Call for love letters #5

A Palestine Statement

2.15.24

I dedicate breath and spirit to the people of Palestine

Palestine—unceded homelands

Palestine – land of ancient abundance

I move in solidarity with anticolonial struggle from Palestine, to the Congo, to Turtle island. 

We are witnessing a genocide, the desecration of life and land across generations---past and future. 

For generations Palestinian have endured brutal regimes of occupation and ethnic cleansing and the fall of 2023 marks a terrifying moment of escalation and permanent entrenchment of Israel’s violence against millions.  

Palestine has sent love to us here in Minnesota, in 2020, in the form of rubber bullets and tear gas survival tactics – gifts of knowledge passed down during times of occupation

See, we have always been connected. We witness each other’s dead. We rage.

Palestinian people are fighting one of the most colonial, white supremacist, militarized state powers in our modern era. 

Each passing day we stand witness to the full-scale destruction of Palestinian life. The bombing of hospitals. The execution of children. The entrapment of millions. 

The violence of occupation, dispossession, collective punishment, and starvation are ceaseless. 

Beyond a ceasefire, freedom and liberation for Palestine. 

The life and liberation of all of us is entangled with global solidarity movements for Palestinain freedom. 

Palestine will be free. Until then we are being called upon by Palestinian people to resist colonial rule in each and every way we can---boycotting, divesting, teaching, artmaking, dancing, protesting, writing, striking….

Naimah Petigny