Protest blocks bridge traffic

Posted 4/17/24

On Monday morning, more than a dozen activists shut down the westbound Hamilton Fish Newburgh Beacon Bridge as part of an international Coordinated Economic Blockade to Free Palestine. Participants …

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Protest blocks bridge traffic

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On Monday morning, more than a dozen activists shut down the westbound Hamilton Fish Newburgh Beacon Bridge as part of an international Coordinated Economic Blockade to Free Palestine. Participants from across the Hudson Valley converged to stop business as usual during the ongoing conflict in Gaza. “Our taxes are funding this genocide,” one participant stated, “I wanted to demonstrate that I will not let my government make me complicit in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.”