$5440 in proceeds from three fests and one affiliate event have been donated to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund.

We need to do more than hope the situation in Gaza will improve, when our tax dollars, media machinery, political class, and military industrial complex aids, abets, and white washes the genocide of tens of thousands of Palestinian lives at the hands of the occupying entity.

We cannot sit quietly, rendered impotent by a sense of unavoidable doom, and watch the world happen to us and around us. We cannot pat ourselves on the back and consider the work done, as long as Palestinians suffer at the hands of the occupation, as long as women lose their rights, as long as trans people get hunted, attacked, and killed by an invented media circus, as long as black and brown people keep getting murdered in cold blood by the thugs in blue that prowl our streets, as long as fascism threatens to overtake a corrupt liberalism that does nothing to stop it, as long as less and less is done to provide working people with resources to survive, as long as a nation built on stolen labor, stolen lands, and stolen lives continues to bring prosperity to the fewer and fewer at the expense of entire bloodlines, countries, and peoples.

We must be willing to fight for seemingly impossible things, like real freedom, emancipation, justice, and peace. We must prepared to struggle. Through breaches in the rusting armor of colonial realism, and through the killing joke that must eventually come down on the world-eating capitalist machine, we will find a more fertile hidden reality, where we can flourish like wild flowers and spread love, rage, and radical difference to all places where people suffer needlessly under a normality they never agreed upon that aims to use them up and spit them out.

Instead, we will grow closer and more capable together, in order to save ourselves and those like us from annihilation and give ourselves and those like us a chance to imagine a future worth living in.

FREE PALESTINE.

FUCK THE FOURTH.

FUCK THE USA.

LOVE EACH OTHER, NOT THE STATE.