“The thing that really scares them is hitting the pocketbooks. BDS is really our only form of nonviolent protest that we have available to us, which is why they’re trying to criminalize it and shut it down.” Organizers in Chicago are working to repeal an anti-BDS law that makes it illegal for pensions to invest in companies that boycott Israel. After its passage in Illinois, 37 other states followed suit. Anti-war veteran @greg.j.stoker talked to BT about the city’s long tradition of workers’ strikes as a model for building grassroots power that can be replicated across the country to confront anti-BDS legislation. He urges those across the country to use Chicago as a model to build the “infrastructure” for a general strike.

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