And yet, they’re not even talking about stopping a genocide or stopping their complicity. But still feel fit to make this conditional. Palestinians have endured nearly two years of blockade, military assault in on top of the violence and oppression since 1948. And this is the govt’s move?

The urgency to stop complicity in a genocide should be unconditional. The urgency to stop genocide should be unconditional.

It’s intellectually insulting on top of being morally insulting to treat the public like fools who don’t see this for what it is, in service of a genocide.

The correct course of action is to abide by international law, stop selling arms to Israel, use economic and geopolitical mechanisms to put pressure on this occupying power to in order to stop the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.

There’s so much to be said about how cynical, how bloviating, how utterly beyond the pale this is, but the thing coming up for me most is the audacity to put such conditions on a symbolic gesture that actually does nothing to address the immediate mass starvation and genocide of an entire people.

I wrote this for Maisonneuve two years ago but a lot of it still feels relevant—on the Rhino Party, electoral reform, satire in politics, voter burnout, the @longestballot.bsky.social initiative, and my wonderful weirdo dad:

maisonneuve.org/article/2023...

The acting director of ICE told the Border Security Expo that his dream is to make the deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.”

He added, “We need to get better at treating this like a business.”

The depravity of these folks knows no bounds.

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I’m not going to tell people how to feel about protests… at least not today.

Instead, I’ll recommend Sarah Schulman’s book about ACT UP. It’s not just a history of the organization; she also talks strategy in a very practical way, especially regard coalitions.

“We were told that because other Palestinians were beaten up in the settler attack, it could be considered unrelated to the film, so they felt no need to respond.”

abhorrent.

What's striking about capitalist civilization is that it has no real direction. There's no vision for social progress, no commitment to improving human welfare or ecology. All we get is the chaos of profit-oriented production and accumulation as the world burns around us.

a small step, but long overdue and deeply necessary. all kudos to the Aamjiwnaang residents and leaders who have fought for acknowledgement of these issues through years—decades—of spills, leaks, and states of emergency.