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in the land of the free if you're a student protesting against genocide they send snipers to your school

#fucking insane #acab #students for justice in palestine #student protests #free palestine #photography

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Thrilled to see someone carrying on the tradition of protest folk music. Keep fighting the good fight!

#jesse welles #folk music #military industrial complex #free palestine #nationalism

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When I was in ninth grade I wanted to challenge what I saw as a very stupid dress code policy (not being allowed to wear spikes regardless of the size or sharpness of the spikes). My dad said to me, “What is your objective?”

He said it over and over. I contemplated that. I wanted to change an unfair dress code. What did I stand to gain? What did I stand to lose? If what I really wanted was to change the dress code, what would be my most effective potential approach? (He also gave me Discourses on the Fall of Rome by Titus Livius, Machiavelli’s magnum opus. Of course he’d already given me The Prince, Five Rings, and The Art of War.)

I ultimately printed out that phrase, coated it in Mod Podge, and clipped it to my bathroom mirror so I would look at it and think about it every day.

What is your objective?

Forget about how you feel. Ask yourself, what do you want to see happen? And then ask, how can you make it happen? Who needs to agree with you? Who has the power to implement this change? What are the points where you have leverage over them? If you use that leverage now, will you impair your ability to use it in the future? Getting what you want is about effectiveness. It is not about being an alpha or a sigma or whatever other bullshit the men’s right whiners are on about now. You won’t find any MRA talking points in Musashi, because they are not relevant.

I had no clear leverage on the dress code issue. My parents were not on the PTA; neither were any of my friend’s parents who liked me. The teachers did not care about this. Ultimately I just wore what I wanted, my patent leather collar from Hot Topic with large but flattened spikes, and I had guessed correctly—the teachers also did not care enough to discipline me.

I often see people on tumblr, mostly the very young, flail around in discourse. They don’t have an objective. They don’t know what they want to achieve, and they have never thought about strategizing and interpersonal effectiveness. No one can get everything they want by being an asshole. You must be able to work with other people, and that includes smiling when you hate them.

Read Machiavelli. Start with The Prince, but then move on to Discourses. Read Musashi’s Five Rings. Read The Art of War. They’re classics for a reason. They can’t cover all situations, but they can do more for how you think about strategizing than anything you’re getting in middle school and high school curricula.

Don’t vote third party unless you can tell me not only what your objective is but also why this action stands a meaningful chance of accomplishing it. Otherwise, back up and approach your strategy from a new angle. I don’t care how angry you are with Biden right now. He knows about it, and he is both trying to do something and not doing enough. I care about what will happen to millions of people if we have another Trump presidency. Look up Ross Perot, and learn from our past. Find your objective. If it is to stop the genocide in Palestine now, call your elected representatives now. They don’t care about emails; they care about phone calls, because they live in the past. I know this because I shadowed a lobbyist, because knowing how power works is critical to using it.

How do you think I have gotten two clinics to start including gender care in their planning?

Start small. Chip away. Keep working. Find your leverage; figure out how and when to effectively use it. Choose your battles, so that you can concentrate on the battle at hand instead of wasting your resources in many directions. Learn from the accumulated wisdom of people who spent their lives learning by doing, by making mistakes, by watching the mistakes of their enemies.

Don’t be a dickhead. Be smarter than I was at 14. Ask yourself: what is your objective?

#activism #strategy #policy change #political organizing

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#flowers #photography

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Destroy the myth that libraries are no longer relevant. If you use your library, please reblog.

#books #libraries #reading

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HAPPENING NOW: passover seder from our comrades in columbia's liberated zone/gaza solidarity encampment. this encampment is a profoundly religious space. we've seen muslim protesters praying multiple times a day, a christian communion was held, and multiple jewish prayers/celebrations have taken place. solidarity is a beautiful thing, palestine will be free.🖤🇵🇸

#free palestine #students for justice in palestine #columbia protest #passover seder #student protests #photography

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TWO HOURS AGO: an incredible photo taken by a ut austin student capturing something deeply poetic in my opinion, a line of state troopers eagerly waiting to arrest student protesters standing just behind a sign that reads "what starts here changes the world. its starts with you and what you do each day."

#ut austin #free palestine #students for justice in palestine #student protests #palestine protests #activism #photography

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Recommended reading on Palestine, Israel, and Zionism

#free palestine #palestinian genocide #reading recommendations #continuing education #israeli apartheid #israeli war crimes #zionism #settler colonialism

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#amanda gelender #free palestine #palestinian genocide #kaddish #judaism #israeli apartheid #israeli war crimes

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Magnolia

#magnolias #flowers #photography

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#columbia protest #students for justice in palestine #free palestine #student protests #civil disobedience #historiography #anti war

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May Murad - Je ne suis pas un robot, 2021

#may murad #artwork #humanity

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somehow the poor cops who we were told are simply too understaffed and underpaid because of Woke to deal with 'rampant rising crime' have found the strength to beat the shit out of college students across the whole country for peacefully saying "divest from the country killing innocent palestinians in the tens of thousands"

#acab #police violence #palestine protests #free palestine #columbia protest

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heike monogatari - 02.

#heike monogatari #animation #winter #snowfall #gif

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Lmao how is this real, "the ambient sounds of the world were wrong, sir"

#columbia protest #john cage #art #critical thinking #art criticism #art literacy #art critique #free palestine #palestine protests #columbia university

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#cats #home decor #photography

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The more one looks, the more the name of the game of living and dying on earth is a convoluted multispecies affair that goes by the name of symbiosis, the yoking together of companion species, at table together.

Donna Haraway, "Sowing Worlds: A Seed Bag for Terraforming with Earth Others"

#donna haraway #quote #quotations #ecology #interdependence #interconnectedness #dialectics #relationships #symbiosis