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I will move on. Enjoy freedom and peace. Genuenly to god. This website is hatred manifest. I rather someone who's honest than someone who hides their hatred.

There's farmers blocking roads in the South because of gas prizes. Then truck drivers went on strike. Then workers from the Ilva factories went on strike because multinationals want to close them because they're no more profitable. Then workers from said factories went on blocking oil refineries.

The result was no food and no gas in a few small and medium sized in the South in the last few days. Straight up civil war scenario.

Students all over the country went on a huge ass strike against racist policies from the government on Friday, while Pro-Palestine demos are still going great (at least 20k people protesting in every big city last week).

Gravity is unamerican and must be destroyed.

EDIT: he was an officer 😞🎻

And it sucked, we took full repression from beginning to end, we were allowed maybe an hour of peaceful protest before the police hit us with decaliters of tear gas, grenades, flasball, charges, everything

The rest of the day was just a chaotic fight against the police which went on well into the night

And I was not in the capital, it was definitely less violent here but it really shows that the position of the authorities will be to just send the police to break us as soon as possible every time there is even a small protest until we are exhausted

***I copied text below, goto the link to see the videos of the attacks sent to me by our friend from Turumusaya. I'm chronically online so feel free to ask any questions I'll respond.

I want to provide more context on this attack on Washington Post reporter Heidi Levine because I’ve just returned from a week in the occupied West Bank gathering stories from victims of settler terrorist attacks in the Ramallah region, exactly where this attack against Levine took place. Our friend in Turumasaya gave us more context about these attacks and I’ll share his words with you. Turumasya is a village just over the hill and only one-mile apart from Abu Falah, where Levine was brutally attacked.

The morning of Oct 16th, before Levine was attacked by settler terrorists and before the IOF shot a Palestinian man in the same incident, settlers attacked olive harvesters in Turumasaya. This is footage from our friend Joey, a Palestinian American and US citizen.

The settler terrorists in Turumasaya burned three vehicles belonging to Palestinian Americans and attacked an elderly man and woman with rocks and sticks, causing them to be hospitalized. I need you to understand that when I say sticks, it means basically baseball bats, and when I say rocks, I’m talking about softball sized rocks that settler terrorists have used to kill Palestinians with in the past.

We learned from Joey today that the IOF soldiers who were supposed to be protecting the oliver harvesters in Turumasaya told the Palestinians to hurry up and pick faster because they’d gotten word that settlers were coming, and the IOF were worried about being attacked. Five minutes after that conversation the IOF soldiers abandoned the Palestinian harvesters. Masked settlers then descended on the Palestinians, they beat an elderly man and woman bloody, burned three vehicles, and prevented the olive harvest- an economic lifeline for Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank.

The settler terrorists get away with these brazen attacks because they have political and legal cover from Smotrich and Ben-Gvir. Under Gvir and Smotrich’s policies IOF troops can face trouble if they lay hands on settlers, and IOF troops are aligned ideologically with settler terrorists, we saw first hand IOF shaking hands and chatting with settlers. The IOF’s SOP is to conveniently not be around when settlers attack and only come after the damage has already been done.

During the attack in Abu Falah IOF came on the scene after the attack was complete and then shot a Palestinian man rather than confront the settler terrorists.

It’s similar to the political cover given to January sixth insurrectionists and ICE agents who shoot civilians in the US. Settlers who attack and kill Palestinians have complete immunity from consequences. Even on the rare occasion a settler terrorist is arrested for a crime, they are released just hours later. Like Yinon Levi who is accused of killing Awdah Hathaleen a Palestinian journalist who helped create the Oscar winning film “No Other Land.” Levi was released from custody less than 24hours after his arrest for murder.

No one has ever been charged with the murder of 14 year old US Citizen Omar Rabea in Turumasaya in April of 2025. The week that we were in the area an olive picker in Turmusaya was stabbed multiple times in an attempted murder by settler terrorists. Settlers invaded a Palestinian home at 3am and broke the foot of a 16 year old girl and beat her mother bloody as she defended her husband. And the IOF invaded Turmusaya after another settler attack on the town earlier in the week and shot tear-gas at our group.

The situation on the ground in the West Bank is worse than the reporting that you’re seeing. The olive groves makes it seem like these attacks are in remote places. No, the attacks are happening on the outskirts of towns because that’s the only area Palestinians have access to. Palestinians have been restricted from accessing area C land, which comprises about 60% of the West Bank since Oct 7 and this year Palestinians have been restricted from using half of their legally owned area B land. In recent months IOF have made routine incursions into area A land which is the town and village centers. So in total Palestinians have lost access to 71% of the land in their country- land that Palestinians legally own.

And settlements like Shilo are bulldozing the olive groves and planting vineyards and then selling wine across the globe, profiting off of the Palestinian’s stolen land.

Please stay tuned, I’ll be putting together reports on the occupation, attacks, and oppression committed by the apartheid state that we witnessed first-hand.

The most impactful things you can do is contact Ambassador Huckabee’s office and tell them to intervene in the settler and IOF’s attacks against Palestinian-Americans and you can volunteer to go to the West Bank and bring international attention to what’s happening in the West Bank.

Huckabee’s Office: 011-972-2-630-4000 email JerusalemACS@state.gov

Join the Faz3a 2026 Olive Harvest Campaign. Palestinian farmers need volunteers in the West Bank now. Sign up:

https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/i0G82IQHTRtnMX5TwjVTcuoh+4FwRMrWVXmq6dQqkns/

Pressure your senators and congress people to cut off all aid and assistance to Israel and to pressure the Israeli government to stop all settler attacks against Palestinians.

