The fact that the Akira slide has gone from a fun animation reference to marketing material is a sign we should put it to bed for the next 15 years or so.
Crazy how as a former Al Qaeda leader all you need to do to get a warm US embrace is make yourself geopolitically useful to Washington. It’s almost as if the terrorism designation only exists to authorize unlimited war against threats to empire
There's been a lot of talk of the conditions of government prisons in Syria, but less about sprawling network of US run prisons in northern Syria where 50,000 men women and children are kept in abhorrent conditions.
Amnesty released a major report in April.
IT'S STILL THERE
"Is it not violent for a child to go to bed hungry in the richest country in the world? I think that is violent. But that type of violence is so institutionalized that it becomes a part of our way of life. Not only do we accept poverty, we even find it normal."
—Kwame Ture
Not to be negative Nancy but the reality w/ community/ grassroots orgs is that they sometimes harbor abusers, mishandle accountability, & ignore consent. So don’t just throw urself into a space bc everyone is saying “join orgs.” Be vigilant & find ppl that you trust.
Palestinians were treated like an "issue," not humans
And the issue was deemed expendable, ignorable, having no value to establishment Dems
A genocide, a burning alive of families, an incineration of refugee tents, sky collapsing on displaced communities
An ignorable issue
Time to focus in and build community. Take care of the people who are more vulnerable around us to the best of our ability. I just can’t let hate and fear of those who differ from us win. I just can’t.
It's pretty clear all of this "Haitian immigrant" terror insanity being pushed by all of the ghouls on Twitter and then being picked up by politicians could only have the end goal of someone doing something violent.
It’s quite remarkable that the solidarity movement has galvanized mass, cross-factional mobilizations and public attention on a single demand—an arms embargo—that is easily implementable and already mandated by law
this might be unpopular but i need americans to understand that maybe you actually do need to suffer a little fucking bit after spending centuries funding and enabling the suffering of the non-white world for the sake of your comfort and convenience.
when you see therapy-talk so easily used to launder "justified feelings of unease & looming danger when you handle money" as an "unrealistic" individual pathology, let it remind you of how many other pathologies describe entirely reasonable reactions to unreasonable circumstances
There's currently a "confrontation" going on between Sde Teiman soldiers / camp guards and the military police who've come in to arrest one for them for torture. I don't recall last time there was an actual physical tussle between two groups of Israeli soldiers - do you?
‘What world emerges after this? The war on Gaza is simply too big, too live, too relentless for its forced normalisation to occur without unintended consequences.’ https://t.co/6fRyxIPzop