“…returning violence with violence only multiplies violence adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.”
From Dr. King’s book of sermons, Strength to Love.
Feeling this and remembering words of Margaret Mead:
“Teach your children how to think, not what to think.”
All the complicated details
of the attiring and
the disattiring are completed!
A liquid moon
moves gently among
the long branches.
Thus having prepared their buds
against a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in the cold.
William Carlos Williams.
Camus is the originator of the far-right, arguably fascist, Great Replacement conspiracy theory, which states that there is an ongoing genocide of the white populations of Europe being deliberately orchestrated and carried out through immigration of non-white populations.
Photography doesn’t just reflect the world, it shapes how we see it. Who gets to hold the camera, who’s framed, and who gets left in the margins are all political questions, whether we acknowledge them or not.
- @shotbyshaun
Let this permeate deep https://t.co/7eCmUPpzoD
Every day I make sure that I spend time thinking:
"I cannot believe this is actually happening."
It sounds naive, as though you're not familiar with the power dynamics that led to this obscenity.
But indulging that naivety is important in preserving your humanity.
Artists write manifestos, form collectives, stage ‘happenings’ or simply describe the world as they see it. But can art change the world?
To follow the pipeline from art to activism and back again, Nadia Idle (@NotJustYouHere) is joined for an ACFM Microdose by Amber Massie-Blomfield, former chief of theatre company Complicité and the author of Acts of Resistance: The Power of Art to Create Better World.
No Other Land airs on Channel 4 at 11.15pm, Tuesday 4 March. Please share widely so as many people as possible can witness how Israel steals Palestinian land and destroys homes and lives, shown through the eyes of Basel, a Palestinian filmmaker, and Yuval, an Israeli journalist.
Bafta and Oscar winning : BEST DOCUMENTARY.