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Welcome to Milk and Spices
The Spa for Rugged Collectivists
Let’s begin
The US was founded on Genocide
Still, wasn’t it also founded on the revolution against the colon\zer?
Intif@d@ means resistance
What, are we not allowed to resist any more?
(resist any war)
Are we not allowed to resist anymore?
You have the heart of a lion
The heart of a lion
You have the heart of a lion
(what, are we not allowed to resist anymore?)
The heart of a lion
You have the heart of a lion
What, are we not allowed to resist anymore?
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2. |
Apocalypse is Classified
06:01
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Apocalypse is genocide
Apocalypse is glorified
Apocalypse has multiplied
The underside of omnicide
Apocalypse is ratified
Apartheid undignified
Apocalypse economized
Post truth ruthless enterprise
Apocalypse been zombified
Apocalypse is biocide
Apocalypse is classified
Think you would pack your bug out bag, find a place to hide?
Thought it would be evident? Would be televised?
Thought it would be sudden?
Hit everyone the same?
This one’s our apocalypse, but it’s yours to name
After the last apocalypse
just before the next
The last apocalypse
before the next
After the last
before the next
The last apocalypse
Apocalypse is genocide
Apocalypse is glorified
Apocalypse has multiplied
Underside of omnicide
Apocalypse is ratified
Apartheid undignified
Apocalypse economized
Apocalypse is genocide genocide genocide
(Apocalypse is)
Apocalypse is classified
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3. |
rats for palestine ii
06:06
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I woke up slowly
To the sound
Of a rat
Chewing through the insulation
In the eves of this house
Built
On stolen land
Feared
He might come raining down
When
I would still
Have all the power
He might find himself bruised and dazed
And i might
Bash his head in
I am
“isr@el”
Afraid of the impossibility of the rat
Chewing away at this home
Not rightfully mine
I am human
Do not apply the transitive property here
“isr@el” is not human
I am human
So i wish the rat would go away
That i could sleep
Ideally, we could both sleep
Could stop thinking about the despair
The thousands of children
Dead
Missing
Under the rubble
No–
Could stop the despair
Could stop the thousands of children
From dying, stop the rubble too
Resurrect their brothers
Bake them bread
Brew tea with sugar
Replant the olive trees
Insh@ll@h we will
I don’t know much arabic
But i do know
Allahu akbar gxd is good
And gxd is grieving
Because jXsus was P4les+inian
I don’t know much arabic
trying , in prayer, to stop the despair
Is teaching me how to be human
How sleep and food are precious
And necessary
How each life, mine included, is precious
And necessary
I did not need genoc\de to learn this
I did not need e+hn\c cle@ns\ng to learn this
I did not need occupation to learn this
What i needed was–
Good food and many hands on my shoulders
What i needed was–
Not “isr@el”
Not “@meric@”
Not nuclear family
And definitely
Not nuclear w@r
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Context
05:43
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All this didn’t start on October the 7th
No, it’s been 75 years of this aggression
Post holocaust and a mass migration
Of many Jewish people sponsored by the US, Britain and the United nations
Well the Jewish wanted safety and the US wanted oil
But P4les+inians were already native to the soil
Thousands of years on the Abrahamic homeland
From the river to the sea rich mix of Jewish, Muslim Christian
But now Z\n\sm formed which required an ethnostate *actually formed in the late 1800’s with a variety of beliefs about what it meant
And thus began the N@kb@ of 1948
The young Isr@eli army, sponsored by US and Britain
Killed 15 thousand and displaced almost a million
This campaign of terror was a form of ethnic cleansing
Expelling P4les+tinians, brown Arabs from their country
Many now were forced abroad, became diaspora
Many now were crowded in the West B@nk and G@z@
Thus began the occupation with its military reign
Separate and unequal- an @partheid, bloody stained
It’s important here to mention not all Jews are Z\on\sts
(in fact, there are more Chr\sti@n Z\on\sts than total Jews exist)
Not all Jews believe oppression of the P4les+inians
Will bring them lasting safety for their religion
75 years, contained by Isr@eli checkpoints
Suffering pogroms, bombs, encroachment, homes destroyed
The new P4les+inian government was called the PLO
They demanded freedom, Isr@elis let us go
But Isr@el doubled down and found a fringe movement
H@m@s, they said, we’ll fund you guys and aid in your recruitment *indeed
The goal was to destabilize the fight for liber@tion
Meanwhile, the US and Great Britain
Helped, while Isr@el defied many of the laws the UN itself had written
Having a white nation state in the Middle East
Invaluable for oil, to say the least
Things got a little out of hand for Isr@el on the 7th
Way after all this began in the context of total oppression *(the most important context that is being omitted in mainstream media)
H@mas attacked a music fest and killed 12 hundred people
Isr@el now retaliates with genoc\de and evil
Targeting civilians, half of whom are kids
The media only focuses on what H@m@s did
But Isr@el is bombing, with deliberation
Refugee camps, hospitals, libraries, supplies, what remains of P4les+inian civilization
(WAR CRIMES)
Atrocities, atrocities, atrocities indescribable
Over 16 thousand murdered, thousands more under the rubble *(now 20K)
7 thousand children dead and Isr@el’s not in trouble *(now 10K)
40k more injured in critical condition
People can’t get out–there’s no food, water, medical provisions
We condemn Joe Biden and our reps who won’t say stop
Who’re voting on more money to send to Isr@el for bombs
70% of the US population wants to see a ce@sfire
But our leaders just won’t listen
The US and Isr@eli lobby’s big on propaganda
And violently suppresses, the liber@tory agenda
(Did you know 35 states have laws against boyco++ing Isr@el?
And we call this a democracy? Seriously, get real.)