The Narcan that our DSA chapter put out just saved someone's life. In real time, not even ten minutes ago. The police are just now leaving. The paramedics took her away.

We gave her three rounds of Narcan and she didn't wake up. The paramedics gave her another three and she came to. There is a non-zero chance, in fact a pretty decent chance, that the three rounds of Narcan we provided while we waited for the EMTs to arrive saved her life. Because she was slumped, completely slumped. I'm honestly surprised she still had a pulse. I'm surprised she was breathing, however faintly. But there's no Narcan here, or there wasn't. According to the EMT, overdoses on this property aren't uncommon. Just last week there was another. Just last week our Narcan came into play. And just last week the police were here, carrying away another body. Before two weeks ago, there was no Narcan here.

We see such an intersection of class politics happening in real time. On one hand, you have the petite bourgeoisie landlord who will gladly take these people's money but won't even assure that they won't die on his property. Because the Narcan was provided by us. There was no Narcan before. So you can imagine somebody who is an addict, still a human being, paying the $360 to stay here for a week and overdosing on day two. Their body carried out of the hall, their money still in the system, their name perhaps removed so the room can be re-rented. After all, this is a business, and it is just business. Necropolitics.

And then you have the lumpenproletariat, because someone sold her something. I know there are multiple people here who trap. Some sell weed, some sell pills, some sell whatever you need. I keep to myself, so I don't know too much about all that. But it's an undeniable reality of the economic situation that exists within a cheap motel. And it's undeniable that the landlord, the owner of the business, is aware of what happens at his business. But it's just business, and as long as the rent's paid, who cares? Does a landlord have a responsibility to tend to the social reality of his business? The socioeconomic conditions that make up your patrons should in some capacity reflect on you as a business owner, I would imagine. But the pursuit of profit is ultimately the only reflection the vampire sees in the mirror.

And then you have me, the humble peon, the worker who's on the clock when the overdose happens. And yes, I happen to live here, but I'm working here. My hands are tied. I have to call my boss. I have to call 911. I can't look away and say none of my business. And I don't think I would for an overdose. Although I may have had someone else handle the 911 call if I wasn't at work. Just the nature of dealing with the police. Because when the police are on the property, you are a criminal too, or you could become one. After all, maybe you know who sold it to her. I don't. I don't know anything. And I don't know anything about this woman. And I don't know how to operate the cameras. And I'll make it very clear to the other people who live here, who do traffic, who are lumpen, that he called my boss. The officer called my boss. I did what I could, didn't give him anything. But the fact of the matter is my hands are tied. I'm at work. And dealing with an overdose at work, I'm sorry, but being paid $15 an hour isn't a high enough wage to watch someone die. And if we didn't have Narcan here, there's a pretty good chance that she could have.

Does a business owner have a responsibility to his employees, wherein the situations the employee finds themselves in are therein a reflection of the owner's business and business practices? Because I'm not saying it's impossible, but there is a much lower chance of someone having to administer Narcan while working the grill at McDonald's, which was my last job before I worked here.

And all of these things compound and twist into the material reality. The police leave and I'm back to filing paperwork, checking customers in, selling snacks, and putting money in the register that belongs to the business owner. Does the business owner have a responsibility to his customers when they deal with a situation like this? Because if you're not experienced with administering Narcan, dealing with an overdose, calling a paramedic, talking to the police, checking for a pulse, dealing with what could potentially be a dead body, then this could be a highly traumatic experience for you, or at the very least something that leaves you shaken, with a heart pounding full of adrenaline. And thankfully, this isn't my first time dealing with an overdose. Because again, it's our organization that provided the Narcan, not the business owner, who has not provided training on how to administer it, hasn't provided insight as to what an overdose looks like, and hasn't provided directive as to what to do. So if I hadn't been trained through my socialist experiences, things could have went much worse.

And again, lives are hanging in the balance, but the room she was in will be rented out again, and there's a non-zero chance that the police took her right to jail, and at the very least she'll probably be charged with something, which probably won't help her get clean.

Because I think on some deeper, subconscious, psychological level, when you are in the material circumstances that build the foundations of a cheap motel run by a landlord such as this, when you find yourself in active addiction, surrounded by decay and poverty and rot, and you find yourself hungry, and you find yourself spending all the money you have and then some just to have shelter, maybe sometimes the urge to just lay down and die from the dehumanization fills the lungs in the same way the fentanyl smoke does. Because she smoked it. We have it on camera. I watched the whole thing.

The cold tile concrete of the building, the callous profit mindset of the business owner, the socioeconomic conditions that drive active addiction, the lumpenproletariat who, through the same economic conditions that drive addiction, drive his poverty and his need to sell such products. Because it is a marketplace. It is a business. It's just business.

In all of these instances, this woman was completely and utterly dehumanized, forgotten. And I've known people who would have said, just let her die. One less drain, one less leech, one less filthy addict. And all that compounded into a woman laid out on the floor, fading from this world.

And you know what saved her? You know what saved her in those moments of brutal, utter necropolitical dehumanization? Mutual aid. Socialism. Organizing. Direct action. Stepping up. You know that overdoses happen because it's a cheap motel. You know that the business owner doesn't give a fuck because he's after the profits and these people are disposable. And you know someone who has plenty of Narcan because you're in the DSA. How difficult is it really to put a few boxes out?

We should all strive to, in a metaphorical and literal sense, put more boxes out. Because you never know when this socialism shit's gonna be life or death.