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Selling My (Self/Stuff) in a Time of Genocide

Selling My (Self/Stuff) in a Time of Genocide

Is it ethical? Idk, but I gotta make rent.

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It’s been 43 days of a genocidal massacre tearing Palestinian lives to shreds.

Over 13,000 people have been killed, several thousand of them children. Thousands more have been injured. Entire family lines have been erased.

I sat at the National Library in Singapore yesterday, reading my book - The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine, by Ben Ehrenreich - and I cried.

What’s happening in Palestine, as our global leaders continue to resist calling for a ceasefire and refuse to put pressure on Israel to end the senseless killing, is horrific.

And Palestine isn’t the only place in the world that’s seeing such atrocities.

Immense violence and killings are taking place in Sudan.

Millions of civilians are being forcibly displaced in the Congo.

Protracted conflict has caused one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises in Yemen.

Ukraine is still at war with Russia. Pakistan is expelling Afghani refugees. Iran is executing activists and suppressing the rights of women.

These are just a few …

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