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Boston: “Sick from Genocide” Protest Against the Slaughter of Palestinians

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New York City Healthcare workers protest against genocide and attacks on health workers in Gaza.

 

New York City Healthcare workers, answer the call from Doctors Against Genocide and Health Care Workers 4 Palestine, to protest genocide and attacks on health workers in Gaza, January 6, 2025.    Photo: revcom.us

In Boston, Doctors Against Genocide (DAG) and Health Care Workers 4 Palestine (HCW4P) called for employees of hospitals and healthcare facilities to call out sick and join the Sick From Genocide Global Vigil on January 6 “to honor lives lost, stand against ongoing atrocities, and demand accountability for the genocide unfolding before our eyes” in Palestine. Refuse Fascism participated in this outcry. 

We had about 60 doctors, healthcare workers, and medical students in front of Mass General Brigham Hospital (MGB) demonstrating against the slaughter and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. We denounced the complicity of MGB, and other healthcare institutions, in this genocide as well as condemned their silence in the face of this genocide, which is especially reprehensible given that the medical profession is bound by “First Do No Harm.” (Ironically, MGB sent us a message during the demonstration threatening us.1)

Screengrab from video of Boston Healthcare workers against genocide, January 6, 2025.

 

Boston healthcare workers protest against genocide in Gaza, January 6, 2025.    Photo: Screengrab from video

As part of this activity, we opened “The Kamal Adwan Pop-up Free Clinic for the Treatment of Sick from Genocide.” This action was in concert with “Sick Outs” from Portland, OR, to Stanford Medical School to Australia and the Middle East. Four doctors spoke about their disgust with the current situation and their determination to continue to fight against this genocide, and called for further Sick Outs.

A medical professional working with Refuse Fascism spoke starting with “In the Name of Humanity, We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America.” He further went on to say,

The reason why we are here today has been the mass slaughter of the Palestinian people and its medical infrastructure beyond what any of us can fully comprehend, done under the auspices of Biden/Harris and the Democratic Party.

But, the prospect of what will happen to the Palestinian people with the Trump/Vance regime coming to power is unimaginable. Mike Huckabee, Trump’s appointee to be ambassador to Israel, does not even acknowledge Palestinians as people.

We need people to act with determination and courage. We cannot allow 11 million immigrants to be criminalized, jailed, and deported. We cannot allow the LGBTQ community to be hunted and criminalized. We cannot allow another woman to bleed to death or be forced to be an incubator. We cannot allow the police and vigilantes to be unleashed and escalate the murders of people of color. We cannot allow these science-deniers to continue to let the planet burn.

And, we cannot allow any more bombs to be sent to Israel.

There are many of us inside and outside of the medical community who have taken the correct stand against Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. But this opposition needs to grow in the streets to millions. We need to stop this juggernaut of the rise and consolidation of fascism without which we cannot stop being Sick From Genocide and the genocide of the Palestinian people.

We pledge to the people of the world:

“In the Name of Humanity, We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America!”

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FOOTNOTES:

1. The MGB letter said: 

Dear Leaders,

Mass General Brigham is a place of healing. We are committed to providing high-quality care to all patients who come through our doors. We embrace a culture of shared humanity and dignity, where our diverse community of patients, families and employees all feel welcome, cared for and valued. It has recently come to our attention that an outside group, which has no affiliation with Mass General Brigham, has been publicizing without our permission that they will be holding a media event on the Brigham and Women’s Hospital campus on Monday, January 6. This event is not sponsored by Mass General Brigham, and it will not be permitted to occur on Brigham and Women’s property or any other MGB property. Further, individuals who appear at such events are prohibited from representing themselves as speaking for Mass General Brigham or any of its member hospitals without express permission to do so. We will be closely monitoring this situation to ensure that our policies are respected. Anne Klibanski, MD, President and CEO Mass General Brigham; David F.M. Brown, MD, President Mass General Brigham Academic Medical Centers; Giles W.L. Boland, MD, President Brigham and Women’s Hospital, President Brigham and Women’s Physicians Organization; Marcela del Carmen, MD, President Massachusetts General Hospital, President Massachusetts General Physicians Organization.

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