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LIVE: UN says 86 percent of Gaza under Israeli forced displacement orders | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
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- Israel ‘will struggle’ to find international partners for ‘humanitarian city’
- WATCH: UK MPs urge recognition of Palestine
- Qassam Brigades claims attack on Israeli army in Gaza City
- Intense Israeli air strikes reported in northern Gaza
- Israel targets buildings ‘packed with civilians’ in Jabalia

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
@palestine


LIVE: UN says Israeli forces killed hundreds seeking aid in Gaza

Ten Palestinians killed waiting for rations in Gaza, adding to nearly 800 similar deaths in six weeks, according to UN.
Alastair McCready (Al Jazeera)

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Berne (Suisse) : Attaque contre une centrale du régime migratoire fasciste
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"Barrikade / mercredi 9 juillet 2025 Résistance contre le Service des migrations de Berne Résistance avec de la peinture et un marteau : dans la nuit du dimanche 6 juillet 2025, nous avons attaqué une des centrales du régime d’asile … Continuer la lecture →"

Berne (Suisse) : Attaque contre une centrale du régime migratoire fasciste | Attaque

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Police kick people who already were held down on the floor and who do not appear to be resisting arrest

Between 10 and 11 minutes on video

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Equality comes with a price tag and democrats support child labor & trafficking

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États-Unis : Sur la détention de Hridindu Roychowdhury
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"Anarchist Black Cross Federation / mardi 1er juillet 2025 Hridindu Roychowdhury est un anarchiste de Madison, dans l’État de Wisconsin, qui a été condamné à 90 mois de prison fédérale, pour avoir attaqué avec un cocktail Molotov un bâtiment [le … Continuer la lecture →"

États-Unis : Sur la détention de Hridindu Roychowdhury | Attaque

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Equality comes with a price tag and democrats support child labor & trafficking

Pretty good video from Better Bachelor

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Equality comes with a price tag and democrats support child labor & trafficking

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OK maybe I can try this in English too. I'm looking for a #horror #comic or short #graphicNovel that was published in the #eighties or earlier and was a graphical representation of the well know “boyfriend's death” story (Sheriff finds the girl variant)
snopes.com/fact-check/the-boyf…
It was published on an Italian comics magazine in the 70s or 80s, but I'm sure it was American. I can't find the issue anymore. Anybody knows it? Boosts welcome for reach.

EDIT: solved!

#TOMT #askFedi #fediHelp


The Boyfriend's Death

Hours after sending her boyfriend in search of gasoline, a girl is rescued from her stranded car by police. Though cautioned not to turn around, she does...and sees her boyfriend's lifeless body hanging from a tree branch above the car.
Barbara Mikkelson (Snopes.com)
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Oblomov

Horror story details

Sensitive content

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Oblomov

Horror story details

Sensitive content

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This is a preemptive call to #Fediblock Meta's #P92‌/‌#Barcelona instance, for three reasons at least:
1. it'll be huge and extremely poorly moderated;
2. it will be a #privacy nightmare, allowing Meta to extensively profile #Fediverse users with greater ease;
3. it will be used to #EEE the Fediverse in the same way their “support” for #RSS and #XMPP was used to wipe them out from the general consciousness with a rug-pull (my full thoughts on this: wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/cred… )

1/

A credible threat to (and from) commercial social network silos/1

The Fediverse, especially through Mastodon, has been acknowledged by the major players as a threat —to be eliminated.
wok
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Alonealastalovedalongthe

"...as the news circulated I found that the amount of people deluding themselves into thinking we should welcome the upcoming Meta instance with open arms was much higher than I expected. Truly people never learn anything from history.

Seriously, how can we ever hope to find a solution to things like anthropogenic climate change when we can't even cope with the threat of surveillance capitalists siphoning off all the energy from the opportunity of a breakout?"

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Alonealastalovedalongthe

"Prediction:

Meta's P92‌/‌Barcelona‌/‌Threads joins the Fediverse. Many instances... federate with it. The Fediverse sees a growth like nothing before... Smooth sailing for a couple of years, but nearly every new account is created on Meta's side...

...a couple of years in, with over 90% of the Fediverse on Meta servers, the company goes for the rug pull, either on bogus technical claims on the protocol, or on the basis that 'everybody is here anyway'."

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‘It can’t withstand the heat’: fears ‘stable’ Patagonia glacier in irreversible decline | Glaciers | The Guardian
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#ClimateCrisis


‘It can’t withstand the heat’: fears ‘stable’ Patagonia glacier in irreversible decline

Scientists say Perito Moreno, which for decades defied trend of glacial retreat, now rapidly losing mass
Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)

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Have given up on trying to reinstall Mastodon for the time being

Backing up the system folder was so tediously slow (never actually finished in the time I gave it)

Looking at other solutions...

Hetzner S3 compatible storage sounds good, but it's a heck of a lot more expensive than getting a server from the same company with the storage requirements I need

Off to lick my wounds and decide my next move

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin

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I had a realization when it comes to the whole "trust the experts" meme. There is nothing wrong with experts themselves. Even those who despise the slogan have experts they trust.

The problem is that the "experts" we are told we need to trust are preselected by the government to parrot whatever narrative they want. Other experts who may disagree are never the ones we are given permission to trust.

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EvolLove

Why would he miss on purpose?

Makes no sense.
No one goes out on a life or death duel planning to shoot but miss, just above the head of the opponent.

Sure I will lose and die but that bullet that almost got him in the head will new legendary.

Knowing nothing about it, my guess is he was not very good at dueling so he got nervous and shot too fast and thus he missed while his opponent was a better pistol shot than him.

