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!["The wouldn't exist without Africa"
[Image description: a map of the continent of Africa, whose countries are represented by natural resources and minerals that western/Europeans colonizers and imperialists have and currently exploit extract for export. Some regions include: petroleum and natural gas, crude oil and petroleum, clothing and textiles, petroleum products, copper and diaminds, livestock, coffee and gypsum, coffee, zinc, titanium, fish, gold, cocoa beans, platinum, tea, coal, and cotton.
[source: @ Slow Factory "systemic change for collective liberation"]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/f05208f1729cd1d79ca81d39cf5ce39d/c2f145a43346e874-c1/s500x750/9a56d891111f04fdff640e7bc631fd9cea01f9c3.jpg)
![Israel killed my colleague and friend Montaser Al Sawaf. Imagine reporting on the killing on your friend, a person you lived with for weeks. I can't stop crying [source: @ Hind_Gaza, 12/01/23.]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/d1d089ab4279a4938bc8da653beda9f6/4a5611639b127172-10/s500x750/7236f4b4dec681c5175376ad51a77d1a8cb53917.jpg)
This is a picture of Montaser Al Sawaf, another Palestinian journalist killed by the IOF:
I am continually enraged by the normalization of Palestinian people's deaths in mainstream western media, and the constant dehumanization of each of their lives. They are not just numbers -they are people who have dreams, ambitions, livelihoods, families, friends, hobbies, and interests.
The IOF is committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, is breaking dozens of international laws and UN Conventions -is committing mass genocide -but a small fraction of people in power get to determine the narrative of 'who is the REAL victim here,' by reinforcing IOF and American propaganda which sides with settler-colonial violence -and it is beyond abhorrent.
“I tried to explain that I was a musician but it didn’t work. You say you are a musician and it irritates them so much they beat you more, and accuse you of lying,” said Merkotan
While international organizations inspect and have access to our prisons where Russian prisoners are held, they turn a blind eye and do not fight for proper conditions for Ukrainian prisoners.
Another thing that outrages me is the way "Putin's prison" is used. It was not Putin who tortured him and others, but russians. This is not Putin's war, but Russia's. These are not the decisions and crimes of one person. After 10 years of war, the Russians are still being singled out and absolved of responsibility. That's impossible levels of stupidity and cowardice.