We need you functioning through the despair.
We owe Gaza endurance.
Here's what's helped me stay something close to sane and ensured I can sustain my livelihood, advocate and organize.
I am not a mental health expert, take this with a grain of salt or leave it! 🧵
This is the white liberal. These are the things that the white liberal says. These are the people that Dr. king, writing 60 years ago, said are more devoted to order than justice; to the absence of tension than presence of peace.
Three Palestinian university students were shot in Burlington, Vermont. Two of the students are still in surgery.
The three students are Hisham Awartani, Kinnan Abdel Hamid and Tahseen Ahmed. They went to the Friends School in Ramallah https://t.co/cyNEv5Hf2q
Very weird discourse from liberals this week that's been like "Sure you'll oppose the crimes of your own extremely powerful government, but the real moral test is whether you'll condemn the actions of the most marginalized people on earth when they have no other option 👀"
“Cop City” protester Manuel Teran did not have gunpowder residue on their hands, despite officials claiming Teran fired the first shot at a state trooper.
Officers responded with gunfire, killing Teran and leaving the protester with 57 gunshot wounds https://t.co/X31UQD0DSV
Proud to announce that workers organizing with our union at @_congtubot in Portland, Maine have been voluntarily recognized by their employer making it the only stand-alone union restaurant in the state of Maine! @MEAFLCIO
Israel has designated Masafer Yatta a “firing zone” area to facilitate the forced expulsion of Palestinians from their homes. Settler-colonial courts don’t offer justice, they are part of the occupation. #SaveMasaferYatta#DefendMasaferYatta
As Derek Chauvin was being found guilty at 4:00 PM today; police in Columbus, Ohio took another life. Makiah Bryant, a 15 year old Black girl was murdered today at 4:30 PM. This system needs to be abolished. #SayHerName
The degrowth hypothesis isn't "produce less and we will be better off," it's that if states and civil society work toward making us better off -- ecologically, socially, psychologically, climatologically -- then that will entail producing less. We're talking about rich countries.