Marginalized people, poor people, disabled people etc. are always the first to warn society about an impending crisis. And they are almost always ignored. Yet, when everything collapses, they are the first to be abandoned. This is an unacceptable moral injustice.
Greta stopped being a media darling when she started connecting climate to capitalism. Now that she connects climate to colonialism and genocide, she has fallen outside the acceptable bounds of corporate media altogether.
So at what point do we stop getting repressed and brutalized and surveilled and fired and slandered and assaulted for saying this horrifying shit is endemic to a society indoctrinated in hate and the U.S. has a unique responsibility to end this fascist extremist failed state.
Frantz Fanon: "For a colonized people, the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity."
The settler has no regard for the land. The settler lays everything to waste.
These kids begging the world to not let them join their friends in death wasn’t enough. The more than 10,150 kids killed in the 5 months since wasn’t enough.
It took Israeli forces killing Western aid workers who worked for a celebrity chef for some to finally say enough.
President Gabi Starr of @pomonacollege - my alma mater (1989) - made a choice here to stand with the genocide of the Palestinians rather than hold a dialogue with students who want to make a difference in the world. This is outrageous behaviour for a college president.
WITH A UNANIMOUS VOTE OF 15-0-0, UC RIVERSIDE HAS OFFICIALLY PASSED BDS AND DIVESTED OVER $1 MILLION OF STUDENT FUNDS FROM THE ISRAELI APARTHEID REGIME
THANKS TO THE WORK OF UCR SJP AND OTHER SJP CHAPTERS ACROSS TURTLE ISLAND, THE STUDENT MOVEMENT GROWS STRONGER EACH DAY ❤️🔥
Asking “How many more families need to be torn apart?” as you send billions in arms shipments to a government actively committing genocide is… a choice.
One of the six police officers charged after the killing of Freddie Gray has been tapped to oversee the Baltimore Police Department's Public Integrity Bureau, a unit that handles misconduct investigations https://t.co/q3JJc1yjln
You should watch this whole 2 minutes and feel the enormity of what this man is trying to tell you. And then think about how in the US you are called antisemitic for wanting this horror to stop.
Palestinian journalists are posting to Instagram about how they aren’t sure if they will survive in the next few days or weeks.
And journalists in the West could barely be bothered to stand up for the protection of journalists in Gaza. Horrendous.
From Moataz Azaiza: