"Most of us don’t know Sarah McBride, but we probably know someone in the LGBTQ+ community bearing witness to all of this and more worried about their personal safety because of it. We can and should show up for those folks in our lives and communities."
Brutal takedown by @pluralistic of the prepper mindset that has infected many.
The world has a collective action problem, and this for many issues (large and small). We've been individualized to the core, and this is indeed reductive. Societies of people are more than the sum of their parts. This historical truth of solidarity is consistently denied and leveraged by the select few for their personal gain.
December 4 at 6am community picket at Nupress, 11 Nelson Road, Cardiff.
#Nupress supply five critical parts, and ground equipment, for the #F35warplane. Workers in Palestine, named Nupress as a company complicit in the Israeli military ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinians.
Community pickets are a collective form of #directaction.
2024 feels like dejavu to many folks who remember the 60s/70s #AntiWar#protests in USA that was a part of the international citizens' #GlobalResistance movements.
Opposition to the #VietnamWar was not limited to the United States. Throughout the world, people demonstrated their #resistance to the war, and in some cases offered their #solidarity with the #Vietnamese.
Pictured:
1. Demonstrators against the Vietnam War display banners in a #Paris street, 1967. AFP/AFP/Getty Images.
2. Musicians Cornelis Vreeswijk, Fred Åkerström, and Gösta Cervin participate in an anti-Vietnam war march in #Stockholm, #Sweden, 1965. Wikimedia Commons.
3. Demonstrators in #Havana, #Cuba, May 1971. Keystone-FranceGamma-Rapho via Getty Images.
4. In #China, demonstrators call for the United States to stay out of Vietnam, 1965. Wikimedia Commons.
* chronicles late 1970s/early 1980s Vancouver punk rock scene * tale of rebellion & music * fiercely independent scene created f. nothing & played in microcosm of urban squalor
"The trips I joined seemed intended to reassure participants that they could support @israel while retaining the moral clarity of the victim."
"The trips not only blur past and present Jewish trauma, but encourage visiting Americans to assume an Israeli identity—and the sense of embattlement that comes with it."
Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, who teaches at the University of #Haifa, #israelPalestine, explained the paradox: “One can detest Jews and love Israelis, because Israelis somehow are not Jews. Israelis are colonial fighters and settlers, just like Afrikaners. They are tough and resilient. They know how to dominate. Jews are different. They are, among other qualities, gentle, non-physical, often passive, intellectual. So one can go on disliking Jews while admiring the Israelis.”
"As conflation and confusion abound after 7 October, we need clear thinking about antisemitism" by: David Feldman, director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Brendan McGeever, senior lecturer at the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism.
the Majority Report is most definitely worth listening to (and supporting with a subscription) in these newly-troubled times. They offer insightful commentary on current events five days a week, plus they host many highly-informed and politically aware guests. The first half of the show is free for anyone to enjoy, and most people here in this community would find it edifying #MajorityReport#podcasts#solidarity
#Solidarity between #indigenous peoples against #colonialism and genocide has happened for centuries, but #history books still spend most of their time on actions in the centres of power. Bias toward states and capital does not serve human interests and is meant to disempower us.