Political meme with eye contact

#EyeContact #Politics #democracy #WesternDemocracy #reality #HopeIsADiscipline

A very valuable conversation between @ayoub and Amos Goldberg.

'In this episode, the second part of their conversation, they get into the crisis within Holocaust and Genocide Studies since the start of the Gaza genocide.

In the last segment, they spoke about “The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History”, which Goldberg co-edited, and argue for the necessity of new horizons in our imaginaries."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A3DmDrTw18s

#Gaza_Genocide #Holocaust #AmosGoldberg #FromThePeriphery #Palestine #Nakba @israel @palestine #HopeIsADiscipline

This was really good, hopeful, encouraging on the political situation & #community. Also a reminder to kind of get over yourself and just do stuff. If you need that right now.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4vVU8wxkG7sz9xQiwUuMOG

Follow Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba, Truthout indie media, Movement Memos podcast for good info.

#politics #mutualaid #prisonabolition #resist #resistance #communityorganizing #antifascism #preparedness #communitydefense #antiracism #FreePalestine #hopeisadiscipline

Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting - reposting for visibilty, Jan 22, 2025

"[...] the original doc was by Mariame Kaba who also wrote the book Let This Radicalize You along with Kelly Hayes."

"Donate to Mutual Aid Groups
Organize fundraisers for local groups
Donate to food programs [for example this *one,(form) and donate to them here
Cook and bake for community group meetings
Start or join Food Not Bombs
Knit or crochet items for your houseless neighbors"

and many more!

https://alien-sunset.neocities.org/blog/2025/01-22

#ABetterWorldIsPossible #LetThisRadicalizeYou #HopeIsADiscipline #activism #Coup #JeKuntWelWatDoen

Hope is a discipline that must be cultivated.
https://interregnum.ghost.io/hope-as-a-discipline/

Check out our new article arguing for critical need for hope in social organising

#hope #hopeisadiscipline #radical #socialmovements #independent #grassroots #thinkpiece #abolitionist #optimism #mariemekaba #adriennemariebrown #abolitionistthought #

Y'all, I know you want to live in a world where diseases don't exist, where you can go about your day without a care in the world.

But today is not that day. That world is not this reality.

I know you wish to live in ignorance of the thousands who die from disease (Covid in particular), the thousands more who end up permanently disabled, and the thousands that are now immuno-compromised.

But today is not that day. That world is not this reality.

I know you wish to pretend the increasing genocides, such as Gaza, Sudan, Congo, and others, aren't happening, so you can eat happily without worrying the hairs on your head. Despite the fact that tens of thousands are dying, where aid is being blocked, where colonizer states are lying through their teeth and not even trying to hide it.

But today is not that day. That world is not this reality.

I know you wish to chant to yourself that Climate Change isn't real and doesn't effect you. That the world isn't turning more hostile to life, so that you can continue to wander through your days without a care. Except, the weather turns more and more violent, where the permafrost melts and releases feedback gases, where the rivers start to run orange and red, where the sea levels rise, where millions are displaced, where hundreds of thousands are dying, where forest fires leave the sky a permanent orange or grey.

But today is not that day. That world is not this reality.

Ignoring reality doesn't make it go away. Pretending everything is just fine doesn't erase the horrors currently happening. Doing nothing doesn't help anyone, let alone you. This apathy is hurting all of us, so instead of falling prey to this falsehood, wake up.

Wake up and listen to those of us who fight for a better and more just present and future.

What does help? How do you rise up and avoid apathy and despair?

By talking with each other. By recognizing the horrors. By acknowledging the very real grief, by working through that grief with one another.

By supporting one another, by loving one another.

By rising up to stop the horrors through marching, political actions, writing campaigns, and other actions.

By pushing for more sustainable ways of being and fighting to get the policies passed and followed-through.

By demanding cease-fires and demanding aid to those in need.

By helping those who the pandemic has isolated and left to die -- getting them food, healthcare, support, and housing.

By building community gardens and sharing food with one another.

By holding forums for your community and talking through the needs of your community. By talking through solutions and finding an egalitarian way to implement them.

By building community with one another.

By building a community that fights fiercely to leave no one behind. To fight for a present and future where everyone has access to food, clean water, housing, healthcare, in-person and virtual support, and Internet/electricity. Where no one has to fear the bombs of another, where no one has to fear for their lives.

This is all possible. We can achieve such a just present and future.

But it requires work.

So will you put aside your yearning for a falsehood? Put aside your demand to return to a past that never really existed?

To instead, take my hand and fight with me for a present and future where we all are able to thrive and exist as we are without fear?

Because today is that day. Today is that day to fight for that reality.

Thanks for reading.

#CommunityCare #CollectiveCare #Community #Climate #Genocide #Justice #Hope #HopeIsADiscipline #JustMyThoughts

Do you know what scared looks like? Trying to buy out communication platforms to inhibit further global networks of people opposing your domineering desires that are killing the Earth's ecosystem and with that our species.

They are actually weak and are blustering up, throwing money around in a frenzy and trying to appear strong.

We are more, we are stronger, we are especially stronger if we quit bickering about differences and being critiqued from people on our general side of things.

#HopeIsADiscipline

I received a beautifully, heartfelt comment about how my writing has brought hope and comfort to this particular reader. That they look forward to my posting of chapters, and it is a bright hope of light in their life.

I'm in tears at this. Happy tears. That's really all I've ever wanted with my writing. To bring that comfort and hope to readers. To remind them that even when we're caught in a spiral of pain and despair, there is still hope of a better day.

Hope is a discipline (as Mariame Kaba has written in We Do This 'Til We Free Us). Together we can build up that hope.

No matter how scary the future may seem, it eventually dissolves into the present, where it creates a new solution and remedy, a path to remake our future and present into something better than it might have been without our touch.

Never forget that we impact others in so many ways - big and small. All of that matters.

So be kind to one another.

Stand firm with justice and building a more loving, just, equitable, sustainable world, but also remember to be soft with love and kindness.

The future is yet unwritten, so let's write it together, okay?

#Writing #WordsHavePower #WordWeavers #HopeIsADiscipline #Justice #Hope