proofofsats

I don’t care if you sneak out into the dead of night and shakily scratch ‘Free Palestine’ into an old rusted lamppost, I don’t care if you have careful conversations with apolitical friends and family members about the horrors happening with full support of western governments, I don’t care if you wear your Keffiyeh to work, to the gym, to the store, to the coffee shop, to the park, to the library, or all of the above, every single day, I don’t care if you write poetry or paint or make music or draw doodles or write stories about the terrors of empire and how a world looks within which everyone is liberated and living dignified lives, I don’t care if you march to the embassy at noon every Saturday and chant to those meek and morbid little souls inside to remind them of the tyranny they support, I don’t care if you scream from the rooftops at 6am every single morning how none of us are free until everyone — including every last Palestinian the world over — is free, I don’t care if you climb the fences of the arms manufacturers and smash the windows and rip off the roof tiles and dowse their doorways in fake blood to remind them of their sins, I don’t care what it is you choose to do to resist…. I care that you resist. I care that you indulge that defiant and divine spark within you that urges you in the dark crevices of your mind to stand up for what is right, to stand up for those under the bootheels of oppression, to stand up for those who haven’t even been given a fucking chance to live the life they’ve got because tyrants in our western governments want to eat the fucking earth, Because everyone has an inalienable right to liberation, dignity and self-determination, Because we are all part of the same extended human family, Because there but by the grace of God go we, And because what else could possibly be more important than creating a world in which children aren’t bombed by the thousand for merely being born in the wrong place? This world is ours to share — all of us. And so we resist to make it fair — for everyone. And we never stop until that goal is reached.