“When we say that genocide is in our backyard, this is not a metaphor. This is our port, our streets, and our labor.” As the world’s top shipping and logistics executives gathered in downtown Houston for this year’s International Maritime Conference, organizers with the Houston Arms Embargo made sure they heard the peoples’ demands to stop the shipment of military cargo for Israel through the Port of Houston. The nation’s busiest port by tonnage has processed more shipments of F-35 fighter jet wings than any other US port, according to the coalition of more than 40 local organizations. They accuse shipping giant Maersk and the Port of moving the parts that fuel Israel’s genocide in Gaza, relying on public infrastructure and working-class labor to do so. The week of action, in coordination with the People’s Embargo for Palestine, kicked off with a statewide march from Houston’s City Hall to the conference at Hilton Americas downtown, followed by two days of pickets and a panel with local labor leaders.

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