It's wild that the Resistance is so organized that there's a telegram channel of live updates, centralized across the entire region, neatly translated into English. Like do yall understand how hard that is to pull off??
Kinda surprised that more leftists aren't also anti-psychiatry, a field that has at various points labelled women, the LGBTQ, and POC as mentally ill for having totally healthy responses to systemic oppression.
I hope more and more people see democracy in the US as the sham that it is. Millions of people protesting, contacting their elected candidates, and still politicians refuse to even respond to protestors when they are confronted.
On top of that, they release regularly edited videos, statements, and now a podcast! While they are fighting a war for liberation. There is no historical equivalent.
It speaks to how broad their support is and how much people trust their leadership, if there's THAT many skilled people willing to work nonstop to release information for the world to see.
@transjewtalian
I think this just says more about how someone's class background influences their politics. If someone espouses Marxist ideas but teaches at Stanford and doesn't organize, are they really a Marxist?
@FaatiTheStreet
@amandaseales
That's a good response. He might be a lib but he was also one of the first celebs to openly call this a genocide, so I'm glad he took the feedback seriously.
And where a ton of the "research" is funded by pharmaceutical companies and falls apart under scrutiny (see Irving Kirsch). MadInAmerica also has a bunch of great articles from researchers and mental health practitioners who are critical of psychiatry.
Damn, guess he really is a lib zionist. Accusing a leading Palestinian organization of "siding with AIPAC" for protesting phony progressives that have done NOTHING to stop the genocide.
We also need to view our safety as collective and not individual. The more of us there are publicly organizing for the liberation of Palestine, the less it even matters that your name shows up on Canary Mission.
This ‼️ Getting put on Canary Mission will not ruin your life, please stop fearmongering about it as an excuse to not be publicly supportive of Palestine. Resist repression by being LOUDER, not silencing yourself.
@sasa_ghada
Honestly, this is something that makes me sad wrt the fundraisers we're seeing - what happens to the Palestinians that don't speak English and don't have friends/family in the United States to fundraise for them?
@w0kesolanas
"They have no long term ties to an organizing community" so he openly calls for doing work that's disconnected from long term strategy and building mass movements.
@Robert_Martin72
Remind them that Gaza is a concentration camp and people have the right to fight for liberation and not live under military occupation.
@alitlstrawberry
hooooolyyyyy shiiiiiit. Well good for him, I can't believe this article was even published in the first place with how horrifyingly ableist it was.
@SammyZedong
usually if you study engineering you end up working for an evil company and making a six figure paycheck that disconnects you from the average person
@jccfergie
As a queer Muslim person...I don't think this is true. I've seen a lot of connections formed between the QT Muslim community and the more conservative Muslims over the past eight months.
@naomichance_
Hamas has categorized the destruction of churches as a war crime along with the destruction of hospitals, mosques, and schools. And they state in their charter that they see zionism as the enemy, not judaism.
PIJ are significantly further to the left of the DSA, I don't actually think there's a legit ML(M) equivalent to the PIJ's politics right now in the US. Speaking from experience as someone who heavily involved in a Maoist movement that turned into a settler-chauvinist cult.
I'm reading "Stokely Speaks" for the first time and it's making me realize that most leftists are absolute shit at teaching and communicating, and have none of Stokely Carmichael's patience or curiosity towards his students.
@FaatiTheStreet
@amandaseales
It also shows how much of an opportunist Khaled Beydoun is, if Macklemore is the only person with any integrity out of these three. Lmao.
@transjewtalian
I think this might vary from chapter to chapter, my local chapter has given speeches at rallies where they've supported the Palestinian Resistance and explained normalization.
There is no democracy in the United States. Not a single politician has the courage to go beyond a call for a ceasefire or question the Israeli occupation altogether. Gaza feels like the beginning and the end of US Imperialism
@CallaWalsh
this seems like it's attacking a strawman. Also, I think pushing for solidarity between these two fights for liberation is more important, why play these off as if they are contradictory goals?
@hausofriya
Ngl I'm wildly skeptical of most of these gofundme's that are popping up. Especially knowing that the money is going to bribe Egyptian gangsters profiting off the Palestinian genocide...
