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As it reaches its final stages en route to Gaza, I have no idea what's going to happen to the Global Sumud Flotilla. Regardless of the outcome, hundreds of strangers from across the world have banded together and volunteered to enter the maelstrom created by the apartheid state and to help those facing its fascist onslaught. No matter how desperate its prospects are, human solidarity has not yet been cast aside.
Italy did a huge general strike, and now their government is sending a naval vessel to escort the Sumud flotilla. There were huge protests in Spain, and now Spain is sending a naval vessel to escort the flotilla. Why aren't we doing general strikes in Canada, the US, the UK... everywhere? Our politicians can ignore our calls, our emails, our petitions, our chants, our signs... but they can't ignore us if we shut a country down with a general strike. So why not organize such strikes in each country? Support for Palestine and opposition to Israel are widespread. With a good awareness campaign, we could likely get huge numbers of people in any given country to participate. So when are we doing the next general strike?
Unfortunately the US has too many evangelical nut jobs for this to work but I hope I'm wrong
I want to make it clear that Italy is not sending the naval vessel to aid the Sumud Flotilla. It is sending the naval vessel to seize the aid and block the flotilla. And also the UK is full of complacent twats with no unions.
@materassassino is correct.
Italy 'asking' the Flotilla to give away its ressources to the Catholic Church:
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/italy-sends-navy-ship-help-gaza-aid-flotilla-after-drone-attack-2025-09-24/
U.K. stating it will send the navy only in case of a need for a 'rescue mission':
Italy and Spain are sending ships to accompany the Global Sumud Flotilla, following an Israeli attack
Domanick Stewart, August 7, 2024.
Evan Bryant, August 30, 2024.
Javion Magee, September 11, 2024.
Jacobe Lindsey, September 17, 2024.
Denoris Richardson, September 28, 2024.
Percy Mixon, October 11, 2024.
Mario Kaiser, April 29, 2025.
Earl Smith, June 18th, 2025.
Trey Reed, September 15, 2025.
my timeline on twitter is full of people from gaza saying they're starving. gaza has been deprived of food slowly and strategically for the past 600 days but it has never been like this. even sameer project have said they have not been able to distribute food for the past 3 days. i'm genuinely really scared. i try to give people actionable things to do like donations (which we should all still do) but there actively is not enough food in gaza at this moment even with extreme inflation and it feels like this news is being deliberately buried by mainstream media. it feels like i'm being forced to watch my friends, their parents, their children, people i know, people i'm talking to, waste away right in front of me
amazing that Hamas has been condemned since its inception while you can google the thousands of murders, abductions, assaults that Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) commit on a yearly basis but their atrocities wont condemn them as a group instead youll just hear about "bad apples"
Around 20,000 people are missing in Gaza — maybe captured, dead, or under rubble.
Their families don’t know if they’re alive or gone and where they are.
And if they’ve died, there's no grave, no closure, no one to visit them, Just silence and uncertainty .
why is it that every time a family or person gets tormented and kidnapped by ICE everyone has to emphasize "but they were here LEGALLY". can everyone fucking stop that??? why does it matter if they were "legal" or not? do they have to be for you to care or think defending them is justified?
anyway you should always remember that all those foreigners you see dying on the news are just as real people as you are who have just as much interiority as you do. there is nothing about you that makes you more important and it is by pure chance that you are not in their position. in fact, this holds for all of history. every person, no matter the horror of the fate that befell them, had just as much interiority as you do. i feel like some people haven't fully internalized this.
More than 600 local law enforcement agencies throughout the country are officially partnering with ICE to arrest and detain undocumented imm
Total offense but many people dont respect October 7th as the true militant uprising it is and refuse to learn from it. Palestinians brought a military and technological superpower that is backed by the US imperial government to heel with a lot less manpower. It was obvious that it took years to plan. I blame this all on the humanitarian lens in which people have been looking through at Gaza. Direct action is one thing but militant action is another
I remember when it happened and we were celebrating because
1) they broke through the fence using a bulldozer, a symbol of the occupation's destruction of Palestinian homes
2) Qassam fighters were coming down from the sky with nothing but assault rifles using makeshift gliders. They rained down from the sky to complete their mission.
