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Film Workers for Palestine is a call by and for filmmakers and cinema workers to stand for an end to genocide, and for a free Palestine #FilmWorkersForPalestine
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🎬 We are a group of 700+ counting filmworkers demanding a ceasefire, an end to the criminalization of being pro-Palestine & urging filmmakers to use their platforms to highlight the Palestinian struggle! 🍉
Read —> Sign—> Join
#FilmWorkersForPalestine
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Now happening! Autonomous protesters have taken over the
@MuseumModernArt
, demanding an end to cultural complicity with genocide!
#CeasfireNOW
#FreePalestine
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love how everyone was ready to applaud Jonathan Glazer when they thought Zone of Interest was about the other guys; then the clapping noticeably died once he said the word "Gaza"
#Oscars
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solidarity can really be breathtaking sometimes, my god
NYPD is intimidating the students as they pray; non-praying students are rushing to protect them.
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who was that other guy standing behind Jonathan Glazer during his Oscars acceptance speech? THREAD/
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if you’re a film worker and looking for a non-genocidal letter to sign, consider
#filmworkersforpalestine
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This is beyond cowardly— it is, in the moral and only legitimate sense, criminal. Goodbye
#Berlinale
.
Berlinale Files Criminal Charges Over the Spreading of Anti-Semitic Posts / Criticism of Statements Made by Artists at the Berlinale Award Ceremony
See full press release via:
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This is heinous; there’s no “both sides” in a genocide. Shame on the Berlinale.
The Tiny House Project “Talking about Israel and Palestine” invites everyone interested to engage in dialogue about the Middle East conflict and its impact. Shai Hoffmann and Ahmad Dakhnous will accompany the discussions.
Info on access and opening hours:
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The only thing that matters is now - speak out now - call for a
#Cease_fire_In_Gaza_Now
#ceasefire_permanent
#ceasefire
NOW.
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We understand that directives have come from the top-down at
#Sundance
dissuading filmmakers from mentioning Gaza. S/o to the teams of UNION, SEEKING MAVIS BEACON, THE SMALLEST POWER & more for taking a stand against genocide anyway— we won’t be silenced.
#FilmWorkersForPalestine
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The directors of Yintah call out
@hotdocs
sponsor at their Canadian premiere:
"While we are grateful for the opportunity to show this film, we refuse to allow this venue to whitewash Scotiabank's reputation at home and abroad."
#Hotdocs24
#NoArmsintheArts
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Chris Smalls (
@Shut_downAmazon
) leads the ‘Union’ afterparty in a chant of
FREE FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸
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On the first day of the 40th edition of the Sundance Film Festival, the prestigious independent cinema event in Park City, Utah, more than 700 filmmakers, artists, curators, and other cultural figures announced a newly formed group in support of Palestine
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standing behind Glazer were two people: The Zone of Interest producer James Wilson, who is a long-time collaborator with Glazer, and Soviet-born billionaire Len Blavatnik, who is credited as an executive producer on the film.
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it's worth knowing where the funding for films, award shows, and cultural institutions comes from!
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excellent letter, even if it lacks the star power of someone's orthodontist
Joaquin Phoenix, Elliott Gould, Chloe Fineman and more than 150 other Jewish creatives have signed an open letter in support of Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars speech.
See the full list here:
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hey
#Oscars
hope you're all enjoying your militarized pageantry
LAPD has set up a skirmish line on Hollywood Blvd now by the fence next to the red carpet.
🎥:
@JonnyPeltz
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Eli Horwatt's "Who Are Film Festivals For?" is essential reading on the often exploitative financial practices of large festivals
Any film festival that charges an admission fee should make sure a submitted film is screened.
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Blavatnik has long salivated over the film industry. in 2010 he made a failed bid for MGM. now he runs Access Entertainment which invests in A24. This is why Blavatnik’s name ends up on titles like The Zone of Interest, Love Lies Bleeding, I Saw the TV Glow, and The Iron Claw.
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EYES ON RAFAH // SWARM THE OSCARS // MARCH 10
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🕯️ Images from our first
#Sundance
vigil, where we named some martyrs we've lost in the last 105 days. We carry their names in an our hearts and the grief of their loss all across Park City.
Join us tomorrow at 9am by Franz the Bear (same time & same place) for our second vigil!
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Glazer touches Wilson’s arm and motions him to come forward. after the speech Glazer reaches out to Wilson again. he doesn’t acknowledge Blavatnik at all. it doesn’t seem like he even knows him.
