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Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG) is an ad hoc coalition committed to solidarity and the horizon of liberation for the Palestinian people. Drawing together writers, editors, and other culture workers, WAWOG hopes to provide ongoing infrastructure for cultural organizing in response to the war. This project is modeled on American Writers Against the War in Vietnam, an organization founded in 1965.
Statement of Solidarity
October 26, 2023
Israel’s war against Gaza is an attempt to conduct genocide against the Palestinian people. This war did not begin on October 7th. However, in the last 19 days, the Israeli military has killed over 6,500 Palestinians, including more than 2,500 children, and wounded over 17,000. Gaza is the world’s largest open-air prison: its 2 million residents—a majority of whom are refugees, descendants of those whose land was stolen in 1948—have been deprived of basic human rights since the blockade in 2006. We share the assertions of human rights groups, scholars, and, above all, everyday Palestinians: Israel is an apartheid state, designed to privilege Jewish citizens at the expense of Palestinians, heedless of the many Jewish people, both in Israel and across the diaspora, who oppose their own conscription in an ethno-nationalist project. 
We come together as writers, journalists, academics, artists, and other culture workers to express our solidarity with the people of Palestine. We stand with their anticolonial struggle for freedom and for self-determination, and with their right to resist occupation. We stand firmly by Gaza’s people, victims of a genocidal war the United States government continues to fund and arm with military aid—a crisis compounded by the illegal settlement and dispossession of the West Bank and the subjugation of Palestinians within the state of Israel.
We stand in opposition to the silencing of dissent and to racist and revisionist media cycles, further perpetuated by Israel’s attempts to bar reporting in Gaza, where journalists have been both denied entry and targeted by Israeli forces. At least 24 journalists in Gaza have now been killed. Internationally, writers and cultural workers have faced severe harassment, workplace retribution, and job loss for expressing solidarity with Palestine, whether by stating facts about their continued occupation, or for amplifying the voices of others. These are instances that mark severe incursions against supposed speech protections. Specious charges of antisemitism are leveled against Zionism’s critics; political repression has been particularly aggressive against the free speech of Muslim, Arab, and Black people living in the US and across the globe. As was the case following the September 11th attacks, Islamophobic political fervor and the widespread circulation of unsubstantiated claims has galvanized a US-led coalition of military support for a brutal campaign of violence.
What can we do to intervene against Israel’s eliminationist assault on the Palestinian people? Words alone cannot stop the onslaught of devastation of Palestinian homes and lives, backed shamelessly and without hesitation by the entire axis of Western power. At the same time, we must reckon with the role words and images play in the war on Gaza and the ferocious support they have engendered: Israel’s defense minister announced the siege as a fight against “human animals”; even as we learned that Israel had rained bombs down on densely populated urban neighborhoods and deployed white phosphorus in Gaza City, the New York Times editorial board wrote that “what Israel is fighting to defend is a society that values human life and the rule of law”; establishment media outlets continue to describe Hamas’s attack on Israel as “unprovoked.” Writers Against the War on Gaza rejects this perversion of meaning, wherein a nuclear state can declare itself a victim in perpetuity while openly enacting genocide. We condemn those in our industries who continue to enable apartheid and genocide. We cannot write a free Palestine into existence, buttogether we must do all we possibly can to reject narratives that soothe Western complicity in ethnic cleansing. 
We act alongside other writers, scholars, and artists who have expressed solidarity with the Palestinian cause, drawing inspiration from the Palestinian spirit of sumud, steadfastness, and resistance. Since 2004, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) has advocated for organizations to join a boycott of institutions representing the Israeli state or cultural institutions complicit with its apartheid regime. We call on all our colleagues working in cultural institutions to endorse that boycott. And we invite writers, editors, journalists, scholars, artists, musicians, actors, and anyone in creative and academic work to sign this statement. Join us in building a new cultural front for a free Palestine.  
