This is powerful

[sheshe2]

by Sameer Rao

Wed, Oct 14, 2015 4:19 PM EDT
Tags: When I see them I see us, Black-Palestinian Solidarity, Racism, Settler Colonialism, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Angela Davis, Danny Glover

Dozens of renowned artists and activists are featured in an explosive new video that makes explicit the connections between black and Palestinian suffering under state violence and oppresssion.

The video, entitled "When I See Them I See Us" on YouTube, features appearances from personalities as varied as Ms. Lauryn Hill, Angela Davis, Palestinian hip-hop ensemble DAM, Danny Glover, Dream Defenders Co-Founder Ahmad Abuznaid and PACBI co-founder Omar Barghouti. They appear in stark black-and-white stills, holding signs with statements like "Free All Political Prisoners," "They choked me on video. I said I couldn’t breathe," and "Gaza Stands With Ferguson." These stills are interspersed between images of black and Palestinian protesters in action, police and military arresting and attacking protesters, and those whose deaths at the hands of police and military have galvanized widespread action in both places. The voiceover features impactful statements about the solidarity between movements.

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Davis elaborated on the solidarity in the same statement:

Palestinians have spoken out passionately against racist police violence in Ferguson and Baltimore as black people have vehemently stood up in defense of Rasmeah Odeh. That the Palestinian people have refused to surrender after almost seven decades of continuous struggle against Israeli settler colonialism is a great encouragement to black people in the U.S. to accelerate our ongoing struggles against racist state violence. These powerful images represent a journey from struggle against tyranny to a collective hope for a just future.

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Right now I can't breathe and it is not from someone choking me. Through all the death and suffering, a message of hope and solidarity.

[Warpy]

1. Delighted to give this the first rec

Remember, people, trying to remove civil rights from just one group tends to make all other groups out there equally vulnerable to the same treatment according to the Two Minute Hate of the day.

Resist any way you can.

I see us because they are us.

[sheshe2]

2. Thank you Warpy,

Remember, people, trying to remove civil rights from just one group tends to make all other groups out there equally vulnerable to the same treatment

[SummerSnow]

3. I will pass this along. Thanks sheshe2. k&r

[Downwinder]

4. There is cross training between US police and Israel Military.

[sheshe2]

5. Bless your hearts...

KMOD and MaggieD.



Thank you

[sheshe2]

6. Quote from the video.

They see our wombs as dangerous

Label us as demographic threats

They sterilize us without consent

[sheshe2]

7. I guess it is not so powerful, it died.

The people died, the thread died and no one cares.

Women...

Quote from the video.


They see our wombs as dangerous

Label us as demographic threats

They sterilize us without consent

[onpatrol98]

8. Hey!!!

Great post! I don't spend much time on DU anymore. Every once in a while I check in with familiar faces. I lurk from time to time.

[sheshe2]

9. I don't spend much time here either. Ha. This place S**ks

Uuuummm, not AA, DU.

I know most of AA is gone. I miss you all.

Thank you for coming back for this.

Hey you~ hugs.

Thank you, I was about to give up. Seriously I was ready to let go. Yet I need to stay until my President is gone, I will not leave him.

Ha~ you and MO lurk a lot. You are hovering angels.

Bless your hearts.