Likewise, dissent in Isr@el is no longer allowed
So you never see Isr@elis going against the crowd
What they get away with now they can do in any nation
We demand a ce@sefire and decol\n\zation
Find Your People
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5. |
Find Your People
03:23
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(we will not be silenced)
Get with your people
This is how it’s coming to me right now
Get with your people
Find your people!
We are not liberated until we are all liberated
We build and cultivate and reconstruct ourselves
As a collective of life against all the forces that oppress us
Z\on\sm (Tr@nsphob\a)
Colon\al\sm
Rac\sm (Profit)
Sex\sm
Homophob\a (Bin@rism)
Cap\tal\sm (\ndividuality)
Able\sm (Puritan\sm)
\slamophob\a
Ant\sem\t\sm
F@sc\sm
These ways of thinking DESTROY US
These ways of thinking DESTROY US
They DESTROY US
DESTROY US
But they are afraid of us
We have a way of being that renders them useless
Collective action
Collective grief
Openness
Relationships
Not participating in their economy
Mutual aid
PLEASURE PLEASURE PLEASURE
Compassion
Boyco++s
Art
Asking questions *civil disobedience? S@bot@ge?
Queerness
(Queerness)
(Queerness)
Find your people!
(Queerness)
(Queerness)
(Queerness)
(Queerness)
(Queerness)
(Queerness)
(Queerness)
(Queerness)
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_sit with it
06:44
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Hey, how you doin?
That makes sense
Me too man
Makes sense
It’s just a natural response to the shit that’s been goin on
(it’s ok to cry)
(it’s ok to cry)
How do we channel grief
How do we move it through our bodies into something constructive
How do we sit with it
Let our bones know it
Together communally?
(Community is Criminalized)
Paranoia (I got you) _sit with it
Hopelessness (I got you) _sit with it
Exhaustion (I got you)_sit with it
Guilt (I got you) _sit with it
Move it through our bodies into something constructive
Constructive constructive constructive
Sit with it
Fear (I got you) _sit with it
Isolation (I got you) _sit with it
Disconnect (I got you) _sit with it
Despair (I got you) _sit with it
(it’s ok to cry)
(it’s ok to cry)
How do we channel grief
Move it through our bodies into something constructive
How do we sit with it
(when community is criminalized)
Let your grief propel you.
Move it through our bodies into something constructive
Bodies into something constructive
And
Its ok to feel
Its ok to feel
Its ok to feel
(it’s ok to cry)
(it’s ok to cry)
It’s ok to feel
It’s ok to feel
It’s ok to feel
Joy
-–\\\ there’s an accidental on purpose silent section of this track
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Feat clips from Democracy Now! Interview with 4hmed Tob@si, Jen\in Freedom Theater’s Artistic and Creative Director who was recently beaten and detained in front of his children by Isr@eli soldiers after they destroyed the theater
The Freedom Theater
The people of Jen\in and Jen\n camp
There is no words, actually, no words
The Freedom Theater is a cultural, artistic place
Everything is destroyed
And you see all this mess
And I don’t know why
Because this is theater
It’s not a military base
It’s not a terrorist house
All of this has been destroyed
The whole theater
And then they just broke the door to my house
Please, there is children here
We are a whole family here
And you can do whatever you want
There is no need for violence
There is no need
Quickly they put the guns on me
They put me down and they start to beat me
They broke all the house
They broke everything
The children were screaming crying
Under the guns
Children screaming crying
Under the guns
And they throw me in the mud
It was raining they throw me beside the street
Where all the jeeps
The army go around me
And I don’t understand what is going on
Are they gonna drive on me
Are they gonna kill me
I don’t understand what is going on because I was blindfolded
It was a torture somehow
A psychological, mental torture
Waiting the moment
When they gonna shoot you
Are they gonna drive on you?
Are they gonna smash you?
And you just waiting the moment
When they gonna shoot you
Are they gonna drive on you?
Are they gonna smash you?
That’s the way that we live our lives.
And for me, I am wondering how long this gonna happen again and again and again
Be destroyed, we build it again, we fix it again
Be destroyed, we build it again, we fix it again
That we cannot wait for another promise
And we have to fight
Not just for P@les+inians
For the humanity
For each country still under colon\zation or under occup@tion
P@les+inians
For the humanity
They arrest us as artists
As people who do theater
For the humanity
The Freedom Theater
Is a cultural, artistic place
Where we have children, young people
Girls, boys, women
Who come here to practice
To find a place where they can express themselves
Imagine there is a better life
Still the Isr@el\s come and they’re telling us
No you cannot dream
You cannot dream
That your destiny as a P@les+inian
Is to grow up, to be poor
To grow up and die under brutal, crazy violent occupation
They arrest us as artists
As people who do theater
They destroy everything that shows
There is culture
There is art
I am asking all the artists in this world
Its gonna be a cultural, artistic \ntifada
We’re asking also all the friends all around the world
You have to unite
And we have to fight not just for P@les+inians
We have to fight for the humanity
For each community and each country still under colonization or under occupation
Without all this hate
Without all this violence
It’s gonna be a cultural, artistic \ntifada
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8. |
I'm Still Alive
08:22
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Feat samples from P@les+inian artist Murad Saiti’s rendition of Mawtini, the defacto P@les+inian national anthem originally written circa 1934 by poet Ibrahim Touqan, @wizard_bisan1 via Instagram, and a JVP leader
[My homeland, My homeland
Glory and beauty, sublimity and splendor]
Hey everyone this is Bisan from Gaza
I’m still alive
I’m still alive
I’m still alive
[ [This is real
Our grief
Our depression
Our fear
And our determination
Are all real] ]
This is Bisan from Gaza
I’m still alive
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