialist, democratically-run university. As union members we have formed this caucus to answer the call for solidarity from marginalized peoples all over the world. We believe that Palestinian liberation and autonomy is a workplace issue. The many threats and challenges we face as university workers are entangled with the Palestinian struggle.
Email: PSUsolidarity@gmail.com
UMass Amherst Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine (FSJP): In response to the urgent call to establish Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP) groups across U.S. campuses, we at UMass Amherst come together to express our solidarity with students and colleagues who are organizing for Palestinian liberation and self-determination, who are facing threats and attacks for their advocacy. We understand the struggle for Palestinian liberation to be aligned with anti-colonial movements and struggles in many parts of the world, and commit to ensuring the collective right to speak on and engage in this activist work on our campus. Without a space to question and historicize colonial hierarchical power relation, academic freedom becomes impossible. As educators and workers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, we oppose all forms of colonialism, racism, and apartheid, and will work to nurture and defend our students and community when they speak out in support of Palestine.
Website: https://umassfjp.wordpress.com
Email: umfjpsite@proton.me
Showing Up for Racial Justice Western Mass (WMSURJ): The Western Mass chapter of Showing Up for Racial Justice is part of a national network of groups and individuals working to undermine white supremacy. Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ aims to move white people to work towards racial justice in an accountable way, as part of a multi-racial movement. Since 2017 our chapter has been encouraging white-identified people to engage with the practice of learning about and paying reparations to BIPOC people and communities.
Website: http://www.wmsurj.com
IG: @wmsurj
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