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bread-and-roses-too · 2 months
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Not feminist as in "women should be included in the draft" but feminist as in "being drafted is a violation of bodily autonomy for any gender".
The draft should not exist. Drafting people into the military is a violation of human rights. You should not be able to force someone to risk their life. If you can't find enough people who care about a conflict to keep it going then it simply shouldn't keep going. You can't even force someone to donate a kidney using government power, why the fuck can you force them to donate their whole body and life to a cause they don't agree with or don't care about?
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directactionforhope · 1 month
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U.S. Free Palestine Protests this Weekend: 2/17 through 2/19
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2/17 Denver, Colorado Indianapolis, Indiana San Diego, California Seattle, Washington
2/18 Boone, North Carolina Milwaukee, Wisconsin New Orleans, Louisiana
2/19 Aransas Pass, Texas Chicago, Illinois Los Angeles, California - Jews for Ceasefire All-Day Shiva
And there are many more! Check out the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Code Pink, and your local Palestinian and/or Muslim groups for protests in your area!
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catdotjpeg · 1 month
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11 Feb 2024, Lunar New Year vigil for Palestine led by Nodutdol and 30+ Korean, Palestinian, Asian American, and anti-war organizations, Queens, NY
The text on the kite in the first photo comes from "If I Must Die" by Palestinian martyr, poet, and educator Refaat Alareer; the text on the placard in the second photo comes from a quote by the Vietnamese revolutionary Hồ Chí Minh.
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radicalgraff · 1 year
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Vandalized US military billboards in Louisville, Kentucky
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notaplaceofhonour · 1 month
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One of the most frustrating parts of the extreme rhetoric around Israel/Palestine (besides the obvious reliance on antisemitic & anti-Arab, Islamophobic tropes) is that it exceptionalizes so many things that are actually pretty standard features of nation-states and war in a way that completely compartmentalizes the criticism of these things into just being about criticizing the “few bad apple” countries instead of criticizing the entire institution of nation-states and war as a whole.
For instance: the fact is that war kills civilians, at an alarming average of 6:1 civilians-to-combatants deaths. The status quo of war, across the board, is that way more civilians die than combatants. And yet, despite the high death toll, despite Hamas using civilian infrastructure & noncombatants as human shields (which Hamas has openly admitted to doing), despite the imprecise & destructive nature of using bombs on urban targets, and despite the inadequate humanitarian aid that has been able to make it into Gaza… the IDF has still managed to stayed well below the average of civilian casualties.
The point of saying this is not “this is what war looks like so it’s not a big deal” it’s “this is what war looks like so we as a species need to stop doing it”—seeing the devastation war has brought to the people Gaza should move you, and it should make you never want to see another war again. It should make you want a ceasefire not just for Israel and this war but all wars always. And obviously, in practice, it’s not that simple—peace is more than “just don’t do war” and the thing about ceasefires and peace treaties is they kind of have to be mutual to mean anything—but the point stands: War Bad.
However, if instead you see the destruction in Gaza and think it’s an exceptional case, where Israel is evil and the only way war could be this destructive is genocide, you get to preserve this romanticized, idealistic fantasy of war as, violent yes, but perhaps only in a cathartic, tragic-but-beautiful way—a glorious struggle where two armies clash on a battlefield far removed from everyday life and only soldiers die. You get to preserve your belief in Just War, to look forward to a morally uncomplicated Glorious Revolution™️—you may even preserve your ability to cheer on the death of Israelis.
And that’s just one issue. There are others: the claim of “ethnostate” obscures criticisms of nation-states as a concept, the claim of “apartheid” obscures criticisms of how borders & citizenship are set up across the world, etc. This inverse Israeli Exceptionalism where Israel is treated as uniquely or exceptionally problematic isn’t simply discriminatory or rooted in prejudice (which are reasons enough to criticize it, as I have), it’s actively impeding the left’s ability to criticize the actual structural systems that are the problem.
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liberaljane · 1 month
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Do something: https://ceasefiretoday.com
Digital illustration of a brown woman holding her fist up to the sun. She is wearing a green abaya that has text that reads “honor the dead and fight like hell for the living” with a smaller text bubble that reads “cease-fire now’. there is also a dove in the image.
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heyhelloitsmilo · 27 days
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peace and love, baby
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intersectionalpraxis · 4 months
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Please look into Claudia De la Cruz! She's a 2024 USA presidential candidate with the Party for Socialism and Liberation and she is actively participating in pro-Palestine protests. If you like her, please help spread her name!