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1500+ and counting…Ken Loach, Mira Nair, Larissa Sansour, Ahmed Malek, Mike Leigh, Aki Kaurismäki, Cherien Dabis, Mohanad Yaqubi, Liam Cunningham, James Schamus, Susan Sarandon & Brian Eno have all had enough of our industry’s silence and complicity with this genocide, have you?
🎬 We are a group of 700+ counting filmworkers demanding a ceasefire, an end to the criminalization of being pro-Palestine & urging filmmakers to use their platforms to highlight the Palestinian struggle! 🍉
Read —> Sign—> Join
#FilmWorkersForPalestine
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Blavatnik made his money in aluminum after the fall of the Soviet Union, described by kleptocracy expert Casey Michel as “the most corrupt industry in one of the most corrupt countries in the world.” he has been investigated for ties to Putin.
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PROTESTS WORK!! KEEP IT UP!! 🔥🔥🔥
BREAKING: Palestine Action permanently shut Elbit down in Tamworth!
After sustained direct action, the Israeli weapons maker was forced to sell due to increased security costs which cut their profits by 75%.
The new owners wrote to Palestine Action to confirm the factory is no
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when Glazer said “right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people” — people assumed it meant all 3 dudes up there
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Uplifting a post from let_go_of_the_festival and collectivebahia on Instagram.
What does it say about institutions like
#Sundance
that they’ll remain completely silent about a genocide while partnering and platforming people who justify it?
🧵 (1/3)
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Blavatnik also donates heavily to Jewish organizations, including Birthright, the USC Shoah Foundation (founded by Steven Spielberg), and the 92Y, where Pulitzer Prize-winner Viet Thanh Nguyen had an event canceled last fall for voicing support of a ceasefire.
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now, who is Len Blavatnik? his name might be familiar from when he stopped funding Harvard (so far $320 mill) over the Claudine Gay scandal last December. or maybe you’ve heard the name at Carnegie Hall ($25 mill), the Tate Modern ($65 mill), Yale ($35 mill), Oxford ($100 mill).
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according to the Penske-owned (the ones that fired the Artforum editor for convening a letter in support of ceasefire) Hollywood Reporter, Glazer did not “run his comments by” Blavatnik prior to delivering his remarks. this may be technically true, but—
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watch the video closely: Blavatnik is sitting nowhere near Glazer when the award is announced, and appears to come from a completely different section to the stage, where he arrives well after Glazer and Wilson.
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Berlinale is now fully in the hands of genocidal imperialists, Venice of the fascists, and
@Festival_Cannes
? All eyes on you…
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UNION co-director
@brettpstory
takes a moment to acknowledge the ongoing violence against Gazans, and shares how her childhood in the West Bank shaped her values as a filmmaker.
#Sundance
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this is beautiful!! solidarity forever
Columbia called, CUNY answered!
We stand with the Columbia students & the Gaza Solidarity Encampment!
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Falastin Film Festival (IG: falastinfilmfest) is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit collective of Palestinians and allies. now accepting submissions of Palestinian films and donations to help launch the first edition of the festival in May 2024
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essential, powerful account of the Berlinale debacle and how it showed that “making, funding, and showing art is always, inextricably, an engagement with the politics of our world”
For
@FilmComment
, I wrote about the protests at Berlinale 2024, Strike Germany, NO OTHER LAND, the crisis of agency for film workers, and the limits of “political art”
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‘we owe Gaza endurance. keep organising, pushing, and remain steadfast in the knowledge that justice will prevail, freedom will triumph, and the horizon of liberation will only draw nearer…freedom & justice for all. freedom & love & dignity & life.’
—Bilal Hasna, star of LAYLA
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the Blavatnik Family Foundation boasts support of 180 cultural institutions, especially in the US and the UK, where Blavatnik has dual citizenship. also you should be referring to him as SIR Leonard Blavatnik.
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Last October
@PenskeMedia
owned Artforum fired editor David Velasco for publishing a ceasefire petition. Penske also owns Deadline, Variety, IndieWire, The Hollywood Reporter & SXSW (the festival itself), among many other entertainment brands. Stay informed & alert to media bias!
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Legendary status—
@maysoonzayid
drops truth
@sundancefest
:
“This is a mass disabling event. For every one child slaughtered three are now disabled…Every single child regardless of faith deserves equality.”
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As filmmakers and cinema workers, we are told our words and images have power, and that our work can help end injustice. For over 100 days, images of Israel’s genocide in Gaza have flooded our screens, but this has not stopped the continuing atrocities.
