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I bought it at what may have been the world's smallest multicultural festival. There were at most 15 booths, probably not even that many. Maybe less than 10. As far as I am concerned it is already listed in the Guinness book of world records as smallest festival. Maybe everyone was in park city waiting to see Bob Dylan, or in their homes waiting to watch the Simpsons. Or maybe they were at Pioneer Park, asking around if any of the homeless people had heroin to sell and being duped paying 20$ for a little tobacco wrapped in plastic. Or maybe they were all in jail because they had accidentally asked an undercover cop in Pioneer Park if they had any heroin for sale.
But the shirt was only 10$ and the proceeds go to support Palestine. This is the first new shirt I can remember buying for myself since...I don't know. I can't remember the last time I purchased a new shirt.
For those unfamiliar with why I may be so excited to have a this shirt allow me to give a history lesson.
For most of the past two thousand years Jewish people have been in diaspora, meaning they were scattered about the world having no country of their own.
Towards the end of the 1800's as nationalist attitudes were rising amongst European intellectuals, secular Jews also became caught up in this fervor, wishing for a land of their own to escape the persecution widespread throughout Europe and Asia.
Prominent Jewish intellectuals wrote of the need for Jews to establish their own country and their writings were extremely influential. Palestine was but one of many places considered. Locations all around the world including South America were evaluated as possible homes for the Jewish people.
Eventually it was decided to settle in Palestine for symbolic but not religious reasons. In fact, religious Jews were strongly against the idea of an attempt to reclaim their homeland, feeling it should only be through the actions of God that Jews should return.
Beginning early last century secular Jews began moving to Palestine, purchasing land legally and resurrected Hebrew as a spoken language for the first time in almost two millennium. There was tension between those then inhabiting Palestine and the immigrating Jews, but the tension was low.
After a few decades religious Jews caught on to the idea that perhaps the return of the Jews people could happen through man's actions. It was then things took a turn for the worse. Because these religious people believed Palestinian land was theirs by right they felt no obligation to purchase land as had been happening before and began to take it by force!
This was generally opposed by governments around the world for obvious reasons, but then came the holocaust where...actually I can't remember what happened.(I joke, we all know what happened). After knowledge of Nazi concentration camps became known, sympathy for Jewish people increased as well as support for the Nation of Israel. This combined with a few well connected Israelis pointing out to various government leaders that Christian mythology taught that before their messiah could return Jews must return home. This eventually led to the United States and the United Nations recognizing Israel as a sovereign state.
As bad as it already was, things did not stop there. Religious support for the state of Isreal increased, and religious Jews continued their aggressive taking of lands they felt already belonged to them by divine right.
Imagine if one day a group of people decided your city was actually theirs and began aggressively moving in. I guess an apt analogy would be to imagine if Native Americans decided to take America back. Except, instead of having been forcibly removed from their lands by the people now occupying it just a few hundred years earlier, they have been absent for nearly two Millenium, and the current occupants, or their ancestors had nothing to do with it. Imagine these people knocking over your house, killing your friends and building on your land. Imagine that as terrible as this might be for you and so apparently unjust, the most powerful nations in the world are in support of these invaders because they are convinced by the an old book that was probably referring to something else altogether that these invaders are doing the will of god. No wonder some Arabs are so pissed.
Memorize this information and share it with everyone. These people need a voice. They have voices, but they need more. Especially here.
Things can get better. But US support of Israel won't be how.
I can't help but feel that if people were aware of the facts , no rational thinker could support the actions of Israel. While I say I can't help but feel that way, I realize it isn't true.
Con un attacco di terra senza precedenti, questa notte l’esercito israeliano, comandato dal criminale di guerra Benjamin Netanyahu, ha fatto irruzione armata a Gaza City, occupandola, bombardandola.
L’obiettivo finale: colonizzarla.
Come tutto il resto.
Si sono contati 37 attacchi in meno di 20 minuti, con i rumori delle esplosioni che si sentivano fin davanti alla casa di Netanyahu, dove migliaia di israeliani e parenti si sono riversati per protestare per la sorte degli ostaggi (e solo per quello).
Si parla di 62 morti, ma sono con ogni probabilità molti di più. Quello che si sa è che migliaia di gazawi stanno fuggendo in migliaia alla disperata dalle loro case, le ultime rimaste, in lunghe carovane d’auto o a piedi.
È il punto più estremo della violenza israeliana, la “soluzione finale” di uno Stato genocida che agisce al di fuori di ogni diritto internazionale, addirittura sostenuta e spalleggiata da Stati Uniti e pure dall’Italia.
Di fronte a queste immagini non so come ministri, governo, Presidente del Consiglio, i negazionisti del genocidio, i pavidi, i complici, possano dormire la notte mentre cala l’ultima notte su Gaza.
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19 July 2025, UK, London, Embankment to Whitehall. Tens of thousands of protesters brave the rain to march tto Whitehall in another National March for Palestine to demand that the Starmer government ends its support for Israel and reverses its proscription of Palestine Action.
9 June 2025
Spaventoso e inaudito quello che è successo.
Stanotte l’esercito israeliano ha fatto irruzione a bordo della Madleen, la nave della Ong Freedom Flotilla destinata a Gaza con a bordo Greta Thunberg, e ha rapito l’equipaggio.
Non arrestato, rapito. Perché questo è accaduto.