3) They took out the zionist terrorist troops from entire military bases and accomplished military goals that hadn't been reached in decades, that hadn't been previously thought possible. Hundreds of zionist soldiers taken down, while in their military bases.
4) They had managed to reach Jerusalem according to some accounts from locals on that day (or it was a coordinated gesture by a local defense group). Still notable to me because for 2 decades Ghazzawi people have been under total siege, unable to go somewhere like Jerusalem to see our beloved Al-Aqsa, or the Holy Sepulchre Church.
This was all cause for celebration, an enormous military victory.
And then the Hannibal directive was issued and the occupation bombed its own 'citizens' and wiped out an entire suburb with its own tanks and helicopters and started churning out propaganda about rapes that it has continuously refused any investigation of (1, 2), and that there is no forensic evidence for.
October 7 was a largely successful military incursion against majoritarily military targets. The only failing on the Palestinian resistance came from them not realizing how willing the occupation was to massacre its own soldiers and 'civilians' (non-combattants) alike to keep them out of reach. And I don't blame them for making the mistake of humanizing the enemy in their perspective, more than they deserved.
I feel like the success of a resistance movement can be measured in just how disproportionate the reaction is. If you successfully stand against an empire they will kill you, if you stand well enough they will kill your family, bomb your neighbors, and tear your name out of every history book they write letter by letter. The near total destruction of Gaza and the wholesale slaughter of the people is evidence enough that the Oct 7th uprising was not just successful resistance but a tangible threat to Israel.
a threat to the western world as well. France, US, Uk, and so on were sending their warships and military aid to Gaza. Hamas was no longer contained and showing indigenous groups around the world it is possible to fight against the most powerful army in the world. October 7th was a moment where decolonization was more than just a theory in academia but something that could be possible in this day and age of superior weaponry and technology.
and i think we can spend less time debating its effectiveness an instead learn how it was possible. in my community, in the west, everyones scared to escalate for Gaza and worried about surveillance, but October 7th happened when drones were flying over Gaza 24/7, when the siege categorized Gaza as unliveable, and water undrinkable even before october 7th and yet Palestinians in Gaza broke through a highly militarized checkpoint, probably one of the most watched borders in the world, and reached as far as the West Bank. If the people of Gaza were able to do it while under the most oppressive and surveilled conditions of life in the world, then it is possible to revolt against the military machine here as well
Hmm! Interesting!
No way there are already articles accusing palestinians of the wildfires. I would argue that it's the fact the israelis don't wanna stop planting invasive species to make the "desert bloom" while creating a drought in the region because their settlements need their pools is the reason for the fires
As always, they shift the blame onto Palestinians while it’s them destroying the land and water.
Indian authorities have detained at least 1,500 people in India-administered Kashmir after a militant attack killed 26 people this past week
PULWAMA, India — Indian authorities have detained at least 1,500 people in India-administered Kashmir after a militant attack killed 26 people last week, a top police officer told NPR. Several homes linked to alleged militants were also destroyed.
I think the sad thing is that there’s a particle of Zionism in almost every oppressed community where they feel certain grievances justifies mistreatment of others and that their victimhood status excludes them from victimizing others or weaponizing their victimization against others
They’re also convinced every other group does this to them but they are incapable of doing it to anyone else, which is convenient. Funny to see dueling versions of this and everyone lack the self-awareness to realize they’re doing it. “No, their claim of universal victimhood is FALSE because *I’m* the universal victim!!” meanwhile they’re justifying using slurs against each other.
“Their claim of universal victimhood is nothing but identity politics, my claim of universal victimhood is an objective fact free from identity politics.”