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Some of our Muslim members were followed & harassed at
#Sundance
for wearing keffiyehs. We won’t put up with racism, hostility and intimidation any more than we will with occupation, apartheid & genocide— step off!
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This is still the closest we’ve gotten to a
#Sundance
official making a statement about the ongoing genocide, the film industry’s complicity, and the safety & dignity of marginalized attendees making a peaceful stand for justice.
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ok guys they're really pulling out the big guns now, I'm started to get scared
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Kudos to the filmmakers who have made the meaningful sacrifice of withdrawing from the
#Berlinale
. Funded by the repressive Ministry of Culture & proudly rolling out the red carpet for right wing extremists, this year’s festival is no place for people of conscience
#StrikeGermany
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This is heinous; there’s no “both sides” in a genocide. Shame on the Berlinale.
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To be clear— we hold film festivals entirely complicit in affirming consent for genocide.
#Sundance
takes money from Zionists and amplifies their views while remaining silent about Palestine.
#Berlinale
says nothing as its artists past and present face legal persecution.
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and this, the faculty who linked arms to protect their students, and were arrested for it:
NOW: NYPD arrests at least a dozen NYU faculty members in the ‘Liberated Zone’ at Gould Plaza
Police deployed the LRAD while protesters were praying
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“we are cool with genocide”
More than 450 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” Oscar speech.
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I still think they could do more
Shoutout to the 900,000 Jewish creatives, executives, and Hollywood professions who haven’t
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honoring the guardians of life, freedom, and justice everywhere— from atlanta to palestine
rest in power, Manuel Teran
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Toronto comrades, come out! tomorrow at 11:30! 💪
NO ARMS IN THE ARTS! TORONTO: Join a coalition of culture workers, incl
@wawog_now
,
@FW4Palestine
, Artists Against Artwashing, & CanLit Responds, for a press conference on March 26 @ 11:30am rejecting
@ScotiabankHelps
’ investment in Israeli weapons manufacturer
@ElbitSystemsLtd
.
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not the 360 degree pan of someone being completely ignored by everyone around them 😭😭
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"Scotiabank is complicit in the theft of Indigenous lands and the genocidal displacement of Indigenous people through its funding of TC Energy and Elbit."
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South Asia House at
#Sundance
shows up for Palestine, recognizing the intertwined struggles of the Global South & the violent reality of colonialism
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Canadian film industry: hey we too are perfectly capable of writing a long-winded and factually incorrect letter
Imagine describing a $10k full page ad as a "powerful open letter published in the Globe"
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hell yes
Protesters Turn Oscars Red Carpet Into Gridlock as Show Threatens to Start With Many Empty Seats
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We have exceeded 5,000 signatures.
🎬 We are a group of 700+ counting filmworkers demanding a ceasefire, an end to the criminalization of being pro-Palestine & urging filmmakers to use their platforms to highlight the Palestinian struggle! 🍉
Read —> Sign—> Join
#FilmWorkersForPalestine
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Displaced Palestinians decorate their tents in celebration of Ramadan, despite Israel continuing its war on Gaza.
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what is wrong with you
“There was goodwill but not enough to straddle the chasm that divided us.”
In Israel, a translator tries to tread the line of empathy. From
@joannachen1
's essay “From the Edges of a Broken World.”
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In our capacity as filmmakers, actors, curators, film critics, and other workers essential to the international film industry, we stand for an end to genocide, apartheid, and repression, and we stand for the liberation of all people.
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we are all in this struggle together
This is beautiful. Those whose land McGill sits on is give permission to the protesters to be on it.
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French student protestors have entered the chat
‼️‼️BREAKING: SciencesPo Paris, the top university in France which hosts a dual degree program with Columbia, has just launched a Gaza Solidarity Encampment. This officially marks the spread of the protests to Europe. So incredibly proud of my peers🔥🇵🇸💪
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#JimmyKimmel
opens the
#Oscars
with a joke about going without eating for 3 weeks OMG HAHAHA 😂😂😂 but also fuck you
#GazaFamine
#EyesonRafah
Hunger is killing the children of Gaza!
Each image of a starving child in Gaza is a reminder of the absolute failure of the world's leaders. Humanity is witnessing a profound betrayal.
