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Monteverdi - Vespro della Beata Vergine

Ia. Deus in adjutorium meum intende (versicle) Ib. Deus in adjutorium me festina (response) II. Dixit dominus (motet) Monteverdi Choir English Baroque Soloists His Magesties Sagbutts and Cornetts John Eliot Gardiner Basilica di San Marco, 1989 

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Despite ongoing Israeli occupation attacks and threats to invade Rafah City, which is home to over 1.7 million Palestinians, many living in displacement camps and refugee centers, Resilient Palestinians arrange a mass wedding at a school in Rafah City, in the southern Gaza Strip.

(source: QUDS news network)

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Richard Serra (1938 – 2024) - Cycle (2011)

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Martinů : "Juliette", suite d'après l'opéra, H. 253B (III-Lento…)

Orchestre philharmonique tchèque

Sir Charles Mackerras (direction)

Enr. 2008

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They are about to demolish the Nabil darwish museum to build another fucking bridge

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Almost 7 months of this Genocide and it is still happening and we are still watching this horror every single day. Ya Allah only you can help us.

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Ravel : "A la manière de… Emmanuel Chabrier" ("Paraphrase sur un air de Gounod : Faust", Acte III : "Faîtes-lui mes aveux...") (Allegretto)

Paul Crossley (piano)

Enr. 1983

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The truth is that the default setting of the human nervous system is a kind of terrified, irritable baseline. We are wired for hypervigilance. That's why we pay so much more attention to things that threaten us than to things that comfort us. It's why we remember bad things so much better than good ones. It's why hope is a defiance of biology, a conscious decision to override the nervous system.”

David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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"I'm 25 years old, I've lived my whole life in Gaza Strip, and I've never felt hope like now."

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"And for the first time in our lives as Palestinians, we hear a voice louder than [the occupation], louder than their bombs, and even stronger than their control in every aspect of our lives."

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Visiting the Donghua Jinlong Glycine Factory in Shijiazhuang (tiktok)

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Voting is a tool.

By which I mean, voting is just a tool; it isn't sacred or magical.

And by which I also mean, voting is one tool that is good for one kind of purpose. If it isn't suitable for the goal you're trying to achieve, you need different tools.

Every time someone makes a post on here rightly criticizing Joe Biden's support for genocide, there's at least one person in the notes saying "but remember, you still have to vote for him!" or, "did you know Trump wants to deport Muslims?" or, "then who do you want me to vote for?"

But that's like going into a plant nursery and demanding they sell you the correct drill bit for planting a tree. They will never sell you the drill bit you want, because the drill bit you want--the drill bit suitable for planting trees--doesn't exist, and also plant nurseries don't sell drill bits.

Standing in the plant nursery asking about drill bits will probably initially get you people explaining to you where to find a shovel, and a watering can, and some mulch, because those are tools that will help you plant the tree. If you ignore the attempts to educate you, and start yelling about how they must just want you to throw away your drill, and also they probably hate trees and hate you and want you, personally, to suffer in a world without shade, you'll start getting different answers, like "please stop shouting" and "I'm going to have to ask you to leave now."

Because you're demanding that they tell you how to use the wrong tool for the job. They can never give you the answer you want; the answer you want doesn't exist.

I can't tell you who to vote for to prevent the rise of fascism in the United States, both because you can't prevent something that's already happened, and because you can't vote your way out of fascism.

You need different tools; you need to ask different questions and be willing to sit with the answers, even if they aren't the answers you want.

Boycotts are a tool. Protests are a tool. Shutting down highways, physically blocking weapons shipments, picketing arms companies, those are tools. So is going to your library and checking out books about Palestine, and about decolonization generally.

Instead of asking which war criminal you should vote for, perhaps ask how you can organize members of your community to support and look after each other and keep each other safe. Perhaps ask how you can support Land Back and prison abolition. Ask how you can organize a union in your workplace.

The tool you're most comfortable using isn't going to work for this job. Learn how to use another.

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(Art: Photograph by Maryam Zandi)

The real damage is done by those millions who want to ‘survive.’ The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves—or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.

~Sophie Scholl

(Source: Unclear/Consider one of Scholl's most books: At the Heart of the White Rose)

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