Author Archives: aidarends

Your Crisis of Faith is not My Concern (There’s a Genocide Going on) – Steve Salaita

There’s been too much blood.  If you don’t share in our spirit, whether it cycles through pain or longing or fury or despair, then you’re a Zionist.  It doesn’t matter how you self-identify.  We suffer the oppression and so we get to name the oppressor.  It’s the only real benefit to being oppressed.  — ReadContinue reading “Your Crisis of Faith is not My Concern (There’s a Genocide Going on) – Steve Salaita”

Barakat from Beirut: The resistance will be victorious and the zionists and imperialists will be defeated | Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement

Speaking today from Beirut, Lebanon, after the Zionist entity’s massive terror bombing of the southern suburbs of Beirut, Khaled Barakat, member of the Executive Committee of the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, emphasized that “the resistance will be victorious and the zionists and imperialists will be defeated, despite their horrific crimes. TheyContinue reading “Barakat from Beirut: The resistance will be victorious and the zionists and imperialists will be defeated | Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement”

Fundraiser by Jae Grumulaitis : Help Jae Heal: Funds for Surgery and Recovery

Hi, I’m Jae and I am a transgender woman living in New York, raising money for recovery funds following my upcoming FFS in October and my breast augmentation to be scheduled this winter. I work as a photographer and barista, which both require me to be physically active, causing me to take a large amountContinue reading “Fundraiser by Jae Grumulaitis : Help Jae Heal: Funds for Surgery and Recovery”

Peace From Our Point of View • Protean Magazine

Israel’s unsettled borders, writes Mary Turfah, are not “a bug… but a feature of the Zionist state,” allowing it to justify endless war in the name of an intentionally elusive “peace.” This essay appears in Protean Magazine Issue V: Contra Temps. — Read on proteanmag.com/2024/09/19/peace-from-our-point-of-view/

Cleo Sylvestre, acclaimed actress of The Marvellous Adventure of Mary Seacole and first black woman to play a National Theatre lead, dies at 79

An obituary from London’s Telegraph. Cleo Sylvestre, who has died aged 79, was the first black woman to appear in a leading role at the National … Cleo Sylvestre, acclaimed actress of The Marvellous Adventure of Mary Seacole and first black woman to play a National Theatre lead, dies at 79