{"id":183531,"date":"2026-03-08T22:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/183531\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T22:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:28:07","slug":"jacksonville-fl-rally-in-solidary-with-cuba-and-venezuela-fight-back-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/183531\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville, FL rally in solidary with Cuba and Venezuela \u2014 Fight Back! News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/s4TqvJjj.jpg\" alt=\"Jacksonville\u00a0protest against\u00a0U.S. wars.\" title=\"Jacksonville\u00a0protest against\u00a0U.S. wars.  | Photo: Fight Back! News\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville, FL \u2013 On March 3, around 30 community members and organizers rallied in front of the Federal Courthouse that once housed the office of Florida Senator-turned Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.<\/p>\n<p>The action was called by the Jacksonville Palestine Solidarity Network (JPSN) to stand in solidarity with Cuba and Venezuela, as well as Iran, Lebanon and Palestine as the Trump administration rapidly escalates its wars across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of you may be asking: \u2018Why is a Palestine organization calling an action for Cuba?\u2019\u201d said JPSN organizer Ryan Delaney. \u201cBecause when the U.S. kidnaps the president of Venezuela, cuts off critical oil to the country with the longest standing recognition of a Palestinian state in the Western hemisphere, and starts redirecting that oil to Israel instead, it becomes impossible to ignore that the struggle of every nation under the thumb of imperialism is bound together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>JPSN organizers spoke to the crowd about the developments in Iran and Lebanon, as well as the longstanding solidarity between Palestine, Cuba and Venezuela, and what the oil blockages mean for the Cuban people before tying it back to JPSN\u2019s campaign to end collaboration between Jacksonville Port Authority (JAXPORT) and the war profiteers that have been fueling the genocide in Palestine such as Maersk, ZIM, and Mediterranean Shipping Company.<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville-based Navy ships and helicopters were photographed participating in the U.S.\u2013 Israeli attack on Iran, and the USS Iwo Jima that President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro was transported on during his kidnapping was subsequently docked in Jacksonville\u2019s Mayport. Many of the weapons and munitions used in the genocide in Palestine that are produced by war profiteering factories in the Black Belt South are in turn shipped through Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd left with a clear call to action \u2013 JPSN is organizing to end JAXPORT\u2019s deadliest contracts with war profiteers in order to end Jacksonville\u2019s complicity in war and genocide. JPSN called on all people of conscience to join them in order to get involved in the Genocide Out of Jaxport campaign.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fightbacknews.org\/tag:JacksonvilleFL\" class=\"hashtag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#JacksonvilleFL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/fightbacknews.org\/tag:FL\" class=\"hashtag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#FL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/fightbacknews.org\/tag:AntiWarMovement\" class=\"hashtag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#AntiWarMovement<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/fightbacknews.org\/tag:Iran\" class=\"hashtag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Iran<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/fightbacknews.org\/tag:JPSN\" class=\"hashtag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#JPSN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville, FL \u2013 On March 3, around 30 community members and organizers rallied in front of the Federal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-183531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-jacksonville","9":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","10":"tag-jacksonville-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}