🎙️ This spoken-word video is part of a longform essay first published in October 2024. It is an excerpt from Part 4 of the 5-Part Series, entitled "Who Bombs Hospitals and Inherits the Earth?" (quote by Fady Joudah).
Part 4 is called “Beyond Genocide into a New World", and this is a small excerpt.
The full essay is HERE
TEXT:
Gaza is not a single issue: it is a mirror.
A fork-in-the-road Terrible Gift, live-streamed to the world in full view for almost 2 years now, with no signs of ending.
It is a reckoning, a rupture, a call.
It reveals a global ideology steeped in imperialism, supremacy, extraction, racism, exploitation, colonialism, exceptionalism ...that sees some lives as disposable.
It reveals how the Earth, and her peoples, are desecrated by the machinery of empire, for empire.
Gaza is the place where every red line has been crossed and International Law incinerated. Children burned alive, civilians starved. Entire cities erased in an AI-enabled, scorched-Earth policy.
And our governments justify it, support it, arm it, cover for it.
We are being shown the truth, stripped bare: of our systems and our connections to them.
What is happening in Gaza connects to what is happening everywhere: Sudan. Congo. West Bank. Lebanon. Syria. Yemen … and even in our first-world nations in the forms of fascism, ICE and other manifestations.
And this is not about “sides": it's about the Soul of Humanity and whether we will reclaim and defend it.... because when we allow dehumanisation and mass atrocity anywhere, we allow it everywhere…and we already see that.
And yet, millions have refused the gaslighting and propaganda,their enmeshment with the status quo. They see with clear eyes and full hearts. They’ve said no to Genocide, ecocide, fascism.
Ordinary people the world over have taken real risks to stop the horror, and continue to do so. To say: This must end. This cannot be how the story goes. It may be who we are right now and this is our collective manifestation, but it’s unacceptable and now who we want to be, and what we want to manifest going forward.
This is how change happens: not from above, but from within, and with each other.
Thehe Divine is not somewhere else..... It is here, in the blood and soil, in the scream and the silence. In the unbearable and in the beautiful.
And even in this devastation, something sacred is rising: the possibility of a new humanity rooted in empathy, anchored in justice and committed to wholeness is being born.
It remembers what empire erased and it recognises those who have been silenced. It moves with the memory of what was lost and the blueprint of what must be rebuilt. It listens to the land. It grieves with the waters. It re-learns how to belong in reciprocity.
Within and beneath it all is the Living Matrix, the Mystery, the Living Body. This is where teachings leave the page and become our posture, our prayer, our presence, our protest. Where we stop speaking of the Earth, and start listening to Her, her peoples and species.
We are not powerless.
We are powerful ... when we remember that we belong to each other and the Web of Life.
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