Fundraiser for the family of Wadea Al-Fayoume, a 6-year-old Palestinian boy murdered by his landlord in the Chicago suburbs this week. His mother was also attacked; she’s being treated for her injuries
Revolution is not a romantic sentiment. Revolution is not an intellectual thot exercise (yes that kinda thot). Revolution is not the root, but the result of mass suffering and death that is met with silence and non-action.
Revolution is a dream and nightmare that refuses to die quietly.
The ancestors are watching from Guatemala and Gaza to Atlanta and Haiti 🖤✨️🌿
The ah-mazing artist-activists and storytellers painting freedom into the frame:
🇵🇸 We shall return, Imad Abu Shtayyah (2014)
🌻 1811 Slave Rebellion, Lorraine Gendron and the St. Charles Parish Virtual Museum
🇵🇸 My name is Palestine and I will survive, Sliman Mansour (2016)
• Bolivia has severed diplomatic ties with Israel, citing the latter’s “crimes against humanity”.
• The three major trade unions in Belgium—comprising over 3 million members—announced that they will refuse to transport weapons, by plane or sea, going to the zionist entity, citing the zionist genocide in Palestine and calling out the hypocrisy of the Belgian government.
“They took our land, they imprisoned our queen, they banned our language, they forcibly made us a colony of the United States. America says they are democratic, that is a lie! They have never been democratic with Native people! They have never been democratic with Indians! They have never been democratic with Hawaiians!”
Dr. Haunani Kay-Trask (Kānaka Maoli)
“The United States of America is a death country. It gives death to native people.”
This chest is an excellent example of an early twentieth-century lacquer box with allover mother-of-pearl decoration. The incised floral motifs filled with black ink or charcoal make the piece particularly striking. The shape, size, and compartments suggest that this chest held writing or cosmetic paraphernalia.
