#i dont even live in the USA anymore but i can still buy e-sims and stand firm in my beliefs | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

weepycat · 4 months

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the full email is posted here but this paragraph from rachel corrie's last email to her mother in 2003 before she was killed by an israeli bulldozer is absolutely fucking harrowing over 20 years later.

I look forward to seeing more and more people willing to resist the direction the world is moving in: a direction where our personal experiences are irrelevant, that we are defective, that our communities are not important, that we are powerless, that the future is determined, and that the highest level of humanity is expressed through what we choose to buy at the mall.

#it's devastating #especially watching discourse around boycotts as the worst case scenario unfolds.#but i think allies need to hear her more now than ever...#i've seen discussion surrounding motaz calling us useless #and it's true.#not in a self-centered sense of personal guilt #but in that we have been made to believe that we are powerless to resist this #that eventually the embers of peoples' effort will die #that we have no say in our government #but we do #you do #i dont even live in the USA anymore but i can still buy e-sims and stand firm in my beliefs #even if it means constantly learning about more atrocities and constantly arguing and defending my stance #the work must be tireless when you rage against a machine #it might not feel like much... but it's honest work.

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