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My son has an assignment from school: test #LexicaAI. I want to make this an opportunity to learn about all the ethical issues of #LLM including: sourcing material for training violating creators' moral and legal rights, worker #exploitation for labeling the training sets, the #energy and #water consumption associated with their use, and the exploitative goals of these models. I know the #askFedi #hivemind can help be gather a sizeable collection of references on these issues, so GO!
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Fou

Κατ εμέ το πλήθος των φτωχών και αυτών που ραγδαία φτωχοποιούνται δεν είναι καθόλου μικρό, μα εφαρμόζεται ένας συνδυασμό πολλών πολιτικών για να κρατάνε ήρεμο το πλήθος (υποσχέσεις, ψίχουλα, ΜΜΕ, κοινωνικά δίκτυα, γκλαμουριές, προπαγάνδα, φόβος, τράπεζες, ψυχολογική πίεση, ελπίδα κλπ κλπ).

Δυστυχώς όλα αυτά συν την αμορφωσιά που οι από πάνω επιβάλλουν αποδομώντας την εκπαίδευση, εμποδίζουν την δημιουργία της "κρίσιμης μάζας"

Μέχρι πότε; Δεν ξέρω

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Another assault on the food chain the health of every person on the planet by the elite... They are totally pushing for a total destruction of farming, just said the Soviets did in Russian the 1920s... And just as Mel did in China in the '50s and early 60s...
THE PARASITE CLASS MUST BE ELIMINATED BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!

IN THEIR OWN WORDS:
"A new type of dietary fat that doesn’t require animals or large areas of land to produce could soon be on sale in the US as researchers and entrepreneurs race to develop the first “synthetic” foodstuffs.

US start-up Savor has created a “butter” product made from carbon, in a thermochemical system closer to fossil fuel processing than food production. “There is no biology involved in our specific process,” says Kathleen Alexander from the firm.

Instead, its butter is derived from the carbon in coal, methane or carbon dioxide. The petrochemical industry uses such inputs to create syngas – a blend of carbon monoxide and hydrogen – which is then turned into long-chain hydrocarbons in what is called the Fischer-Tropsch process.

Read more: newscientist.com/article/24383…

#massawakening #pureblood

'Butter' made from CO2 could pave the way for food without farming

US start-up Savor says its synthetic vegan fat, made without livestock or the crops needed for margarine, could cut carbon emissions and save rainforests
Madeleine Cuff (New Scientist)
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Gary Hill

Nice one Berlin...
‘Stop the genocide’: Protests outside Berlin restaurant with GHF ties

Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports that the opening of an Israeli restaurant in Germany’s capital has been postponed following protests over its owner’s ties to controversial Gaza aid efforts.

Dozens demonstrated the launch of a restaurant owned by Israeli celebrity restaurateur Shahar Segal, a former spokesperson for the Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF).

The newspaper said the demonstration was organised by anti-Zionist Jewish groups, including the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) and Jewish Voice for Peace.

Protesters chanted slogans such as “Blood in your food” and “Stop the genocide.”

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The Oath of Office signifies a commitment to ethical conduct, legal compliance, and the best interests of the public.

At the federal level, the oath is enshrined in 5 U.S. Code § 3331, and it is a requirement for all individuals entering federal civil service or uniformed services.

Malfeasance is misconduct that can violate an oath of office. It refers to the commission of an illegal act.

Can a Law Firm or College bring a Suit alleging such, in lieu of Congress acting?

Someone must know!

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POITIERS : UN HOMME RETROUVÉ MORT EN CELLULE PENDANT SA GARDE À VUE
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"Angers.info Article de presse gratuit disponible Extrait Il avait été interpellé plus tôt dans la journée pour des violences commises contre un agent de sécurité privé. Les investigations devront désormais…"

POITIERS : UN HOMME RETROUVÉ MORT EN CELLULE PENDANT SA GARDE À VUE – Anti.Média

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🔌 Só pra registrar que desliguei da tomada o "no-break" JBR Guard 600VA — ao qual ficam ligados principalmente o roteador AX3000T e uma TV LCD (em espera neste caso) — e a bateria durou 2h15min até começarem os avisos de iminência de esgotamento. 🪫

De vez em quando parece ser recomendado fazer isso se não houver interrupção "natural" da rede elétrica.

#hardware #ups

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American killed by Israeli settlers in the West Bank, family says
https://abcnews.go.com/International/american-killed-israeli-settlers-west-bank-family/story?id=123700222&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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American killed by Israeli settlers in the West Bank, family says

Sayfollah "Saif" Musallet was killed on Friday while visiting family.
Nasser Atta (ABC News)

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Israel’s Plan for Concentration Camp in Gaza Constitutes a War Crime [acc. to "16 Israeli experts in international law and the laws of war"] | Communist Party of Israel (2025-07-12)

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>> ... the plans presented by Israel’s defense establishment to expel the population of Gaza in a “humanitarian city”. This concentration camp constitutes a blatantly illegal order, 16 Israeli experts in international law and the laws of war warned Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz and the Israel army chief of staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir in a public letter issued Friday. In the letter, the experts warned that implementation of the plan would constitute a war crime and a crime against humanity. They said that under certain conditions, it could also be considered genocide. “We call on all relevant parties to publicly withdraw from the plan, renounce it and refrain from carrying it out,” they wrote.

@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel

Israel’s Plan for Concentration Camp in Gaza Constitutes a War Crime | Communist Party of Israel

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Tucker Carlson claims Jeffrey Epstein worked for Israel to blackmail US officials: ‘Every single person in DC thinks that’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tucker-carlson-jeffrey-epstein-israel-b2787893.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into politics @politics-Independent


Tucker Carlson claims Jeffrey Epstein worked for Israel to blackmail US officials: ‘Every single person in DC thinks that’

‘I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t think that,’ the former Fox News host told an audience on Friday
Mike Bedigan (The Independent)

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US to raise tariff rate on EU goods to 30% from 1 August, EU open to talks but ready to respond
https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/07/12/trump-eu-goods-will-face-30-us-tariff-rate-starting-on-1-august?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Business @business-euronews


US to raise tariff rate on EU goods to 30% from 1 August, EU open to talks but ready to respond

The European Commission responded to Trump's announcement in a written statement, saying it remains ready to reach an agreement, while also taking "necessary steps to safeguard EU interests, including the adoption of proportionate countermeasures."
Emma De Ruiter (Euronews.com)

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*New York lawmakers [including Zohran Mamdani] relaunch bill to stop charities funding Israeli settlers.* The bill would also prohibit donations to Israeli military units operating in Gaza. About


New York lawmakers relaunch bill to stop charities funding Israeli settlers

A group of state-level lawmakers in New York have resubmitted a piece of legislation that would bar any charities in the state from sending tax-deductible money to Israeli settlers and Israeli military units in Gaza.
MEE staff (Middle East Eye)

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'Israel reports casualties as Resistance grows in Gaza, Khan Younis

Intense Gaza battles continue in Khan Younis and al-Shujaiya as Palestinian Resistance factions strike Israeli forces, causing multiple casualties and vehicle losses.'

