🔻
@atlajala
Followers
7,283
Following
3,033
Media
3,266
Statuses
12,453
Axaxaxas mlö, dhcmrlchtdj
the center of the cyclone
Joined February 2015
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
Biden
• 2560039 Tweets
Biden
• 2560039 Tweets
Biden
• 2560039 Tweets
JIMIN JIMIN
• 1898633 Tweets
#MusicianLISAisBACK
• 1399405 Tweets
ROCKSTAR OUT NOW
• 1305994 Tweets
America
• 952988 Tweets
#SmeraldoGardenMarchingBand
• 860429 Tweets
JIMIN IS COMING
• 716975 Tweets
#SGMB
• 394387 Tweets
Democrats
• 380175 Tweets
#Jimin_MUSE
• 289974 Tweets
POTUS
• 235206 Tweets
Megan
• 147067 Tweets
Dems
• 129758 Tweets
MSNBC
• 122702 Tweets
#우리_신_디에잇_명호
• 103965 Tweets
#the8_is_the8
• 103891 Tweets
Newsom
• 100324 Tweets
#ThalapathyHonorsStudents
• 91155 Tweets
Kamala
• 87709 Tweets
HYBE Stop Stealing The8
• 86921 Tweets
PARK JIMIN
• 84779 Tweets
Hillary
• 72610 Tweets
Kennedy
• 71010 Tweets
Medicare
• 53926 Tweets
バイデン
• 40524 Tweets
土砂降り
• 25947 Tweets
Bernie
• 25044 Tweets
#يوم_الجمعه
• 22518 Tweets
#DelhiAirport
• 20809 Tweets
Michelle Obama
• 20437 Tweets
ルックバック
• 20068 Tweets
Hayırlı Cumalar
• 17681 Tweets
デンリュウ
• 15069 Tweets
Kerennnn
• 14269 Tweets
Arequipa
• 13954 Tweets
MemastikanNKRI MajuSEJAHTERA
• 13403 Tweets
Happy Birthday Elon
• 10859 Tweets
Otaku Hot Girl
• 10419 Tweets
騎乗停止
• 10381 Tweets
Pinned Tweet
Palestine Film Index is now at 500+ films, 50 texts, 7 audio links, & a new section of "supplemental video" (interviews, talks, etc.). our collective continues to work on it regularly. grateful if it can be of use as a tool in struggle. solidarity ∞
13
2K
3K
make no mistake. this is severe torture. i am diabetic & eating even a small amount of something with concentrated sugar like this, even with my medication, would likely send me to the emergency room with seriously debilitating reaction.
40
13K
33K
people talk about the apocalypse as something that will consume the world all at once but neglect to realize that so many people's worlds are being destroyed every day in Gaza.
Sisters Rahaf & Ghazl are mourning their father, Khaled Zayed, killed by Israeli naval forces on Deir al-Balah beach.He had fled with his family from northern
#Gaza
to south at the start of the war.
With money running out,he went fishing to support his family & was killed by army
119
4K
6K
1
10K
26K
deeply depressed tonight so i've been going through the archives of the Palestine Poster Project, looking for & finding inspiration. decided to start a thread of some favorites.
3
6K
19K
woke up this morning to see that someone had made a spiral of flowers beneath my window. a fitting ephemeral monument to indeterminate movement of time.
2
942
10K
300,000+ refused the draft during the vietnam war. my father had to evade draft 3 x, my friend Jon went to prison for it, i've met ppl who shot themselves or severed limbs rather than serve. don't fucking tell me isr*eli conscripts w/ their dual citizenship don't have a choice.
just a reminder to amplify palestinian voices instead
21
299
2K
1
3K
8K
been sharing a lot of posters frm the revolutionary period (68 - 82) of Palestinian struggle recently & i admit personally i'm deeply inspired by modes of resistance art that often come abt thru old school ways, there is so much amazing work being made currently i want to share🧵
3
3K
8K
in that case, if anyone wants a free pdf or epub of this important book, i uploaded it to a drive here
1
5K
8K
long live Leila Khaled, born 80 years ago today in Haifa, Palestine. older than the fictional country which now claims that land, may she live to see a return to her home as a liberated one within her lifetime.
1
2K
7K
Palestine Spring (1960)
by Palestinian painter, art historian & filmmaker Ismail Shammout (1930–2006)
"three young women, representing Palestine, flanked by the bride of olives and the bride of the orange"
1
3K
6K
thinking of many things today but in particular about eclipses: how prisoners are kept from seeing this current eclipse. about roles eclipses have played spiritually in uprisings throughout history. how witnessing an eclipse gave Nat Turner the sign he needed to begin his revolt.
