#FUCK COLONIALISM

[intersectionalpraxis]

I was able to watch some of Bisan's live earlier too! She spoke about how many in Gaza are seeing what is happening across university campuses and they're so happy/cheerful about everyone coming out to support Palestine and to protest Israeli war crimes and the ongoing mass genocide against Palestinian people. She emphasized for us, as a global community, to keep going -to keep protesting, to keep boycotting, and to keep making an impact -and then I saw that she posted this video, and I wanted to talk about it here too because yes -we will never stop talking about Palestine.

[violottie]

Don't lose focus! Yes, the university campus protests are excellent, but remember WHY and WHAT they are protesting.

from Bisan, 27/Apr/2024:

[itsyagergzero]

Say it with me:

Change is coming. Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Hawaii, and more will be free.

Stop talking about these places as if hope is lost. Change is coming. Palestine will be free, then we will work on the next thing, then the next.

Change is coming.

[newsfrom-theworld]

''women'' instead of girls

''people'' instead of children

''dead'' instead of killed

''hamas'' instead of Palestine

''conflict'' instead of Genocide

“Hit” instead of shot

'' chaotic incident '' instead of massacre

Media is doing everything in their power to downplay what isr@el is doing to Palestine

[janetsnakehole02]

This is probably my last post on the whole “Liz is dead” situation but I want to talk about my great grandmother, who is currently 92 years old. When I was growing up, hell even now, she’d tell me a lot about her own stories, mostly about how terrifying life was under both the British Raj and Nizam rule (her side of my family is from Hyderabad - Google the Nizams and the Razakars if you’ve never heard about them, that’s a whole other thing of its own).

Something I remember very clearly is her telling me about this one song she was forced to sing in her school - she went to a Christian convent school - and the song was about the greatness of “George Prabhu and Mary Rani,” aka George V, Elizabeth II’s grandfather. Recently my mom was able to film her singing this song so that we could listen to the lyrics, which are originally in Telugu, and roughly translated it means “we’re singing in honor of George and Mary, who are the rulers of India and have brought great fortune to India, and we see them as our father and mother.”

This is just a really difficult reminder that when we’re talking about why Elizabeth II and the royal family don’t deserve our respect or condolences, many of us have very personal stories that run deep through our families. “But she was a mother, a grandmother, a person” and I don’t care because she and her family were in the business of dehumanizing and erasing the identities of millions of other mothers, other grandmothers, other PEOPLE. Why else would my great grandmother be forced to sing a song in their honor? “But she wasn’t responsible for India” fair enough, her darling grandfather had a great time doing that, but how about you go and talk to Kenya? Or anyone in Africa? Or the Caribbean? I’m sick and tired of being told to “not speak ill of the dead” when REALLY I and millions of others should be getting an apology from anyone who wants to “praise her legacy” and talk about how “revolutionary” she was.

edit: i got the george’s mixed up before. george v is elizabeth ii’s grandfather. george vi is her father.

[theorahsart]

The 18th century equivalents of "Say no to banned books" and "Fuck colonialism" (or, in other words, my favourite Robespierre quotes)

[awkwardbunnyarts]

If one side is dancing, lipsyncing, making fucking thirst traps while looking like they have had a shower, eaten, gotten their nails done and the other side is digging through RUBBLE with their BARE HANDS to save or even just get to the body of loved ones. I would hope that you realize whose the OPPRESSOR vs. whose the OPPRESSED.

[addthespaghetti]

if you are purposefully ignorant about the genocide happening to the people in palestine and congo, fuck you. seriously fuck you. we are living through a time where we have all of the information of the world at our fingertips and you still choose to purposely ignorant and support the oppressor, the colonizers.

i’m tired of trying to educate ignorant people and getting called chronically online because i care about the innocent people getting murdered. if you are purposely ignorant, you are just as bad as the people committing the atrocities happening in gaza and congo.

free palestine 🇵🇸

free congo 🇨🇩

[ecstarry]

8M

cw: Violence towards women in Latin America

Today March 8th is not a day to celebrate. Latin America lives through this day very differently than North America and most of Europe.

This is the day we take our fight to the streets. We protest and we scream the names of those who were taken away from us. We will continue tu burn everything until our governments understand how far we will go until they do their jobs.

WOMEN ARE MISSING, THEY ARE GETTING KILLED AND RAPED.

THERE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS THAN NOT ENOUGH WHITE WOMEN IN POSITIONS OF POWER IN CORPORATE AMERICA.

IF YOU HAVE BEEN PRIVILED ENOUGH TO GO THROUGH YOUR LIFE WITHOUT KNOWING THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS DAY I URGE YOUR TO INFORM YOURSELVES. DO THE REASEARCH, IT IS NOT OUR JOB TO HELP YOU WORK THROUGH YOUR WHITE GUILT.

THERE ARE MY WAYS TO HELP AND AWARNESS IS ONE OF THEM.

Read about this day. And don't forget about Palestinian women, especially not today.

¡Alerta! ¡Alerta! 

Alerta que camina 

la lucha feminista 

por América Latina.

Y tiemblen, y tiemblen

y tiemblen los machistas

qué América Latina será

toda feminista

[anarchywoofwoof]

[intersectionalpraxis]

This is one of many stories you can read about here, and as always -Free Congo!

[violottie]

"So powerful ☝️❤️ Palestine is freeing us all" from Dina4Palestine, 27/Apr/2024:

[newsfrom-theworld]

What’s happening in West Papua?

source

The West's involvement:

complete source here

complete source here

History: summarized

Books to read

The Road by John Martinkus

An Act of Free Choice by Pieter Drooglever

A more complete list

And always,

Free West Papua

[playingplayer2]

I've spent a whole fucking month reblogging and sharing and liking news and posts about Palestine on more than one platform and it's only today, for the first time, at 6am (Dec. 9 2023), that I see that the tag Free Palestine is trending.

It doesn't seem like much, but considering I saw it underneath a post about Obama's former advisor being arrested is fucking brilliant.

Keep talking about Palestine, keep sharing information, keep pressuring our governments to push for a permanent ceasefire, for them to hold Israel accountable for genocide.

[misalpav]

the kohinoor was originally 186 carats of diamond. then the british cut it down to 105.6 carats. if and when the british finally get their shit together and return the kohinoor, please remember they still owe 80.4 carats of diamond <333

[awkwardbunnyarts]

If you have the resources to do so please help and spread the word! Here is how to do so.