Zaina Alsous is an abolitionist daughter of the Palestinian diaspora, and sloppy-ass water sign, currently studying poetry and eating mangos in Miami while missing her comrades back in NC.
Contemporary solidarity organizing with Palestine should emphasize the ways worker conditions are connected to colonialism and mass-incarceration, and the mutual benefits of linking different struggles across race, class, religion, and nationality.
Perhaps we grow not by justifying our tactics to moderates, but by deepening our commitments to one another, and to militant struggles across difference.
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