1
1K
6K
almost there with the Palestine film list. currently at 225 films, but there are *a lot* left to add and some editing and info yet to put in before i post here. probably a few more days. we will also continually be adding and working on it after it is up, as it evolves.
4
2K
5K
not all buildings, but a majority of campus has been effectively taken thru barricades by the commune. it is accessible to everyone in the community except for pigs or ppl trying to dox or harass anyone. they r now calling it a liberation rather than an occupation.
I feel like Humboldt should be getting more coverage than it is? Students have (seemingly) taken control of the entire school? I could be wrong, but I don’t think a student occupation of that scale has happened since the late 1960s? Pretty wild.
27
4K
16K
1
1K
5K
piece of shit demon who murdered Ana Mendieta has died. he died a comfortable, wealthy, old white man revered by a capitalist art world who actively closed ranks to protect him, their investment. don't mistake this for any form of justice. a curse on all those complicit. RIP Ana.
0
785
5K
important to pay attention to what's happening at Cal Poly Humboldt rn. one of the first non-elite colleges to rise up & the first to take a building. if u watch the longer video u can see it was a hard won fight in which the pigs were forced to stand down. the next step, imo.
1
1K
5K
there is no "isr*el/Palestine". there is only Palestine and occupied Palestine
0
2K
5K
last night while scouring for a lost film, i stumbled onto an amazing online archive of almost 500 VHS transfers of Palestinian music performances/videos, mixed w/ theater, poetry, & films ranging from 70s to 90s. highly recommend a deep dive into this
8
2K
5K
good morning, intifada. impossible to translate or sum up the experiences of the last few days but i'll try soon. all I can tell you now is, it feels like something new is building.
3
797
4K
an amazing picture, circa 1969 i believe, of Wisal Moussa Hassan, the first female cinematographer of the Sudan Film Unit, holding what looks like an Arriflex 16 ST camera, outside an SFU van with excellent filmstrip detail painted across the side.
2
944
4K
Palestine Film Index has now reached 400 films, 41 texts, 4 audio sources & is still growing daily. we now have a group of about 7 people working on it or consulting. please read our statement before engaging the list. with love, in solidarity & struggle.
18
2K
4K
difficult to hold this amidst such genocide, but in 25yrs i've been involved in actions for Palestinian liberation, i've never seen this sustained level of support. i think of this when i remember Ghassan Abu Sitta say "we've never been this close". we must keep fighting harder.
0
1K
3K
as promised here is the Palestine Film Index list that I, Jayce Salloum & a few others have been working on. currently has 300 films from or about Palestine & the Palestinian struggle for liberation. read slide for more details (alt txt below).
39
2K
3K
Malcolm was a prolific filmmaker as well. He documented his September 1964 visit to Gaza on silent color 16mm & used to screen it along with other films of his at rallies & gatherings in nyc. tragically his Gazan films are lost. Inshallah they resurface some day.
Malcolm X and His Interest In Photography
Exploring the photographical interest and visual strategy of Malcolm X. A thread. 🧵
55
1K
4K
1
743
3K
2 of those 1500 arrests was me. twice in a 24hr period. 2nd of which entailed chp cuffing me & leaning me halfway off a freeway overpass while telling me they could easily kill me & have it covered up as an accident. learned a lot that day abt overcoming the mechanisms of fear.
21 years ago, March 20 2003, tens of thousands of people took to the streets of San Francisco to protest America's invasion of Iraq, which had begun that day. Police made around 1500 arrests as demonstrators disrupted traffic across the city in dozens of coordinated actions
16
211
687
2
696
3K
Refaat in the bay area ❤️
2
454
3K
Palestine has never been a single issue. Palestine is a prism that reveals the world to itself. It reveals the vast spectrum of our struggles as inextricably interlinked, intercommunal, local, personal, collective. there is no outside in the struggle for collective liberation.
0
1K
3K
oppression never lasts.
1
1K
3K
i don't give a fuck if you consider yourself an anarchist or a marxist or some other thing you think aligns your views with mine, if you condemn Palestinian armed resistance, i do not fuck with you and do not respect you.
2
609
2K
some more favorites from the Palestine Poster Project archives. these from the mid to late 70s & early 80s 🧵
deeply depressed tonight so i've been going through the archives of the Palestine Poster Project, looking for & finding inspiration. decided to start a thread of some favorites.
3
6K
19K
1
869
2K
divestment means divestment. not task forces, not considerations, not inquiries, not investigations. TOTAL DIVESTMENT. accept nothing less than full cessation of money & resources towards apartheid & genocide, or any kind of collaboration with the zionist entity on all levels.
