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Another by Josh Luna

Reblog to make him lose another 200 billion, like to make him lose 1 billion

I was punched and pepper sprayed by cops that my university administration set on student protesters yesterday. Including once where a cop ripped my mask off my face, grabbed my jaw, and sprayed pepper sprayed straight into my mouth. The university sent out an alert in the middle of our protest canceling classes for the rest of the day, only citing “adverse conditions”. After protesters dispersed under threat of even more violence and three buses of riot police from all over the state with rubber bullets and bully sticks parked in front of one our school’s famous landmarks. I staggered over to a couple of friends who were watching on the sidelines. They gave me water and an apple and held a bag of ice on my very pepper spray irritated face. As they were walking me back to my dorm we ran into one of their roommates. She had taken cancelled classes as an opportunity to get crumbl cookie with her friends. Standing in front of her, happy in a floral blouse with her box of cookies, in my pepper spray and water soaked tshirt, keffiyeh sadly hanging off my shoulder, holding an ice pack to my mouth, felt like a slap in the face.

After putting my pepper spray soaked clothes, shoes, and keffiyeh in a plastic bag and taking an extraordinarily painful shower, a friend and I went for dinner just off campus. There we had a pot of green tea and ramen to soothe pepper sprayed throats. We got ice cream after (shared a cup with chocolate and raspberry pomegranate with strawberry pieces on top, it was very good). From our spot outside the ice cream place we watched a steady stream of groups of sorority girls in matching jeans shorts and blue bikini tops walking back to their apartments after some apparently raucous parties. The cognitive dissonance was insane. I really felt a little like I was going crazy.

Even this morning, waking up to the smeared sharpie of the National Lawyer’s Guild’s phone number on my arm, a black and blue chest from where a grown man straight up clocked me while I was held up by two other protesters in a wall, and a still sore throat and eyes from the pepper spray, life goes on like normal. I still have final papers to write and a math exam to review for.

I’m not sure I really have a point. But, this feeling only makes me want to fight harder for a free Palestine. So, fuck Israel for being an apartheid state and all of their crimes over the last 76 years. Fuck university administration for not disclosing their level of investment in Israel. Fuck university administration for not divesting from this genocide. Fuck Joe Biden for actively supporting this genocide. And fuck the police.

TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN!!!

To the world:🚨🌍

In Gaza, life is being snuffed out under the feet of innocent civilians. Children, women, and the elderly are being slaughtered in cold blood. These massacres are not just numbers to be recorded in history books; they are a stain on the conscience of humanity.

Where is the global conscience? Where is justice? Where are the human rights that are being violated every single day in broad daylight? The Palestinian people are being massacred before the eyes of the world, while governments and international institutions stand by, issuing statements of condemnation that do nothing to stop the bloodshed.

The cries of the people of Gaza call out to the entire world: Where is your humanity? When will you act to stop this aggression? This is a moment of truth; either we stand with justice and what is right, or we remain silent and become complicit in this crime.

We will not forget, and we will not forgive the world for its silence. Gaza is resisting not only for its survival but for the dignity of all humanity.

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To the world,

I appeal to you for help in saving my family from Gaza. Right now, my family is not just a statistic—they are real people who deserve to live, to breathe, and to be safe. The situation in Gaza is dire, and every day that passes brings new fears for their safety.

Please, I beg you to understand that they are not just numbers on a news report. They are my loved ones, who have dreams, hopes, and the right to a future. I am asking for your support in helping them escape the horror they are currently living in.

They deserve to live. Please help me save my family.

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