Pinned
Solidarity to the Palestinian Resistance in the Occupied West Bank
Guerrillas from the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) dance with their weapons, in their training camp of Guacamaya in Morazan province, in north-east Salvador, on April 10, 1982
Happy birthday, Rachel Corrie! (April 10, 1979)
Hailing from Olympia, Washington, Rachel Corrie was born into a typical middle-class, liberal white Pacific Northwest family. Corrie became politically active while attending Evergreen State College, embracing anti-imperialist peace politics and joining the International Solidarity Movement, a pro-Palestine organization. Corrie participated in protests against the Israeli occupation, and in her senior year traveled to the Gaza Strip to establish a sister city program between Olympia and the city of Rafah. While in Palestine Corrie engaged in actions against house demolitions by Israeli forces, as well as other actions in the context of the Second Intifada. On March 16, 2003, Corrie was murdered by Israeli forces, who ran her over with a bulldozer she had placed herself in the path of to stop. She has since become a martyr for the international movement in support of Palestine, and a ship named for her was used by the Free Gaza Movement in an effort to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Without the imperatives of capitalism, would we have invented planned obsolescence?
Noble sir, production and destruction are two, but what is not produced and does not occur cannot be destroyed
Today, I survived death once again…
I had only gone out to bring some food for my family, when a missile struck near a charity kitchen. In just a second, I could have been another name on the list of martyrs.We live in tents. No safety, no enough food, no clean water. We die on the way to find a meal… and we die if we go without it.
Nodeul Island
- Abbas Kiarostami, A wolf lying in wait
For those who see history as a competition, Latin America’s backwardness and poverty are merely the result of its failure. We lost; others won. But the winners happen to have won thanks to our losing: the history of Latin America’s underdevelopment is, as someone has said, an integral part of the history of world capitalism’s development. Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others- the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.
Open Veins of Latin America | Eduardo Galeano (1971)
if tumblr shuts down you'll find me like this
when tumblr shutdown scares happen and everyone starts promoting sites that are way worse and shut down quicker
It's so nice being on tumblr because you don't even have to make your own post but people would still follow you anyways if you're good at rebloging posts they like