@JackDexterity
@JJisAMarxist2
Here's another article on a review study of the serotonin hypothesis of depression which also found no evidence for the serotonin hypothesis -
@Seamus_Malek
Tucker is reaaaally smart at noticing contradictions and twisting them around in service of reactionary ideas. There's an interview he did a couple years ago where he talks about the struggle of truck drivers if they get replaced by AI.
Imagine defending PSL, the most milquetoast election-campaign running revisionist organization that has a history of covering up abuses towards women and peace-policing protests and co-opting radical movements.
@lassinatower
As someone living in the US, I'm not going to criticize Motaz living during a genocide. But history shows us that the only way to stop a genocide is armed struggle.
@queendurag
Yeah...idk, I'm reminded daily that most Americans do not understand the way our standard of living depends on slavery, genocide, and heavily exploited 3rd world labor. It's so confusing when I see people push voting third party as some kind of solution...
@Ya1hor
The PA is basically an tool of Zionism anyway. The people of Palestine love cats and dogs, come on, there's tons of videos of people under attack in Gaza still trying to take care of their pets and stray animals too.
@w0kesolanas
The other thing, he's making this assumption that direct action means you're throwing your life away? Like no, you can take precautions to limit risk AND accomplish your goals if you have a strategy and learn from people with experience.
@w0kesolanas
My favorite anarchists have all read a ton of Marxist theory, they're just (rightly) skeptical of any organization calling themselves a vanguard of the people in the US.
Navalny, the far right Russian Nazi sympathizer who made election campaign videos where he depicted Muslims as cockroaches and pulled out a gun to shoot them, has been pronounced dead. Now watch the Western media class turn him into their Brave Heroic Martyr Saint
Ex-Muslims, as an identity formation, serves imperial interests by promoting Islamophobia by so called insiders and everything they say will naturally be twisted and absurd
Anyone else noticing that Rafaat was so much further to the left than the watered down, liberal way he's been presented by "progressive" Western academics?
@EFPafficionado
I really wish the people defending Motaz had any of the same sympathy for the Resistance. Like...isn't he also publicly criticizing people fighting a genocide?
Feeling really, really frustrated with the level of political activity in the United States. Why are we doing police-led marches and filling out petitions during a genocide?
@w0kesolanas
I don't feel like engaging with him, but a similar protest at a Raytheon plant in LA resulted in no arrests because it was led by working class LA activists who didn't let themselves get arrested or post about it on the internet.
Can people please report these accounts for harassment? The Red Guards cult is wildly misogynistic, covered up rapes and abuses towards members, and trafficked a young woman.
The interesting case of US ICL-Maoists organising an astroturfing campaign of fake accounts slandering criticics.
All four accounts made their very first posts today, every single one of their posts either responding to criticisms of CRCPUSA or signal boosting each other.
@JonahFurman
For some of the other recent strikes, like Frito-Lay and Nabisco, this was a major reason that many workers voted to end the strike according to workers I talked to, not being able to afford healthcare.
@heshidicjudaism
This, also in Gaza there's a contradiction between refugees who were displaced from other parts of Palestine and families that historically owned land in Gaza. Hamas' base is largely refugees. Source is "Hamas: From Resistance to Regime" by Paola Caridi
This is a deeply misogynstic group of people, calling women who came forward with accusations of abuse "snitches." People talked to the members of the ci-ic and they ignored the allegations of abuse, took no action, and sided with the abusers.
Pittsburgh Police officer Keith L. Edmonds murdered an unarmed homeless black man, Jim Rogers, on October 13. Bourgeois media is trying to cover it up and help the police. Please share widely and demand
#justiceforjimrogers
!
@thefemiurge
really gross, a lot of the people on the front lines who are taking the biggest risks with arrests and police violence are queer and trans.
@BigTimeCommie
they've literally been on fire. And they honestly seem like a pretty professional, well-trained, well-armed army too...anyone still characterizing them as a rag tag group shooting rifles in sandals is ignorant.
Hamas is not authoritarian or fundamentalist. They're a revolutionary popular movement that continued to fight for liberation after the Oslo Accords, and managed to run a functioning government while preparing for armed resistance.
Yes it does, Hamas is the one currently leading the defensive war against Israel’s genocide and the Al aqsa flood was objectively an attack against Israel’s settler colonialism.
@BigTimeCommie
The PFLP posted a statement calling for solidarity with his family and treating it as a sign of the crisis of consciousness spreading to Americans.