Reflections on recent events in Palestine from the UK context.

Timestamps

0:18 Introduction: validating feelings of grief and rage

1:49 Witnessing South Africa presenting evidence at the ICJ, an affirmation of what we know.

2:45 the Labour Party are as pro-genocide as the Conservative Party, colonialism and imperialism unmasked

3:45 'This isn't new'. Colonisation: the largest genocide in human history, 1492 in the Americas

4:50 Israel’s brazen and overt genocide, media gaslighting, the need to recognise the occupation

6:05 ICJ Ruling and defunding UNRWA, is the West a sinking ship?

8:47 BBC censorship and complicity

10:45 Statistics from the last 115 days and Palestinian death toll

11:49 Yemen, Palestinians in Israeli jails, global calls for a ceasefire

13:09 BDS, boycotts, more Yemen, pulling investments

13:55 International solidarity, a growing global movement, the 'global south'

15:00 Walking with people on marches, a profoundly moving experience

17:00 Living in alignment, not numbing

18:25 ‘It means a lot to people that you are there’, bringing friends with you

20:05 Confronting my own assumptions and looking horrors in the face

21:25 Acceptance of evil actions, people's lack of conscience

22:25 Being gaslit into feeling scared to call out genocide!

23:25 This is damaging for the oppressors too

23:40 Systems, racial capitalism, figureheads as symptoms of systems

24:34 a TikTok on rats as a metaphor for our harmful systems, push

26:25 Pushing for system change, revitalising our movements

26:39 A reminder not to descend into despair, keep taking action and building a better world

27:18 Gratitude for people spreading information and showing solidarity

28:16 What action do we need to be taking?

Twitter @decolonial_fem Insta @loveastransformation

Send questions & requests to Maria at loveastransformation@gmail.com

With love,

Maria x

Musings on a radical politics of love.

A materialist approach will never transcend materialism.

Understanding there is no separation between the self and the other is not a trivial task.

This knowing and state of being calls us to reorganise ourselves so that we address inequalities, support our most vulnerable, and create the optimum conditions for all to flourish.

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” - Angela Davis