#Latines with Palestine

[distortionenby]

So, I wrote this a while back when the attacks on Ukraine started

If I say dolphins are like marbles, it's because in the vastness of space, the water on their skin is as round as the plaything in children's pockets, and so is life, vast and impossible in our current conflicts, like the root we call a carrot or a beet, brightly-coloured and nourishing even when we pull ourselves out of the earth and gnaw on our young in wars like we're cooking a dinner with friends. Who are we to question the dogs of the army, when water flows just like the blood we spill and they run swift like dolphins, who jump and spin creating marbles of sky in the center of their coil, our little frame of space in a universe where love for the fellow human can never reach a border. And that is tragic. And that is beautiful. And empty. For we all die.

I was angry but was also trying to stay strong and not let myself falter into a state of "I can't do shit so let's all give up". So I turned to one of my loves. Water, the ocean.

I was using this to exemplify a style of writing to a friend, and my explanation turned into another one. Now filled with the chest tightness of seeing both the ongoing attacks at Ukraine and the Palestinian genocide.

I can't do much in my current situation except keep talking about them. So I'm gonna share this too.

Often, when you're feeling strongly about something, you can focus it a bit better. For the poem I was thinking about the wars going on, and the loss of childhood innocence through violence because of it, and how it's become commodified, turned into a spectacle people want to go watch movies about. It's something happening in one place, and we're all aware of it, but at the same time, people not in that place are just, having an evening with friends. And that doesn't mean it's not seen as wrong, but that it's become background noise with how much input about it we get and how little we can do individually from our homes without major power.

All that mixed with my love for the sea. Dolphins are capable of committing horrible things to each other and yet we always see them as these pure and fun animals, free of all.

Marbles are round, like the earth, spheres are associated to protective figures, to something easy to embrace because it doesn't have edges or points, it can also be seen as containing something, encapsulating it. Round and perfect and beautiful to look at.

Dolphins making circles in their jumps look like ouroboros, ouroboros represent constant cycles.

Cycles that we repeat.

Society repeats cycles if violence.

And we come back to war now.

Because every few years we get a new war, it's a circle, and every time the head neets the tail, it explodes and kills and you're in a wild sea that throws you side to side and it's violent.

But there comes a calmness every now and then, and you can just float. And it looks beautiful.

And the animals, the fish, come back when the sea is calm. And it's comforting, and I feel like embracing it even when I can't because I can't embrace water, it spills over.

But then you get back to the state we're in, because blood also spills over, when bullets and bombs break the bodies open. And you try to hold that sign of life that is supoosed to be contained, like in the sphere I mentioned, but it keeps coming out and it's a child's life and you panic because they're pulling the children out of their homes and they have no food, no comfort, nothing.

But you have food, and you're eating it, but sending it to them from here would take so long and the food rots and it's a cycle because you use the rot to plant new things but the food is not for then anymore it's for new food and it's a circle and it's beautiful and it's violent and we can see our siblings in it and yet we're total strangers.

I know this doesn't do much. But keep talking about Palestine. Keep talking about them. Be loud. BE SO LOUD.

And don't forget Ukraine.

Be loud about them all. Be outraged.

Free Palestine.

Free Ukraine.

[bimdraws]

Brazilian Jews for Palestine 🇧🇷🇵🇸

[soracities]

Najwan Darwish, "In Latin America" Nothing More to Lose: Selected Poems (trans. Kareem James Abu-Zeid) [ID'd]

[4fl0tsam]

Had to get on this quickly 🧍

Charles lurking in the back:

lmao not people getting angry at a fucking meme in the comments, like fuck off, you didn’t even know her💀

[mirkobloom77]

‼️🇵🇸🎓🇲🇽 The students of the National Autonomous University of Mexico have joined the student encampments in support of Palestine!

🔸 Source: Dear_white_staffers

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By Scott Scheffer

Now, almost unbelievably, the U.S. machinery of state is trying to set up an opportunity for yet another U.S. war – this one against Venezuela using that country’s neighbor Guyana as a proxy, by reviving a centuries-old border dispute that lay dormant for decades. 

