WOW - just wow Pam. Your account of your time with this amazing human and your personal revelations really rocked me - in the best of all possible ways. Because the binary of our current 2024 election fracas is just noise masking the generational dehumanization and SELF-dehumanization within which we have all been acculturated. Thank you for your wisdom, kind heart and warrior spirit. Onward and upward!
Thanks for answering the common refrain of mostly white apologists, why don’t Palestinians take a page from King and struggle non-violently. Because as you point out with the horrifying statistic of 750,000-1 million apartheid is the status quo that demonizes resistance and the humanity of people.
Yes and they do struggle non-violently as well, and have since the ethnic cleansing started in ‘48. Recently, the Israelis massacred unarmed protesters killing around 225 of them. They were demanding their right to return which is technically guaranteed under international law. Diversity of tactics and sustained resistance seems very much agreed upon as how to continue to struggle against extinction.
I'm going to be corny again with a song lyric about another martyr for freedom, Stephen Biko. The quote is from Peter Gabriel: "You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire."
WOW - just wow Pam. Your account of your time with this amazing human and your personal revelations really rocked me - in the best of all possible ways. Because the binary of our current 2024 election fracas is just noise masking the generational dehumanization and SELF-dehumanization within which we have all been acculturated. Thank you for your wisdom, kind heart and warrior spirit. Onward and upward!
Thanks Cheryl! I'm really looking forward to exploring these issues in a more complex manner than the MSM does on here!
Thanks for answering the common refrain of mostly white apologists, why don’t Palestinians take a page from King and struggle non-violently. Because as you point out with the horrifying statistic of 750,000-1 million apartheid is the status quo that demonizes resistance and the humanity of people.
Yes and they do struggle non-violently as well, and have since the ethnic cleansing started in ‘48. Recently, the Israelis massacred unarmed protesters killing around 225 of them. They were demanding their right to return which is technically guaranteed under international law. Diversity of tactics and sustained resistance seems very much agreed upon as how to continue to struggle against extinction.
Thanks for this Pamela. Also been thinking a lot about dignity recently. Really appreciate your essay.
I'm going to be corny again with a song lyric about another martyr for freedom, Stephen Biko. The quote is from Peter Gabriel: "You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire."