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akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 06:45:53 JST akasha

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/2/28/aaron_bushnell_self_immolation_gaza_protest interview w a friend of Aaron Bushnell is one of their best in 28 yrs—clear, logical, emotive, deep, painful and hopeful. Profound. Really worth your time.
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  The Life & Death of Aaron Bushnell: Friend Says Self-Immolation Was a Demand for Justice
  
  In an act that has captured the attention of the world, Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force, set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington Sunday to protest Israel’s assault on Gaza and U.S. support for the military campaign. Bushnell, who live-streamed the action, said, “I will no longer be complicit in genocide,” before lighting himself on fire and repeatedly shouted “Free Palestine” as he was engulfed in the flames. He was pronounced dead in the hospital later that day. Democracy Now! speaks with Bushnell’s friend and conscientious objector Levi Pierpont, who says his friend’s death was not a suicide but was about using his life to send a message for justice. “We have to honor the message that he left,” says Pierpont, who says Bushnell died “to get people’s attention about the genocide that’s happening in Palestine.” Ann Wright, retired U.S. Army colonel and former diplomat, lays out the history of self-immolation to protest war and how Bushnell’s act could impact U.S. policy for the war on Gaza. “It was an act of courage, an act of bravery, to call attention to U.S. policies,” says Wright, who offers support to Pierpont and other veterans advocating for peace live on air.
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  Aaron’s ultra-conservative Christian Zionist parents, who raised their son in a cult before he rejected it and escaped vocalising his disdain, and who have spent the last five years estranged from him, are the very LAST people you’d ask for their views on his mental health.
  
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  Last will and testament of Aaron Bushnell.
  Flesh of my flesh. Clay of my clay!
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  People came together in Yemen to create and raise portraits of Aaron Bushnell to honor him during a ‘million man march for Palestine’ in Sana’a today.
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