i feel like when people say “dahil ang pag-ibig ay mapagpalaya, ang ibigin ka ay pakikibaka” they forget that it is first and foremost about the philippines than anything else
In the Philippines there is a high probability that the police used data from the Conditional Cash Transfer - aka 4Ps program - to pick who to kill in Duterte's slaughter of the poor https://t.co/mtePNP1Vwr
Gestapo this, IDF that. Not everything authoritarian has to be perceived through a foreign lens. Not all evil is derived from a Nazi Germany or Israel alone. Fascism is inherently American too. Hitler was inspired by America's institutionalized racism and indigenous holocausts. America wrote the playbook they all use(d).
This violence is as American as Apple Pie. Yes, ICE and countless police departments and law enforcement officials across the US hold extensive joint-training and exchange programs with Israel, but this is what the American *security* and state apparatus was always designed to do— to repress and murder those who resisted their mandate.
The earliest police in America, from marshalls to border patrol, would recruit klansmen, slave catchers and rangers who hunted indigenous people. To *protect* and to *serve* has always meant the maintenance of the white supremacist settler state.
In order for their to even be the concept of a United States, white supremacist violence was enveloped into the fabric of the settler colonial project as a necessary backbone of the expansionism which took place.
If anything, Israeli settler colonialism and its state sanctioned systematic erasure of Palestinian life draws inspiration from the American model.
“When you see people call themselves revolutionary always talking about destroying, destroying, destroying but never talking about building or creating, they're not revolutionary.
They do not understand the first thing about revolution. It's creating.”
— Kwame Ture
In the dying days of every empire, the violence reserved for those subjugated overseas, turns inward. The array of violence, which is an external expression of white supremacy abroad, is reflected back upon the very apparatus that births it.
This is inevitable under capitalism.
I have to remind young(er) people sometimes, there was a time when Palestinians had to prove they existed. Not that they had rights or were human, that they *existed.* We think about what that did to Palestinians. To wake up one day in 1948 and be told, you do not exist.
From Jabalia Camp, the camp of martyrs, the camp of Imad Aqel and Nizar Rayan rose Hudhayfah Samir Al-Kahlout and Anas Jamal Al-Sharif.
One became the voice of the resistance,
the other the voice of Gaza.
They wrote their names in blood so that Palestine may live on, and Jerusalem remains the eternal compass.
And they left us a clear message and promise that we will keep walking this path for as long as we live.
hindi naman kulang sa galit ang mga tao. the philippines has the world’s longest-running armed struggle. clearly, may matagal nang galit at paglaban. the issue isn’t rage; it’s that any move toward organized, collective action is met with surveillance, arrests, and violence.