Al Mayadeen

#Gaza #Resistance

en.mdn.tv/8ZR9


'Israel' reports casualties as resistance grows in Gaza, Khan Younis

Al Mayadeen English ('Israel' reports casualties as resistance grows in Gaza, Khan Younis)

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'#Microsoft shareholders demand report into the company's 'human rights due diligence' over allegations of #warcrime complicity in #Gaza' | PC Gamer

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Microsoft shareholders demand report into the company's 'human rights due diligence' over allegations of war crime complicity in Gaza

A group of more than 60 Microsoft shareholders has filed a proposal that will be voted on at the company's next Annual General Meeting.
Andy Chalk (PC Gamer)

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This is such BS

nbcbayarea.com/news/local/fate…

What they aren't saying is that of they even get the 4 billion from the feds there is another 7 billion they have no idea how to get to finish the project.


California awaits fate of high-speed rail in federal funding clash

The deadline for California to counter the White House’s claim that the state’s high-speed rail has no viable path forward has arrived.
Kris Sanchez (NBC Bay Area)

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The Wretched of the Earth: Fanon’s Anti-Colonial Manifesto Lives on in Yemen, Palestine, Sahel States


In the spring and summer of 1961, as Algeria bled through its seventh year of war against French colonial rule, a dying Frantz Fanon poured his revolutionary vision into words. Too weak to write, he dictated “The Wretched of the Earth” — a book that would ignite liberation movements across the globe — to Josie Fanon, his life companion and fellow anti-colonial fighter. Around them, the struggle for independence raged; inside their exile in Tunisia, a manifesto for the oppressed was being forged.

The Algerian people waged a guerrilla war against French colonial and allied right-wing forces. The war took a tremendous toll on Algerian fighters, workers, and peasants.

Fanon was battling leukemia, a disease that would claim his life on Dec. 6 of that year. Just months after his death, 1962 witnessed the triumphant conclusion of the Algerian War, as the liberation forces achieved victory and secured the complete withdrawal of French colonial rule. This hard-won independence became a beacon of hope for liberation movements worldwide — a legacy that continues to inspire oppressed resistance across the globe.

Beginning at the outbreak of the war in 1954 and until he was exiled for his nationalist politics, Fanon served diligently as a physician and psychologist at a French Hospital in Algeria. For years, he treated not only Algerian people tortured by French authorities but also French soldiers traumatized from carrying out acts of torture and murder against the Algerian people.

This gave Fanon a critical perspective into the brutality and inhumanity at the center of any colonial regime. The same brutality Fanon observed in French colonial rule in Algeria can be seen today in the Zionist apartheid state and the U.S. military assault on Yemen.

In “The Wretched of the Earth,” Fanon analyzes the crippling long-term impacts of colonial repression on colonized people. Due to Fanon’s political beliefs, he did not stop at psychology. Fanon actively encouraged the oppressed masses of African people to rise up and take back their culture, their society, and their lives by any means necessary – and particularly through armed struggle.

Fanon’s legacy of anti-colonial resistance resonates powerfully today in Africa and the West Asia region. In the Sahel states, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have expelled French-backed regimes, seeking to reclaim their nations’ resources and wealth for their own people rather than enriching billionaires in Paris.

Similar defiant resistance against imperialist domination can be witnessed across West Asia, particularly in Yemen and Palestine, where populations have courageously confronted vastly superior military powers. Despite the immense sacrifices these struggles have demanded, the resolve of these peoples remains unbroken, embodying the same revolutionary spirit that Fanon championed decades ago.

This year will be the 100th anniversary of Fanon’s birth on July 20. The best way to honor Fanon’s commitment to decolonization is to support the continued struggles of colonized and oppressed people across the planet, from Yemen to Palestine to the Sahel.

source: Struggle La Lucha

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#antiColonialism #antiImperialism #burkinaFaso #palestine #resistance #sahel #yemen

The Wretched of the Earth: Fanon's anti-colonial manifesto lives on in Yemen, Palestine, Sahel states

Frantz Fanon speaking at the All-African People’s Conference (AAPC), which was held in Accra, Ghana, from Dec. 5-13, 1958. In the spring and summer of 1961, as
Struggle - La Lucha

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The Wretched of the Earth: Fanon’s Anti-Colonial Manifesto Lives on in Yemen, Palestine, Sahel States
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Understanding Yemen 2/2: Ansar Allah Values


To understand how Ansar Allah-led Yemen defeated an apparently superior military force, led by Washington, and then directly confronted the Israelis and their sponsors in the Red Sea, we should return to the values and ideology of the movement.

Ansar Allah ideology comes from the Quranic Project of Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houhti, who was killed in 2004 during the six northern wars, carried out by the late President Saleh, following a green light from US President George W. Bush (Root 2013), as part of his “war on terror”; even though Saleh himself had been linked to Al-Qaeda (Jordan 2015). This Quranic Project shares values with many independence movements, some with the Iranian Revolution, along with some of its own distinct features.

Ansar Allah is a movement, not a party like Hezbollah. Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, head of the Supreme Revolutionary Committee (SRC), said, “The revolution is every member within the … Yemeni fabric who rejects corruption and … upholds values and freedom, rejects tyranny, guardianship, invasion and occupation and resists aggression, siege and blind subservience” (Almahfali and Root 2020; Sputnik Arabic 2018). The Yemeni people “are a people who reject injustice, humiliation, subjugation, arrogance and conceit. They are a people who, by nature, carry within their culture and awareness a revolutionary sense … [they] have always rallied and moved with those who reject colonialism … those who stand with the invader are rejected and denounced and remain agents and mercenaries in the eyes of the popular majority” (Sputnik Arabic 2018).

This movement grew with a charismatic leader, Sayyed Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi, but it is not a personality cult. Sayyed al-Houthi “had a leadership personality, everyone that knew him loved him,” said Abdulkareem Jadban, an MP from Saada. “He urged people to face the [North] American hegemony after 9/11” (Root 2013). His ideas remain important, as should be obvious from the strong growth of Ansar Allah in the 20 years since Hussein’s death.

We could speak of the values of Ansar Allah under six themes: the defense of an independent nation and culture; Islamism through Quranic values; a culture of resistance in the face of hegemonic attack; clear identification of the enemy; social inclusion and avoidance of war; and the persistence of Yemeni customary law and tribal governance.

Understandings of these values are particularly important in view of several Western war myths that Ansar Allah are “Houthi rebels” who are “Iran’s proxies” and part of a “Shia crescent” destabilizing the Arabian Peninsula and the region. These myths disguise the revolution of 2011-2014, underline the refusal to recognize the new government in Sanaa, and help bolster UNSC resolutions, which legitimized the dirty war and siege of the country.

Some of the better Western analyses of Ansar Allah appreciate its local origins and that it has been influenced, but not determined or controlled, by the Iranian revolution (Gordon and Parkinson 2018); and that it builds on nationalist and republican roots which recognize religious traditions and authority (Almahfali and Root 2020). But most tend to turn against the Yemeni revolution for its Islamism and incompatibility with bourgeois liberalism (i.e. Anglo-American corporate rule with a semblance of individual liberties).

Despite that deep prejudice, there is huge popular interest in how Ansar Allah-led Yemen defeated the US-Saudi-Emirati aggression and then came fearlessly to the direct defense of the Palestinian people under attack by the Israelis in Gaza. I suggest the answers to these questions lie in popular support for Ansar Allah values. So what are those values and how are they seen in practice?

First, as an independence movement, Ansar Allah aims to protect and defend indigenous, inclusive Yemeni culture and values in the face of foreign intervention. This is a common theme of all anti-imperial and anti-colonial movements, including the Islamic Revolution of Iran.

The defense of independent cultures, values, and nations is a key global theme. We could go further, arguing that the central polemic today is not capitalism versus socialism or liberal democracy versus the rest, but rather a globalist dictatorship versus independent nations. In a supposedly post-colonial era, we still see this struggle for independence across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Arab and Muslim world.

Anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, and anti-Zionism – counter-hegemonic struggles – are all consequences of this drive for political, economic, and social independence. In Yemen, despite the important national unification of the 1990s, there remained a corrupt regime that collaborated with the imperial power and its agents, making use of sectarian groups to divide and rule the nation.

Second, Ansar Allah shares with the Iranian Revolution an Islamic foundation of independent values based on the Quran – humility, honor, self-sacrifice, social justice, and social inclusivity – values which inform and sit alongside nationalism, anti-imperialism, and anti-Zionism (Panah 2008: ch.3; Almahfali and Root 2020).

Ansar Allah, from its Zaydi roots, while recognizing the Prophet’s Holy Family (Ahlul Bayt) and the Sayyed lineage, does not share the Shia doctrine of Twelve Imams (including the Mahdi) nor does it accept the infallibility of Imams (Almahfali and Root 2020). Mandated struggle against the unjust rule is one feature that the Zaydi tradition has in common with the Shia. In the tradition of Zayd ibn Ali, true imams must fight corrupt rulers; but imams are neither divinely ordained nor infallible and this leads to greater jurisprudence in Islamic law, preventing the idea of an imamate or strict religious rule (Almahfali and Root 2020).

Sayyed Hussein was deeply impressed by Iran’s Khomeini and Lebanon’s Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah because of their firm principles. He said of Khomeini and Nasrallah that, in their application of Islamic values, “we do not notice the doctrinal side,” and so there is room for jurisprudence (Almahfali and Root 2020). So, while the historic sacrifice of Imam Hussein (a central Shia theme) has entered Ansar Allah’s broad Islamic tradition, other more secular or non-doctrinal themes have developed, such as Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi’s stress on nationalism and social justice.

Recognizing the legacy of the leader of the Iranian Revolution, Sayyed Hussein said, “Imam Khomeini was a blessing to the Arabs if they had wanted liberation from Israel.” Sayyed Khomeini was “a great leader with a correct vision and a strong people.” It has been said that Iran’s Islamic Revolution both “does and does not” influence Ansar Allah (Almahfali and Root 2020). Ansar Allah extends the Zaydi principle of “commanding what is just and forbidding what is wrong” (Almahfali and Root 2020).

Importantly, Ansar Allah also parallels Sayyed Khomeini in placing a similar emphasis on a pure Islam of “the downtrodden and humble … the barefooted” [Al-Mustadh’afin] as opposed to what he called “American Islam … the Islam of comfort and luxury … of compromise and ignominy, the Islam of the indolent” (ITF 2014) – following the Quranic declaration (al Qassas 28:5) of “our favour on the oppressed.”

That responsibility to the oppressed and downtrodden [Al-Mustadh’afin] was fundamental to both Sayyed Khomeini’s initiatives in support of Palestine and to Ansar Allah’s Red Sea operations, after the Resistance’s Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.

Nevertheless, Ansar Allah leaders have made it clear that Yemen’s governance is for Yemenis to decide. “There is no Iranian intervention in Yemen. and the Saudis can inspect the missiles [we fire] … they are purely Yemeni made … We reject any sort of foreign intervention either by the Saudis, the Americans, the Egyptians or the Iranians” (Mohamed Ali al-Houthi in Ya Libnan 2015).

Third, dedicated resistance is a step beyond simple claims of political independence. Resistance is a commitment in the face of a hegemonic attack. Ansar Allah stresses active defense of the nation and culture in the face of those who “occupy our countries and wage war against our religion” (Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi 2001b). That includes the duty toward other oppressed Arab and Muslim peoples, especially the Palestinians. One Ansar Allah leader explained to me: we oppose war, but fighting in self-defense and in defense of the oppressed is both permitted and mandated. This moral obligation to support the oppressed comes before political considerations and helps explain Ansar Allah’s unhesitating confrontation with the Israelis and the Anglo-Americans.

An Ansar Allah cultural leader explained to me that, historically, the Muslim communities in Yemen’s highlands, farther away from colonial invasions (mainly Zaydi), had maintained a stronger resistance to invading cultures than those (mainly Shafi) on the coast.

Secular parallels are made to stress the necessity of resistance and social transformation, in defense of indigenous culture. Mohamed Ali al-Houthi said, “The scale of the conspiracy [against Yemen] has pushed the people to engage in a long-term battle until … victory, just as revolutions around the world, including the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, triumphed” (Sputnik Arabic 2018).

The steadfastness of Ansar Allah has become a thing of legend. They have repeatedly vowed to maintain their support for Gaza even after multiple bombing attacks by the Israelis and the Anglo-Americans (Abdul Malik al-Houthi 2025). Those Red Sea operations have established the Yemeni resistance as an icon for the world (Tuboltsev 2025). Even conservative British bodies recognize that the Yemenis are “diversifying their alliances and deepening their military capabilities, leveraging regional conflicts and pragmatic partnerships to expand their influence beyond the Iranian-led ‘axis of resistance’” (Ardemagni 2024). Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis have rallied in support of these commitments by Ansar Allah leaders (MNA 2025).

Fourth, clear identification of the enemy is a distinct emphasis in Ansar Allah’s ideology. Sayyed Hussein put this in the context of a world where North Americans elevated former collaborators like Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein to the status of ‘enemies’ of the imperial powers, but these were false stories designed to fool people. “Thus they direct people towards imaginary figures and illusory danger.” We are in a “civilizational struggle,” and “the Jews know who really poses a threat to them,” and this is why in Iran they chant “Death to America, death to Israel” (Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi 2001a).

In this deceptive world, Yemen must clearly identify its enemies, including cultural enemies, so as to empower and focus the masses in their popular struggle. Hussein added we must “train ourselves and our children to carry enmity towards the enemies of God – the Jews and the Christians.” Borrowing from Iran but building its distinct Yemeni character, Hussein railed against the US attempts “to force their culture upon us, to occupy our countries and to wage a war against our religion” (Almahfali and Root 2020).

While Ansar Allah shares with Iran the slogans “Death to America, Death to Israel”, in their political sense of opposing those regimes, Sayyed Hussein also demanded recognition of the cultural assault from “Jews and Christians”. Has “the Ummah [Islamic community] reached a point where it cannot stand up to the Jews?” he asked. Quoting the Quran (Al Baqarah 2:120), he said, “Never will the Jews or the Christians be satisfied with you until you follow their religion” (Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi 2001a). By this, he means they force us to adopt their ideas and terminology.

Hussein spoke of the need to “train ourselves and our children to carry enmity towards the enemies of God – the Jews and the Christians. Enmity in Islam is positive and important. If you carry genuine enmity towards America and Israel, if the leaders carry genuine enmity, and if Muslims carry genuine enmity, then they will prepare themselves to be able to face the confrontation. But if there is no real enmity then they will not prepare” (Hussein Badr Din al Houthi 2001b).

The same confusion applies to opposing a particular Israeli regime rather than the usurping entity itself. Hussein said, in his time, they spoke of “Sharon’s government [referring to former Israeli PM Ariel Sharon] but not Israel … Israel is not considered a problem, not even its existence is seen as a problem. So they say Sharon’s government” (Hussein Badr Din al Houthi 2001b).

The cultural influence of these Western colonial cultures, beyond just the invading occupation projects and the Zionist entity, was therefore part of the enemy that sought to “wage war on our religion.” Hussein decried the colonization of Arabic and Islamic language so that, for example, “jihad” (in its original sense of a holy or spiritual struggle) has been virtually disqualified as an aim (Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi 2001b).

Fifth, Ansar Allah leaders have stressed their commitment to social inclusion within Yemen and their desire to avoid war. There is much evidence of this. Mohamed Ali al-Houthi said, “Yemen has not fired the first shot in the war … rather it is resisting and will triumph over the richest and strongest countries” (Sputnik Arabic 2018).

Recall that former President Ali Abdullah Saleh was the one who declared war against Ansar Allah and killed its leader Hussein in 2004. Nevertheless, after the Revolution and until the 2017 betrayal by Saleh, Ansar Allah included him in its Supreme Political Council. Many from the GPC, the main opposition party, are still included in Yemen’s revolutionary government. Others have defected to Ansar Allah from the Muslim Brotherhood. This is another reason why it is absurd to call the Sanaa government “Houthi rebels”.

Ansar Allah did not simply seize power in 2014; it filled a political vacuum left by the collapse of both Saleh’s regime and his transitional regime, plus the widespread rejection of the repartition proposals from the GCC (Popp 2015).

After the US-Saudi coalition declared war on the Sanaa Government, Ansar Allah leaders were ready for peace talks in 2015, without conditions. It was the puppet Hadi regime, which made demands that Ansar Allah surrender territory before any talks, which killed that early peace process (Ya Libnan 2015).

Sixth, the preservation of customary law and tribal governance continues to play an important role in Yemen and has long had a relation to state law, but its composition has changed since the rise of Ansar Allah (Worth 2016).

Tribal authority and mediation are used for everything from land disputes to justice over violent conflict (Mojalli 2015), and relations between local clan authorities have been a factor in the national war of liberation against the Coalition of Aggression and its sectarian agents.

