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A review of the film The Voice of Hind Rajab. A definite must-watch.

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A review of the Book "Trails of Tear, Paths of Beauty" written by Joseph Bruchac, published in 1999. A book about the Trail of Tears and the Long Walk.

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"...as if it's not illegal and inhumane to beaurocratically undocument people by forcing them through systems of false justice."

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When did trying to deliver humanitarian aid, baby formula, become a war crime?

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55 H5 No Eggs

It’s been 55 days curious how we normalize the fact that two grocery stores had no eggs… Yes it’s the flu  H5 a series of events set in motion well before the 20th but that doesn’t soothe the bite of the fact that our resident cheeto was brought before us in part due to the price of *checks notes*: eggs No better way, I suppose to not scoff at the price of food than when said food…

55 H5 No Eggs

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We've gotten to "he deserved it" because of what he was wearing, and let's take away the military aid too.

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Facing Us | Who Here Are the Dangerous?

In a system that uses fear to manufacture consent, who exactly are the dangerous?

In a continuation of events, El Salvador has offered to take Americans deemed criminals into their jail system. News sources like CNN report that the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, “has offered to house in his jails dangerous American criminals in custody in our country, including those of US citizenship and legal residents”. It is worth questioning what makes a person dangerous enough…

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Of Poppies

364 days of genocide later.

In one language, remembrance and death and also a consolation. In another, symbolism of “exchange and reciprocity… where the Palestinians’ bodies give life to the land”. After 364 days, we have seen nations give with two fists, in one hand weapons in the other aid, not in equal measure often with the cruelist of twists as the aid becomes another means of murder. Humanity determined to…

Of Poppies

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For Az | And then it was Pagers

Forms of communicationturn to weapons of mass destructionreminiscent of the Unabomber. Forces trained on not just Gazabut now Lebanon, too,under the guise of rooting outan enemy by another “H” But this was all about the 7th of October, right? As some are ready to acknowledgethat we are way past freeing hostagesand a right to defend oneself Western media continues to pretendthat this isn’t…

For Az | And then it was Pagers

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On Jobs & Elections

Allow

You didn’t offend me because I didn’t expect anything from you. Truth be told, I’ve been waiting for you to prove my assumptions wrong. I knew you were nothing but a token a shiny thing to flash to say “we did it” but when I went to collect the brass tax wasn’t adding up and I found myself exactly in the same place, nothing really changed, except for feeling more jaded.

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Expressions of Gratitude: Listening and Learning More

Don't let the pain of witnessing injustice and genocide stop you from the important work of listening and putting in the time to learn more. So much gratitude for the truth tellers in Gaza and the Palestinian and Israeli truth tellers in Palestine.

Daily writing promptHow do you express your gratitude?View all responses The act of gratitude can be expressed by deep listening. Sitting through discomfort unease a willingness to receive new and sometimes uncomfortable truths. To take that new knowledge and turn around and seek more information. It’s not looking away even when you’re worldview is challenged even when the pain of…

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For Az | Where are the Cowboys and Tortured Poets

A poet tortured by genocide not by lost love.

And the children stood amongst the rubble around a tiny screen on Tik Tok watching the ode to Hind happy that someone was sharing their story. Tik Tok. where they’d like to restrict the telling of tales. When they say we didn’t speak out because that fight was not for us, they forget that so many of us find solace in music, books and art when we feel alone, forgotten. While your…

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For Az | The Key

The struggle of collective liberation; trying to determine if you are struggling in the same direction.

What is the key to peace? The solution? So often the reality is well-intentioned people holding hands in solidarity while walking in opposite directions. Fingers clasped they pull in different ways tunneling ahead on a path they feel is the only correct one. How many pause, talk to one another, take the time to set a course so that they may instead walk together, collectively…

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Reading "The Limit?". You can read the poem on my blog.