Do Something
A call to redouble our efforts to stop the ongoing genocide.
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It has been a year of escalating genocide and of ethnic cleansing. Many of us have been astonished by how slow and how reluctant all* our governments have been to respond in any meaningful way to the carnage. We have watched an international media downplay or simply choose not to report the atrocities being committed.
Many of us have marched, some of us have written or otherwise spoken to power, and a few people outside the affected region have martyred themselves in an attempt to make some kind of difference.
Last week thousands marched across our country to bear witness to the last 12 months of horror. Speeches, chants, flags, singing. It is clear that there are so many of us who can see what is happening and want it to stop.
And yet. None of it has done very much, has it?
We have been made collectively culpable by our nations’ equivocal responses. Our shame grows daily. The levers of democracy have been rendered inert. We are ignored.
Whatever you have done so far, do more. Do differently. Whether we succeed or fail is not up to us. This is a holocaust and we have a moral duty as humans to resist its perpetuation.
Is there a meaningful action we can take? I do not know. Marching hasn’t worked. Writing hasn’t worked. And yet. If you haven’t been marching, march. If you haven’t written, write. Do not let this holocaust continue and have there be more that you could have done.
Join the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa.
Write to a Member of Parliament.
Do something.
* Shout out to South Africa and Ireland for standing loudly against the genocide.