KASHMIR MASTERLIST
Background
History of Kashmir from 250 BC to 1947 [to understand Kashmir's multi religious history and how we got to 1947]
Broad timeline of events from 1947 to the abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution in 2019 (BBC) [yes, BBC. hang on just this once]
Human Rights Watch report based on a visit to Indian controlled Kashmir in 1998 [has a summary, background, human rights abuses and recommendations]
Another concise summary of the issue
Sites to check out
Kashmir Action - news and readings
The Kashmiriyat - independent news site about ongoings in Kashmir
FreePressKashmir - same thing as previous
Kashmir Law and Justice Project - analysis of international law as it applies to Kashmir
Stand with Kashmir - awareness, run by diaspora Kashmiris [both Pandit and Muslim]
These two for more readings and resources on Kashmir: note that the petitions and donation links are from 2019 and also have explainers on the background (x) (x)
To read
Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora? - about women in the Kashmiri resistance movement and the 1991 mass rape of Kashmiri women in the twin villages of Kunan and Poshpora by Indian armed forces
Until My Freedom Has Come: The New Intifada in Kashmir - a compliation of writings about the lives of Kashmiris under Indian domination [available on libgen]
Colonizing Kashmir: State Building under Indian Occupation - how Kashmir was made "integral" to the Indian state and examines state-building policies [excerpt]
Resisting Occupation in Kashmir - about the social and legal dimensions of India's occupation [available on libgen]
Of Occupation and Resistance - another collation of stories of Kashmiris living under state repression
On India's scapegoating of Kashmiri Pandits, both by Kashmiri Pandits (x) (x)
Of Gardens and Graves - translations of Kashmiri poems
Social media
kashiirkoor
museumofkashmir
kashmirpopart
posh_baahar
readingkashmir
standwithkashmir and their backup account standwithkashmir2 [their main account is banned in India. I wonder why!]
kashmirlawjustice
kashmirawareness
kashmirarchive
jammugenocide [awareness about the 1947 genocide abetted by Maharaja Hari Singh and the RSS]
To watch
Jashn-e-Azadi: How We Celebrate Freedom parts 1 and 2 - a documentary about the Kashmiri freedom struggle [filmed by a Kashmiri Pandit]
Paradise Lost - BBC documentary about how India and Pakistan's dispute over the valley has affected the people
Kashmir - Valley of Tears - the exhaustion with the conflict in the post nineties
In the Shade of Fallen Chinar - art as a form of Kashmiri resistance
Human rights abuses (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x)
Land theft and dispossession (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x)
A note: The list of readings is not exhaustive. It is only an introduction to the history of the occupation. I know annoying "Desis" are going to see this and bitch and moan about how Kashmir is actually integral to their country out of a sense of colonial entitlement. Kashmir belongs to Kashmiris, the natives, no matter what religion they belong to. Neither Pakistan nor India get to decide the matter of Kashmiri sovereignty. The reasons given by both parties as to why Kashmir should be a part of either nation are bullshit. The United Nations itself recognises Kashmir as a disputed region, so I will entertain neither dumbfuckery nor whataboutism. I highly encourage fellow Indians especially to take the time to go through and properly understand the violence the state enacts on Kashmiris. I've also included links to learn more about Kashmiri culture because really, what do the rest of us know about it? Culturally & linguistically Kashmir differs so much from the rest of India and Pakistan (also the way Kashmiri women are fetishised... yikes). It's not just a bilateral issue between the two nations over land, it actually affects the people of Kashmir
Idk how many of you have been reading the news, but this treatment of immigrants to the USA is set to cause a constitutional crisis. If things continue as they have been, we're going to see dissolution of rule of law much, much sooner than almost anyone had anticipated.
"Fascism" doesn't just mean "when things are really bad", it's a specific system with specific features that is built when capitalism hits a crisis point. It grows out of liberal democracy, and the transition isn't all at once.
One of the key features of full-on fascism is that the law becomes irrelevant. The current regime is trying to speedrun the transition to fascism by repeatedly breaking laws and waiting for packed courts to sort out what's legal.
This is an incredibly effective strategy. Because these breaches of law are set to be addressed in courts, people believe there will be redress, which has worked brilliantly to reduce opposition to these crimes.
Trump's regime is also targeting groups considered inherently criminal in American racism, so outcry is even smaller.
Trump is openly defying law and court orders, and resistance to his regime is being coopted by centrist groups who want to avoid doing anything actually effective, funneling angry people into purely symbolic protests with no threat to his power at all.
We are watching the USA begin its final stage of transition to fascism.
