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"The real violence- the violence I realised was unforgivable- is what we do to ourselves, when we're too afraid to be who we really are." Nomi Marks- @Sense8 Season One. Truer words have never been spoken.

(3/5) Palestinian Solidarity with Ireland and South Africa

(2/5) Palestinian Solidarity with Vietnam and Cuba

🧵(1/5) Palestinians showed up for the world when the world needed them. Palestinians living in refugee camps with no state, no army, and no government deployed doctors, teachers, and engineers across five African nations, flew combat missions for Nicaragua, trained Cuban and Latin American fighters, and donated portions of their own salaries to fund Vietnam's postwar reconstruction. When Ferguson protesters were tear-gassed in 2014, Palestinians were the ones on social media telling Americans how to survive it, because they had been living under the same weapons, made by the same manufacturer, for decades. Palestinian hostages smuggled solidarity letters to Bobby Sands on the first day of his hunger strike. PLO camps in Lebanon trained fighters from Congo, Japan, Ireland, Italy, and beyond. They gave concrete, documented, material solidarity to nearly every major liberation movement of the 20th century, while themselves living under occupation and inside refugee camps. Now as the Israeli occupation attempts to erase Palestine,the question that hangs over every government, every movement, and every person who was on the receiving end of Palestinian solidarity is a simple one: Where are you?

I’m reading Yahya Sinwar’s books. The more I read, the more shaken I feel. While we were unaware of everything, what they went through, what epics they wrote… To aspire to the same paradise as them is now a sense of shame that goes beyond even khauf and raja

Well… Their type of white American Christianity believes that THEY are the only ones doing Christianity right, the only real Christians 🫩 (What that denotes changes, connected to Republican politics.) So they’re free to hold onto their racism & not see such beautiful people 😭

Neocolonial structures ensured an outward facing economy so industrialisation would still serve to enrich the global north unless we rebuild a decolonial state which centres the people otherwise we'll just be a national low cost factory to subsidise global north consumption.

Sterling K Brown turns 50 today. Happy birthday!

At this stage in my life, I’m not entertaining anyone who lacks basic communication skills.

I know a woman who was trafficked at 17 in South America and raped for years in a brothel, when she got pregnant they threw her out. She had to walk the streets to survive, and ended up having two more kids by 22. She got help at a women’s shelter and now helps the authorities identify traffickers and pimps. She’s saved hundreds of girls. So yeah. Maybe stop posting this.

The martyred child Salma, only 5 years old: I used to see her every day selling small cakes. She was the youngest small business owner in the world, selling just five cakes a day. She worked so hard, yet she was deprived of a childhood like other children. She sold cakes, but she never sold her homeland — not at any price. I recorded this video during the harshest days of famine under the siege of northern Gaza. Yesterday, when I went to provide care for a wounded person near her family’s tent, I asked about her, eager to see her again. The moment her name was mentioned, her family began to cry in deep grief. They told me that only days earlier, she was killed when an explosive device hidden inside a toy detonated. She thought it was a toy and picked it up because she could not afford to buy one — her family was poor. She carried what she believed was a toy, but it exploded in her hands, and her small body was torn into five burned pieces. Instead of the five cakes she used to sell every day, her body was turned into five shattered fragments — the result of deadly remnants left behind, turning Gaza’s children into victims day after day. The martyred child Salma is only one story among thousands of stories of systematic killing and ethnic cleansing. Please share the story of the martyred child Salma with the world. Perhaps something will move, and this hatred and killing will stop. #Children_of_Gaza_are_being_killed before the eyes and ears of the whole world #Gaza_is_calling_for_help #Stop_the_killing Written by Dr. Mostafa Naim From northern Gaza

La historia de los seminaristas brasileños que renunciaron a la sotana por amor. 😮👬💖 Melqui Ferraz y Denisson Santos, exseminaristas brasileños que se enamoraron durante su formación en el seminario. Intentaron separarse viviendo en ciudades distintas, pero no pudieron. A pesar de que autoridades eclesiásticas les sugirieron mantener la relación en secreto sin abandonar la vocación, decidieron dejar la vida religiosa para vivir su amor abiertamente. Hoy están juntos y felices.💕 Más allá del matrimonio formal, la idea de poder amar libremente es el corazón de su relato. ¿Que opinas?👀

Resurrection Sunday 🙏🏾✝️

There’s a reason Africa is both the most religious continent and the poorest.

You said Hồ Chí Minh "chose war." Let me reconstruct the timeline so we're working from actual events rather than impressions. 1858: France begins military conquest of Vietnam. 1887: France formally establishes French Indochina. 1945: Hồ Chí Minh declares Vietnamese independence after Japanese occupation ends. 1945: France announces its intention to recolonize Vietnam. 1946: Hồ Chí Minh negotiates in Paris. Signs preliminary agreements. 1946: France shells Haiphong. Kills six thousand civilians. Occupies Hanoi. 1954: Vietnam defeats France at Điện Biên Phủ. Geneva Accords mandate national elections. 1956: United States prevents the elections because Hồ Chí Minh would win 80 percent. 1965: United States begins massive military escalation. 1975: Vietnam wins. At which moment in that sequence did Hồ Chí Minh "choose war" in the sense that implies a peaceful alternative was available and he rejected it? The French chose war in 1946 when they shelled Haiphong. The Americans chose war in 1956 when they cancelled the election. The Americans chose war again in 1964 with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. The attack that justified it was fabricated. They knew. They escalated anyway. Hồ Chí Minh responded to wars that were brought to his country. For over a century, from 1858 to the end of the American war in 1975, Vietnam was a country being fought over by foreign powers. The question is not why Hồ Chí Minh chose war. The question is why you describe as a choice something that was, for the Vietnamese people, simply the condition of existence under colonialism.

Buying things isn’t fun anymore. Everything is either too expensive, poor quality, a subscription where you don’t actually own anything, benefits an evil corporation, or all of the above.

Get yourself a clingy and lovey dovey partner. Life is too short to be with people who act like it's painful to show love.

As a Manifesting Generator, you are here to move, respond, pivot, and stay engaged with life. Your energy is not meant to be stagnant or overly controlled. You thrive when you are interacting, doing multiple things, and following what feels alive in the moment.

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