Carwil

@Carwil@mastodon.online

anthropologist, revolutionary, #professor, #photographer, translator, father, dancer, lover of #streetart and human connection — research: #Bolivia, #IndigenousRights, the state, mass #SocialMovements, #tactics, #violence, #PublicSpace, #Territory — book: http://bit.ly/SovStreet

Carwil Bjork-James conducts immersive and historical research on disruptive protest, grassroots autonomy, state violence, and indigenous collective rights in Bolivia.
#anthropology #fedi22 #tfr

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Carwil, to Palestine

This is the relationship between Muslims and Jews in Vanderbilt's Palestinian solidarity movement: standing side-by-side, arm-in-arm engaging in joint organizing against occupation apartheid, and genocide.

#Palestine #StudentActivism

Thirteen visible students and others behind them link arms to surround a protest wall on Vanderbilt University's campus.

Carwil,

Jewish Voice for Peace and the Muslim Students Association are part of a multigroup coalition for Vanderbilt University to divest. They work with secular and multicultural organizations.

Carwil,

Four nights before the sit-in at Kirkland Hall, they held a joint Shabbat / Iftar celebration, honoring the Jewish Sabbath and the Muslim fast-breaking that is part of Ramadan.

On that day, all were invited to fast for the day in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, where hunger and starvation have been used as a weapon for six months.

Carwil,

On the morning of March 26, Jewish and Muslim students, students of every continental origin, queer and heterosexual students occupied the hallway outside Chancellor Diermeier's office together.

This is not a movement, from all I've seen this year, built around ethnic hate or religious division. Much the contrary.

Carwil, to random

Proud to share this Wikipedia article on Sit-down strikes, which I rewrote and expanded as part of @WikiEducation 's Scholars & Scientists program.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitdown_strike

Carwil, to random

Thirty-four Vanderbilt University faculty are calling on the Vanderbilt administration to permit the BDS referendum initiated by the Vanderbilt Divest Coalition to go forward.

https://bit.ly/faculty4vsgvote

Carwil, to random

Zionism's/Israel's internal inequality, racism, creation of refugees, and unrestrained violence have created moral crises for generations of Jewish scholars.

Until I encountered these recent works, I was unaware of important links in the chain…

Carwil, to random

One thing Aaron Bushnell's self immolation reveals, and forces us to confront, is the mind of someone who has chosen to place his life alongside those being killed daily with our country's weapons.

And to declare that his life isn't worth more.

This alone disrupts normality.
#AaronBushnell

Carwil,

To know that hundreds of lives just as valuable as your own are being stolen daily, poses a massive moral dilemma that most of Americans can only stand to dimly and/or infrequently perceive.

Carwil,

To combine that knowledge with a willingness to put those other lives ahead of your own opens up a profound moral crisis because it forces people to ask: what could I possibly do to prevent all these murders?

Carwil,

In a truly democratic society, there would be a low-cost solution to this crisis: convince a majority to oppose the killings, then insist the state follow your lead.

But our society is not democratic in this way.

Majority support for a ceasefire goes unheard.

Carwil,

In circumstances of genocidal killings, people who don't fear losing their lives have many ways to help, from volunteer hospital worker to defense brigade to weapons blockader to journalist to advocate.

But many others are filling these roles, sometimes at unfathomable costs.

(Plus many either face a language barrier or lack the skills to help effectively.)

Carwil,

When a political system is broken (or working as intended, but failing to represent or respond to the people), there are many ways to organize to change it.

And many ways that those with moral clarity and willingness could take risks could help.

Carwil,

Small 'd' democrats, humanitarians, resisters, protesters, and revolutionaries should have had many alternatives to propose to Aaron Bushnell.

And should have many to offer the next Aaron Bushnell.

Carwil,

But in the end, someone so committed will ask these questions of us: Will joining these efforts be more sure to end the killings? Will they work quickly? And how many more lives will be lost before they succeed?

Carwil,

We must seek out, then, strategies that will work, and soon.

Carwil,

With all of that said, I would tell anyone I love* wrestling with these question of moral responsibility a few other things…

  • And someone loves you, so I'm telling you, whoever you are.
Carwil,

It's natural and human to over-estimate the gesture you can take tomorrow, when measured against the lifetime of struggle you could embark upon. Don't be quick to forego the latter.

Carwil,

Just because you are not worth more than other humans, doesn't negate that you are worth more than you can imagine.

Carwil,

The spark of creativity that will take us beyond our current political impasse will be born in the hearts of someone who has taken the steps you have already taken. Struggle hard to find possibilities for liberation that keep us all alive.

Carwil, to random

No nation that possesses fighter jets and bombers, nor any citizen of the same, is in any moral position to criticize armed guerrilla movements for building tunnels.

Carwil, to random

Everyone should at least consider the idea that the law is constantly remade to prevent social change.

That many effective strategies will be criminalized precisely because they are effective.

That, therefore, one should never confuse legality with morality.

https://twitter.com/hannahcrileyy/status/1753122792847880403?t=44AJD3F8lXyK7_rLGC4S5w&s=19

Carwil, to Israel

"In Gaza… civilians are declared “human shields” even while they attempt to flee areas for safety or live inside “safe zones.” These new norms of genocidal warfare are an ominous portent… in which entire populations are no longer categorized civilian."
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623528.2024.2306714
#Gaza #Israel #genocide

Carwil,

"The magnitude of the destruction on life-sustaining infrastructure confirms the campaign is not as “indiscriminate” as Biden now claims, but… a very coordinated attempt to make all of Gaza into the uninhabitable moonscape that has already begun to manifest on our screens."

Carwil,

"Many scholars, including myself, believe that war, especially its colonial variety with its eliminationist logic against the native that seeks to remove all physical and cultural traces of indigenous peoples from the land, carries with it genocidal capacity"

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