asamwrites

ACAB 🔻| Writer, poet, eater | Words in The Nation, Briarpatch, CounterPunch, Colorlines, Plenitude | I make people very uncomfortable.

[૮ ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ ა @CBD42O]

this is so hard to explain but theres a bird in my neighborhood i have to confront

[Rawan katari @rawankatari1]

كُنت حامل في شهري التاسع وأشعر بتحاسيس الولادة وقلت لزوجي وأهله أشعر بمغص فقمت بتحضير حقيبه الولادة
ونمت
وفي الساعه العاشره وربع مساءً بلحظة غدر تم قصف البيت واستشهد زوجي وتوأمه وأمه وابنتي ذات العامين
لم أتذكر سوى خيالات أشلائهم وفقدت وعيي
استيقظت وجدت نفسي في العناية المركزة مصابة بعد ٤٨ ساعه غيبوبه تم بتر رجلي ولم يستطيع الأطباء إنقاذ ابني وتم دفنهم جميعهم دون وداعهم
رحمهم اللّٰه
وبقيت وحدي
نرمين شعث
من شهادات الإباده

[Gonktinaauugpuaghhughh @Loudwindow]

It's so funny how soooo many historical accounts of nations meeting Europeans for the first time are "they stink" and "why did they refuse to bathe"

[Gianluca Martino @gianlucamart1]

🧵"Desidero che la Papamobile venga trasformata in una clinica mobile e donata ai bambini di Gaza"
Questa è una delle ultime volontà di Papa Francesco prima di morire.
Ad eseguire la disposizione di Papa Francesco, il Vaticano incarica il cardinale svedese Anders Arborelius che a sua volta incarica la Caritas svedese per la trasformazione del veicolo.

Quando la stampa dà la notizia dell'incarico alla Caritas svedese di trasformare la Papamobile in clinica mobile per i bambini di Gaza, scatta la solidarietà dei cittadini svedesi che in pochi giorni inviano alla Caritas cospicue donazioni.

Grazie alle somme raccolte, la Caritas, non solo riesce a trasformare la Papamobile in una clinica mobile fornita di attrezzature mediche di ultima generazione, ma acquista altre 12 ambulanze da inviare a Gaza.

A novembre dello scorso anno, quando i lavori sulla Papamobile sono ultimati, per celebrare l'evento e assolvere all'ultima volontà di Papa Francesco, il Vaticano sceglie Betlemme, la città simbolo per eccellenza della cristianità, la città dove nacque Cristo.
In Piazza della Mangiatoia, il cardinale Anders Arborelius benedice la Papamobile e le ambulanze in partenza verso Gaza.
La Papamobile viene rinominata "Veicolo della Speranza".

Passano giorni, settimane e poi mesi ma gli occupanti israeliani non consentono alla Caritas di fare entrare il Veicolo della Speranza a Gaza.
I rappresentanti del Vaticano e della Caritas chiedono più volte spiegazioni ma Israele si prende gioco di loro inventando storie assurde.
"Non è pervenuta alcuna richiesta di autorizzazione"
E poi ancora: "I materiali sanitari all'interno della Papamobile potrebbero finire nelle mani di Hamas ed essere usati come armi".

E intanto la Papamobile, trasformata in un gioiello della tecnologia medica, in grado di curare 200 bambini al giorno, è ancora lì, dopo sette mesi, sotto una teca in un parcheggio a pochi metri da Piazza della Mangiatoia in attesa di raggiungere i bambini di Gaza.

In uno stupendo articolo scritto dal cardinale Arborelius su ICN, Independent Catholic News (*link nel primo commento) il cardinale si rivolge alle autorità israeliane, chiede, quasi supplica, di lasciare entrare il Veicolo della Speranza ma non rinuncia a scrivere: "Negare le cure mediche ai bambini significa oltrepassare un limite morale che dovrebbe turbare tutti".

Limite morale che non turba i leader politici occidentali che ostentano senza ritegno la loro fede cristiana ma restano in un vile silenzio mentre la colonia di plastica denominata Israele umilia il Vaticano prendendosi gioco delle ultime volontà di un Papa.
Che schifo!

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Their absence of self-awareness is a serious pathology. They just killed 3k civilians (really, civilians) and are complaining that their invading soldiers are facing some risks WHILE INVADING.

[El Jones @ElJonesPoet]

Apologizing for the Komagata Maru while refusing to let in families and students from Gaza.

[agent ndn @TheAgentNDN]

I'm never seen a genocide where the feelings of supporters and perpetrators were centered like this. The narcissism and exceptionalism and supremacism amid the constant whining about their completely imaginary victimhood is truly something to behold.

[Shane @McClellandShane]

“There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

This is the greatest and bravest woman you will ever see in your life Dr. Amira from Gaza.

Under the siege of the hospital, in front of the snipers’ bullets, she ran forward without hesitation, pulled out the stranded patient, and saved his life.

This video will be remembered by generations to come…forever.

[🎀 planet clarke 🎀 @planetclarke]

Mesopotamia getting its water back after years of drought should be bigger news I feel like

[MR. MITCH @1800ghostman]

we should build a fare evasion solidarity fund in Toronto

[الكسندرا ميراي @LexiAIexander]

Double-tap strike is now a regular event nobody reacts to anymore.

[Calla @CallaWalsh]

"Every country has a Strait of Hormuz"

Meaning every country — in the US, every state — has an economic chokepoint, a bottleneck in the genocide's supply chain, that can be targeted from within, and help bring about imperialist economic collapse

[SB YANG @REALYANG7G]

‘If you notice that your kid is gay as a parent instead of you trying to change them or try to make them straight i think what you need to teach them is to learn how to fight’ Cardi B 😂

[Mahmoud Khalil | محمود خليل @mahmoudkhalel]

A New York City councilwoman is publicly fantasizing about killing me, and somehow I'm the threat..

[Hanner @GangstHannah]

My take is that the goal of pushing age verification and imposing digital ID is to be able to do this to anyone in the future.

If your ID is linked to your access to the Internet, your money, food, etc then criticizing people in power can lead to this access being taken away

[Sarah @amymarchinparis]

My entire college experience was truly about meeting ppl with leftist politics who loved the idea of class struggle as an aesthetic but were horrified to learn my dad had a ninth grade education and I was in the same class as them

[deaf kennedys @thamosdeaf]

All society should restructure itself entirely so that private car ownership becomes so unnecessary that it’s made virtually illegal.

[Rabbi David Mivasair @RabbiMivasair]

#1 news item on @CBCNews noon report is two Jewish men stabbed in London, England, an ocean away.

We don’t hear about the Palestinians killed, the Lebanese bombed, the Iranians murdered by Israel.

We don’t hear even about Canadians killed by other Canadians right here at home.

The #1 item all Canadians must hear on the noon report is about two Jewish men stabbed an ocean away.

What kind editorial priority is this?