Carwil

Carwil, 1 month ago

Jewish Voice for Peace and the Muslim Students Association are part of a multigroup coalition for Vanderbilt University to divest. They work with secular and multicultural organizations.

Carwil, 1 month ago

Four nights before the sit-in at Kirkland Hall, they held a joint Shabbat / Iftar celebration, honoring the Jewish Sabbath and the Muslim fast-breaking that is part of Ramadan.

On that day, all were invited to fast for the day in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, where hunger and starvation have been used as a weapon for six months.

Carwil, 1 month ago

On the morning of March 26, Jewish and Muslim students, students of every continental origin, queer and heterosexual students occupied the hallway outside Chancellor Diermeier's office together.

This is not a movement, from all I've seen this year, built around ethnic hate or religious division. Much the contrary.

Carwil, 2 months ago

To know that hundreds of lives just as valuable as your own are being stolen daily, poses a massive moral dilemma that most of Americans can only stand to dimly and/or infrequently perceive.

Carwil, 2 months ago

To combine that knowledge with a willingness to put those other lives ahead of your own opens up a profound moral crisis because it forces people to ask: what could I possibly do to prevent all these murders?

Carwil, 2 months ago

In a truly democratic society, there would be a low-cost solution to this crisis: convince a majority to oppose the killings, then insist the state follow your lead.

But our society is not democratic in this way.

Majority support for a ceasefire goes unheard.

Carwil, 2 months ago

In circumstances of genocidal killings, people who don't fear losing their lives have many ways to help, from volunteer hospital worker to defense brigade to weapons blockader to journalist to advocate.

But many others are filling these roles, sometimes at unfathomable costs.

(Plus many either face a language barrier or lack the skills to help effectively.)

Carwil, 2 months ago

When a political system is broken (or working as intended, but failing to represent or respond to the people), there are many ways to organize to change it.

And many ways that those with moral clarity and willingness could take risks could help.

Carwil, 2 months ago

Small 'd' democrats, humanitarians, resisters, protesters, and revolutionaries should have had many alternatives to propose to Aaron Bushnell.

And should have many to offer the next Aaron Bushnell.

Carwil, 2 months ago

But in the end, someone so committed will ask these questions of us: Will joining these efforts be more sure to end the killings? Will they work quickly? And how many more lives will be lost before they succeed?

Carwil, 2 months ago

We must seek out, then, strategies that will work, and soon.

Carwil, 2 months ago

With all of that said, I would tell anyone I love* wrestling with these question of moral responsibility a few other things…

• And someone loves you, so I'm telling you, whoever you are.

Carwil, 2 months ago

It's natural and human to over-estimate the gesture you can take tomorrow, when measured against the lifetime of struggle you could embark upon. Don't be quick to forego the latter.

Carwil, 2 months ago

Just because you are not worth more than other humans, doesn't negate that you are worth more than you can imagine.

Carwil, 2 months ago

The spark of creativity that will take us beyond our current political impasse will be born in the hearts of someone who has taken the steps you have already taken. Struggle hard to find possibilities for liberation that keep us all alive.

Carwil, 4 months ago

"The magnitude of the destruction on life-sustaining infrastructure confirms the campaign is not as “indiscriminate” as Biden now claims, but… a very coordinated attempt to make all of Gaza into the uninhabitable moonscape that has already begun to manifest on our screens."

Carwil, 4 months ago

"Many scholars, including myself, believe that war, especially its colonial variety with its eliminationist logic against the native that seeks to remove all physical and cultural traces of indigenous peoples from the land, carries with it genocidal capacity"