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Palestinian Prisoners’ Day is commemorated every year on April 17. carries an even heavier weight amidst the harrowing reports of brutality and inhumanity inflicted upon Palestinian detainees within Israeli prisons. As Palestinians and the world commemorates the struggles and sacrifices of these prisoners, the chilling reality of torture, loss of limbs, and tragic deaths within the confines of Israeli detention facilities casts a dark shadow over the day. Each account of suffering serves as a poignant reminder of the ongoing injustices faced by Palestinians, igniting global calls for justice and accountability. Amidst the pain and despair, the resilience of Palestinian prisoners and their unwavering resolve to endure such atrocities stand as a testament to the enduring spirit of resistance in the face of oppression. On this day, the world bears witness not only to the atrocities committed but also to the unwavering determination of the Palestinian people to reclaim their dignity and rights. 1) Prisoners’ day (يوم الأسير الفلسطيني), egg tempera, 1980 2) Colors of hope (الوان الأمل), egg tempera, 1980 3) Prison (الأسر), oil on canvas, 1982

Sliman Mansour (cross-posted from his instagram)

#this is a scheduled post from may 8 #rafah invasion has commenced #is palestine free yet?#if not this is your reminder #palestinian art #art

firstfullmoon

Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, “In the Year 2148, Our Only Nabka”

anarchistmemedistro

seefasters

my favorite kind of mash lines are the ones that are written as complete throwaways but hit really hard

#mash

gorskivijenac

Palestinian woman of Jericho, 1967.

radicalgraff

Free Palestine sticker spotted in Beyoğlu, İstanbul

beesmygod

another essential read, maybe even as a counter/companion to "conflict is not abuse" (which i am now dipping into some criticisms on) is david graeber's "the bully's pulpit" about the relationship between power, performance, and domination.

beesmygod

honestly, the part about cowardice was extremely striking to me.

"Most people dislike wars and feel the world would be a better place without them. Yet contempt for cowardice seems to move them on a far deeper level. After all, desertion—the tendency of conscripts called up for their first experience of military glory to duck out of the line of march and hide in the nearest forest, gulch, or empty farmhouse and then, when the column has safely passed, figure out a way to return home—is probably the greatest threat to wars of conquest. Napoleon’s armies, for instance, lost far more troops to desertion than to combat. Conscript armies often have to deploy a significant percentage of their conscripts behind the lines with orders to shoot any of their fellow conscripts who try to run away. Yet even those who claim to hate war often feel uncomfortable celebrating desertion.

About the only real exception I know of is Germany, which has erected a series of monuments labeled “To the Unknown Deserter.” The first and most famous, in Potsdam, is inscribed: “TO A MAN WHO REFUSED TO KILL HIS FELLOW MAN.” Yet even here, when I tell friends about this monument, I often encounter a sort of instinctive wince. “I guess what people will ask is: Did they really desert because they didn’t want to kill others, or because they didn’t want to die themselves?” As if there’s something wrong with that."

marxism-leninism-utenaism

ive been to a lot of protests in my life and a thing that a lot of people dont understand is that a protest is a threat. its a large group of people saying “we are being nice now, but you must understand that if we stop being nice we have the power to cause you Problems”.

so everyone saying that protests have to be more polite or follow accepted rules is missing the entire point. the point of a protest is not to say “we disagree with you”, they already know that. the point of a protest is to make it clear that if they continue to do things you disagree with, you will burn down their house.

now this wont stop them because theyre stupid and arrogant and believe themselves to be beyond consequence. so here’s the really important thing and that’s that after they do it anyway, you have to burn down their house

queenofloci-deactivated20240228

I cannot stress this e-fucking-nough. My great-grandmother - hell, most of my whole family - were on the civil rights marches. The fact they had to be so peaceful was because everything done during those protests was breaking the law. None of it was legal, none of it was nice.

She told me this:

“Understand - to many white people in the US, seeing that many Black people gathered together in one place would have been shocking. It’s easy to bully a family in a town. A bit harder, but bullying a community is still possible. But over a million Black people marching upon the Capital would have had the same effect on every single White person watching. They would know what Black people were REALLY saying behind the hymns and the march.

‘Imagine what would happen if we were angry.’

“White people were terrified of those marches. And there were supposed to be afraid. Of course they were gonna push back - they have the guns, they can make up new laws on the fly. They have all the power in the world, literally - and still, nothing scared them more than a million Black people on the march. Protests stopped working when White people were no longer afraid.”

backwardsorbust

What's going on in the congo rn is one of many many reasons that the right to repair is a VITAL tenant in leftism imo

backwardsorbust

At this point smartphones, laptops, and other similar devices are necessary for daily life in the US. Like if I did not have a phone and a laptop, I couldn't hold down a job, it would be extremely difficult to access public transportation, my education depended upon my ability to access the internet, etc. Tech companies know that their products are indispensable. So do they make products that last? No of course not, they need you buying a new device every two years. That just makes sense under capitalism. But ofc this system spreads far beyond our borders; this system of planned obsolescence is supported by the plunder of the global south for lithium (like in Bolivia) and cobalt (like in Congo).

The imperialist extraction of resources could be challenged if, say, we could repair a device rather than needing to purchase a new one. Companies like apple know this, and have gone out of their way to make such things impossible just to continue making shit products for too much money. It sucks!

saamdaamdandaurbhed-deactivated

can i ask for some reading about what's going on in Congo and how it's related to cobalt mining?

base-and-superstructure

Here's an article that will give you an overview:

Prolonged conflict and escalating violence within the Democratic Republic of Congo have led to a record amount of 6.9 million people being d

cryptobotanical

For those who take the right to repair seriously I highly recommend looking into fairphone. They're one of the only current smartphones that I know of that are designed so that you can fix them yourself at home, and still sell the spare parts you might need to fix it up yourself.

Right to repair is a vital human rights and environmental issue, but it's also a class issue. Not everyone can afford to buy a new smartphone every few years when their current one breaks down. It can really make a difference if you can just buy a new screen or whatever then fix your phone instead of having to buy the whole new thing.

asmiraofsheba

My grandmother talks about how growing up in Belfast, Ireland, British soldiers would raid the local Irish people's houses, steal from them, smash up their homes or burn them out, beat up or kill or imprison the men, rape the women, and then justify their actions by saying the local people were harbouring IRA terrorists and illegal weapons stores even though they weren't. Any time the British committed an act of violence against the Irish it was the same excuse.

And every time Israel blows up a school, hospital, refugee camp killing hundreds of civilians in the process and justifies it by saying they were harbouring Hamas it makes me think of that. Colonialism never changes.

nativenews

inspirato

Don’t stop talking about Palestine 🇵🇸

accessible-art

[ID: an illustration of a person in a traditional Palestinian keffiyeh as they hoist up a large Palestinian flag. White text over the image reads: "don't stop talking about Palestine". The illustration is rendered in black, white, red, and green. End ID]

#art