James Baldwin: "The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
Brian Cox reads If I Must Die, by beloved Palestinian poet, teacher and martyr Refaat Alareer.
Refaat was killed on December 7th by an Israeli airstrike.
This was the last poem he published.
White phosphorus doesn't stop burning on the human body. It only stops burning when it hits the bone. this is INSANE. This is ILLEGAL. CHEMICAL. GENOCIDE.
It EASILY is reignited, even in the wounds. This is disgusting. CHILDREN have to walk through this.
And they'll make museums about it, people will write their thesis dissertations on Palestine, there will be entire departments dedicated to "posT-colonial studies" or "Apartheid in the 21st century" and suffering will be cited in Human Rights classes. For shame. For shame. shame.
Israel did it in 1948
Israel did it in 1956
Israel did it in 1967
Israel did it in 1982
Israel did it in 2002
Israel did it in 2008
Israel did it in 2014
Israel did it in 2021
Israel is doing it in 2023.
BREAKING| Israel bombed with more than 12,000 tons of explosives on Gaza, equivalent to the power of the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima, according to the Gaza Government Information Office.
The siege is the provocation. Forcing people to live in an open-air prison is an escalation. Occupation, colonization, and land-theft are the root cause of the ‘conflict.’ Everything else is retaliation.
Academia loves to decolonize everything besides occupied land. Its silence on Palestine is enough to know how decolonization has become a metaphor signifying everything besides material change and collective resistance.
"The oppressor makes his violence part of the functioning society. But the violence of the oppressed becomes disruptive... because it is disruptive it's easy to recognize, and therefore it becomes the target of all those who in fact do not want to change the society" - Kwame Ture
Republicans: THE LGBTQ ARE PEDOPHILES AND ARE GROOMING KIDS
REPUBLICANS: KIDS SHOULD BE ABLE TO MARRY ADULTS AT 12 YEARS OLD WITH THEIR PARENTS PERMISSION
"You think @starbucks doesn't need a union because you're a good company. That's not your decision to make!" - @SenTinaSmith
Regardless of how good or bad Starbucks may be, they're not above the law regarding the workers' decision to unionize!
#StarbucksGotBusted