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Daymon J. Hartley's avatar

Shared your article to Revolutionary News Today which I am a contributor to. Very well thought out. The question is when will the working class and the American people be willing to take up arms? I am afraid it will have to be when the ruling class kills hundreds and thousands of us. As you know the revolution has to go through stages. And we can't skip them. Thanks for the article as it is really thought provoking. https://substack.com/@revolutionarynewstoday

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Sammie Lewis's avatar

Thank you so much! I'm so glad Daymon shared with you, and I'm glad you're getting something out of my writing! Feel free to reshare my writing on here, the website even, so as long as I am credited. I really hope to encourage discussion around the pieces I write, so maybe pulling specific quotes is helpful to spark those discussions.

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Sammie Lewis's avatar

Thank you so much for reading + boosting my posts on social media; definitely trying to build more awareness on the political repression I + others are facing. I've not considered a local tour before, but that's a really awesome idea! I'm working on a book, but that won't be ready for sometime, so definitely love the idea of touring with some of my articles, doing political education + discussions through Michigan, and maybe other places

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AmericanMutt's avatar

You sound like an entitled liberal who it sounds like is justifying the innocent killing of civilians including women and children. I get it's ok for the minority to kill indiscriminately but not the other way around. Hypocrisy!

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AmericanMutt's avatar

Minority groups always want movements to liberate themselves. My question is what happens when the majority gets so upset they take action against the upstart minority groups? Maybe the real solution is not a civil war where the minority group gets decimated by numbers but either immigrating to a country where they are the majority?

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Sammie Lewis's avatar

Or maybe people should not colonize other lands? People that face imperial colonization will always resist. And if you listen to those people, they will share that their home is worth fighting for. May all oppressed people everywhere rise up, by any means necessary. Their losses will be felt, but they will not be in vain. Martyrs live on. Yahya Sinwar lives on. The flood saw victories. Prisoners, or rather really, hostages are being released. It's a victory. May all oppressed people everywhere know liberation, may they never stop fighting until they know it. May we all take on that steadfastness. And may the fascists + imperialists be the minority, and may they suffer the consequences for all the harm they have done. May they lose. Freedom + power to all oppressed people.

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AmericanMutt's avatar

Total Bullcrap. Every civilization has been 'taken over' or 'colonized.' Revisionist history. What makes one minority better than another or why should the majority bow down to the minority wishes? All phoney bologna. You don't know your history of how indigenous peoples killed each other. There is no such thing as 'original' people.

Let me guess you are part of the minority that thinks they deserve to make all the rules? Sounds so very typical.

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Sammie Lewis's avatar

This is absolutely shameful. You have a lot of internal work to do, and I won't do it for you.

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To All My Darlings's avatar

I wanted two words added to their chant

- Freedom from the river to the sea FOR ALL -

and mean it. It needs to be the new beacon for democracy because democracy is failing before our eyes.

Men rape and slaughter women and children around the world all the time and on their days off they actively think up new ways to oppress them. Therefore, I do not believe in anything led by men.

I admired and believed in Jewish and Palestinian women who came together for peace and said - our blood soaks the same ground.

Hamas slaughtered the Jewish woman leader and subsequently their Palestinian counterparts were slaughtered in Gaza.

It's not that I don't want to embrace violence. I absolutely fucking do. I also know I will become a monster when I do it.

Look in the eyes and talk to men who have been on the killing side. I have and they are haunted by it and I have as yet to meet one who has ever recovered.

What is being argued for here is that there is somehow a way to control the killing. There is no such thing. There has never been such a thing.

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Sammie Lewis's avatar

And additionally while it's true that nobody is free unless we all are, the chant suggestion is basically what "all lives matter" is to Black lives matter. Decenter yourself when it comes to Palestine. And learn to be anti-colonial

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To All My Darlings's avatar

I was indoctrinated for 12 years saying with liberty and justice for all… the trouble is I believe it. Black Lives Matter, Palestinian Lives Matter, Jewish Lives Matter, First Nations matter and on and on and you can believe in freedom and justice for all everywhere.

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Sammie Lewis's avatar

Let's be real. Hamas are not monsters. These men were once boys who watched their family be killed. These men were once orphans, refugees. These men are victims of imperialism + colonial violence. They are not monsters. They have the right to self-determination. And please, don't try to make zionists seem innocent in anyway. They are zionist Jews. And they are the monsters. Peace is not possible without land back, without the end to the genocide. "israel" has no right to exist. It's a colonial project that mirrors the US + their genocide of indigenous people. May both these empires fall. Glory to our martyrs.

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To All My Darlings's avatar

Of course that was my point. The boys were indoctrinated and made killing machines. That's what men do best.

Patriarchal religions offer no pathway to peace. It's easy to predict what will happen - the land will be taken back and everyone will be killed just like Israel and kill everyone who doesn't agree or fall in line just like Israel. And pretend men don't rape and murder women and children like all other patriarchal men do.

I am indigenous and the Christians killed over 8 million in one silver mine alone. Please...

Power to women who know better.

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Sammie Lewis's avatar

You have a lot of internal work to do + I hope you do it. That's all I have to offer you.

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