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In a system where the mechanisms of governance function primarily to perpetuate elite interests, the act of voting—regardless of candidate or party—may serve less as an exercise in democratic agency and more as an instrument of legitimisation for the system that oppresses the voter.
April 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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No Other Land depicts the horrifying violence Palestinians in the West Bank endure under apartheid.

Yesterday, its co-director Hamdan Ballal was beaten in his home by settlers before being detained by Israeli forces.

People applauded Hamdan. Now they are silent. Free Hamdan.
March 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him.

Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
March 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Israel has begun the final stage of its genocide. Palestinians are being forced to choose between death or deportation. What we are witnessing dwarfs all the historical assaults on Palestinians.

mondoweiss.net/2025/03/the-...

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The Last Chapter of the Genocide
Israel has begun the final stage of its genocide. Palestinians are being forced to choose between death or deportation. What we are witnessing dwarfs all the historical assaults on Palestinians.
mondoweiss.net
March 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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The Health Ministry has released a devastating 1,516-page record listing the names of over 50,000 Palestinians killed since Oct 7, 2023. Among them, 474 pages contain the names of more than 15,600 children—with the first 27 pages listing only infants under one year old.
March 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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So far today Israel has attacked the Red Cross HQ in Rafah, bombed an encampment of tents where displaced Palestinians were sheltering, & murdered two journalists. A total of 51 Palestinians have been killed and 134 injured.
March 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Every playground, every square, every park holds the potential to become a site of continuous reinvention — a true experiment in collective care and creative autonomy.

museum.care/visual-assem...
March 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Three selections from a book length interview with Ben Morea coming out with @detritusbooks.bsky.social.

“Pancho Villa Syndrome” refers to the negative spiral that pulls down revolutionaries who have risked their lives in struggle, after the movement dries up.

illwill.com/pancho-villa...
March 23, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Israel just committed *the largest child massacre in its history*, according to Haaretz. Two hundred Palestinian children murdered in a single day, with direct support from the US and UK, and zero outrage from Western media. What stage of barbarism is this...
March 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM