The impact of this genocide will be felt for generations to come.
The tactics being used by settler colonizer Israel so closely resemble those of the U.S. Empire during the war in Korea, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam where they murdered millions upon millions.
The trauma and legacy still are very much in our bodies and land today.
Our lands are filled with bombs intact, with poisoned soil, and carved up by Empire, so that we cannot even return.
Our bodies have morphed through survival and loss.
Our hearts are carrying the sorrow of our ancestors, our parents, and now our own.
Our whole existence has been impacted to this day.
I cannot help but think about the generations of Palestinians who, even 70 years from today just as I am 70 years from the war on my people, will still have trauma woven into their DNA, even 700 years from now, in the year 3000.
I cannot help but think about Indigenous and Black communities that have centuries upon centuries of trauma that are pointedly present today in every way imaginable.
We, the legacies of our ancestors’ survival, loss, and suffering in our bodies and hearts. We are alive today. We are alive because of that, because of them.
And today we are alive when people continue to be martyred over annd over again.
So to me, doing everything possible to stop this, is my duty. With my whole being, heart and body.
Everything we’ve got.
I realized that regardless of the tragedy, regardless of the grief, regardless of the monstrous challenge,
Some of Us Have Not Died.
Some of us did NOT die…
And what shall we do,
we who did not die?
June Jordan
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