[EDITOR’S NOTE] P.A.A. invites bands, collectives, artists, writers, and individuals who support Palestine to endorse their Points Of Unity and SIGN UP! Please share widely with your network.

Announcing our new Points of Unity 2024-25!

Please get in touch so we can start rebuilding the network and advancing cultural BDS at this critical stage in the global movement.

Please share with other groups/artists who you think might support! We will produce more comms once we hit various milestones.

Spanish & Arabic translations available, others forthcoming! Follow the link in our bio.

Background:

Our collective was founded in 2011 after a successful campaign to stop Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys from playing Tel Aviv (see links in bio). At our height we boasted over 25 bands and artists committed to the Cultural Boycott of music, venues, and concerts that were financially complicit in Israeli violence against Palestinians or whitewashed it.

After many years and many interruptions wherein the collective ceased activity, it is clear that we need all hands on deck as the final, cruel stages of Zionism continue to prosecute the horrific genocide in Gaza.

So PAA is back because we must be, and we will be rebuilding the network with the urgency we think is needed in these times. Please get in touch if you are a former member or interested in contributing to growing the network. And stay tuned for much more!

Far beyond the pop culture punk ‘canon’, the local movement has stayed alive long past the supposed ‘death of punk’ in the eyes of music industry capitalists because the spirit of punk can never die: it is an ethos, a culture. It is the instinct to ‘do it yourself’, to not wait for permission to make art where it’s supposed to be made, but instead where life really happens: in our communities, in basements, house shows, community centres after hours, parking lots, squats, and sure, sometimes even legal venues…

Punk is rebellion and it is dual power. It is building another world in the shell of the old. And we will keep our spaces clean, as we always have, of loser fascists and Zionist génocidaires.

Racism ain’t punk. So in our concerts & on the streets–apartheid & colonialism FUCK OFF!

[LINKS]

Website: https://punksagainstapartheid.noblogs.org

Points Of Unity – SIGN UP: https://tinyurl.com/paa-pou-2025 (CryptPad)

List of signatories: https://punksagainstapartheid.noblogs.org/signatories/