We talked about plans for the summer... "I'll be over here just baby-ing" BOL said. It was easily the most electric announcement of the evening, but the middle schoolers and high schoolers were just as enthusiastic about being done with school and sleeping in. Long after most people had left, EM, SI, and I sat in the dusk as the remaining kids played Cornhole, planning tentative day trips to the beach at Sagatuck and the Art Institute of Chicago.
(Trying hard to remember that hopelessness is a tool of oppression, so celebrating community and the many things we can achieve by organizing.)
Pic: Early in the evening. I forgot to take pictures of our picnic later. BOL's baked mac was a hit, as were JN's lavender and rosewater cookies and my red-white-and-blue berry cake. (I went with strawberries instead of raspberries as they were fresher... Thanks, StephLove, I got the the idea from you!)
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"Trying hard to remember that hopelessness is a tool of oppression, so celebrating community and the many things we can achieve by organizing" - yes!
I just listened to an Ologies podcast about crimes of atrocity, and while that sounds like the grimmest two hours anyone could ever spend, it actually filled me with hope, somewhat. I don't know that I'd recommend it to you, in fact I probably wouldn't, but it cracked open my mind a little to bring compassion and understanding to topics that I have no compassion about and cannot understand.
Your day sounds really lovely, with community and friendship and cake.
Nice.
So much colour and community surrounds you! What a joyful life.
A good way to mark Memorial Day (I never quite want to say celebrate). I'm glad the cake was a hit.
RE "Aaron Bushnell"
What Bushnell's desperate act exposes is that some 95-99% of people anywhere DO NOTHING when confronted with grave injustices such as the current US-Israeli Holocaust of the Palestinians, just like all the "bad German people" during the Nazi Holocaust, whom they are happily pointing the finger to as examples of OTHER PEOPLE who are bad and evil in their deep dishonesty, self-delusion, and madness.
He pointed exactly this reality out in one of his last statements:
“Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?' The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.”
Now WHY is it that 95-99% of people anywhere DO NOTHING when confronted with grave injustices? Because "advanced" humans have a malignant disease called a "Soullessness Spectrum Disorder" .... https://www.rolf-hefti.com/covid-19-coronavirus.html
Because of this big truth Bushnell is pointing to lots of truth-hating cowardly soulless people resort to slandering Bushnell as mentally disturbed or fanatical, having been suicidal (he was not), etc. or try to misrepresent him negatively in some other form --anything in order to NOT see the real truth about themselves.
"America is the greatest exporter of violence the world has ever known. So wear your patriotism on your sleeve and be proud. You are a depraved citizen of the world’s worst killer nation." --- Paul Craig Roberts, Ph.D., economist & former US regime official, in 2015
"The US empire is quantifiably the most destructive and tyrannical force on this planet, by an extremely massive margin. No other power has spent the 21st century killing people by the millions and displacing them by the tens of millions. No other power is circling the planet with hundreds of military bases, starving people around the world with blockades and economic sanctions, staging proxy wars, color revolutions and coups all over the earth, and working to destabilize and destroy any nation anywhere on this planet who dares to defy its dictates. Only the US empire is doing this. No other power comes anywhere remotely close." --- Caitlin Johnstone, Independent Journalist, in 2024
“I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine, at the hands of their colonizers (=the genocidal US regime and its genocidal Israeli colony), it’s not extreme at all.” --- Aaron Bushnell, shortly before he set himself on fire
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“We can have the world of our dreams tomorrow, but we have to be willing to fight today.” --- Aaron Bushnell, in 2023
Nicole--Thank you, Lovey. I am intrigued by this podcast you speak of!
Gillian--Thanks!
Nance--Thank you. I truly believe in the "beloved community."
StephLove--That is such an important distinction. Thanks again for the cake idea.
Janis--I think of AB in the context of Arundhati Roy's "Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing." Solidarity!
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