Free the International Homies till it’s backwards.

South Africa 🇿🇦 vs 'Isreal':

An Important Moment In Human History Today:

'Isreal' is being tried today for their Genocide on Palestine.

The US, UK, & Western Media won't show you, but many accounts on Social Media will be.

This Court Case will determine the future of this world.

What we can hope for is a Free Palestine 🇵🇸

GENOCIDE/WAR IS STUPID

i’ve seen more outrage from people about their celebrities missing from a nomination award list than there has been about women in gaza using tent scraps as pads,palestinians starving and freezing to death, gaza is with no functioning hospitals all have been bombed. the women in sudan being victims of gang rape and sexual violence by RSF, over ten thousand sudanese people have been killed and millions displaced. Over 6 million Congolese people are dead, half of them are under the age of five and every hour 48 women are raped. the US is bombing yemen a country that is under humanitarian blockade and going through famine, ethnic cleansing in Tigray. Uyghurs in china’s concentration camps . there’s just so much injustice, oppression and killings happening in the world towards innocent lives and may they all be free from their oppressors and have their land back!

and remember! Colonial boarding schools still exist today and nobody talks about them!

"Eid Mubarak to all of us radically creating freedom and being the architects of our liberation 🪬 May we see a free Palestine and a free Sudan and a free Congo + prosperity and justice on all in the Global South and throughout the world 🪬"

from The Slow Factory, 10/Apr/2024:

📸: danny clinch

I'll always remember Hozier as a writer of protest songs and Swan Upon Leda has just strengthened that feeling. Lamenting the loss of an ancient land, its culture, and people due to illegitimate colonial occupation needs to be sung about more often because state-sponsored media routinely suppresses these brutalities, and imprisons whistleblowers and activists who dare bring the truth to light. I'm also in awe of how he tied the occupation of a country to the occupation of a body, the encroachment of sovereignty to the encroachment of reproductive autonomy. It's beautiful, profound, and heartbreaking all at once. I have never heard a person sing so tenderly about something so sadistic. It is a rare talent. I can't wait to hear what other treasures he has recorded for Unreal Unearth. Revolution and decolonisation are eternal processes. Yet, I hope in this lifetime, childbearers reclaim their constitutional right to abortion. I hope women and other hijab wearers of Iran win their freedom. I hope I see a free Kashmir, a free Palestine, a free Ukraine, a free Tibet, and that all other occupied territories may see the walls of their open-air prisons demolished.

A video I was watching about Israel and Palestine spoke about how much the Free Tibet movement used to be popular. The two situations are not directly comparable, but both involve criticism of governments. I went to a few meetings in high school, and they used to be very popular on college campuses. Although I advocated for a free Tibet, you know what? I always still had a love for China and Chinese culture too. I NEVER let my criticism of the government change that. The most hardcore thing I ever did was refuse to watch the 2008 Summer Olympics, but even then I still loved Chinese culture and even wanted to learn Mandarin someday (I still do!). I would’ve happily joined a Free Tibet organization *and* a Chinese cultural association and seen 0 conflict of interest. The government and the people were separate in my mind. One big problem with the modern Free Palestine movement is that there are very few active members who even accept Israeli culture or Israeli people as being valid at all in organizations like SJP and BDS (I’m not talking about Palestinian members specifically here- I’m talking about people in general in those organizations, which usually attract a lot of different kinds of people from all backgrounds.) Some extremists even think civilian deaths of Israeli civilians are justified. The government is forever the same as the people and culture in some peoples’ minds. I’m sure there were a select few extremists in the Free Tibet movement back in the day, but honestly it was mostly hippies who could separate criticism of the government from the general Chinese population/culture. Unfortunately, nowadays I see a lot of Chinese people being lumped in with their government due to everything in the news though. Jews are not responsible for the actions of the Israeli government, but about half the world’s Jews live in Israel, and Israel is forever connected to Jewish cultures. There are some populations of Jews residing there (Yemenite, Egyptian, Tunisian, Kurdish, and many more) who would be almost completely wiped out if everyone in Israel were killed. But they are continuously falsely labeled as all being “white colonizers” who are complicit in the occupation simply because they live there. This is part of the antisemitism that many Jews are talking about when they say that too often criticism of Israel turns antisemitic. Do the work to separate the Israeli government from the Israeli people and culture, and call out others who don’t

Please please please prioritize Tibetan, Vietnamese, Indian and Iranian voices & narratives when talking about self immolation and its history.

Dr Tenzin M Paldron has a brilliant thesis on this with so maybe references: Tibet, China, and the United States: Self-immolation and the limits of understanding

As well:

Tsering Shakya has an essay called Self-Immolation: the Changing Language of Protest in Tibet

Nicholas Michelsen wrote The Political Subject of Self-Immolation which is available in Occupying Subjectivity (available for free on annas-archive.org)

Michelle Murray Yang published Still Burning: Self-Immolation as Photographic Protest.

There are tons more! There is no shame in not knowing or understanding this intense action BUT! It is so easy for academics, reporters, and theorists living within western-colonial systems to completely disregard the incredibly powerful and horrific act that self-immolation is. Please don’t be a part of that!

*** all these links should be free & accessible - if they’re not & you want to read them reach out & let me know!

if ww3 comes then let’s just hope that imperialism dies with it when it ends

if you follow me, please look through this website. tibet may not be trendy anymore but we are still facing a cultural genocide. we are still facing injustice. please educate yourself on tibet and what the ccp is doing to us.

*sees Taiwan trending*

Me, a Taiwanese: Cool, why we trending tho?

Also me: Ah...Chinese bots spamming propaganda, just another day. Back to my usual content then.

I’m sharing this everywhere💚🕊️