Reading by Fatima Bacot ~ 31 July 2025
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We are the ones pierced through our Hearts by what we are witnessing in the form of genocide, ecocide, fascism, AI surveillance and control, climate catastrophes, vulture-disaster capitalism and their economies of genocide, killing for mere political opportunism and gain, others’ lands and resources, Manifest Destiny or because some God said so.
We are the ones standing in the place of having lost the inessential and the essential, stripped bare and who continue to rise when all seems lost, as has always happened throughout the human journey. We rise.
The ground IS scorched, but it is still ground, so we walk into the unknown.
We have our dreams and we have each other.
We are not unarmed: we carry truth and we carry each other. We do not forget what we have seen and we have felt. And we will never be silent.
We are not rising in the image of all that has failed us and that no longer serves: we are remembering the sacred and we are building something else from below, from the grassroots.
Together, in this reality and for real, where we meet again and again.
We remember, we gather, we plant and we begin… always.
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