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tariq
@tariqpoems.bsky.social
Ghazawi in metro Detroit📍

Community organizer, data consultant, award-winning poet, author of "How The Water Holds Me"

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i'm completely sober. Just thinking about the anti-nature propaganda we've been fed all our lives, and how we've been duped into steering ourselves away from the spaces that are most healing, most grounding, & most inspiring for us to build in

ain't no surveillance in the woods
they don't want us to hug trees because then we would be too powerful
January 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
they don't want us to hug trees because then we would be too powerful
January 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
become the kind of person that your descendants would call upon as an ancestor
January 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
it's unfortunate that cancer now has the misfortune of being associated with Netanyahu
December 29, 2024 at 10:33 PM
it's wild how successful of a psyop the Luigi ordeal is. Here we are, distracted making memes and thirsting over a person — who likely isn't the shooter — but is now the lightning rod that diverts our rhetoric from building meaningful class consciousness to reality tv commentary
December 17, 2024 at 10:57 PM
some thoughts re: Syria

tl;dr: follow the weapons and money, and agitate. this work doesn't look tremendously different from what we should have been doing all along
December 9, 2024 at 4:14 AM
and for those who it's not clear to: the "eventually" isn't passive here. it's active, as in "only a matter of time"; as in "they're testing these things elsewhere to deliberately bring it back home to use on you"
We should care about what’s going on in Gaza for MANY reasons. But if you need a selfish one, look up “imperial boomerang.”

Weapons and practices being used out in the colonies are eventually used on citizens as well.

Black people BEEN trying to warn y’all.
“Israel is reportedly using a new kind of weapon in Gaza: small drones that carry guns and fire at targets like snipers. Eyewitnesses in Gaza say these drones have killed many civilians.”

www.npr.org/2024/11/20/n...
November 20, 2024 at 10:53 PM
When dissecting how empire committing violence abroad is bad at home, the logic often used is that if it could happen there then it could happen here. But, that's not entirely accurate

It's happening everywhere, and they can't wait to perfect it here. Everywhere else is practice
November 17, 2024 at 7:29 PM