Prima uno sciame di droni urticanti sul ponte, poi l’ultimatum, infine l’irruzione armata a bordo degli uomini dell’Idf per bloccare con la forza dodici attivisti decisi simbolicamente a rompere l’assedio di Gaza con carichi umanitari.
Questo è un crimine di guerra, l’ennesimo di una serie infinita e impunita di quel criminale di guerra che risponde al nome di Benjamin Netanyahu, ben al di là di ogni legalità e legittimità internazionale.
Siamo di fronte a un gruppo di banditi liberi di compiere crimini contro l’umanità nel silenzio pavido, complice e inquietante del mondo intero, Italia ed Europa compresi.
Ma cosa deve succedere ancora perché il mondo apra gli occhi?
Siamo vicini e solidali agli eroici attivisti della Flotilla e va fatta ogni pressione affinché siano immediatamente liberati.
La vergogna non basta più. Non è un sentimento sufficiente.
A protester with a placard outside the Home Office at the start of the Al Quds Day rally in London, held on the third weekend of Ramadan every year. Over a thousand men and women, including many Jews, protested against Israel's apartheid policies, the brutal siege of Gaza and the recent attacks by heavily armed Israeli riot police on men, women and journalists at Al Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam.
The mosque itself was flooded with tear gas and hundreds of Palestinians were arrested. The Palestinian Red Crescent claimed that Israeli occupation forces refused to allow ambulances access.
www.middleeasteye.net/video/why-did-israel-storm-al-aqsa-...
The rally also followed the killing of dozens of Palestinians by Israeli Security forces in recent weeks as well as an Amnesty International's report on 1 February 2022 which concluded that Israel's extensive use of segregation, dispossessions and legal discrimination amounted to Apartheid, which it described as a 'cruel system of oppression and a crime against humanity.'
4 June 2025, London, Houses of Parliament. Thousands of protesters, wearing red, surround parliament to demand an embargo on arms to Israel and draw a symbolic red line against Israel's starvation of the population of Gaza.
I made this graphic for the last election. Guess I should have been more clever.
People have been adding some great tags: Feel free to add your own.
A year later this is, to my great joy, the most interesting picture on flickr - if you search under the word "retard."
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.... it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
9 August 2025, UK, London, Parliament Square. Around 365 protesters were arrested at a demonstration organised by Defend our Juries against the decision by the British Government to proscribe the civil disobedience group Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act. Around 600 supporters held up signs stating ‘I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.’ and waited peacefully for the Metropolitan Police to arrest them. The decision to proscribe Palestine Action is widely regarded as absurd overreach by an increasing authoritarian government and a serious attack on free speech and the right to protest.
6th January 2024, Canberra, Australia. For the 14th weekend protesters turn out in their hundreds in Garema Place to demand an end to Israel's war in Gaza and a free Palestine.
In Canberra, Australia hundreds continue to turn out demanding an end to Israel's genocidal war in Gaza.
Around 80 pro-Palestine protesters gather outside the ACT Labor Party Conference to demand delegates condemn the genocide in Gaza and support sanctions against Israel
Australian, Canberra, 3rd December 2023. For the eighth weekend in a row hundreds of Canberrans gather in the city to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza and to stand in solidarity with Palestine
23 June 2025, Vauxhall, London. After being denied permission by the police to rally at the US Embassy hundreds gather at the Community Camp 4 Palestine to protest the reckless, unprovoked, unconstitutional bombing of Iran.
London, Embankment to Downing Street, 17 May 2025.
Hundreds of thousands of protesters from around the UK gather on the 77th Anniversary of the Nakba to march from Embankment to Downing Street to protest the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
9 August 2025, UK, London, Parliament Square. Around 365 protesters were arrested at a demonstration organised by Defend our Juries against the decision by the British Government to proscribe the civil disobedience group Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act. Around 600 supporters held up signs stating ‘I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.’ and waited peacefully for the Metropolitan Police to arrest them. The decision to proscribe Palestine Action is widely regarded as absurd overreach by an increasing authoritarian government and a serious attack on free speech and the right to protest.
Jack Hirschman December 13, 1933 – August 22, 2021 www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Jack-Hirschman-Marxis... Red Poet documentary youtu.be/eWHTzYbCypc
Jack Hirschman December 13, 1933 – August 22, 2021 www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Jack-Hirschman-Marxis... Red Poet documentary youtu.be/eWHTzYbCypc
Jack Hirschman December 13, 1933 – August 22, 2021 www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Jack-Hirschman-Marxis... Red Poet documentary youtu.be/eWHTzYbCypc
Canberrans turn out again to stand in solidarity with Palestine and demand an end to Israel's genocidal war on Gaza
Canberrans turn out again to stand in solidarity with Palestine and demand an end to Israel's genocidal war on Gaza
Jack Hirschman December 13, 1933 – August 22, 2021 www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Jack-Hirschman-Marxis... Red Poet documentary youtu.be/eWHTzYbCypc
6 September 2025, UK, London, Around 2000 protesters gathered at the largest demonstration so far organised by Defend our Juries against the decision by the British Government to proscribe the civil disobedience group Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act. Over 1000 supporters held up signs stating ‘I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.’ and waited peacefully for the Metropolitan Police to arrest them. The decision to proscribe Palestine Action is widely regarded as absurd overreach by an increasing authoritarian government and a serious attack on free speech and the right to protest.