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The American media coverage I've seen on this conflict has always been bad... always... but over the past two weeks it may actually be the worst that it's ever been. Literally all I've seen has been footage of U.S. congressmen talking about how Israel has "no other choice", countless historic perversions explaining only one side of the story (manufactured consent), and yet more ranting about those heartless Palestinians and their Qassam rockets. Well, let's hear a little more about thoserocket attacks from Wikipedia... "From 2001 when the missile attacks started until April 27, 2008, 13 Israelis were killed by Qassam rockets. During this time, for everyIsraeli killed by Qassam rockets, about 100 Palestinians have been killed by Israel." Where can we go to hear about this? The foreign press, or at least some of it. Indymedia even more so. How many of us actually seek out these media outlets? Not many. Seriously, though, ideologies aside (the flavor of fascism lite that kinda tastes like democracy vs. the new brand of diet fascism that kinda resembles anti-colonial populism), let's get some realistic press coverage. Let's see the truth about who really dies in these wars,on either side. Unfortunately, all too often it's a case of soldiers killing civilians who have jack shit to do with the conflict. Ultimately, in this situation as with any, we cannot trust the institution of the state to be the guiding force of reason, as states only act in the interest of those who profit from them (we can get into who is actually profiting from this if you'd like to talk to me regarding that specific subject)So what do we do if Hamas and the state of Israel both ignore the value of human life? We must engage in dissent, both in the organized sense of everyday direct action, and in the spontaneous sense of literally standing in the way of a wrong doing as it happens. Most of us won't have the opportunity to the latter, and this woman was unfortunate enough to have faced that situation. So, in the name of peace, and in the name of our own survival, we and others who feel the same as us must always do our part when we see this kinda shit. If a cop is beating or harrassing someone in your city, do something about it (start by asking for hisbadge number, then consider calling your local chapter of cop watch). If you're pissed off about how our government is funding what many consider to be a genocide against the palestinian people (let alone our financial and political entanglements in East Africa, Latin America,etc.) then make some noise. Organize. Let those fuckers know you're pissed about tax money going towards buying helicopters that shoot into Palestinian apartmentcomplexes, about it going to seedy ass corporate CEO's who are eager to privatize profit and socialize risk, to any unjust occupation anywhere in the name of American hegemony. We need to form networks, get people together. We need to spread information better. This is the fucking internet. Let's post up articles, videos, resources, zines, whatever. Let's be the counter to the media machine that has failed us too many times. It may not be a matter of survival for us now, but if we don't learn how to do it now, then we'll be trully fucked when/if the shit really does hit the fan. Right now, we are the grass, they are the elephants.
"When two elephants are fighting, the grass dem asuffer"
- The Refugee Allstars of Sierra Leone
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