On this first day of #BlackHistoryMonth   I’m posting this excerpt of a #ToniMorrison speech on racism & fascism.

I keep hearing that the word fascism has lost its meaning but I find that to be ridiculous.

Read these 10 steps toward fascism.

#FreePalestine #CeaseFireNow

I often think of Francis Weller's 'Wild Edge of Sorrow', when he says 'what if the hollowness we feel, is the prolonged absence of bird song?'

What this means as diasporic & dispossessed ppls to lose our native music of place, it to be replaced with things like sirens and sighs.

With the ICJ ruling that Israel’s attack on Gaza is plausibly genocidal, every uni, company & state around the world will now need to consider very carefully its engagement w Israel and its institutions. Such ties may now constitute complicity w #genocide . latimes.com/opinion/story/…

I'm teaching a new graduate course this semester called Embodied Ethnography. It is a practice-based course built around workshops where students will learn from some amazing ethnographers about how they 'do' ethnography with their whole bodies. We will read:

important new initiative to support a growing ecosystem of efforts to heal past & present harms stemming from US legacies of colonialism & slavery.

NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN. fantastic opportunity to deepen practice alongside peers.

🙏🏽 Vanessa Mason (@[email protected]) & Fanta Conde for your leadership

Because of Israel's obstructions, “people in Gaza risk dying of hunger just miles from trucks filled with food,” says World Food Programme. This is not a natural consequence of war but a deliberate strategy, despite denials by Israel's lawyers in the ICJ genocide case.
wfp.org/news/preventin…

Jan 18th is the anniversary of the assassination of Manuel 'Tortuguita' Teran. An Indigenous, queer & non-binary forest defender. Murdered by Georgia State Troopers in their tent w/ hands up protecting their face because they wanted to #StopCopCity & save the Weelaunee forest

The U.S. and UK are bombing Yemen for the fourth time in less than a week. The first time the bombing was on everyone's TL and made headlines everywhere. But in a few short days it's already been turned into old news. This deadly pattern has repeated itself for my entire life.

BREAKING: Colombia’s president calls for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to South Africa.

“If anyone deserved the Nobel Peace Prize today, it would be the South African legal team that has filed a complaint against Netanyahu for genocide in defense of the Palestinian people.” 🇨🇴

This is monstrous. Israel is systematically decimating all pillars of civic life in Gaza: schools, universities, hospitals, clinics, archives, cultural institutions, heritage sites. Even graveyards have not been spared.

Starving 2.2 million isn’t just a ‘policy choice’. Supplying & funding weapons to kill thousands, including thousands of children, isn’t a ‘policy choice’. Decimating life sustaining infrastructure isn’t a ‘policy choice’. It’s who this president & his administration *are*.

Emissions from the first two months of war in Gaza exceeded those of the world’s 20 most climate vulnerable nations, according to an analysis published by US and UK researchers. By Nina Lakhani at Guardian US: bit.ly/48NX6Fo

400,000 people in DC today. The largest Palestine protest in the history of the United States.

This Despite the cold weather, the flight and metro cancellations, the supposed fatigue after 100 days of protest. The movement for Palestine will not go away until Palestine is free.

At the #ICJGazaGenocide hearing it was stated that the genocide is being broadcast in real time by its victims.

Seems Israel is making sure it systematically murders every journalist to make sure it silenced the truth about crimes.

Germany marks the 120th anniversary of its first genocide by signing on to its third genocide.

“Israel’s tactics …& the extent & nature of the violence Western powers are willing to countenance against a captive, colonized people in Gaza are also a reminder to formerly colonized people and their descendants of how the West was made.”

thenation.com/article/world/…

#Gaza #Nakba

As much as we speak of and see his strength, we must also recognize the immense pain in his eyes and his voice. Every time I see this man or any Palestinian journalist, all I can feel is rage at our news industry that cheers on & justifies their slaughter.

'The work of social transformation is urgent but it need not be fast. To do the work these times demand of us requires wholehearted commitments to relationships and rigour, both of which take time to cultivate.'

💚Panthea Lee 李佩珊 channeling Anasuya Sengupta.💚

panthealee.medium.com/on-stewarding-…