Author Archives: esta

READ! “I don’t want to be someone who can’t empathize with people who don’t look like me”

Posted on 04/05/2013 by esta

this post, like a lot of the posts on bgd, is fkn spot-on. it verbalizes something that i have not been able to put my finger on before. of how racism, white supremacy, the totally biased and unequal reaction to … Continue reading →

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kick ass response to normalized racism and tokenism

Posted on 04/05/2013 by esta

here’s a kick-ass response in a discussion involving people i’m not that familiar with in the context of the rights of indigeneous people in north america, but to the content of which i can relate to, period. ———————————————————————————- ~ Friday, … Continue reading →

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call: help rebuild damaged cultural center in burin

Posted on 17/04/2013 by esta

posting this call by my friend jess and the youths running the center. ———————————————————————————————————————— In the latest attempt to intimidate the villagers of burin, volunteers of the Bilal Al Najjar centre came under attack in the early hours of 11 … Continue reading →

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call: help generate attention to the increasing persecution of activist issa amro

Posted on 10/04/2013 by esta

yesterday, activist issa amro from tel rumeida in the old city of hebron and member of “youth against settlements”, was once again arrested for his activism against the military occupier. he was first ordered to come to a “police” station … Continue reading →

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some background on “house demolitions”

Posted on 14/02/2013 by esta

there’s one of those videos circulating again that i hesitated posting. it’s one of those very dramatic ones, the ones that leave you reeling from the unapologetic, out-in-the-open injustice they portray. like the video of the woman with her baby … Continue reading →

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