1
934
2K
weak as fuck, just like Brown's "victory". again, these are demobilizing containment tactics. same kind of dead end bureaucratic bullshit they used to demobilize ppl during the george floyd uprising. not a victory. not a gain. don't fall for this shit.
1
913
2K
support needed at cal poly humboldt. word is somewhere around 200 pigs are staging to raid tonight. campus is fortified & ready but any support in numbers of camp defenders on either side of the barricades will help. do not panic or give in to fear. cph commune will stay strong.
0
776
2K
i still can't forget how the day after Aaron Bushnell's self-immolation there were ppl on here calling it perfomative.
crazy how persistent the idea of performative wokeness is, you could be executed for your political beliefs and there would be someone out there sneering at you for virtue signaling
8
202
1K
0
356
2K
the brilliance of this move: hacking the
@berlinale
ig, is that it forces this outwardly fascist response from the festival which had been enjoying attempts at sanitizing & recuperating its image, thanks in no small part to the filmmakers & critics who were paid to do so.
3
515
2K
v important aspect of cal poly humboldt commune: there is a real understanding of how this collective liberation we move towards is an interconnected struggle & not just a student movement. their community & students intermix non-hierarchically in decisions & actions. take note.
0
354
2K
not only is this a monument to a brutal genocide that killed hundreds of thousands of Filipinos, it is a monument to the founding of american imperialism. not a random target, as this war has everything to do w/ furthering those imperialist interests thru further genocide.
Hamas supporters defacing an American monument in San Francisco’s Union Square.
497
320
927
2
633
1K
my friend Tristan was part of ISM, the same group as Rachel & Tom. he was shot in the head at close range by a teargas cannister a few yrs after this. he's not written abt as much bcuz he survived but suffered severe brain damage & is still paralyzed & in need of constant care.
2
813
1K
americans & the western world do not deserve "trigger warnings" on this decimation of human life in Gaza. you created the conditions for it, you fund it, you license it, you don't lift a finger to stop it. you don't get to fucking turn away.
0
564
1K
people need to be less concerned with "being on the right side of history" and more concerned w/ stopping the slaughter & oppression of Palestinians in the present. having correct opinions on Palestine but doing nothing is just another form of complicity. don't fool yourselves.
1
495
1K
ppl sharing that tweet misquoting Tarr making it seem like he is dismissing young filmmakers need to watch this full answer to the question. what he is saying is don't wait for support from capitalist structures, make your work using any means necessary. v important distinction.
never thought i'd say this but genuinely inspiring stuff from Béla Tarr
8
239
1K
3
158
1K
tonight's viewing, recently added to the Palestine Film Index by a comrade; Untold Revolution: Food Sovereignty in Palestine (Ameen Nayfeh, 2021)
2
418
1K
important film. also the origin of that oft quoted June Jordan line abt Palestine being a litmus test for morality. full quote says she considers it two things: what u r prepared to do on behalf of the Palestinian ppl & what u r prepared to do on behalf of gay & lesbian ppl.
Wanted to make sure I gave a shout out to
@kalifilms
's documentary A Place of Rage (1991), a recently remastered version of which is playing on
@criterionchannl
. An important film now, and at any time. June Jordan, Angela Davis, a lot of food for thought:
5
114
490
0
346
1K
things my dad taught me abt cooking that r eternally applicable to radical action, art, life: recipes can only get u so far & at points become a hindrance. best cooks know to how improvise. quality of ingredients is less imprtnt than understanding relational dynamics between them
2
201
1K
and if people want to watch or download an english subtitled version of the 2006 film on her, Leila Khaled: Hijacker, by Lina Makboul, here it is in a drive link
not sure what search produced this message but in case ppl were concerned, two different pdfs of Leila's book are and have been available on
@internetarchive
, as are several other interviews & a documentary on her.
1
75
203
3
467
1K
an excellent clip. this is from Edward Said: The Idea of Empire, produced for BBC as part of the Arena series/program in 1993. full film in the link here:
3
381
1K
a reminder that the zionist entity has regularly targeted bakers & bakeries, grocery stores, and other bringers of vital sustenance, along with continued barricading of aid trucks & targeting of hospitals. all ways of sustaining life.
This man is the baker in the town of Hula, and he insisted on keeping the bakery doors open to help the people of the town during the war. Israel killed him today.
118
8K
14K
0
610
1K
i do not understand how anyone gets up & functions normally after seeing this. how anyone sees decomposing, burned bodies of Palestinians & says they can still share this fictional "humanity" with all those who perpetrate & license the unfathomable depths of these horrors.
