"Leslie Feinberg, a lesbian transgender and Jewish communist and a managing editor of Workers World, delivered the following solidarity statement to the first public conference of Aswat—Palestinian Gay Women—in Haifa on March 28, 2007. Bracketed words, phrases and sentences were delivered in Arabic. The 10th anniversary of comrade Leslie’s death will be marked on Nov. 15."
[I know where I stand: in historic Palestine. So my first words must be in Arabic. Thank you for inviting me here. It is the largest honor in my life. I salute Aswat.]
My first words in English must be why I am here, within the 1948 borders of the Israeli settler state. Why am I here when the colonial occupier set up an apartheid state in the name of Jewish people and co-opts the symbol of Judaism, stitching it into every uniform, flying it from every tank turret?
Why am I here when I remember, every day of my adult life, what happened to the people of Deir Yassin?"
Unfortunately, film material of hir speech has been removed from YT and Insta.
I haven't done a #FollowFriday in a while. Here are some accounts that I frequent! If you find them useful and/or interesting, you should follow them as well!
@AIF_Massachusetts#AmericanIronFront in Massachusetts: standing against Nazis, the alt-right, and fascists of all stripes in Massachusetts and the greater New England area.
@RadicalAnthro
London's longest running evening class, studying What it means to be human at UCL #Anthropology dept. We are FREE, on Tues eves term time. Account run by #CamillaPower. Radical anthropologists include #ChrisKnight, Ian Watts, Jerome Lewis and Morna Finnegan.
@thebeeguy
Founder of #WorldBeeSanctuary - the expanded ambition of The #Bee Sanctuary of Ireland - 55 acres of certified stock free organic land dedicated to our #NativeWildBees. The one and only true native wild bee sanctuary on the planet. No hives! No honey! Just wild! A not for profit social enterprise. Disruptive but irresistible.
@mutualmorris
We are a#MutualAid group in Morris County, New Jersey, USA wanting to connect with likeminded folks, to learn, share, and build #solidarity communities as far as we can. We are led by mostly #queer, #poor / #unhoused, #immigrant, #socialist, #communist, and #anarchist types from multiple generations and we seek to build a real, active path out of "business as usual".
@CrimethInc #CrimethInc. is a rebel alliance—a decentralized network pledged to anonymous collective action—a breakout from the prisons of our age. We strive to reinvent our lives and our world according to the principles of self-determination and mutual aid. We believe that you should be free to dispose of your limitless potential on your own terms: that no government, market, or ideology should be able to dictate what your life can be. If you agree, let’s do something about it.
@igd_news
In search of new forms of life. A digital community center and media platform featuring news, opinion, podcasts, and reporting on autonomous social movements and revolt across so-called North America from an #anarchist perspective. 🏴
@Todd #ToddChretien is a farmer, translator, editor, and author. He is co-chair of #MaineDSA and works in the #PineAndRoses editorial collective.
@g7izu #SpaceWeather, #aurora and #RadioPropagation from a UK perspective. Any alerts or warnings are informational only and are not official. I post about various other subjects as well, but always hope to be informative and interesting. Not a professional space weather forecaster, it's my hobby!