Day: October 7, 2024
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Revolutionary Acts of Love
by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Although our ancestors lived through the genocide of Indigenous peoples in North America, this past year we have witnessed a genocide in real-time, with technologically advanced warfare, destruction and obliteration on a spectacular scale. We’ve watched daily video footage and photos of unimaginable violence targeting families and children. We’ve read social…
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The Audacity of Reflection
by Dominic Guerrera Art by Malia Osorio I find it hard to write words of self reflection, to ponder what lessons I have learned from the past year. Is it really my place to learn a lesson from this ongoing genocide of Palestinian people? Many of the lessons people are learning are not new to…
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Pae ʻĀina—Wide: P.L.O. Style
by Kauwila Mahi In a lesser known track by Method Man on the Tical album in 1994 “Meth” admires the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s unconventional resistance tactics with the lyric “I live by the code, style – it’s mad – P.L.O.” This framing by Method Man is important to understand the role of music in sustaining…
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Settler “Self-Defense” and Native Liberation
by Nick Estes The genocidal assault on Palestinian life is also ideological, with firm roots in Turtle Island. The United States supplies more than bombs. It also supplies the media narrative justifying the slaughter of Palestinians and the colonization of their lands. The Atlantic Magazine has become the veritable mouthpiece for what can be called…
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Every Child Matters From Kamloops to Gaza
Photo Credit: Ammar Bowaihl by Uahikea Maile This essay is based on a speech originally delivered on May 18, 2024 in Toronto during a demonstration marking three years since the discovery of a mass grave of 215 Native children at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia. Toronto Indigenous Harm Reduction, Palestinian Youth Movement,…
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A Matter of Peace and Compassion for Palestine
by Ellen Gabriel Credit: Malia Osorio For the past year we have witnessed the cyclical wheel of history repeating itself. The atrocities of WWII have been repeated as we witness the horrors of the first ever live streamed genocide of Palestinians. The people of the world protesting in the streets have been the only responsible…
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A Kanaka Learns Aloha from her Palestinian ʻOhana
by Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio Credit: Malia Osorio Like most native kids queered by colonialism, I spent much of my life trying to understand aloha. I often felt an existential need to find and make aloha in my own image, this would eventually define my young years. In my adolescence I turned beyond the individual to…
Indigenous Solidarity with Palestine 