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akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 22:49:24 JST akasha

Liberals and conservatives alike rushed to say Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation was “for nothing,” that he “threw his life away,” and a few days later it’s clear that his act of protest has made him a hero all over the world in a way no American has been for a very long time.
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  akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 22:49:13 JST akasha
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  Aaron Bushnell and the history of immolation https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/burnt-offerings/
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    Burnt Offerings
    
    from Lisa Borst
    
    Since Aaron Bushnell’s death by self-immolation this week in protest of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, his detractors have warned about the risk of “contagion,” suggesting that his protest will encourage imitators (who, they imply, share his alleged mental instability). There may or may not be additional self-immolators before the slaughter comes to an end, just as Bushnell was preceded by a woman, yet to be identified publicly, who burned herself to death outside the Israeli consulate in Atlanta in December. But the purpose of lighting yourself on fire is not to encourage other people to light themselves on fire. It is to scream to the world that you could find no alternative, and in that respect it is a challenge to the rest of us to prove with our own freedom that there are other ways to meaningfully resist a society whose cruelty has become intolerable.
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  akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 22:49:14 JST akasha
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  A couple years ago, Aaron Bushnell sent his friend Levi from basic training this quote from Parable Of The Sower (a dystopian future novel set in the year 2024)
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  Aaron Bushnell lives on inside of us forever. Immortalised in his courage and conviction to stand up to the evilest empire.
  #WeAreAaronBushnell
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  akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 22:49:15 JST akasha
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  https://johnmenadue.com/remember-their-last-words/ remember their last words. #aaronbushnell
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    Remember their last words - Pearls and Irritations
    
    from Barb Durance
    
    A young, white US serviceman has done the unthinkable: turned his body into a burning spear of protest shaken in the face of Israel and USA.
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  akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 22:49:18 JST akasha
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  Jesus would have more in common with Aaron Bushnell than a bunch of apartheid settler-colonialists. https://www.blackagendareport.com/love-supreme
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    A Love Supreme | Black Agenda Report
    
    Aaron Bushnell's act of self-immolation is a symbol and a call for people around the world to break their silence and fight for a free Palestine.
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  akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 22:49:18 JST akasha
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  The world stands with Aaron Bushnell!
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  akasha (akasha@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 22:49:49 JST akasha
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  7 different protesters disrupted an Air Force General’s speech, yelling “You killed Aaron Bushnell” https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2024/02/air-force-must-learn-suicides-chief-says-days-after-airmans-self-immolation-over-gaza/394530/
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    Air Force must learn from suicides, chief says in wake of airman’s self-immolation over Gaza
    
    from @audrey_decker9
    
    “Whether it was politically motivated or other, we lost one of ours,” Gen. Allvin said after being heckled by protesters.

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