5LL #265 - Gaza, Mourning, Movements, 9/11, Youth

The First Week
Palestinian Youth Movement, The New Inquiry

We hope this bulletin will help guide what principled solidarity can look like right now within the imperial core, and arm those in solidarity with us with tools to resist the military-industrial complex that is hellbent on our people’s extermination.

On Mourning and Statehood: A Response to Joshua Leifer
Gabriel Winant, Dissent

How to grieve, what meaning to give those tears, is cruelly a political question whether we like it or not.

“We Cannot Cross Until We Carry Each Other”
Arielle Angel, Jewish Currents

The editor-in-chief of Jewish Currents on recommitting to our movements in this moment.

Have We Learned Nothing?
David Klion, n+1

There’s a pervasive censoriousness right now—conservatives denouncing liberals, liberals denouncing leftists, leftists denouncing other leftists—that’s immediately familiar from the days and weeks after 9/11.

Young Morality and Old Morality
Hamilton Nolan, How Things Work

Wisdom means listening to the angry youth.

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