0
361
1K
stop claiming "victories"! we r nowhere near it yet. gains r useful to acknowledge, but the way the orgs utilize "victory" is dangerously demobilizing & only serves those w/ vested interest in dictating "activism". they r methods of containment & counterinsurgency. recognize them
2
300
1K
closing libraries to "save" 1 mill, while buying 6.5 mill mansions & allocating 312 mill to destroy people's park, etc. the kind of thinking which seems ludicrous for an educational institution but perfectly reasonable for the shell company for real estate investment that is ucb
4
201
1K
it's small as of yet but over the last few nights (while still in the midst of working on the Palestine Film Index) i've begun work on a list of films from and about Sudan. hope to put much more work and research into it and share it soon.
7
349
1K
some of the many Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine posters made for International Women's Day throughout the years. all designed by Marc Rudin/Jihad Mansour (1945-2023)
0
424
989
from a text written by Godard in 1970. "American imperialism is also the New York Times". always remember that.
2
186
990
hbd Yuri & Malcolm
returning to this long & deeply important oral history with the great Yuri Kochiyama, just a few years before she passed. begins with her experience of being radicalized by her imprisonment in u.s. concentration camps. (interview begins abt 6 mins in)
1
24
125
1
178
988
any encampment at this point that is saying that organizing even basic defense tactics is too militant (or somehow inviting police repression in itself) is not only dangerously naive but actively endangering its own ppl. pay close attention to this repression. wake the fuck up.
1
328
954
main reason i cannot take the "anti-occupation left" in isr*el serious is that they only view "illegal settlements" as occupation, without admitting that the entire isr*eli state is a settlement whose only claim to fictive legitimacy is fabricated by other imperialist powers
0
290
936
an autonomous group just took a building (the president's office) at Stanford. with a group locked down & barricaded in the building & a larger group holding it down outside. I'm guessing they'll be needing support so head down there if you're able.
1
333
928
1. hind's hall at columbia
2. a dedication seen on the wall in the cph commune.
eternal love to all the martyrs, we will never forget you.
0
230
912
year end top 10 lists are so overrated, so instead, in a few days I'm going to share on here a list of over 200 films (w/ links) from, abt, & in solidarity w/ Palestine ranging from 1968 - 2023. it's a list i & Jayce Salloum have been working on for a few months. more v soon.
6
188
899
"From Redwood Trees to Olive
Groves, the Commune Grows
A Statement from the Tree Occupation at Cal Poly Humboldt"
"We have heard the call to escalate in solidarity with Palestine, and we are answering: we have taken to the trees."
0
296
890
Palestine is still the moral litmus test, but imo a more revealing litmus test is specifically the positions ppl have towards Palestinian armed resistance & tho so many western "public intellectuals" continue to fail this test, the resistance will continue to do what is needed.
1
222
876
growing up far outside of nyc, it took me so long to realize a lot of my dad's harsh criticisms of artist's work we'd see in museums were actually aimed at ppl who were once his friends & peers in the 60s & who made ideological compromises for the Art World which he refused to do
1
16
850
missing him every day. solidarity w/ all those who've lost their parents in Palestine & the diaspora. last thing he told me as he was dying was he wanted me to know he was proud of the path I'd chosen, something his father never was. to all those dads against the patriarchy.
my dad at an abortion demonstration in NYC in '70 holding Rat, the underground newspaper where he did typesetting (including regular communiques from Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers) he was the only man allowed to stay on after the take over by WITCH & other feminist groups
4
4
173
3
63
825
every day is solidarity with Palestine day imo but in light of the official designation of today, here are some beautifully made solidarity posters from Cuba in the early 70s (from Palestinian Poster Project archive)
5
307
778
whatever the fuck we think we're doing, it's not enough. not even close.
1
253
726
as far as I can tell, the name of the person who self-immolated in Atlanta still hasn't even been released. they knew she would become a martyr. think about this.
not going to get into this w anyone on here but want to say there is a reason Aaron Bushnell filmed his act today & it might v well have been informed by the way the self-immolation in Atlanta was buried in the news & there is a reason he wore that uniform.
0
2K
7K
1
220
712
my simple security advice for anyone who was radicalized in the era of social media: as an organizer these things can be some of yr best tools. a burner flip phone w/ regularly swapped out sim cards & no internet, a pen & paper for writing sensitive info that can be burned after.
2
85
714
self-defense & community defense, (not conceptual, but very real actual physical defense) against the pigs & their fascist vigilantes, needs to be taught to every single person in every encampment & building takeover, now. and those who know it already need to show the fuck up.
