Solidarity in song

Watch solidarity being sung!

I’m Jo Bird. I’m a Green Councillor on the Wirral and I’m MP candidate for Birkenhead. [cheers and applause]

The Greens support the International Court of Justice and their ruling to stop killing Palestinians. We want an immediate and permanent ceasefire now and long lasting peace. We need to stop arming Israel. Stop our complicity. Stop investing our pension funds in the arms trade.

We also need to sanction the political leaders who are inciting genocide. And sanction the Israeli state, just as the Russian state was sanctioned when they invaded Ukraine.

Partly I’m standing [for election as Birkenhead MP], to vote out nasty MPs who are currently in Parliament. The MPs who did not vote for ceasefire. They are a danger to Palestinians and they are a danger to us [in this country]. They’ll bring more cuts, more austerity. They’ll restrict our right to protest about anything.

The judges of the International Court of Justice from around the world repeated what millions of people around the world have also been saying, shouting, writing, singing for months – in all kinds of countries. In our thousands, in our millions.

Thank you to Unity Pacific for putting this into song.

It’s raining fire from the sky
Nowhere to run nowhere to hide
Who will fall and who’ll survive
It’s a reason why …

In our thousands and in our millions, we are all Palestinians
In our thousands and in our millions, we are all Palestinians

I hear the children scream at night
In the morning the sound of a mother’s cry
As in her arms her baby dies
That’s a reason why …

In our thousands and in our millions, we are all Palestinians
In our thousands and in our millions, we are all with the Palestinians

Far away though we may be
Over land and over seas
We stand in solidarity
Let me tell you why …

In our thousands and in our millions, we are all Palestinians
In our thousands and in our millions, we are all Palestinians We are all Palestinians

Thank you