Fuck Z Fuck Zionism and Fuck Russia The Nakba [“Catastrophe”] May 15 every year. Near-total destruction of Palestinian society in 1948. On that day, the State of Israel came into being. Violent process. Forced expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homeland to establish a Jewish majority state. Between 1947 and 1949, at least 750,000 Palestinians from a 1.9 million population (39.47%) were made refugees beyond the borders of the state. Zionist forces had taken more than 78% of historic Palestine [source]. Ethnically cleansed and destroyed about 520 villages and cities, and killed about 15,000 Palestinians in a series of mass atrocities, including more than 70 massacres [sources]. Though May 15, 1948, became the day for commemorating the Nakba, by May 15, half of the total Palestinian refugees had already been forcefully expelled from their country. Isreal continues to oppress and dispossess Palestinians to this day. [Sun 19 May 2024] https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/5/23/the-nakba-did-not-start-or-end-in-1948

I want to tell you about my favourite video essayist: Alice Cappelle

Class strugle

I much prefer a system were we give a chance to everyone and see what comes out of it.

Open this in youtube for english/spanish/german/french subtitles

The speech we are going to make comes from our collective.

The graduates of the class of 2022 are reunited today for the last time after three or four years at AgroParisTech. Many of us do not want to pretend to be proud and deserving of obtaining this diploma at the end of an education which, on the whole, pushed us to participate in the ongoing social and ecological devastation. We don't see ourselves as the "Talents of a Sustainable Planet."

We do not see ecological and social devastation as "issues" or "challenges" to which we should find "solutions" as engineers. We do not believe that we need "all agricultures." Rather, we see that agribusiness is waging a war on the living world and against farmers everywhere on Earth. We do not see science and technology as neutral and apolitical.

We believe that technological innovation or start-ups will save nothing but capitalism. We do not believe in sustainable development or green growth, nor in "ecological transition," an expression which implies that society can become sustainable without getting rid of the dominant social order.

AgroParisTech educates hundreds of students every year to work for the industry in various ways: tamper with plants in laboratories for multinationals which are increasingly enslaving farmers; design processed meals and chemotherapy to then treat those who fall ill as a result; invent "good conscience" labels to allow executives to believe themselves heroic by eating better than others; develop so-called “green” energies which make it possible to accelerate the digitization of society while polluting and exploiting on the other side of the world; produce reports on CSR [Social and Environmental Responsibility] that are as long and preposterous as the crimes they conceal are scandalous; or still, to count frogs and butterflies so that those who pour concrete can make them disappear legally.

In our eyes, these jobs are destructive and to choose them is to do harm by serving the interests of a few.

The more I say Capitalism breeds Innovation the more it sounds like something created to facilitate denial