As badly acted as I thought Run Hide Fight: Infidels was, there was one part I recognized immediately. The orders move down the line. Existing groups are already in place to pick them up. The language travels with them. The signs appear, the chants start, and suddenly what looks like a local protest is happening in cities and on campuses thousands of miles apart.
I’ve understood for a while that this is how these networks work. Sometimes I need to see the receipts anyway. And after digging through three years of October 7 organizing, the structure looks a lot like sleeper cells waiting to be activated. The local pieces are already in place. The relationships have been built. The communication channels are open. The organizers know one another. A call goes out and the network switches on.
You can follow it in the records. A national call becomes local events. Toolkits arrive with graphics and language. Organizing calls tell chapters what to do. Event calendars collect the actions. Photos and videos travel back up the chain and feed the next round.
I’m not always the most observant person on the planet; I’m very often concentrating on the million windows open in my brain. Yet, if I can see this food chain sitting right out in the open, how are so many people blind, deaf, mute, and completely oblivious to how engineered it is?
A flyer began circulating for an October 7 event at Howard University. “Vigil for the Martyrs,” it reads. Across the top: “The struggle continues. For our martyrs. For liberation.” Across the bottom: “3 years of genocide. 3 years of resistance.”
Howard isn’t alone. At the University of Texas at Austin, the Party for Socialism and Liberation is advertising an October 7 vigil on the South Mall Lawn. Its language is almost exactly the same: “THREE YEARS OF GENOCIDE, THREE YEARS OF RESISTANCE.” Students are being invited to “honor our martyrs as an act of resistance.” The announcement ends with “Glory to the martyrs.”
At UCLA, Students for Justice in Palestine has scheduled an October 6 “vigil to honor the martyrs.” The following day, October 7, SJP plans a march from Bruin Plaza. Its announcement says the purpose includes uplifting Palestinian “resistance” and declares that the role of students organizing in the West is to stand with people “resisting by any means necessary.”
At the University of Toronto, student groups are advertising an October 7 gathering called “Honoring Our Martyrs.” The promotional material marks “3 years of genocide” and tells participants to remember and honor Palestinians killed during the war. A separate campus event involves a screening of a film called The Gaza Ghetto Uprising.
This isn’t the first time Toronto has used the title. On October 7, 2025, the University of Toronto Mississauga Students’ Union held an event called “Honouring Our Martyrs.” University administrators met with the organizers several times beforehand and encouraged them to change the title, the date, or both because of concerns that the event could be perceived as celebrating the violence of October 7. The organizers declined and held the event under the original title on October 7.
In London, the plans are considerably larger than one campus. The University of London Coalition, which describes itself as a coalition of university groups “organising for Palestinian liberation,” is advertising an October 7 march beginning at King’s College London, passing LSE and SOAS, and ending at University College London. Reporting identifies groups from eight London universities as part of the coalition. Promotional material for the march includes an inverted red triangle, describes October 7 as “only the most recent form of genocide inflicted on the Palestinian people,” and calls for a liberated Palestine “from the river to the sea.”
The Metropolitan Police says it has contacted King’s, LSE, SOAS, and UCL seeking help and has been unable to identify an individual willing to take responsibility for organizing the march. London students held demonstrations on October 7 last year too. At the 2025 march, a Palestine Society president told the crowd, “We will continue to honour each and every one of our martyrs. Students are rising up for Palestine.”
At Macquarie University in Australia, Palestine Awareness Week runs October 6 through 9, including an October 7 event.
These events have different local organizers, but several are connected to larger campaigns that are openly calling for October 7 actions.
The Anti-War Action Network has designated October 7, 2026 a “National Day of Action.” The network tells supporters that October 7 marks “3 years of genocide; 3 years of resistance” and calls on “all cities nationally” to participate. Its current list includes events in St. Paul, Appleton, Dearborn, Chicago, San Jose, Cleveland, New Orleans, Seattle, Zeeland, Minneapolis, Portland, Tulsa, Garland, and other cities.
The slogans promoted with the campaign include “Resistance is justified when people are occupied,” “End all U.S. aid to Israel,” and “End the siege of Gaza.” A Tucson announcement says local antiwar groups are joining the Anti-War Action Network’s national day of action and uses the same headline appearing elsewhere: “Three years of genocide, three years of resistance!”
The Palestinian Youth Movement is promoting an international action as well. An announcement from its New York chapter calls for people to march “for the living, for our martyrs, and for Palestine” and tells supporters to “join the international day of action.”
The Global Sumud Flotilla’s mobilization map adds another layer. It currently lists October 7 actions in Seattle, Melbourne, San Jose, London, Concord, Portland, Ennis, Brussels, and elsewhere, followed by more actions over the next several days in Europe, Canada, and the United States.
The coordination isn’t hidden. Organizers are advertising it.
A surviving event listing from October 7, 2025 advertises a “Vigil for our Martyrs” at the Howard University Flagpole, the same location appearing on the flyer circulating now. Howard University’s Revolutionary Youth Community organized that vigil to honor Palestinian “martyrs” and mark two years of what it called genocide.
Howard was one of many campuses doing this last year. A 2025 roundup documented October 7 activities involving SJP or related groups at Howard, Yale, Georgetown, American University, Harvard, MIT, Duke, Cornell, George Washington, George Mason, San Francisco State, multiple California State campuses, the University of Colorado Boulder, University of Illinois campuses, and CUNY schools.
At Georgetown, more than 70 students attended an October 7 SJP candlelight vigil during a “Week of Rage.” A speaker told the crowd that they had gathered in “rage and mourning” to honor “our martyrs.” Stanford’s October 7 vigil displayed a large sign reading “Every Martyr is a Universe,” while Claremont SJP called its event “Vigil for the Martyrs.”
By 2025, the anniversary already had an established vocabulary.