It has been said, by some hostile sides to Ansar Allah, that their system of regional supervisors or mushrifin (Carboni 2021; Mugahed 2022) has weakened tribal authority.

Yet, principles of customary law seem to have remained well incorporated into Yemeni leadership and justice. In this way, traditional authority and many social norms remain embedded in Yemeni Islamic principles. For example, the use of the Yemeni dagger (jambiya) is regulated by both traditional and state law. It is often displayed, but there are penalties for withdrawing it or making threats with it.

In sum, Ansar Allah is a genuine, Indigenous Yemeni movement that led the only real and successful revolution of the so-called “Arab Spring”. It has been subject to dirty war and siege by Washington and its allies precisely because it is an independent movement. The Yemeni Revolution shares many values with the Iranian Revolution but remains a distinct revolutionary force and a key addition to the regional resistance, especially since the collapse of Damascus. The strength of the revolutionary government in Sanaa and its commitment to the Palestinians can best be appreciated through an understanding of the unique mix of Ansar Allah values and their mass support in Yemen.

For part 1/2: Understanding Yemen 1/2: The Revolution

References:

Abdul Malik al-Houthi, (2025) ‘Ansar Allah leader says US war failed to stop Yemen, reaffirms support for Palestine’, The Cradle, 8 May, online: https://thecradle.co/articles/Ansar Allah-leader-says-us-war-failed-to-stop-yemen-reaffirms-support-for-palestine

Ahmed, Omar (2021) ‘Why Yemen’s was the only real revolution, post-Arab Spring’, Middle East Monitor, 12 November, online: middleeastmonitor.com/20211112…

al-Fasly, Mahmoud Sagheer (2015) ‘Witnessing the Yemeni Revolution’ in Voices of the Arab Spring, Columbia University Press, online: degruyter.com/document/doi/10.…

Al Hadaa, Karima (2017) ‘The Dynamics of the Houthi-GPC alliance’, The Yemen peace project, 2 June, online: yemenpeaceproject.org/blog-x/h…

Almahfali, Mohammed and James Root (2020) ‘How Iran’s Islamic Revolution does, and does not, influence Houthi rule in Northern Yemen’, Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies, 13 February, online: sanaacenter.org/publications/a…

al-Qarawi, Hisham (2011) The Yemeni Revolution: replacing Ali Abdullah Saleh, or replacing obsolete institutions?, Arab Center for Research & Policy Studies, Doha Institute, online: dohainstitute.org/en/lists/ACR…

Al-Mouallimi, Abdallah Y. (2017) ‘It’s Up to the Rebels to Stop Yemen’s War’, New York Times, 3 October, online: nytimes.com/2017/10/03/opinion…

Amos, Deborah (2015) ‘For Yemen’s Ousted President, A Five-Star Exile With No End In Sight’, NPR, 14 June, online: npr.org/sections/parallels/201…

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Source: Al Mayadeen


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The dynamics of the Houthi-GPC alliance

We're very pleased to publish the first of two guest posts on the tensions within the Houthi-GPC alliance. The author is an activist based in San'a, who writes anonymously for personal and professional reasons.
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A recent announcement that Israel intends to "concentrate" Gaza's population into camps built on Rafah's ruins before forcibly displacing them has elicited widespread international condemnation. But Israel has already been rolling out this plan for months.

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Israel’s plan to build Gaza ‘concentration camps’ was rolled out months ago

A recent announcement that Israel intends to “concentrate” Gaza’s population into camps built on Rafah’s ruins before forcibly displacing them has elicited international condemnation. But Israel has already been rolling out this plan for months.
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Solução prática e urgente é isolar e dizer verdades sobre IsraHell e israHellenses! Humilhá-los perante todos no Mundo, condená-los a pagar em dinheiro (bloqueando os seus bens) por cada crime contra cada um dos palestinos! Que sejam punidos de forma pior que os alemães nazistas, só assim esses desgraçados israHellenses irão aprender que nessa vida nada fica impune! Nunca serão perdoados pelos crimes hediondos cometidos por décadas ao povo palestino e descobertos por milhões de pessoas ao redor do Mundo! Eu já odeio israHellenses e a cada dia ODEIO ainda mais! Se algum dia morrerem israHellenses não irão fazer NENHUMA falta, são monstros, sádicos, pervertidos, psicopatas, estupradores e pedófilos. Sem israHellenses, o mundo será um lugar melhor!

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The Reckoning


The experience of genocide is, beyond agony, a peculiar one. While it is the bombs above your head, it is also the seeing those dearest to you retract their hands from a burning child for fear of a legal code, and a baton. As for the child engulfed, he discovers quickly who suffices themselves with tears, and who dares the flames.

If the past century had not, these last 21 months have evoked the sharpest of contradictions. Rage is a prevalent theme. Devastation. Inertia. Erecting walls and widening the divides has been an effortless task. With every massacre—the families burned alive tonight in Khan Younis, and every slaughter before and after it—we erupt in rage and renew our unwavering allegiance to the resistance. Taking sides is a forgone conclusion. Cursing the Jewish death cult, burning flags, and castigating traitors—we perform these rituals multiple times a day.

And yet today, I am confronted by an all-together more jarring reality. That this rage is a lie. These immovable convictions too. That the bodies once hidden in our closets now fill our homes. That they surround us at every turn. That we are drowning in blood. That there is hypocrisy in every word I pen. Our revolution makes no appearance beyond these pages, beyond weekends, beyond slogans bellowed—all too knowingly into the abyss. And it vanishes, instantly, at the first forecast of rain.

The devastation, and the required path of action—of searing bullets and blood stained knives—have never been more stark. Today, our cowardice is legendary. It stands as naked as the emperor, cocooned in all manner of exoneration. Our unbreakable spirits and rivers of wrath perish in the face of sacrifice. And what sacrifice?

When the people of Yemen exclaim, “our blood is not more valuable than the blood of Gaza,” they do so from hospital beds, in scattered bouts of consciousness, with exposed flesh. They speak, having fired rockets.