0
255
712
once, during a squatting period of my life, which coincided w/ anti-globalization struggles of the early 00s, I was able to parlay a symbolic outdoor student encampment on an east coast university into a stable but clandestine living situation in disused section of uni bldng 🧵
1
116
699
HP is also built on a long history of war crimes (David Packard was Deputy Secretary of Defense under Nixon during the Vietnam War 68-72) & using their technology to uphold South African Apartheid which Packard was a rabid supporter of. HP has always been evil to it's core.
now that Puma's done, why don't we have a go at HP? HP provides hardware to the Israeli military and maintain data centers through their servers for the Israeli police, making it central to the maintenance of the Israeli prison system abusing thousands of Palestinians.
24
4K
8K
2
444
662
the only year end list i've seen so far that i fully resonate with is this. right on
@eye_ko_tai_ko
Screen Slate's Favorite First Viewings and Discoveries of 2023, submitted by contributors, filmmakers & friends
Including Isabelle Huppert, Frederick Wiseman, John Wilson, Paul Schrader, Wim Wenders, Samy Burch, Lila Avilés, Illeana Douglas & 200+ more
5
65
352
2
125
643
as a filmmaker who signed this letter myself, let me say before i'm added to any blacklist: i will never screen my films in Germany again. your fascist, racist, genocidal goverment & your psychopathic zionist "left" do not deserve any of our labor. full fucking boycott.
The blacklisting in Germany of international filmmakers and curators who signed a letter of concern to Oberhausen short film festival over of stigmatizing language used by the festival director continues. More info:
5
88
169
4
180
629
UPDATE. new new bail fund for cal poly humboldt is being coordinated by bay area anti-repression crew. (link here:
) both cashapp & venmo are blocking funds now. i'm erasing my previous bail fund posts now, so as not to create further confusion.
0
593
640
the memory of the internet: the server room that houses the wayback machine at the internet archive. (sound on)
1
95
636
wow. this small protest is actually quite for me to see. this is in my small hometown of Fayetteville, Arkansas, where i haven't lived since the 90s. on the lawn of the county court house where i attended my first protest when i was 11 yrs old.
3
56
611
first picture is a still from this segment of Jocelyne Saab's 1974 film Palestinian Women of fedayeen training at an undisclosed location in Lebanon. the second is a picture taken by Hilal Habli of fedayeen in Saida refugee camp in 1986.
2
182
610
ppl need to remember: People's Park wasn't established thru "peaceful protest" & polite bureaucracy, it was won & fought for through unsanctioned militant action. riots. fighting back. ppl literally putting their lives on the line. actual martyrs. not by fucking peace policing.
1
161
599
permutations of a picture taken by Hani Jawharieh of fedayeen in Lebanon, circa 69 or 70.
2
158
604
a senior editor for nyt has been lurking cph for a few days. everyone views him w/ extreme suspicion & no one has agreed to be interviewed by him. he was asked to leave a general meeting he was observing yesterday. nyt has been identified correctly by cph as a zionist mouthpiece.
0
110
603
a disgusting statement on many levels but especially considering that one of the many withdrawals from guernica was from Fady Joudah who lost 50 members of his family in Gaza during this genocide, u r gonna tell me he has no connection to the "conflict". absolutely reprehensible.
2
146
588
there is no such thing as an apolitical writer or artist. silence is also a political stance & choice, whether you realize it or not. "politics" is not a creative genre u can choose to engage or not, it's something that surrounds & engages u, regardless of yr consciousness to it.
0
191
584
in an interview last year Mohammad Bakri mentioned that he is still in touch with her & that her name is Najwa Glamneh. she is alive & well, living in Dubai. "She has 4 children & is a great mother" Her family still lives in Jenin and she comes back to visit often.
I remember watching this over a decade ago and how this girl’s bravery stayed with me. I hope she’s alive and well.
4
437
2K
1
142
567
v happy to announce: after long hiatus, black hole cinematheque is resuming on a regular basis w/ focus on Palestinian films, beginning w/ a free screening of Jayce Salloum & Elia Suleiman's 1990 film, Introduction to the End of an Argument on Feb 2. at Beauty Supply in Oakland.
3
106
557
reading Permanent Red, John Berger's brilliant first collection of essays, which, even in the preface, may have my favorite first paragraph I have read in a good while
7
81
544
important to not despair in times of repressive crackdowns or tactical retreat & regrouping. for those who don't remember 2011, oakland commune encampment was brutally cleared by the pigs, fenced off & then retaken a day later. this is from a film I shot during reclamation of ogp
1
150
548
tho I find Godard a v problematic person for a number of other reasons, one thing I'll say is he was never afraid to sacrifice his career for his politics & his support of Palestine, which is far more than 99.9% of filmmakers & writers who claim him as an influence can say.
2
48
535