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We rarely have to reckon with the ugly consequences of US intervention in other countries and it shows
It's particularly hard to watch celebrities who pay themselves on the back for making films about social injustice while ignoring the horrors we see unfold today
As International Women's Day, it is befitting that we recognize and celebrate extraordinary women who have made significant contributions to Puerto Rican history.
An aid aircraft dropped spoiled food in northern Gaza
There is clear evidence of many things. Conclusion: The lives of Palestinians seem to matter neither to the one who provides the food nor to the one who distributes it. What a harsh reality!
Over the last five months, we've seen an unprecedented escalation in violence in Gaza. Most people I know feel like they're going crazy. We're all seeing the same footage, but no matter how angry we all get and how much we try to change public opinion, nothing seems to come of it. So...what can we do? Has evil won?
Aaron Bushnell, a member of the U.S. Air Force set himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., because he did not want to be "complicit in genocide."
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I’m still shaken.
The video, from beginning to end, is something I’ll never unsee.
A young man struggling with guilt and grief, desperation and anger, driven to do the unthinkable until it was unthinkable no more.
Only 25.
I’m sorry that the world, that Gaza, that genocide, drove this young man to kill himself in one of the most horrific ways that somebody can kill themselves.
For the world to see.
In front of the Israeli embassy.
In the capital of the nation that funds and drives this genocide toward 143 days and 40,000 deaths.
Man…
I wanted to look away. I wish I could’ve met him, and spoken to him, to persuade him to find other means to move people, to activate those too vile, vain or cowardly to put a stop to all of it.
What destroyed him should destroy all of us.
What destroyed him destroyed Mohammed Bouazizi in Tunisia and ignited waves of revolution.
What destroyed him was a genocide that blurred absurdity with reality, until it burned into a one and burned away his flesh.
I can’t unsee it.
Things fall apart.
Our minds can be the first to break when they’ve seen too much, when they’ve consumed a degree of death that is too unnatural to absorb.
Aaron Bushnell, miembro de las Fuerzas Aéreas estadounidenses se prendió fuego frente a la embajada de Israel en Washington, D.C., porque no quería ser "cómplice de un genocidio"
Me duele tanto que la frustración lo llevase a cometer este acto. Pero admiro mucho su valentía, su coraje, su fuerza. Palestina libre.
Aaron Bushnell, que tu sacrificio despierte las conciencias y corazones de la humanidad.