As for us, ours is a world of performance. An entire ethos governed by fear, inferiority complexes, sculpted by the sensitives of empire. Here, we are the harem, flaunting our bodies for western eyes, parading the limbs of our people. There are corpses everywhere. And we dance all around them. Some of us grieve. We weep. In the face of charred flesh we proclaim shamelessly that our hearts are aflame.

Imprisoned by fear, the escape routes are endless. Out of risk mitigation, wisdom, and greater goods, we forge careers. Life must go on. Sitting in cafes, we persuade ourselves of our piety. We clutch at our pearls and convince ourselves that these manicured hands are shackled. We appease ourselves with tears, frolic in prayer, and pour our guilt into carpets. At best, we demonstrate our convictions in humanitarian charity—here too, we escape the resistance.

We escape the rifle at every turn. Of course, we preach earnestly of its virtues. We celebrate the green headbands, romanticise the miraculous faith. A stone-throwing child confronting a tank— we adore the spectacle. Asked to join him, we all flee. The child’s bravery was heroic only at distance. Suddenly, the futility of a stone fills the room. The child is a martyr, but our lives are not to be given recklessly. There are long standing conventions to abide by. The fervour of youth must never cloud sound judgment.

For even the best of us, the sheer impracticality renders resistance logistically untenable. Never mind the material precedents, the distance is immense and the walls insurmountable. And when, by some divine feat, a tenable scheme is devised, we remind ourselves quickly that liberation requires a multiplicity of tactics.

But if, amidst the rabid fluttering of our lips, we catch a glimpse of our eyes, we would find them revolving, overcome by death.

I know, because even as I write, I struggle to admit that I see it in my own.

Any mention of concrete action, any diversion from the opulent comforts of advocacy, and we see the uniforms charging, the steel of the batons against our skin, the frigid depths of incarceration. Blind to the irony, we conclude that the detriment dwarfs the good. Seated still all the while, we are defeated from the start.1

Looking ourselves in the eye, we realise, instantly, the truth of our condition. That the words we so ritually, and vehemently recite, the creeds we claim adherence to, pass no deeper than our throats. That with every convolution, and under every breath, we crystallise our sole conviction: that our lives are more precious than Gaza’s.

All of this, however, is not in pursuit of mourning. For Palestinians in Gaza, mourning has been an impossibility; for us, it is a notion all too convenient. Gaza demands a reckoning. A reckoning of flames. And it begins with those closest, the millions who chant at protests and—like me—sit behind screens. Those with clear consciences. Because the urgency of the moment cannot be reasoned away.

The unbridled barbarity demands we interrogate the pretenses of our absolution.2 The mental contortions we internalise and spew. The endless means by which we evade, and delay, the inevitable. The doctrines by which we maintain a godless sanity and stifle the rattling of our hands.

Are we not accountable? What have I and those like me given? What have we sacrificed? What sanctity did we preserve? Did we shatter the monotony of our daily lives in the face of genocide? How many times did we stutter? How often did we forsake the skins of our people to save our own?

Already, before we have had a chance for introspection, I hear calls for a solution. For a pristine path. The glaring apparency of the answer reveals the question’s insincerity. I am tempted to ask what you would do if it was your child. Your father? Your fighters calling? Such rhetorics, however, are centred in selfishness. It’s the same egoism by which the ‘Nazi’ becomes the global byword for evil, when Europe has enacted graver horrors on the reds, blacks, yellows, and browns, for centuries. We shouldn’t need to superimpose ourselves in an imagined suffering to heed the screams of the burning. Or have the fashions of liberal capitalism, and the isolation of the harm principle, forged our hearts? Have we forgotten how to act in the service of others?

Today, all of us stand in awe of Gaza. We look upon its people with the greatest admiration. From our living rooms, we lust over their faith. The scenes are undoubtedly breathtaking. Children reciting prayers in lieu of anesthetic; Kites—white, with a long tail; A mother ululating for her fallen sons; Prostrations atop the rubble.

Romanticizing the spectacle is natural. Still, I cannot help but notice the expediency of our tales. Our privilege as observers renders the idylls perverse.

At some point, the question begs: why are the suicides never mentioned at the party?3 The children who threw themselves from windows. The men who trampled women in the daily wars for food. The women who looked to men for a price. And what about the thieves?

Are these subjects taboo by virtue? Perhaps there’s something more sinister at play. Perhaps they threaten the serenity of our lullaby. Why is it that we worship the miracle, but turn our backs on its calling?

Revolution is the skeleton in our closet. We are all only too aware of its presence. How could we not be? We’ve spent the past 15 months running from it.

I know my fingers have not left this page. To some extent, we all rationalise our inertia—else there would be no reader, and I would not be sitting here writing. We remain dinner-table revolutionaries. But our indolence cannot endure.

I see light in the barrel of a rifle. In Molotovs. Shattered ceilings. And if the flame of the Molotov must scorch the compatriot before the enemy, so be it.

When I speak of mass popular mobilisation in revolutionary action, it is envisioned or manifests as a program of chaos, which is to say the spontaneity, anarchic decentrality, and unconfined radicality of organic instinctual rage. It is the decided intent to enact change that progresses at a rate almost too fast—where operations occur across the land, each complimenting, inspiring, and mimicking the other, where the settler’s safety is shattered irreparably, and the umbilical of impregnability is severed. Undoubtedly, the response will be brutal and the losses crushing—at end, it is a question of will.

Why does a march to the border disperse at the first fire of teargas? Why does the presence of a uniform allow us to watch a man pummeled without eliciting a response? Why does a blaring crowd of a thousand flee a baton? These are questions of will, of belief, intent, and the willingness to sacrifice, this unfiltered manifestation of the revolutionary impulse, will not occur until the colonizer’s violence encompasses all, until it barges through the front door and leaves no alternate path—but it is also true, that if this intellectual condition is not developed, if the fear and attachment to personal luxury is not expelled, that even as the coloniser’s bullets pierce flesh, the body will not writhe.

