#oppression

tord_dellsen@diasp.eu

We invoke your name, #Kshitigarbha. We aspire to learn your way of being present where there is darkness, #suffering, #oppression, and #despair, so we can bring light, #hope, #relief, and #liberation to those places. We are determined not to forget about or abandon those in #desperate situations. We will do our best to establish contact with those who cannot find a way out of their suffering, those whose cries for help, #justice, #equality, and #humanrights are not being heard. We know that #hell can be found in many places on Earth. We will do our best not to contribute to creating more hells on Earth, and we will help transform the hells that already exist. We will practice in order to realize the qualities of #perseverance and #stability, so that, like the Earth, we can always be supportive and faithful to those in need.

--- https://plumvillage.org/library/sutras/invoking-the-bodhisattvas-names-text

#buddhism #dharma #dhamma

tord_dellsen@diasp.eu

Chris Hedges on the Genocide in Gaza

When those who are occupied refuse to submit, when they continue to resist, we drop all pretense of our “civilizing” mission and unleash, as in Gaza, an orgy of slaughter and destruction. We become drunk on violence. This violence makes us insane. We kill with reckless ferocity. We become the beasts we accuse the oppressed of being. We expose the lie of our vaunted moral superiority. We expose the fundamental truth about Western civilization — we are the most ruthless and efficient killers on the planet. This alone is why we dominate the “wretched of the earth.” It has nothing to do with democracy or freedom or liberty. These are rights we never intend to grant to the oppressed.

--- Chris Hedges, in his article Exterminate All the Brutes

#ChrisHedges #Gaza #genocide #violence #insanity #GenocidalPsychosis #oppression

tord_dellsen@diasp.eu

The Buddhist Peace Fellowship had a zoom lecture/meeting earlier today which i attended. Three speakers were there:
* Kaza Haga - activist and author of Healing Resistance - a radically different response to harm
* Miki Kashtan - NVC (Nonviolent Communication) trainer and author, who grew up in Israel but left because she felt she was passively supporting the state by being there
* Sami Awad - Palestinian nonviolent activist (new to me)

The main point of discussion was around how we can think about oppressed people using violence to defend themselves (and in relation to this the definition of nonviolence)

#nonviolence #Gaza #Palestine #oppression #KazaHaga #MikiKashtan #SamiAwad #BuddhistPeaceFellowship #BPF

diggers@diaspora-fr.org

Abahlali baseMjondolo in solidarity with #Palestine

Black people were not seen as human beings in this country under #apartheid, and we, as impoverished black people, continue to have our humanity denied almost thirty years after apartheid. This is a very painful thing, and because we understand the pain of living under apartheid and as #poor people in this country, we understand something of what the Palestinians are going through. If you know the pain of living under #oppression, you will be in solidarity with the oppressed people of Palestine.

We fully support the call to have the Israeli embassy removed from South Africa with immediate effect. We also support the calls by the South #African government to call upon the International Criminal Court to investigate Benjamin #Netanyahu for #war #crimes.

We are supporting the call for the boycott of Israeli products

We are in #solidarity with all our #Jewish #comrades in South Africa and around the world who are standing up against the oppression of Palestine and this genocidal attack on #Gaza.

link

https://abahlali.org/

#Israel #Peace

tord_dellsen@diasp.eu

Compton Jay (Revolutionary Blackout Network) comments on the reporting around the genocide in Gaza:

This is our ancestors [African-americans]! And we are seeing who would be down with our ancestors and who would not be! That’s what’s being revealed by our very eyes right now.

Source: https://rumble.com/v3qk877-biden-declares-endless-war-forever-rashida-tlaib-grows-a-backbone-cornel-we.html?start=2363

#oppression #African-American #Palestine #Gaza #genocide

tord_dellsen@diasp.eu

Who the hell is Israel to open up Gaza? Who the hell gave Israel permission to do that? Why does Israel dictate the terms of life of two million people? Is this really a concentration camp where we have the prison guards out there saying: "Hey it's yard time, go exercise. Okay go to sleep. Time to eat. Wake up". No, free people don't put up with that. And I can tell you as an American, you put me in a concentration camp, I will spend my every living moment planning how to kill you.

--- Scott Ritter, https://rumble.com/v3ouz3k-scott-ritter-extra-ep.-106-ask-the-inspector.html?start=2280

A personal note about this: I don't condone violence (and i believe there are better ways to resist oppression). The reason i share this quote is to help people to have empathy for people in Gaza

#ScottRitter #oppression #freedom #resistance #ConcentrationCamp #Gaza #Palestine #Israel

digit@iviv.hu

quick,
destroy more,
make shoddier,
replace sooner,
externalities, externalities, externalities,
rebrand the devil angelic,
keep telling the slaves they're free,
destroy the competition,
suppress the innovations that obsolete the rents.

look at all that churn.
look at all that wealth transfer.
pay no attention to the orders magnitude more wealth destroyed.
keep calling wealth extraction maximisation "profit".
keep calling poverty a virtue to the impoverished.
keep saying the churn is progress and riches.
trot out worshippers of the Gross Domestic Product.

dont you just love capitalism?
maybe capitalist barons care.
maybe this psycho is best.
believe harder. the lies are true.
buy more.

stay dependent,
on your abuser,
because they took everything.
dont you just love capitalism?

#digitspoems #capitalism #churn #GDP #TheCorporation #ThePsychopath #wealthextractionmaximisation #poverty #marketing #advertising #plannedobsolescence #dependence #austerity #rentierism #rents #barons #bigbaron #buy #buybuybuy #consumerism #economics #freedom #deception #emancipation #oppression #orwellianism

tpq1980@iviv.hu

Statistical improbability, mass murder, societal control systems, oppression, ideological weapons, depopulation, usurpation, applied psychology, geopolitical controlled opposition, supranational elite scions, covert mass surveillance, crimes against humanity, global power structure.

#statistics #massmurder #china #societalcontrolsystems #oppression #ideologicalweapons #depopulation #usurpation #appliedpsychology #un #geopoliticalcontrolledopposition #supranationalelitescions #usa #ccp #masssurveillance #criminals #uk #crimesagainsthumanity #power #globalism #elites #puppetpoliticians #judeoangloamericanestablishment #judeoangloamericanempire #study #xijinping #maozedong #jewish #jew #jews #henrykissinger #billgates #klausschwab #disenfranchisement