Over the last month, members of the Good Shepherd Collective have travelled across California, Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New York. In this short period, we held over 25 public and private meetings with organizations, community support groups, small activist formations, and student organizers to discuss our experiences, share our insight, and learn from others’ hard-earned wisdom as well.
While people could argue that it is par for the Trump administration’s course to issue such policies, we believe that Gaza has unveiled a new reality where Empire no longer needs to pretend to care. We are witnessing a reshaping of the entire West’s “humanistic” basis into what it truly stands for.
Ahmed Manasra has finally been released from occupation prisons after nine and a half years of imprisonment, neglect, and torture. Manasra was first abducted at the age of thirteen.
By God, I fulfilled my duty as a journalist. I risked everything to report the truth, and now, I am finally at rest—something I haven’t known in the past 18 months . I did all this because I believe in the Palestinian cause. I believe this land is ours, and it has been the highest honor of my life to die defending it and serving its people.
We recognize the critical importance of this historical moment and the essential value of gathering around shared principles and mutual solidarity. Creating a better world requires us to connect meaningfully with one another, align our understanding, and determine the most effective ways to support liberation.
Gaza is not an isolated strip of land – it has history, a geographical continuity with Egypt and the rest of the Levant. Settler colonial machinations cannot strip us of this very basic native geography: Gaza is part and parcel of this world, and the genocide against it will reverberate to other forms of Empire-fuelled violence across the entire globe.
The campaign to secure Mahmoud Khalil's release represents more than just a defense of the US's fabled constitutional freedoms; it challenges whether US organizers and society will permit the US government to make criminal the act of opposing its involvement in human rights violations and genocide.
For you to win, you need to completely destroy us. For us to win, we only need to survive.
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