Juneteenth and GAZA: 2025
None are Free until all are Free
“Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land,.. in any city, ..at any table, when WE have the resources and scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life?”1. ..says Martin Luther King Jr. in his fight for better life for all.
Hunger in the United States
The Fredericksburg Regional Food Bank reports that Over “47 million Americans, 14% of our population, are hungry, including 1 in every 5 children. In Black communities, over 9 million, ..22% of Black individuals faced food insecurity. Black children are especially vulnerable, with 27% living in food-insecure households—that’s 1 in 4 Black children.”.2.
Hunger in Gaza.
“Right now in Gaza, over 2 million people are being starved, bombed, and suffocated under military occupation.” said the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. .. Israel and the United States are committing genocide in Gaza using hunger, terror and outright murder to eliminate the Palestinian people.
These are not separate issues, this is the same fight.
Juneteenth, 2025 marks the 160th anniversary of the ending of slavery in the United States.
It is the time to look forward and to recommit to the fight for freedom, justice and equality for all.
We cannot rest until there is no longer “hunger and deprivation in any land, at any table.”
The RNT Collective is dedicated to presenting progressive and revolutionary voices that examine revolutionary issues. The status quo is no longer viable and growing millions of
people recognize this. We are going to have to have some hard political discussions in America.
- https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1964/king/lecture/
- https://fredfood.org/post/The-State-of-Food-Insecurity-in-Black-Communities#:~:text=The%20Numbers,1%20in%204%20Black%20children.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees ..– Statement on Juneteenth and Gaza is a contribution to this discussion.
As Israel turns its focus to Iran, the death toll mounts in Gaza — and hunger deepens
Tomorrow, people across the United States will mark Juneteenth — a day that commemorates the ending of slavery in this country and the generations of Black Americans who have fought, and continue to fight, for liberation and equal rights.
This struggle for dignity, safety, and the right to simply exist is not unlike the plight of millions of Palestine refugees — especially in Gaza.
These struggles are not separate.
They are connected: by histories of displacement, by systems of oppression, the denial of basic rights.
And they are connected by something else: the shared human responsibility to care.
Right now in Gaza, over 2 million people are being starved, bombed, and suffocated under military occupation.
The world is watching, and still, somehow, hesitating.
But we don’t have to.
UNRWA — the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees — is the largest humanitarian agency on the ground in Gaza and the primary provider of emergency assistance. Despite the blockade on aid, UNRWA is delivering healthcare and psychosocial support — even in impossible conditions — because no one else can.
At UNRWA USA, we believe that: none of us are free until all of us are free. If we truly believe in justice, then we are called — not just as Americans, not as donors, but as human beings — to stand with fellow people who are being occupied, oppressed, and asking to live.
With hope and urgency,
Hani Almadhoun
Senior Director of Philanthropy
UNRWA USABox 18697
Washington, DC 20036
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