Thank you! For folks living in the United States, please look into Claudia De la Cruz!
Here is their main web page: https:// votesocialist 2024 [dot][com]/ (just in case it's not visible).
I have attached some screenshots here of their campaign and movement. I highly recommend looking into these folks, too, because there's a lot of powerful and empowering plans and promises here rooted in liberation/anti-capitalism/class consciousness, I'm so glad you shared this here!
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Their program has an extensive list of their focuses, and for those interested in reading more, the link I provided will lead you to it. Some of their program includes:
Seize the Biggest 100 Corporations, Create A New Economy for the People
Overthrow the Dictatorship of the Rich — Build a Democracy That Serves the Working Class
End the Rule of Money and Lock Up the Corrupt Elite
Cut the Military Budget by 90% — Peace, Not War with China & Russia!
End the War on Black America!
Defend Women’s Rights, Full Equality for LGBTQ People
Save the Planet from Capitalism
If folks are interested in supporting them, they have a donation section and more you can read about. I will definitely some more time to read about them a bit more, but this is exciting. A socialist movement is something I'm 100% aligned with!
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belpheg0r-luna · 30 days
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"And to men, also, just be wary of any mentality that would make cattle or make vessels of women. Because that same mentality will make machines and tools of you, and make monsters of you."
- Hozier
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odinsblog · 6 months
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Message to all alleged “anti-war tankies”
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If you were truly anti-war, at worst you’d at least try to pretend to be neutral, and not support either side. At best, you would not be on the side of Russia, the aggressor that, unprovoked, invaded a smaller sovereign nation that was peacefully minding its own business, was not in NATO, and wasn’t even applying for NATO membership. NATO was not the cause of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
As always, I remind people that Russia is committing war crimes in Ukraine, including but not limited to: erasing all mentions of Ukraine from schoolbooks, murdering entire civilian populations of Ukrainian cities, and kidnapping thousands and thousands of Ukrainian children (some as young as 4 months old) and placing them into “re-education” centers where they are forced to learn how to become good little Russians. Russia is indiscriminately bombing civilian targets like funerals, churches, schools and hospitals, and the Russian army is using mass rape as a weapon of war.
(Remember, Ukraine has demonstrated that they have the capability to reach Russian held territory, but unlike Russia, the Ukrainian military has only targeted military installations.)
If you can just hand wave all of the Russian war crimes and atrocities away because “America bad,” then please spare everyone your anti-war concern trolling, and your faux worries about Ukrainians dying. Just admit that as long as, lol, “communist” Russia isn’t the one being invaded, you are morally indifferent to human suffering and you actually do not care about ending wars.
Russia can end the war instantly just by going home.
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womenaremypriority · 1 month
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So many men act like men are the only ones negatively affected by war and it’s such a privileged view of war. As if war is just a bunch of men being sent of to fight in a void where some die, as if war for most of history and for most people was not your town being invaded, your house being burnt down, entire cities bombed or destroyed or ransacked. As if women aren’t affected by their children being stolen by the enemy, or being raped and forced to give birth with no medical help, or their house being occupied by soldiers who need a place to sleep.
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53v3nfrn5 · 23 days
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Severija Incirauskaite-Kriauneviciené: ‘Kill for Peace’ (2016)
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its so surreal to see videos and photos of people lit ablaze, bleeding, dying, crying and screaming in gaza, and then to under that see someone talking about the percy jackson show.
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antiwaradvocates · 1 year
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"Let the atom be a worker, not a soldier!", soviet poster from 1967
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radicalgraff · 20 days
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"Your country is run by war criminals"
Seen in Tarrega, Catalunya, Spain
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almightyrayzilla · 2 months
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"To have never gone to war is something to be proud of."
A lot of GODZILLA MINUS ONE's anti-war message resonates heavily with me. Despite being set ~80 years ago and specifically in one region of the world, its sentiment is universal.
And I turn to the real world, and I see the very thing the movie spoke against - no one deserves to die just because some well-dressed people in business suits say so.
"One side must be obliterated" is not anti-war. Lobbing munitions capable of leveling entire buildings and calling the casualties "human shields" is not anti-war. Boasting of being an upholder of peace while supplying weapons to oppressors is not anti-war.
Saying no to a ceasefire is not anti-war.
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