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‘The World’s Silence Is Deadly’: Greta Thunberg’s Message Aboard Freedom Flotilla (zeteo.com)

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June 1st, we’ll attempt to, again, sail towards Gaza and to try to break the siege and open up a humanitarian corridor by delivering aid like food and medical supplies,” says Thunberg. A similar mission to sail to occupied Gaza in May was aborted after a flotilla dubbed the “Conscience” suffered two drone attacks while in international waters.

“Keep your eyes on deck, continue flooding the streets, organize, boycott, and do everything in your power to stand for Palestine,” Thunberg ends her message, readying to set sail for Gaza from Catania, Sicily, on Sunday with aid supplies and several high-profile activists alongside her.

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[–] aaron 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

The tacit support shown by most Western governments to the genocide in Gaza indicates to me that human society has entered a new phase. One from which we are not coming back.

The myth of 'civilised Western society' 20th century me was told I was growing up into is incontrovertibly dead and gone.

[–] FurryMemesAccount@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I want to believe, I don't know what I'd do otherwise.

I recognize we are pretty far gone but if Germany is any indication, one can come back from this.

[–] aaron 1 points 5 days ago

I want to believe, I don’t know what I’d do otherwise.

I recognise with this sentiment. It is pretty tough slowly coming to realise the things society told me a child, and so I naturally believed, aren't really true. It took a while.

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