MEDIA ALERT: Families, Educators, and New Yorkers of Conscience Demand Democratic Leadership to Stop Starving Gaza
MEDIA ALERT | FOR PLANNING PURPOSES
AUGUST 2, 2025
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MEDIA ALERT: Families, Educators, and New Yorkers of Conscience Demand Democratic Leadership to Stop Starving Gaza
BROOKLYN, NY (AUGUST 3, 2025) – On Sunday, hundreds of New Yorkers, including parents, children, legislators, and educators, will hold a demonstration in Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza at 4PM to demand an end to U.S.-backed Israeli violence in Gaza. Demonstrators will call on Democratic Party leadership, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, to stop funding the starvation, displacement, and mass killing of Palestinian children and families.
Participants will affirm a simple truth: All children deserve to be fed, clothed, safe, loved, to go to school, see their friends, and dream of their future.
This rally follows a grave alert from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, which confirms a “worst-case” famine scenario is now unfolding in Gaza. Gaza is running out of time. We must end the starvation, end the genocide, and demand the immediate flow of aid to hungry families.
WHAT: Families Stand Up for Gaza Rally featuring New York families, educators, legislators, and community activists calling for Democratic Leadership to put an end to the starvation in Gaza and end the genocide
WHEN: Sunday, August 3, @ 4pm ET
WHERE: Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY, 11215
WHO: Hundreds of New Yorkers will join the New York City Democratic Socialists of America in collaboration with UAW Region 9A, Jewish Voice for Peace NYC, NYC Educators for Palestine, Palestinian Youth Movement, New York Taxi Workers Alliance, Brooklyn Families for Palestine, NY-10 Neighbors, and Park Slope Food Coop Members for Palestine.
Rally speakers include: New York City parents, children, and legislators, including Assemblymember Marcela Mitaynes, State Senator Jabari Brisport, and former Bronx Rep. Jamaal Bowman. Brooklyn PTA member and former New York State Assembly candidate Eon Huntley will also speak.
VISUALS available upon request of: New York City families holding banners and signs calling for an end to the genocide and starvation of Gaza
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