I admit that I completely broke down today. I cried uncontrollably. I couldn’t hold myself together after witnessing what I saw with my own eyes.
Today, we went to film a journalistic report inside the displacement tents along the seashore. I swear, what we witnessed was beyond what any human being should have to endure.
I saw men crying bitterly. Men I had never seen cry when they lost their children or when their homes were destroyed. Today, I saw them crying because they were powerless to do the simplest thing: protect their children from the water and the cold.
We spoke to families who told us they had spent the entire night carrying their children in their arms after floodwater covered the floors of their tents and soaked their mattresses. They couldn’t find a single dry place to put their children. They couldn’t even give them a few hours of sleep.
I saw children no older than five, without proper clothes to protect them from the cold, without heating, and without a dry place to sleep. Children shivering inside tents that cannot keep out the rain, protect them from the wind, or provide even the most basic sense of safety.
What more must happen for this world to act? How much more suffering must people endure before someone remembers that they are human beings?
I am sick of this world. I am sick of its hypocrisy and empty slogans. To hell with a world that talks endlessly about human rights while leaving children to drown inside their tents. To hell with everyone who has witnessed this suffering and chosen silence, and to hell with the governments and institutions that have the power to act but continue to turn their backs on us.
It is just past noon in Mombasa. I am sitting in the midst of muezzins filling the air with their calls to prayer and before me is the calm blue sea, from which blows a gentle breeze.
But across those waters, north, is bloodshed in Yemen, the ancestral home to so many families of Old Mombasa town.
(my first piece of a series, https://t.co/q4OlFcfVgk)
Israeli forces killed at least 19 Palestinian children in #Gaza in October, an average of one child every 35 hours. Children have been killed at home, on the ruins of their houses and while returning from lessons.
These are the children behind that toll: their faces, their names and the lives Israel cut short ⤵️
“The world in general–& Mexico in particular–needs to recognize that there are forms of opposition, resistance & rebellion that don’t conform to the logic of liberals & conservatives, the left & the right, & other equally absurd & deceptive categories”-Sub Moisés in Chiapas, Mx.
Sobre la discusión sobre una campaña anti- argentina quiero decir lo siguiente: La identidad argentina proyecta hacia afuera una imagen fuertemente blanqueada y europea. Esta narrativa, construida históricamente mediante políticas de inmigración selectiva y borrados
El deseo por adelgazar se convierte en una obsesión a la que solo pocas pueden acceder. Hoy, lograr tener un cuerpo delgado no es solo un ideal de belleza, también es un privilegio de clase.
"Antes los antiguos misioneros venían a las tierras indígenas a evangelizar, ahora vienen a convertirnos a la modernidad... lo que ustedes ofrecen es un mundo de mierda, donde los niños son abusados y las mujeres violadas, donde abusan del diferente".
Capitán zapatista Marcos sobre la nueva evangelización que intentan imponer en sus comunidades indígenas.
@patriciagamarra@recisneros Actúan como "clientes descontentos" y se olvidan que son servidores públicos. A quien vas a reclamar? Al gerente de la tienda le conviene ir a segunda vuelta con Sánchez...
Professor Clara Mattei just gave a masterclass on the coercion of capitalism:
“Capitalism has been imposed upon us by a tiny elite since the beginning. Liberal democracy is really only a superficial facade. When people rise up against the capitalist system liberals and fascists are best friends to implement austerity.”
She wasn’t done teaching! She also points out capitalism itself isn’t natural and that it took control of the world using violence by excluding people from the land. Prior to capitalism forcing itself onto the world indigenous cultures used a much different method to organize their societies:
“If you look at all the indigenous cultures it was based on circular, horizontal organization through councils. It was about caring for the commons and caring for nature rather than extracting.”
Professor Mattei just gave the world a much needed wake up call with this interview and outlined the need for humanity to look to its indigenous roots for how to chart a sustainable path forward!
Viste “Los Juegos del Hambre” y te pusiste del lado de la resistencia.
Viste “La guerra de las galaxias” y te pusiste del lado de la resistencias.
Viste “Matrix” y te pusiste del lado de la resistencia.
Cuando es ficción entiendes la tiranía, la opresión y el despotismo. Pero te niegas a verlo en la realidad en la que vives.