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🟢🟡 The latest banner in the Stretford End at Old Trafford.
✍️ "WE DON'T WANT A NEW STADIUM. WE WANT NEW OWNERS."
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Just an unimaginable nightmare. Can you imagine having no place warm, safe and dry for your children? The genocide has not ended.
Scores of trucks carrying new tents and caravans (mobile homes) have been waiting at Gaza's border for more than a year, but Israel has blocked them from entering despite a US-brokered and monitored ceasefire.
Israel’s deliberate and systematic cruelty to deprive displaced Palestinians of shelter and compound their suffering is part of an effort to drive Palestinians out of Gaza, and is continuing with full U.S. support.
Remembrance Day words are meaningless when our "allies", who we as a nation have helped militarily, maintain a blockade on their fellow human beings causing this hell.
I admit that I completely broke down today. I cried uncontrollably. I couldn’t hold myself together after witnessing what I saw with my own eyes.
Today, we went to film a journalistic report inside the displacement tents along the seashore. I swear, what we witnessed was beyond what any human being should have to endure.
I saw men crying bitterly. Men I had never seen cry when they lost their children or when their homes were destroyed. Today, I saw them crying because they were powerless to do the simplest thing: protect their children from the water and the cold.
We spoke to families who told us they had spent the entire night carrying their children in their arms after floodwater covered the floors of their tents and soaked their mattresses. They couldn’t find a single dry place to put their children. They couldn’t even give them a few hours of sleep.
I saw children no older than five, without proper clothes to protect them from the cold, without heating, and without a dry place to sleep. Children shivering inside tents that cannot keep out the rain, protect them from the wind, or provide even the most basic sense of safety.
What more must happen for this world to act? How much more suffering must people endure before someone remembers that they are human beings?
I am sick of this world. I am sick of its hypocrisy and empty slogans. To hell with a world that talks endlessly about human rights while leaving children to drown inside their tents. To hell with everyone who has witnessed this suffering and chosen silence, and to hell with the governments and institutions that have the power to act but continue to turn their backs on us.
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I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier
This song went to number 1 in the charts in the US in 1915.
Harry Truman, then a captain in the National Guard, hated the song. He suggested that the place for women who opposed the war was in a harem, not in the United States #RemembranceDay
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If this is not headline news in our media this weekend then we will know for sure that we have no real independent media in the UK.
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My mum just shared this Siegfried Sassoon poem. Hadn’t read it before. It’s quite something. – at Scotland, United Kingdom
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Idyll.
Siegfried Sassoon.
This poem, written in the first year after the cessation of horrors, reads like a gasp of relief. In six rhymed pentameter couplets, it sketches a scene of utter peace in the unrealized light of a summer morning before reaching its reason for being.
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This #RemembranceSunday, let's remember the sheer barbarity, violence and horror of war.
Don't take it from me. This is a poem by Wilfred Owen, who experienced WW1 firsthand.
The message should be simple: There is no glory in war. Never again. Not in our names.
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On the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 19,000 British soldiers were sent to their deaths - forced to march into a flurry of machine gun fire, and shot by their own officers if they refused.
War reduces humans to cannon-fodder.
Remember that this #RemembranceDay.
