In continuity with the mobilization launched on September 22, Un Ponte Per confirms its participation in the national strike and mobilization day against the genocide of October 3 and in the subsequent actions.

September 22 was only the first stage: the general strike demonstrated that there is a collective will to resist, which does not accept the complicit silence of governments.

The following is the appeal published on the occasion of the first day of the strike.

With the occupation of Gaza City, the last dramatic chapter of the Israeli colonialist settlement project is being written.

In front of the deliberate extermination of a people, in front of hundreds of thousands of people on the run, exhausted by two years of total siege, in front of images that break our hearts, we cannot stand still.

Faced with the repression of dissent, a media narrative that continues to portray genocide as a 'war between armies', and the silence of governments, it is urgent that we overcome the sense of impotence that pervades us and take our bodies to the streets.

That is why on 22 September Un Ponte Per adheres to the general strike, proclaimed by the basic trade unions and the Palestinian movements. We strike to stop the genocide in Palestine, to reject the normalisation of horror, to boycott an economy that feeds this system of death, to support the difficult journey of the Global Sumud Flotilla, which seeks to break the siege.

We have decided to close our offices in Italy on this day, because we want to give a strong signal of dissent: when governments choose complicity, it is up to us - citizens and citizens, associations and movements - to make our voices heard and to strongly demand the interruption of all forms of collaboration with Israel. And to strengthen our solidarity action, we will donate the day of strike to the Water for Gaza campaign.

These days our activists are in the squares and at the garrisons that criss-cross the cities. On Monday we invite you to 'lower your shutters' and join the mobilisations of 22 September: in the squares, in the marches, to block an unjust system that fuels this massacre.

Let's choose to take a stand: let's strike, let's join the boycott, let's join this appointment, as well as those that await us in the coming weeks.

Let us choose together to be on the right side of history.