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Falastin

Fingernails cracked and bloody Tearing at the rubble That stopped their mouths. Their mouths that kissed, Ate olives and pomegranates, Read poetry, spoke of their dreams. Stories, worlds, lives, Broken and choked with dust A dry rivulet, stopped in the sand. Death from the sky, relentless. Words stall and fail, stuttering, Stumbling across miles of…

Yvonne Aburrow
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Fingernails cracked and bloody

Tearing at the rubble

That stopped their mouths.

Their mouths that kissed,

Ate olives and pomegranates,

Read poetry, spoke of their dreams.

Stories, worlds, lives,

Broken and choked with dust

A dry rivulet, stopped in the sand.

Death from the sky, relentless.

Words stall and fail, stuttering,

Stumbling across miles of broken buildings.

The land remembers them.

The wind whispers their names.

The stones cry silently, softly.

Yvonne Aburrow

9:52 pm, 9 November 2023

I’m a writer against apartheid and I’m using my cultural work to advance the Palestinian struggle for liberation against occupation and genocide.

I wrote the poem above in response to the call for action from @againstapartheid.art. See their calls to action and sign their petition.

Here’s a callout to media workers from @wawog_now with more actions for my fellow writers and media workers. Sign their petition too!

Jam the phone lines now with @uscpr — If you’re seeing this too late, do it anyway. Call your representatives. See also my resources for calling your MPs, MPPs, and MLAs in Canada at https://tinyurl.com/CeasefireNowCanada

Corporations and products to boycott from the official BDS movement @bdsnationalcommittee. Slides made by @wawog_now.

Toni Morrison quote from @blackliturgies :

“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”

Hat-tip to Charlie Claire Burgess for these resources.

Israel’s response to the murders by Hamas is completely disproportionate, and will not bring back the dead or make Israelis any safer.

From CNN: “The latest violence has caused more than 1,400 deaths in Israel and at least 10,790 in Gaza as of Nov. 9, according to authorities on both sides.”

These numbers have been confirmed by UNICEF.

The war on Gaza has already increased both antisemitism and Islamophobia around the world.

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