dabke by the beach ... oh gaza, you are the light of the world

As anxious as I am about Iran, it’s important to not lose sight of a key fact. Israel is dragging the entire region into a disastrous war to keep getting away with a genocide in Gaza. To keep slaughtering Palestinians. And the US is willing to play along with them.

Reminder for those who just started watching the news:
Israeli forces bombed the Iranian consulate a few days ago, and tonight Iran decided to respond.

Israel will continue playing the victim as it has been doing for the past 75 years.

Breaking ceilings again and again!

Words by Walid Daqqa
Translated by dwchday

I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to push poets to be involved and to believe. But now I think that poetry changes only the poet.

—Mahmoud Darwish

'I still feel that poetry is not medicine — it's an X-ray. It helps you see the wound and understand it. We all feel alienated because of this continuous violence in the world... So we resort to poetry as a possibility for survival.'

—Dunya Mikhail
▪︎ Iraqi-American poet ▪︎

“To my shadow that wishes to go to school / with the children of morning, but couldn’t fit / through the classroom doors.”

— Mosab Abu Toha

“When you held my body close to yours, I thought of clementines, sweet citrus, all the world’s lemons we’d temper with honey.”

— Noor Hindi

today is “next Monday.”
#ceasefire

Can't keep up with it all but thanks to everyone who's reached out to say my piece resonated with them. A friend spotted this flyer in NY last night. It's an honor to contribute in some small way with my words to the struggle for a free Palestine.

Bhanu Kapil, 2001

I honestly have no words right now. A storm is still raging on in Gwadar. Listen to this message from Nafeesa, a 17 year old climate activist forced to play the role that the state should be. Please please reach out to donate.

'I'm lsraeli, Basel is Palestinian... I'm living under a civilian law and Basel lives under military law. We live 30 minutes from one another but I have voting rights, Basel does not have voting rights.'

Some good news:
Vanuatu is one of the 15 countries in the world which have seen the biggest increase of life expectancy at birth in the last 30 years, with a 20.8% increase between 1971 and 2021. statista.com/chart/31765/co…]

95% of Sudanese people can’t afford a meal daily.

18 million Sudanese people suffer from acute food insecurity.

3.8 million Sudanese children under the age of 5 suffer from severe malnutrition.

25 million Sudanese people are in need URGENT of aid!!

#KeepEyesOnSudan

Children in northern Gaza organized a spontaneous protest this morning, demanding the Israeli siege to end.