and some of those voices are joining us today. shawn yamaha ross is the vice chairperson of the human rights organization, palestine solidarity campaign. she's in cape town, south africa, and stuff via from the n d and collective and envisioned as lead activist organization is joining us from los angeles. thank you both so much for being part of the show. certainly i'd like to start with you the amount of solidarity with the palestinian cause across borders and across the political spectrum is quite unprecedented. can you tell us about your case, your country? how has israel's war affected you and the work that you do with the p. c in south africa? and so i want to say for most of the african perspective, it's been so encouraging to see people massively mobilize and come out in their swarms to the streets. so um, since they are since the beginning of the genocide on october 7th, we've seen a massive groundswell of support so much in fact that we don't have the capacity to help organize this as a p s. c. and almost every single week, there's another demonstration, another protest, anot