1935-2025
https://autonomies.org/2025/11/for-peter-watkins-1935-2025/
Obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/nov/02/peter-watkins-obituary
Watkins Wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Watkins
On Paris Commune 1871 project
https://autonomies.org/2021/03/the-paris-commune-in-film/
PWatkins site.
http://pwatkins.mnsi.net/index.htm
#cinema #Culloden #EdvardMunch #films #movies #LaCommune #peterWatkins #Privelege #PunishmentPark #WarGames
I bought three peaches at the Columbia Farmers market on Thursday morning, the first of the season. Two yellow, one white. They weren't ripe so I put them in a brown paper bag for 48 hours. This morning, they are perfect. Juicy, sweet, aromatic.
May everyone eat perfect peaches in troubled times.
I have to share this. So my partner is on the DEI board for a nonprofit org, which consists of my partner, a gay black woman, a Latina woman, and a straight white guy.
I was working from the other room and overhead some of their meeting.
The guy, (Fred? Doug? Something like that. Let's say Fred), had coopted the meeting for the last hour. He was going on about how he didn't think the org needed a DEI committee...it went something like:
"Race is an outdated social construct."
"I don't see color or gender."
"If everyone was just chill like me, there wouldn't be an issue."
And so on.
I heard my partner trying to gently reign in his monopoly on the discussion:
"Maybe we should hear from one of the other members about their lived experiences?"
He kept going; transitioning into the topic of "handout programs":
"I mean, the opportunities are there. Maybe the story was different in the past, but now they just have to work for it like anyone else."
Note: my partner was (nearly still)born into poverty, abuse, a broken child welfare system, and has multiple chronic conditions.
I could hear the frustration in my partner's voice. No one else spoke up.
My partner got up and left the call for a bit. Fred didn't seem to notice, as I could hear him still talking away in the background.
Eventually the meeting ended.
The other two women said they thought they got a lot out of the meeting, and that Fred brought up some good points (though I must of missed those ones from the other room).
My partner came into my office and recapped the meeting in one looong sentence (they were rather agitated).
So what's the moral of this story?
If you don't know why diversity, equity, and inclusion are necessary, then you're probably the reason.
If you refer to inclusion and social systems as "handout programs" then you have probably lived a priveledged fucking life.
If you're sitting on a DEI board full of LGBTQIA+/BIPOC people and none of those letters apply to you, then you'd better pay close attention to the collective lived experiences and perspectives of those other members.
If all the above apply to you, then you're probably Fred (and feeling pretty called out).
Don't be Fred.
#DEI #LGBTQIA #BIPOC #Rant #Privelege #DiversityEquityInclusion
Thanks for your posts.
Your list of youtube videos to watch was helpful.
Especially the three below.
#GaborMaté #HenrySiegman #IlanPappe
Biden seems to be an idiot around Gaza.
Geopolitics is conducted mainly by those who suffer little consequence from their decisions. 😔
Now #GoodFortune, #Luck and #Privelege allow me to go and cleanup mu backyard. Luxury, abundance
Henry Siegman
https://www.democracynow.org/2014/7/30/henry_siegman_leading_voice_of_us
Gabor Maté
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph9XF39yjgU
Ilan Pappe
https://www.democracynow.org/2014/7/28/professor_ilan_pappe_israel_has_chosen
Given his background, what American Jewish leader Henry Siegman has to say about Israel’s founding in 1948 through the current assault on Gaza may surprise you. From 1978 to 1994, Siegman served as executive director of the American Jewish Congress, long described as one of the nation’s “big three” Jewish organizations along with the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League. Born in Germany three years before the Nazis came to power in 1933, Siegman’s family eventually moved to the United States. His father was a leader of the European Zionist movement that pushed for the creation of a Jewish state. In New York, Siegman studied the religion and was ordained as an Orthodox rabbi by Yeshiva Torah Vodaas, later becoming head of the Synagogue Council of America. After his time at the American Jewish Congress, Siegman became a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He now serves as president of the U.S./Middle East Project. In the first of our two-part interview, Siegman discusses the assault on Gaza, the myths surrounding Israel’s founding in 1948, and his own background as a German-Jewish refugee who fled Nazi occupation to later become a leading American Jewish voice and now vocal critic of Israel’s policies in the Occupied Territories. “When one thinks that this is what is necessary for Israel to survive, that the Zionist dream is based on the repeated slaughter of innocents on a scale that we’re watching these days on television, that is really a profound, profound crisis — and should be a profound crisis in the thinking of all of us who were committed to the establishment of the state and to its success,” Siegman says. Responding to Israel’s U.S.-backed claim that its assault on Gaza is necessary because no country would tolerate the rocket fire from militants in Gaza, Siegman says: “What undermines this principle is that no country and no people would live the way that Gazans have been made to live. … The question of the morality of Israel’s action depends, in the first instance, on the question, couldn’t Israel be doing something [to prevent] this disaster that is playing out now, in terms of the destruction of human life? Couldn’t they have done something that did not require that cost? And the answer is, sure, they could have ended the occupation.” Click here to watch part 2 of this interview.
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