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We recognize the calls made by the Palestine Film Institute to hold international film fests accountable, and in this moment of urgency we echo their call for filmmakers to use their platforms during Q&As, talks, and panels to read statements highlighting the Palestinian struggle
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Filmworkers of the world! In just 24 hours, 3,000 of your colleagues have said no to genocide, no to censorship, yes to a free Palestine— and counting…
🎬 We are a group of 700+ counting filmworkers demanding a ceasefire, an end to the criminalization of being pro-Palestine & urging filmmakers to use their platforms to highlight the Palestinian struggle! 🍉
Read —> Sign—> Join
#FilmWorkersForPalestine
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this made my heart grow
I transcribed the first ~3 minutes of Mumia Abu-Jamal’s call from prison with the students of the CUNY Gaza solidarity encampment. The imprisoned journalist and former Black Panther has been jailed for over 42 of his 70 years.
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you know that dog is better paid than the man holding up his fake legs
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Guernica shows its liberal zionist hand. in addition to "these are good booms," there's also the noxious conclusion, where the sad Israeli translator calls up a Gazan poet, who, despite the threat of death and starvation, takes the time to restore her faith in humanity
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remember when people were upset about Abu Ghraib?
Israel has reduced another Gaza hospital to a mass grave and U.S. media is burying the story.
Over 400 bodies have been discovered at Nasser Hospital as the IDF’s many atrocities in Khan Younis are only beginning to unfold.
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Our industry cannot continue with business as usual. We must do more than watch; we must act with conscience and continue to insist that Palestinian lives are equal to all others. We will not be complicit with anyone who acts otherwise.
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Cultural imperialism makes us puke 🤮
What will you do today to disrupt the staid narratives and forces of capital that compromise our institutions & artistry?
Sign then act! ✍🏽⬇️
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+ Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Rolling Stone…
As festival season kicks off, remember that Indiewire, Deadline & SXSW (yes, the festival itself)— along with Artforum and many other brands— are all owned by genocide cheerleaders
@PenskeMedia
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March 8-12 at
@AnthologyFilm
, and co-presented by
@ArteEast
: "Archives of Power: The Palestinian Film Archive and the Erasure of History." films by Mohanad Yaqubi, Arab Loutfi and Azza El-Hassan.
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I think they're actually just really eager to show their support for Past Lives (jk ACAB)
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As human rights lawyer Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh stated at the International Court of Justice, this is "the first genocide in history where its victims are broadcasting their own destruction in real time in the desperate, so far vain hope that the world might do something."
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Imagine dropping bombs on people while making “urgent” calls for aid. What Palestinians need, and what will allow humanitarian deliveries to reach them, is a
#CeasefireNow
and an end to Occupation!
The humanitarian situation in Gaza requires urgent action. We need to do more to get aid into the hands of Palestinians in need – and the U.S. fully supports the work of Sigrid Kaag, the
@UN
Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza.
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so, Shafik called the cops on
@Columbia
student protesters, claiming a “clear and present danger.” but when the NYPD arrived, EVEN THEY assessed that the protest was peaceful and nonviolent 🤣🤣🤣
that awkward moment when the nypd turns on shafik/columbia LMAOOO pathetic the lot of them
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congrats on your
#BestSupportingActress
win, Da'Vine Joy Randolph!
#Oscars
#grandmaglasses
#Gaza
#EyesonRafah
This is how the Israeli army left Khan Younis, south of Gaza.
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"actually I was only applauding for the Israeli half of the directing" is a such a funny excuse
Oh Germany🤦🏻♀️Ministry of Culture “clarifying” that the federal commissioner Claudia Roth’s applause at the Berlinale was intended for No Other Land’s Israeli director Yuval Abraham (effectively leaving out the Palestinian co-director Basel Adra, who shared the stage with Abraham)
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We expect our shared cultural spaces to promote safety…& yet from Berlin to Los Angeles, our colleagues have been harassed, threatened, doxxed, disciplined, censored and fired for voicing their opposition to a military campaign repeatedly deemed genocidal by human rights experts
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We are aware that one day our community will create and champion films documenting this horrific genocide, yet many stay silent now, while we still have the chance to save lives.
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we believe that the struggle encompasses a diversity of tactics. working from within and without the institution. immediate response and long game strategy. no one can assess the horizon of risk for another. we each do what we can. solidarity is trust. solidarity is necessary.
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Vigil Day 2
Join us again tomorrow at 9AM
(by Franz the Bear)
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Statements are only a start, the bare minimum declaration of intent. Our purpose is to bring folks together to agitate and disrupt in ways that make most sense for them. Through direct action, BDS, strikes, organizational agitation & more— we won't rest until Palestine is free 🇵🇸
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