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ITS A LONG VIDEO, BUT YOU CAN DO IT. WATCH THIS, EVERY WORD.
-No video TW other than loud noises, yelling, chants-
“There are principles and there are human lives that matter more than our careers and our futures. …the commitment to Gaza runs deeper than fears for our safety, fears for our careers, fears for our paychecks. It is a fundamental obligation we have as citizens of a country that is presiding over, arming this genocide, and as students at a university that is invested in those same weapons manufacturers and that has partnered with the same apartheid institutions that train that military and develop its technology. …For me the next step is a simple one… to keep fighting with every breath we have, with everything we have for the people of Gaza, because the blood of those kids is on our hands…”
If we can’t put stopping this brutality before our own fears about career, reputation, fucking profits - we’ve misunderstood the assignment of being a human.
Repost from @mo_hamz
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‼️EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING NEEDS TO WATCH AND HEAR THIS INTERVIEW‼️
"Calling me naive just implies that you do not have the kind of peaceable imagination that I do. You don't have the capacity for imagining future joy and prosperity. If you have young people telling you 'another world is possible - we know it is,' and you're saying to them, 'no, it's not,' maybe that's a failure of your imagination.
"If you insist that another world is not possible, you cannot possibly be one of the people that changes the world. If you insist that you can't imagine a better way of doing things, then you will not be one of the people constructing that better way.
"And that's not actually an indictment of other people's naivete, that's an indictment of you and your passivity, if you will."
- Katherine Bogen
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Columbia student flashes the peace sign after being beaten by riot police at an antiwar demonstration, April 1968
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