If we know that acts of genocide are being carried out in Gaza. Then we are complicit in the acts of genocide too.
If the British government knows that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people as it has been declared by the UN and is running it’s course through the International Court of Justice, then to continue to not call it out and to continue to trade with Israel, then the British government through it’s actions is complicit in the genocidal acts also.
Acts of genocide are being committed in Gaza and Britain is complicit in them.
In order to stop the genocide, from a British point of view, as other counties are also complicit in the genocide, we have to stand up and say:
NO more continuing to supply Israel with arms.
NO more overflying flights to give security information to Israel.
NO more use of RAF airbases for Israeli forces.
NO more manufacturing parts for F45 jets which are being used in the bombardment of Gaza.
No more. No more. No more complicity in the genocide of Palestinian people.
These are the demands we have to continue to put on the British government.
What’s one small improvement you can make in your life?
I’ve been noticing how my work/ being has been reactive. There’s been a sense of scarcity and time urgency that’s been guiding my thoughts and actions. There’s been a hopelessness. Because some incidents are out of my control but which have impacted me. There’s been feelings of not being appreciated, feeling a lack of trust and working without purpose, moving away from my core values and moral compass.
I might have been using food or drink to numb my way through the shit. Through the ‘work’, not allowing myself to feel and be present. Really present to all the feels.
Do you feel me?
I know I need to take a step back and really look at the life I’ve been living. This is the only life I have and cannot be relived. I have a deep desire to change the system. To abolish the system and live otherwise.
And yet in order to change the system, I have to change my life, how I live my life. The way / how I live has to reflect the way/ how I want the world to be.
What does this mean in reality?
How I am just as much as what I do within the system will have an effect on system change. I have to be living my life with intention and purpose. Making sure I’m living my values, that I’m not compromising my integrity. That each decision I make is coming from that place of love and trust and hope.
That I’m not shutting down but open to togetherness but also trusting my gut that when I say ‘no’ it’s not from a place of malice but from a place of capacity and boundaries.
I’m learning, I’m sharing and I’m growing. Alone and in collaboration.
And I’m feeling and shifting into the practice and recognition that this is coming from a place of love and care rather than exhaustion and pain.
Small steps. Small acts. Small makes up the large. Small scales up to large.
I’ve got to be practicing the world I want to see now in my own life. Daily. Practice.
Love not hate.
Cooperation not competition.
Conversation rather than condemnation.
More care less harm.
More listening less violence.
The turn towards Mother Nature rather than against her.
A recognition in the value and worth of every human being regardless of race, class, gender, religion, ethnicity, age, sexuality, body type and body and mind abilities.
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