SOAS student encampment protests uni's complicity in Gaza genocide
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- čas přidán 1. 07. 2024
- The student intifada has reached the UK. At the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), students set up an encampment in solidarity with Gaza, taking particular aim at the university's investments in companies that produce white phosphorus. The Real News reports from London, speaking directly with student organizers calling out their school's complicity in genocide.
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Well said and explained!
An excerpt :
Kids are taking over university campuses around the world for the noblest possible reason anyone could do such a thing in 2024. There are so many reasons to feel pessimistic, but Gen Z’s fierce opposition to the Gaza genocide is a massive reason to have hope for the future.
I talk all the time here about the need for a collective awakening and revolution in order to turn this disaster of a civilization around, but it could turn out that what ends up saving humankind is as mundane as a superior generation of humans emerging out of the information age and replacing inferior generations who’ve been far more indoctrinated by mass media propaganda.
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This world is so sick because nobody takes responsibility for the things that are happening in it. The rich and powerful shore up more and more wealth and power while offloading the responsibility for it onto others. They destroy the biosphere while offloading the consequences onto ordinary people, while telling us we just need to ride our bikes more and consume less in order to fix the problem. They start wars and back genocides abroad while refusing to provide for the needful at home, and if you complain they tell you you just need to vote harder next election. They take all of the power and none of the responsibility.
We can’t have a healthy world until we reverse this dynamic, and like all matters concerning responsibility that means it begins with the face in the mirror. We all need to step up to the plate and take responsibility for turning this catastrophe around, and in 2024 that means starting with the genocide our own governments are actively facilitating.
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Human thriving arises from curiosity. Curiosity about the way our material universe operates leads to advances in science, and all the benefits that come with it. Curiosity about how our civilization’s power structures operate leads to an understanding of how the world really works, which will lead to the emergence of a truth-based society if realized on a collective level. Curiosity about our own consciousness and inner processes leads to self-realization, and the harmonious way of moving in the world which flows from it.
If a healthy humanity exists in the future, it will be above all a deeply curious species. The values of competition, greed and domination which currently drive the way our civilization operates will have given way to curiosity, humility and discovery. We will have cultivated a humble but intense curiosity about ourselves, about each other, about our collective societal dynamics, and about our natural world.
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I am your sister from Yemen, and by Allah I only spoke out of hunger and distress. My mother, my brothers, and I lessons and tears. We are in a situation that only God knows about. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs for those who brought us to this situation. By Allah Almighty, I did not write this appeal out of distress and distress. Poverty, O world, they have felt it So, I hope for you. By Allah Almighty, Lord of the Great Throne, he ate what I had in the house. By Allah, my brothers, he is my brothers by sitting in the house. Who has no food? By God, we are in a very difficult situation. We have 6 people entering the house, and my father has died, and there is no one who can depend on us and who lives in it.We live in a rented house because we cannot pay the rent we owe. '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''' My brother, my first words are: I swear to God that I will not lie to you or deceive you. I am a Yemeni girl displaced from the war. My family and I live in a rented house in Al-Shahrab 15,000 Yemenis among us, and now we owe 45,000 for 3 months. The owner of the house is one of the people who does not have mercy, by God, my brother. He comes every day, insulting us, talking about us, and moving from the house to the street because we were unable to pay him the rent. The neighbors saw us crying and came back.They came back to talk to the neighbors and we were given the weekend. So we made him swear by God. He will take us out into the street. Have mercy on him and us. Our country is due to this war and we do not find food for our day, and my brothers and I live in a difficult life. Our father died, may God have mercy on him, and we have no one in this world who was with us in these harsh circumstances. My younger brothers went out into the street and saw...The neighbors eat and stand at their door in order to give them bread even if they break it. By God, to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, they closed the door and expelled them and came back crying. They are dying of hunger. No one has mercy on them and a holiday is returned. I have made a living, and now if one of us helps us with a kilo of flour, I swear to God, I am dying of hunger. My brother, I am an alien to God. Then, I ask you to help me for the sake of God. I ask you, by God, to love goodness and to help me, even if you can, by messaging me on WhatsApp.On this number 00967717354582 and ask for the name of my card and send it and do not be late and may God reward you with all the best, my brothers Sagar, see how they are and help us and save us before they throw us out in the street, you will be lost or we will die of hunger. My family and I ask you, by God, if you are able to help us, do not be late and may God reward you well..`/-~«««~-♡~♡~♡~~•~•~♡~♡~♡~♡~♡~♡♡♡~~~: ~:~¡~¡~¡~;I.i.i.i.i.i. i.I.|______.............
Great to see. One suggestion. At 4:04 a large banner is shown that reads "Globalize the Student Revolution." I think we should start replacing the word 'Globalize' with PLANETIZE. This is not a subtle distinction. "Globalize" "Global", etc., refer to the round, spinning balls we've all been introduced to in our classrooms around the third grade, and brainwashed into believing represents and reflects our most meaningful spatial reality - where we are vis a vis other human beings - and what we are "I am French. I live in France.", etc,. It creates the illusion that we live in DIFFERENT places and are fundamentally different from each other via the hodge podge patchwork quilt of nation states we've super-impose over our Earth Mother, and was deeply entrenched into the consciousness of every generation via their nation's "edcation/brainwashing" school system.
To PLANETIZE, on the other hand, unites us together as a species - as humankind. It unites us on a more primal level. It grounds us "all together 'in the same place', on Mother Earth. It speaks to our hearts, evolves our consciousness as a species, and unites us all on a deeper, more profound level with the realization that we literally ARE - all together on the same place and all sharing the same present moment - wherever we happen to be on Mother Earth.
Yeah SOAS! It's actually in the constituency of Labour Party leader Keir Starmer who will become Prime Minister on Thursday. David Lammy, who will become the next Foreign Minister did his law degree there. He's become a dangerous, power mad sell-out now. He understands everything about the anti-imperialist/anti-colonialist struggle & used to align himself with those causes, but then he voted for the Iraq war & has never apologized & now he's leading Labour's support for Israel's genocide as well as the purges of the left from the Party. More Jewish Labour members have been expelled since Starmer became leader than under any other leader. It's because they advocate for Palestinian human rights & get accused of anti-Semitism or bringing the Party into disrepute. The former left-wing members of Labour have gone over to voting for independents or the Greens.
What's with that annoying background music? How about presenting the news without the out sensational background, but that's more foreground than the speakers. Dropping Criss Hedges was enough for me to tune out of this channel.