The exploitation of newly found oil reserves larger than those of the United Arab Emirates or Kuwait by U.S. oil giants triggered the escalating aggression by the White House. 

[tortiefrancis]

Global Strike Day 3): Negro Matapacos

[ ID: Digital, stylized artwork of Negro Matapacos, a black dog with a graying muzzle, running and smiling, a red and white kufiya wrapped around his neck. There's a darker red border around him, as well as white doodles. Red text around him reads: "Palestina Libre". Background is green. /End ID ]

Negro Matapacos was a Chilean dog who become a symbol against police brutality due to his anger towards cops in protests, specially during the 2011 student protests in Chile. He was often seen wearing a red bandana around his neck.

The kufiya is a traditional scarf worn in western Asia, most often by men. It's often associated with the movement for Palestinian liberation.

[unfairtradeyward]

IMPORTANT

[nando161mando]

[wavecorewave]

From an Israeli perspective, the Palestine laboratory has had few downsides. Israel has worked closely with Washington for decades, often operating in places where the US preferred covert support rather than public backing. For example, Israel supported the police forces of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Costa Rica during the Cold War when the US Congress had blocked US agencies from officially doing so. Both Israel and the US trained and armed death squads in Colombia well into the 2000s. The former drug trafficker Carlos Castaño, who ran a far-right paramilitary force, explains in his ghost-written autobiography, “I learned an infinite amount of things in Israel [in the 1980s], and to that country I owe part of my essence, my human and military achievements. I copied the concept of paramilitary forces from the Israelis.” He reportedly arrived in Israel in 2004 after fleeing his own country. Colombia has long been the most significant strategic US ally in the region. A Colombian government-appointed truth commission released its findings in 2022 about the grim realities during the country’s civil war between 1958 to 2016. The US was found to have known that its Colombian allies were running death squads and yet Washington’s backing increased. The Global South has been controlled and pacified with (principally) Israeli and US weapons.

Antony Loewenstein The Palestine Laboratory - How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

[bimdraws]

Mexicans for a free Palestine 🇲🇽🇵🇸

[muminshoom]

Zionists saying that calling Israel an apartheid state is disrespectful to South Africans that experienced Apartheid makes no sense. South African anti-Apartheid activists themselves have been long advocated for a free Palestine. Desmond Tutu himself said that the conditions that Palestinians face is like the apartheid system in South Africa

When countries like South Africa and Ireland, have long been vocal about a free Palestine, it’s because they themselves have also experienced what’s it like to be colonized and occupied. If anything, to act like Palestine isn’t experiencing apartheid is disrespectful to South Africans who experienced apartheid.

[notyourtoday]

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"It is deplorable and implies a failure not only for the international system but for humanity as a whole."

Protesters gathered in Mexico City on Wednesday to commemorate the 76th anniversary of the Nakba.

The Mexican government also released a statement that same day, expressing "solidarity with the people of Palestine" and reiterating calls for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

Each year, on 15 May, millions mark the Nakba, or catastrophe, which refers to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Zionist militias to make way for the creation of lsrael in 1948.

[mirkobloom77]

Please, check this go fund me 💚

They are more than halfway there!

If 300 people donated from 8 to 10 dollars, Moataz and his family would reach safety from the genocide 💚 Every dollar counts

🎨 I currently have art comissions open; if you donate to this go fund me, i will add in a free extra doodle for you, thank you

[tortiefrancis]

Brasileires e outros falantes de português, tenho um site pra recomendar.

Palestina livre.com é um site em português sobre a luta do povo palestino, tendo uma galeria de fotos e vídeos de diferentes momentos da sua história, uma biblioteca em inglês, árabe e português de livros sobre a causa (incluindo os livros de Edward Said e poesias de Mahmoud Darwish), e mais.

[typicalbrainchaos]

Chilean here. Our President supports Gaza unconditionally, and he was given a lot of shit for it. But Chile is with Gaza! There is no justice until all of us is free! Oppressed siblings protect their own!

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The Chilian government has been showing support to the palastinians a long time ago❤️❤️❤️🍉🍉🍉🍉