Even so, the absolute governing principle remains that a thousand shells of words do not equal a single shell of iron. Tens of thousands of true fighters won’t be stopped by the fractured tears of men searching in the depths of defeat for scraps of armour.4

There is no parallel between the man who visits the camps to distribute toys, and the man who emerges from that camp with a rifle.

Still there are some nagging questions. Absolution clings to us like a soul being ripped from the throat of the dying.

In the scales of pragmatism, this battle is unwinnable, and in it, we have no part.

Yet, how many a small party triumph over the invincible?5 The parables are quite literally clichés. Gaza stands.

But doesn’t victory require formal organisation?

Victory is inevitable. Isn’t that what we tell ourselves when action becomes too agitating, before sighing and moving on? Gaza has shown us that victory requires only a handful of true men, holding themselves to account. So fight—you are accountable for none besides yourself.6

But the matter requires more time.

For time, humanity is ever at a loss.7

What then, are we to do?

Enter upon them through the gate.8

But the risks are too great, and we cannot compromise our families, our livelihoods.

The audacity is stunning. It might have been humorous if the reality wasn’t so morbid. If the backdrop wasn’t protruding collarbones and exposed nerves. If we hadn’t heard the fading shrieks of relatives under the rubble. If our brothers weren’t being raped to death. If we hadn’t the breaking of our fathers, and seen men pulverised under tanks.

Our fear is a charade. Nothing could be more despicable.

At this gruesome juncture, the question is not when the hour shall arrive, nor even if victory is possible at all. Today, away from the cameras, each of us are faced with a more pressing quandary: at what point do we decide to join Gaza in blood? And are we worthy?

  1. Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, New York 1963, p. 63. ↩︎
  2. Mohammed El-Kurd, Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal, Chicago 2025, p. 191. ↩︎
  3. Mohammad El-Kurd, Rifqa, Chicago 2021, p. 69. ↩︎
  4. Ghassan Kanafani, Returning to Haifa, Beirut 1969, p. 77. ↩︎
  5. Al-Qur’an. Chapter 2. Verse 249. ↩︎
  6. Al-Qur’an. Chapter 4. Verse 84. ↩︎
  7. Al-Qur’an. Chapter 103. Verse 2. ↩︎
  8. Al-Qur’an. Chapter 5. Verse 23. ↩︎

By Zubayr Alikhan

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Statement from the DFW Support Committee on the Praireland Defendants


Texans are facing increasing repression by both the federal and state governments. Those on the frontlines of protecting people targeted by the state are especially being met with this repression in spite of our constitutional right to protest and dissent. Instead of listening to us, the government is arresting protestors, creating false narratives about their actions, and wholly ignoring their own obligation to due process.

Acknowledging this, we have formed a committee of loved ones, friends and comrades of defendants who are committed to supporting them through the legal process and have experience with legal support and anti-repression organizing.

We do not know what happened at the Prairieland Detention Center on July 4th, but we do know that 11 people were arrested and still sit in jail without legal representation. The framing of the case by the federal government should be concerning to all of us. The glaring inconsistencies in the official narrative and the alarmist accusations are a clear attempt to bolster the Trump administration’s claims that the United States is on the verge of chaos, warranting a dramatic increase in militarized police action. This, in turn, will almost certainly be used as a justification for broader expansion of repression not only of popular movements but all political activity in opposition to Trump and his regime. As such, what is happening to the 11 people connected to the Prairieland Detention Center protest should be a concern for anyone who does not want to see this country descend further into authoritarianism.

The Trump administration has consistently shown that it lies and distorts facts to advance its political narratives. In particular, they created news and propaganda that seem to confirm the far-right conspiracy theories that have fed Trump’s rise to power. Time and again these narratives have been proven false and dangerous.

These 11 people are some of the first arrested under this unbelievable narrative, but we should expect this sort of repression to spread further and wider. Trump does not distinguish between these defendants, Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialists of America, 50501, or anyone else standing against him. They are coming for undocumented migrants, they are coming for supporters of Palestine, they are coming for those protesting ICE’s violence.

The first months of this adminstration have been a disaster. People have been kidnapped in broad daylight by masked agents and sent to hellish prison camps in other countries, with detention centers like Prarieland as stopping points along the way. Natural disasters have killed hundreds with little warning or care from the government, and even now we’re still trying to count the losses from flooding in North Texas. Decades of advancement in public health have being eviscerated: measles killed more children in Texas in the last month than in the last 30 years. Transgender people are being erased from our society. US-made bombs are slaughtering millions around the world. The list goes on. People see the nightmare that is unfolding, and the state is furiously looking for ways to distract, confuse, immobilize, and terrify. In this context, it should be clear that these recent criminal charges in Alvarado, Texas, are a dangerous and unconscionable stunt in service of this goal.

We are all affected by these disasters already, but criminalization of protest means that we risk arrest and worse as the state moves to crush everyone under its power.

However, the people of this country will not accept authoritarian rule. From the initial waves of protest, resistance and antagonism have generalized and deepened. It has involved not only elected officials and formal organizations, but more importantly, millions of ordinary people taking bold action to protect their communities and reclaim their autonomy. This spreading resistance has been met with violent state repression such as deployment of active duty military on the streets of Los Angeles and the arrest of sitting judges and US senators. Now the state is attempting to ruin the lives of 11 people and their communities in North Texas. It is clear that no amount of appeasement and capitulation will stop these threats to our freedoms. We must then support those facing repression and not bow to this state terror.

This is a historic moment and what will happen next is not clear. What we do know is that the best chance for all of us to live full and free lives is to join together and be brave. We in the DFW Support Committee have no choice but to push forward and fight for those we care deeply about who are currently sitting in jail. To the rest of you, we call on you to join us in our support. We will be releasing future updates and statements about concrete actions people can take. The first and most important action today is raising funds so that these 11 people have the best legal defense possible.

You can find our fundraiser at givesendgo.com/supportdfwprote… and can contact us at dfwsupportcommittee@hacari.com.

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