Dear Family, Friends, and Colleagues,
As I work on a new, long column, which hopefully I will post on Sunday or Monday morning, I want to share two new items I recently learned about and embraced.
First - in response to my most recent column which posted three days ago which referenced the work of June Jordan - I learned that every year - on the anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre where Israeli-backed Lebanese Phalange militia killed between 2,000 and 3,500 Palestinian refugees and Lebanese civilians in two days in 1982 - American poet June Jordan’s poems are read aloud.
Each year read aloud in the camp.
What a powerful and touching way to remind the world - while embracing the victims - of the evil, the horrors, the inhumanity of war, particularly as it targets the Other, particularly as America and the West are increasingly complicit in acts of ethnic cleansing and genocide, especially in Palestine, Lebanon, and Iran today.
Second, this morning a loved one sent me DOUNANA, a 4-minute YouTube video by Siba and MonkyMan, that is of such beauty and power I knew I had to share it with you immediately:
Stay strong, loved ones, stay strong.
Draw your keffiyeh close.
Resist.
Salamaat,
Robert
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