The “People’s Conference for Palestine,” held May 24-26 in Detroit, attracted over 3,500 Palestinian people and solidarity activists. They came from all over the U.S. and from every continent, with many traveling from occupied Palestine. A number of Palestinians scheduled to speak were denied visas

The conference ended with a call to “Surround the White House” June 8 to protest “Genocide Joe” Biden’s pro-[Zionist] stance and provision of weapons, and to build a campaign against the shipping company Maersk, which ships weapons to [neocolonists].

The steering committee that pulled this historic event together included the Palestinian Youth Movement, National Students for Justice in Palestine, Al-Awda: The Palestinian Right to Return Coalition, Peoples Forum, the U.S. Palestinian Community Network, the Palestinian Feminist Collective, the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression and eight other groups.