Borders and Walls

 Which side am I on?

"Where I live, in Arizona within an hour of the US–Mexico border, offering any help [to a migrant crossing the border] may constitute a class 1 misdemeanor (or a felony) carrying a fine of up to $1,000 and possibly months in prison. Or: you can obey the law, do nothing, and take no risk. You decide. Not deciding isn’t an option." 

John Washington, The Case for Open Borders (pp. 10-11). 

"Many of us like to ask ourselves, 'What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?' The answer is, you're doing it. Right now."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immolation_of_Aaron_Bushnell

The Zone of Interest, which recently won the Best International Feature Film Oscar, Is About the Danger of Ignoring Atrocities – Including in Gaza. The commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp and his family live a comfortable life in a stately home with a beautiful garden, protected by a tall wall that also confines Jewish prisoners on the other side awaiting "processing." Director Jonathan Glazer: “All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present – not to say, ‘Look what they did then’; rather, ‘Look what we do now.”

https://portside.org/2024-03-19/zone-interest-about-danger-ignoring-atrocities-including-gaza

 

The Iron Dome is global – and so is the resistance

by Naomi Klein

https://www.redpepper.org.uk/global-politics/palestine-middle-east/the-iron-dome-is-global-and-so-is-the-resistance/

Many thanks to Stephen Wing for alerting me to this scorcher of an essay. Pointing out that the Israeli anti-missile Iron Dome is yet another version of the kind of border wall attempting to protect rich countries' exploitation of the poorer peoples; and pointing out the growing global Resistance movement.

Check out Wing's "poet's-eye view of the state of the planet and human evolution: https://www.stephenwing.com/

One way to Resist: 

https://nwtrcc.org/media/newsletters/april-may-2024/

See also: "The Nuclear Explosion that Makes US Aid to Israel illegal."

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/israel-nuclear-weapons/

Your thoughts, Please! Comments welcome, or email vineyzeke@gmail.com. – Jim Allen