The act of fasting converts the one's own body into evidence of the suffering in Gaza and the complicity of institutions or governments that sustain it. #FastForGaza
Category: tents
You knew they were going to kill you
EVERYONE in Gaza seems to have a premonition of their death. How could they not as bombs continue to rain down on them as they try to shelter in tents or the rubble?
North American and Palestinian Colonization
I've been working on the Quaker Tent Solidarity concept, which is rooted in trying to understand and write about colonialism, both in Palestine, and the parallels to the colonization of Indigenous peoples when white settlers came to this land.
Damage to our souls
One purpose of Quaker Tent Solidarity is to attempt to force people to not look away from the horrors of the life of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
Tent Solidarity in Practice
This was the first opportunity I had to put the Quaker Tent Solidarity concept into practice, which is related to the work I’ve been doing regarding ways for Quakers to do something, anything, to bring attention to the horrors of the ongoing Israeli military operations and genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza.
Efforts to call attention to Gaza
It was for myself. Almost an act of desperation. Just not knowing what else to do. So the idea was how could this number be visualized? Behn Samareh
Quaker Tent Solidarity update
I plan to set up a tent at our Quaker meetinghouse as a symbolic gesture, but one that I hope will encourage Friends to take a closer look at what is happening in Gaza. The mainstream media, and the government, are doing all they can to suppress news of the ongoing atrocities. And that was before the Trump administration, which is aggressively targeting anyone who expresses any concern about or takes any action in solidarity. This is usually justified as a charge of "antisemitism", which it is not.
Palestinian suffering mind map
Mind maps are ways to visually show connections between related parts of the information you are analyzing. Following are various views of the mind map for the Quaker Tent Solidarity for Palestine database I've been building using NotebookLM.
The tent of return
The "Tent Campaign" for Solidarity with Gaza and Truth-sharing: Proposed in 2018 by the Global Campaign to Return to Palestine (GCRP), this campaign encourages Palestine advocates to erect tents in conspicuous public places to share information with passers-by. These tents serve as a conversation starter, symbolizing the plight of refugees and those whose homes have been demolished by Israel.