hard to watch, but this is what stomatitis does to street cats who are left without vet care, suffering in pain until they eventually die from being unable to eat or drink
if you'd like to help me save this guy and more like him, please pitch in: https://t.co/3cOsi8sEid
Was curious as to where to Gilliam's Brazil was shot and it turns out a great deal of it was not on a soundstage, but at some fucked up housing estate in France that just looks like this
This morning, Israeli occupation forces uprooted around 500 olive trees at the entrance to the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus, according to local sources.
Our daughter, Rachel Corrie, was killed in 2003 in Gaza, while trying to protect a Palestinian home facing illegal destruction by the Israeli military. She was 23 years old. The massive, armored Caterpillar D-9 bulldozer that crushed her was operated by two Israeli soldiers and manufactured in the United States. It was the same type of militarized bulldozer that US presidents from George W. Bush through to Donald Trump have delivered to Israel.
Today, as the destruction of Palestinian homes has only become more commonplace, not to mention the horror of Israel’s genocide, Senator Bernie Sanders will force a vote in the Senate to try to end this cycle of death by banning the transfer of D-9 bulldozers to Israel. We hope he will not take this stand alone.
No policy can bring back those taken from us by these actions—children and other loved ones. But the Senate now has an opportunity to honor the memories of our daughter, other Americans, and thousands of Palestinian civilians killed, and to show that their deaths, and all the destruction, will no longer be condoned and funded. We hope those elected to represent us, the American people, understand the message that voting to block these D-9 bulldozers will send. This will not be a symbolic gesture, but a concrete step toward the protection of human life.
https://t.co/KvwjbIsMDX
BREAKING: A protester got into Shannon Airport in Ireland today, climbed onto the wing of a parked US Air Force C-130 Hercules and damaged the fuselage, taking the aircraft out of service.
Israel must immediately repeal the discriminatory death penalty law passed today by the Knesset, as it contravenes Israel’s obligations under international law.
The United Nations opposes the death penalty under all circumstances. The implementation of this new law would violate international law's prohibition of cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment.
Additionally, this law further entrenches Israel’s violation of the prohibition of racial segregation and apartheid as it will exclusively apply to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Israel, who are often convicted after unfair trials.
Read @UNHumanRights earlier statement and analysis about the death penalty draft bill:
https://t.co/oHVrU5nomP…
The nazification of Israel is complete. They’re about to mass murder ~10,000 Palestinian hostages, many of them children. Greater Israel is the 4th Reich.
Today we honor Rachel Corrie, who was murdered by israeli occupation forces in Gaza 23 years ago on March 16, 2003 while attempting to block a bulldozer from demolishing a Palestinian family’s home in Rafah. She was 23 years old.
In lesser known photographs of Rachel, taken just a month before she was killed, she is seen ripping and burning a hand-drawn American flag during a protest against the U.S. invasion of Iraq in Rafah on February 15, 2003.
23 years later, as the U.S. and zionist entity continue to carry out the ongoing genocide in Palestine from Gaza to the West Bank and rain down bombs on Iran and Lebanon, we know that if Rachel Corrie were still with us today, she would be struggling in defense of Palestine and resisting imperialism, zionism, and injustice in all its forms, with every ounce of her being.
It is in this spirit that we join Palestinians and people of conscience around the world in honoring Corrie’s legacy as we continue to fight for Palestinian liberation and return within our lifetime. And it is in this spirit that we uplift her words, which continue to echo through space and time, a guiding light to all those who remember her name and her story.
The following excerpt below is from an email that Rachel wrote to her mother on February 27, 2003, two and a half weeks before she was murdered. You can read Rachel’s emails, sent home during her time in Rafah, and selected other writings on the @rcfoundation’s website here: https://t.co/GL0qS9Lr7G
“If any of us had our lives and welfare completely strangled, lived with children in a shrinking place where we knew, because of previous experience, that soldiers and tanks and bulldozers could come for us at any moment and destroy all the greenhouses that we had been cultivating for however long, and did this while some of us were beaten and held captive with 149 other people for several hours – do you think we might try to use somewhat violent means to protect whatever fragments remained? I think about this especially when I see orchards and greenhouses and fruit trees destroyed – just years of care and cultivation. I think about you and how long it takes to make things grow and what a labour of love it is. I really think, in a similar situation, most people would defend themselves as best they could. I think Uncle Craig would. I think probably Grandma would. I think I would.”
BREAKING:
Trump and Israel dropped bombs on a warehouse full of medicines and baby formula in Hamedan, Iran today — completely obliterating it.
Not a military target.
Medicines. Baby formula.