No blood for oil
in Palestine or anywhere
Hiiii I broke my fast yesterday by eating lots of cookies and they were delicious. Today I’m sharing my feelings about Palestinians being killed for oil and gas. Onto the news…
News that made tell you about my childhood
I remember being a teen and watching the news coverage of the Iraq anti-war protests. My third favorite show after Moesha and Gilmore Girls was the news. I loved the news so much I would spend weekends in highschool filing newspaper clippings in tubs for speech and debate tournaments.
My parents were very confused about my obsession with the news, to the point that they assumed I was using it as cover for some other “nefarious” teenage activities. I wish I was! I wish I was drinking smirnoff ices and hiding from cops instead of spending all my time researching cruise ships. The closest I ever got to a party where there was alcohol was watching movies about teens doing things I never did.
One particular sign that was etched in my memory from watching the footage of people marching against the war in Iraq was “kein blut für öl” which directly translates to no blood for oil. I remember this sign because I was taking German in school at the time. I learned German because my dad speaks German. He also speaks English, Swahili, and Luo as I do. So there was really no need for me to learn another language to be told to wash the dishes in. I wish I would have learned Spanish because there are many more Spanish speakers around me today.
Fast forward decades later and “kein blut für öl” replays in my brain because I’m very high and I just ran into this article stating that the genocide in Palestine is about oil. The US satellite known as Israel wants to displace Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank for oil and gas.
It is currently 47 degrees Fahrenheit during winter in New York City because of global warming caused by fossil fuel production. I hate the cold and love being warm, but not like this. I don’t want to go to the beach every day because the planet is dying, I want to go to the beach every day because we have staged a revolt and destroyed capitalism.
They are killing Palestinians for oil and gas, which are literally poisoning our planet, leading to the death of people in extreme weather events. I know colonizers carry out colonization to get other people things. Whether that’s labor or land, colonizers don’t go to colonized places to bring fun to the colonized. However, carrying out a genocide to obtain something that will kill people is the type of mind boggling cruelty that I simply do not understand. Maybe if I would have taken colonizer calculus in college it would be much easier for me to understand this.
I was even more mortified to find out that there is an initiative in the United States congress to condition US foreign aid to countries in the middle east based on their willingness to take Palestinian refugees. I can’t describe how I felt when I saw this map highlighting the foreign aid by country, not because I’m terrible at discerning my emotions. It’s because screaming and yelling fucking colonizers over and over again isn’t on my emotion wheel.
That’s it for the news, but don’t go yet
I finished reading The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion and I highly recommend it.
Please keep going to protests for Palestine. Please keep talking about Congo, Sudan, and colonialism.
We have everything we need to free each other. Keep fighting for a better world. We can do it.
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