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How They Stopped Work at the Raytheon Facility
https://crimethinc.com/Raytheon
On November 13, demonstrators in southern California blockaded a defense contractor facility in solidarity with the Palestinians on the receiving end of the bombs that it produces.
This report explores how they used the element of surprise to surround it and shut down work for the day.
https://crimethinc.com/Raytheon
On November 13, demonstrators in southern California blockaded a defense contractor facility in solidarity with the Palestinians on the receiving end of the bombs that it produces.
This report explores how they used the element of surprise to surround it and shut down work for the day.
"the true revolutionary is guided by strong feelings of love"
Che Guevara
Che Guevara
"Fanon’s clearest and most thorough articulation of his views on colonialist and anticolonialist violence can be found in the chapter “Concerning Violence” in The Wretched of the Earth, published in 1961, his last work before his death. In it, Fanon argues that anticolonialism must be revolutionary rather than reformist. Colonialism, he explains, is “not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state, and it will only yield when confronted with greater violence” (Fanon 1963, p. 61)."
https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/applied-and-social-sciences-magazines/violence-frantz-fanon
"colonialism only loosens its hold when the knife is at its throat"
Frantz Fanon
This is obviously awful.
Frantz Fanon used psychoanalysis to understand colonialism and the effects of colonialism on the mind of the colonised but also the colonisers.
If we have this in mind, we understand why colonialism only ended after many revolutions and uprisings.
We saw it in Algeria and in Kenya and in many other places.
Tho we all know there were counter revolutions putting up neocolonialism in many places.
If we want to end the violence, the cycle must be broken.
And that can happen in three main ways we can learn out of history:
- a genocide of the natives by the colonisers
- an armed liberation struggle of the natives
- peaceful solutions to prevent further violence with the cooperation of the colonisers
Encyclopedia
Violence, Frantz Fanon on | Encyclopedia.com
Violence, Frantz Fanon on
BIBLIOGRAPHY Source for information on Violence, Frantz Fanon on: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences dictionary.
BIBLIOGRAPHY Source for information on Violence, Frantz Fanon on: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences dictionary.
An article in Al Jazeera critically looking at Fanon´s analysis applied on Palestine written by Mark LeVine, Director of the Program in Global Middle East Studies at UC Irvine.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/10/10/fanons-conception-of-violence-does-not-work-in-palestine
Fanon’s conception of violence does not work in Palestine
Israel’s settler colonialism is much more than ‘violence in its natural state’ and thus will require far more than ‘greater violence’ to defeat.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/10/10/fanons-conception-of-violence-does-not-work-in-palestine
Al Jazeera
Fanon’s words on colonialism and violence do not apply to Palestine
Israel’s settler colonialism is much more than ‘violence in its natural state’.
Climate Change and Palestine.pdf
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For anybody interested in the connection of Palestine and climate change.
Freij, L. (2021). Climate Change and the Vulnerable Occupied Palestinian Territories. UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, [online] 39(1). doi:https://doi.org/10.5070/l5391052536.
Climate Change and the Vulnerable Occupied Palestinian Territories
Lena Freij
Freij, L. (2021). Climate Change and the Vulnerable Occupied Palestinian Territories. UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, [online] 39(1). doi:https://doi.org/10.5070/l5391052536.
System Change, not Climate Change
An article in Al Jazeera critically looking at Fanon´s analysis applied on Palestine written by Mark LeVine, Director of the Program in Global Middle East Studies at UC Irvine. Fanon’s conception of violence does not work in Palestine Israel’s settler colonialism…
To add to this.
Also written by Mark LeVine.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/11/15/from-the-river-to-the-sea-and-the-decolonisation-of-our-collective-future
Also written by Mark LeVine.
‘From the river to the sea’ and the decolonisation of our collective future
True freedom between the river and the sea can only be achieved by breaking free from settler colonialism and the nation-state.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/11/15/from-the-river-to-the-sea-and-the-decolonisation-of-our-collective-future
“From the river to the sea, Israel will be free.”
OK, that is not the way it is supposed to go, is it? But at this moment of war and mass death, this proposition is worth reflecting on: Palestine cannot be free without Israel – or at least the Israelis – being free. True freedom between the river and the sea can only be achieved by breaking free from the chains of settler-colonialism but also the narrow bounds of the nation-state.
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But as the latest wave of violence confirms, Israel cannot be free until Palestine is free, and the price of that freedom is real decolonisation. This means the creation of a political order, whatever its name or form, in which all people living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea are accorded the same fundamental rights and freedoms.
Al Jazeera
‘From the river to the sea’ and the decolonisation of our collective future
True freedom can only be achieved by breaking free from settler colonialism and the nation-state.
Western Sahara – Africa’s last colony
https://roape.net/2022/09/22/western-sahara-africas-last-colony/
Israel recognises Western Sahara as part of Morocco
Morocco claims sovereignty over territory, but other countries back separatist movement.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/17/israel-recognises-western-sahara-as-part-of-morocco
ROAPE
Western Sahara - Africa’s last colony - ROAPE
Meriem Naïli writes about the continuing struggle for the independence of Western Sahara. Occupied by Morocco since the 1970s, in contravention of the International Court of Justice and the UN. The internationally recognised liberation movement, POLISARIO…
"on the other hand, it would be a false premise to believe that activism (which is not true action) is the road to revolution."
Paolo Freire
in "Pedagogy of the Oppressed"
Will (our) activism bring true system change or just minor changes to the status quo?
How big will be our impact, will we just get a few reforms out of this and no true change in the power dynamics of the world?
And who will pay for changes in this system if we do not watch carefully at the fingers of those in power, probably the most exploited and most vulnerable, MAPA.
Paolo Freire
in "Pedagogy of the Oppressed"
Will (our) activism bring true system change or just minor changes to the status quo?
How big will be our impact, will we just get a few reforms out of this and no true change in the power dynamics of the world?
And who will pay for changes in this system if we do not watch carefully at the fingers of those in power, probably the most exploited and most vulnerable, MAPA.
No matter, at least people do not stop pushing back...
And be it in the form of activism...
And be it in the form of activism...