End Apartheid, End the Occupation, and End Genocide!

A Plea for the end of Apartheid, Occupation, and Genocide
From the river to the sea, and beyond. None of us are free until all of us are free.
An open letter to those in power calling for a permanent ceasefire, decolonization, and the restoration of equal rights. I've sent this plea to my representatives, praying it does not fall on deaf ears.

[A] Stop the Genocide!

Dear Honorable Senator/Representative:

Please support a permanent ceasefire and help end the ongoing genocide and oppression of the Palestinian, Congolese, and Sudanese people. Advocate for an end to the destruction of homes, livelihoods, and public infrastructure. Do whatever is necessary to stop the bombs, biological and chemical weapons, arrests, bull-dozing, evictions, and forced labor. End all forms of state, corporate, and settler violence against the people. Support policies that end forced displacement, restore civic and human rights, secure the right to return, secure citizenship and self-governance, and end all apartheid.

Please withdraw all support from and stand against all governments and corporate entities that oppress and exterminate people regardless of any so-called “justification” they may offer for perpetrating such atrocities. No collective punishment and no dehumanization of people should be tolerated in any way, shape, or form. Human rights are inalienable.

Without African minerals, no phone, no laptop, no automobiles, no diamond, no uranium; no electricity for France. That's why Africa is unstable; because the west wants to exploit African minerals, and to do so, they must control our politics. ~ Nina Simone

Judge by the fruits, the final outcomes of actions. Do not fall for false arguments or waste any time debating. Stop the killing. Stop the genocide. End mass death. Do not fail to oppose any entity whose actions, policies, systems, or organized neglect bear the fruit of death, displacement, forced labor, imprisonment, or collective punishment. Please do not fail the people in need of protection.

Do not tolerate the use of the word “war” when only one side has an army.

The real terror is the destruction, displacement, and immiseration of the masses by the powerful.

KOREANS for PALES TINE OUR OWN RESISTANCE AGAINST JAPANESE OCCUPATION WAS ONGE CALLED TERRORISM. ~ Protest Sign

Do not fail to act. We must end the genocide, end the suffering, end the imprisonment and enslavement.

Restore the power to the people and ensure those who have been dispossessed get their land back.

Thank you for using your power to help bend the arc of the moral universe towards good.



Pearl Friis
Founder and Chief Executive Manager

Epilogue


I know I'm not alone in feeling powerless to stop these intolerable global atrocities. However, I want to encourage you with some wise words from some seasoned activists and change-makers, as well as provide some resources for making your voice heard and making the impact that you can where you are.

Hope is a discipline. ~ Mariame Kaba

Please continue to speak up for justice. Please continue to stand in opposition to those who would prefer we surrender to cynicism and inaction, thereby abandoning our fellow humans to the forces of violence and mass death. We must actively seek out and cultivate hope, daily. We encourage each other to fight on with our acts of compassion, protest, disruption, and resistance, big and small.

Use the power you have, because collectively we must invent whatever power is required to secure the people's liberation.

YOU HAVE TO ACT AS IF IT WERE POSSIBLE TO RADICALLY TRANSFORM THE WORLD. AND YOU HAVE TO DO IT ALL THE TIME. - Angela Davis

Continue to reject the insidious and evil idea that some lives are worth more than others. Keep forcefully rejecting racism, dehumanization, and exploitation.

We must move swiftly to preserve the lives of the remaining men, women, and children currently being targeted for extermination. Then hold the forces of violence and destruction accountable to ensure this never happens again, to anyone.

We must not settle for less than restorative justice nor accept temporary half-measures. Together we must secure equal rights, equal votes, self-determination, liberation, and peace for all people, without exception, from the river to the sea, and beyond.

Actions you can take

- Write your senator/congressperson.

- Participate in non-violent Anti-Zionist Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) efforts.

- Educate yourself and use your platform (no matter how small) to combat and debunk the (expensive) propoganda that seeks to dehumanize the people being victimized and "justify" mass death.

- Seek to elevate the voices of Palestinian, Sudanese, and Congolese people whenever possible, they know best their needs and demands.

Train yourself toward solidarity and not charity. You are no one's savior. You are a mutual partner in the pursuit of freedom. - Brittany Packnett Cunningham