Signed,
WAWOG Interim Organizing Committee
Hannah Black
Ari Brostoff (Senior Editor, Jewish Currents)
Elena Comay del Junco
Kyle Dacuyan (Executive Director, Poetry Project)
Kay Gabriel (Editorial Director, Poetry Project)
Kaleem Hawa
E. Tammy Kim
Shiv Kotecha
Wendy Lotterman (Associate Editor, Parapraxis)
Muna Mire
Perwana Nazif
Brendan O'Connor
Alex Press (Staff Writer, Jacobin)
Sarah Nicole Prickett
Dylan Saba
Zoé Samudzi (Associate Editor, Parapraxis)
Jasmine Sanders
Claire Schwartz (Culture Editor, Jewish Currents)
Janique Vigier
Harron Walker
Chloe Watlington
Gabriel Winant (Department of History, University of Chicago)
Audrey Wollen
Hannah Zeavin (Founding Editor, Parapraxis)
Signed, In Solidarity
Fatimah Warner (Noname)
Saul Williams
Susan Sarandon
Janeane Garofalo
Gael García Bernal
Danez Smith
Ocean Vuong
Aria Aber
Saidiya Hartman
China Miéville
+ full list here
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rondalmcdondal · 1 year
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christmas came early this year
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mosquitogirl · 11 months
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Summary: Eccentric staff members of an upstate New York theatre camp must band together when their beloved founder falls into a coma.
Release Date: July 14, 2023
Director: Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman
Rating: PG-13
This movie fucking slaps and I believe it’s destined to become a cult classic! It’s hilarious and gay and hits close to home for everyone who has ever been a theater kid in any capacity. The cast slaps, and the soundtrack slays!
reblog for larger sample size :)
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philipreadart-blog · 5 months
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If your'e attending a Thanksgiving day parade today, take extra care not to get accidentally sewn into the pants of the big Charlie Brown.
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rhapsodynew · 15 days
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"Over there we will build a big elou submarine "
Have a nice day🌍🫶🌞🎧🎼
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Immediately after the release, the single "Yellow Submarine"/"Eleanor Rigby" took the first place in the English charts, where it remained for four weeks, having stayed in the charts for 13 weeks in total. In the same year, the Beatles received the Ivor Novello Award for the single as the best-selling single of 1966. However, in the USA, the cd did not reach the first place of the chart due to the scandal caused by John Lennon's words
"We are more popular than Christ".
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In addition to the Beatles, they took part in the recording of the merry din (the sounds of the shipyard): George Martin, Jeff Emerick, Patti Harrison, Brian Jones, Marianne Faithfull, Beatles chauffeur Alf Bicknell.
In 1980, John Lennon said of the song: "'Yellow Submarine' is Paul's child. Donovan and I helped with the words. We actually recorded it live in the studio, but the idea and inspiration belonged to Paul. Its name is... written for Ringo." Donovan owns the line "Sky of blue and sea of green". Paul McCartney: "Yellow Submarine" is such a happy place. Well, we were just trying to write a nursery rhyme. That was the main idea. The text should not make more sense than the text of any other children's song."
"One morning I was still lying in bed, and then I lived in the attic of the Usher house… I thought of it as a song for Ringo, which in the end it turned out that way, so there are not many notes in the vocal line, and then I started to come up with this story, like some old sailor telling the children a story about his adventures. To a large extent, this is my song, as far as I remember, and I think John helped me. As I wrote, the plot became clearer and clearer, but the chorus, the melody of the verses and the verses are mine."
The rhythm track "Yellow Submarine" was recorded on May 29, 1966, and overlays so atypical for a Beatles song were made on June 1: the sounds of sea waves, shouts of commands, a military march performed by a brass band. According to sound engineer Jeff Emerick, he used an excerpt from the recording of the military march 'Le Reve Passe', a 1906 composition by Georg Krier and Charles Helmer, to overlay the copper.
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jonbutter · 4 months
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luckydiorxoxo · 7 months
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I'm very careful with my parade money because my fortune's not getting any bigger. It's just that amount of money that gets smaller till I die.
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stories by anthonygreen666, april 7
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rickchung · 9 months
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Theater Camp (dir. Molly Gordon & Nick Lieberman).
What [it] gets so right is the very specific personalities and eccentricities of children deeply enmeshed in theatre culture and their young adult counterparts. There's so much inherent drama mixed with codependency in the name of putting on a show and chasing the high of a performance. Gordon and Lieberman's naturalistic yet heightened sense of artistic melodrama is hilariously on point.
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emilyaxford · 10 months
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j. smith cameron + patti harrison + sarah snook talking about foot fetishists was the thing i didn’t know i needed this morning
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motherwasapapafucker · 11 months
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There’s only one Lois Lane casting choice I will accept at this point. 
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uglygirlstatus · 2 years
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I heard the Patti Reviews videos got taken down which is literally EVIL but I had this one shoddily taken clip in my Snapchat memories from 2018 so I’ll do a public service and post it
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