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No one drinks liquor in January (accept for the alcoholics who've given up and the teens sneaking what's left of their parents' NYE stash) but I'm still stuck here at work because, even if we make no sales, I still need the money. I'm so tired and all I want is to be home right now but at least I have my laptop to keep me busy.
January has me hopeful, tentatively. This past year was awful on a grand scale, and we have to stay aware and work towards better futures for all oppressed peoples, but we also have to take whatever small moments of happiness and joy that we can.
You cannot make real change while sacrificing every soft thing in your heart. You cannot lead well when you have exhausted yourself.
Hope in the face of tragedy is Radical.
Those who want you dead cheer when you despair, when you give up, when you only mourn for what has been lost instead of fighting for what remains. So you have to keep pushing and hoping and loving and fighting and everything you don't want to do because it is all so hard.
I am going to keep my head up and swiveling, witnessing and learning, and sticking to my morals. I haven't crossed the threshold of a Starbucks in months. I hate that my dollars are louder than my words but we have to use whatever weapons we can. But I still have my words and my New Year's Resolution is to use them more.
Free Palestine until its backwards.
Book recs:
A Land with a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism edited by Esther Farmer, Rosalind Pollack Petchesky, and Sarah Sills (find it here)
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the war is still something i think about and refuse to use brands or store because of it. it's sad to see how people are quieting down about it. whether do or don't care for that change, its something we have to talk about. thank you for this.