Compassion Coup

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The goal of human flourishing requires the flourishing of all, human & nonhuman. Radical compassion is active muscular intelligent collective. #CompassionCoup Connecting and organizing from local to global for system change.

Text on white background bordered by red reads, “BY SIGNING THIS PLEDGE, I AFFIRM THE FOLLOWING • I denounce the genocide of the Palestinian people, including the mass killing, forced starvation, and destruction of Gaza and its population. • I denounce the use of starvation as a weapon of war and demand that the international community facilitate the flow of urgent humanitarian aid needed in Gaza. • I support an immediate and permanent end to Israel's military aggression, and the full lifting of the siege on Gaza. • I reject the occupation, the apartheid policies, and the decades-long blockade imposed on Palestine • I affirm that, under international law, all Palestinian refugees have the right to return to their land and that Palestinians have the right to resist colonization and occupation. • I demand an arms embargo: an immediate end to all weapons transfers to and from Israel. • I demand the liberation of all Palestinian prisoners - including the 400 minors currently detained, and the 3,498 Palestinians detained without charge or trial. • I commit to raising my voice, taking action, and holding governments, corporations, and institutions accountable for their role in supporting Israeli genocide, occupation and colonization against Palestinians.”
Book cover with white text over blue reads, copaganda cop•a •gan • da/'käpa' ganda/noun how police and the media manipulate our news alec karakatsanis
By Max Blumenthal and Wyatt Reed - May 29, 2025 Top Israeli lawmakers have accused their government of laundering massive sums through a shadowy network of US humanitarian and mercenary orgs. The weaponized aid initiative is the linchpin of Israel's plan to ethnically cleanse northern Gaza by forcing the starving population into concentration camp-like hubs. Substack article at https://open.substack.com/pub/thegrayzone/p/israeli-mossad-named-as-funder-of
Image of podcast hosts in astronaut helmets and show title, USEFUL IDIOTS on red, white and blue with stars. Text reads, May 30 • S5 E8 • EXPOSED: Israel's Conspiracy to Steal Gazan Aid - with Muhammad Shehada Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté Episode https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/
Original book cover in monochrome shows image of author in uniform and title text, War is a Racket Original 1935 Edition Smedley D. Butler
Audio book cover with burnt edges reads Chris Hedges A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine Tantor Media Read by Ali Nasser
Book cover with illustration of white elephant on orange background and text, Horton Hears a Who! by Dr. Seuss.
Book cover depicting areal view basic graphic map in blue and red with white streets and text, Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 M.E. O'Brien Eman Abdelhadi
White and orange puppy inside front glass door holding a balloon with text, Happy Mother’s Day!
United Nations HELP YOUR LEARNERS RESET EARTH WITH THE EDUCATION PORTAL View Teaching Resources
"The importance of the techno-feudalists is that they don't actually manufacture things, they don't produce things. They control the cloud, they control the mind, they control your feelings, your choices... not just consumer choices, but political social worldviews are controlled and manipulated by social media and by the big data centers that collect and analyze and feed you choices and filter the news and filter information for you."
Book cover with blurred gray image of broken fence post with razor wire includes quote, *Chris Hedges profoundly describes exactly what is happening in Palestine and talks on behalf of the victims. In his painful writings, he makes their voices heard." -ATEF ABU SAIF. former Minister of Culture of Palestine Book title, “CHRIS HEDGES “a genocide foretold reporting on survival and resistance in occupied palestine” READ BY ALI NASSER
Text reads, "There can be no peace without freedom of religion, freedom of thought, freedom of expression and respect for the views of others," said Pope Francis, Easter 2025
Text reads, “New evidence confirms the redistribution of wealth from working people to the capitalist class. A February 2025 RAND Corporation study titled "Measuring the Income Gap from 1975 to 2023" finds that, "the bottom 90 percent of workers would have earned $3.9 trillion more with..more even growth rates [since 1975]," resulting in a "cumulative amount of $79 trillion." This study extends prior estimates by factoring in "inflation, growth in inequality, and a longer time frame." And even more recently, an April 2025 article in the Journal of Political Economy, titled "How the Wealth Was Won: Factor Shares as Market Fundamentals," finds that "40% of [the increase in real per capita value of corporate equity, which grew at an annual rate of 7.2% between 1989 and 2017] ...was attributable to a reallocation of rewards to shareholders in a decelerating economy, primarily at the expense of labor compensation." This study estimates "Economic growth accounted for just 25% of the increase," and compares this period to the preceding era, "1952-88, [which] experienced only one-third as much growth in market equity, but economic growth accounted for more than 100% of it." Via The Ralph Nader Radio Hour, April 5, 2025
Text reads, “Violence never ceases through hatred. It is only through love that it ceases. This is an ancient law. - The Buddha, the Dhammapada”
Text over red background beneath a graphic crown reads, “KEEP CALM HELP PEOPLE AND FIGHT THE FASCISTS”
Screenshot of podcast, “Sacred Scandal” from the My Cultura Network. Reads, “SEASON 3: Nation of Saints In 1980, one man held together a fragile peace in the tiny nation of El Salvador: Archbishop Oscar Romero. * 4.4 (742) • True Crime • Weekly Series
Quote, “I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that lies at the root of all violence: structural violence, social injustice, exclusion of citizens from the management of the country, repression. All this is what constitutes the primal cause, from which the rest flows naturally.” Oscar Romero
Brittany dog resting on blanket wearing green t-shirt printed with words, “nonviolence, social Justice, ecological wisdom, grassroots democracy, may the future be with you, green”
Poem on sky blue background with red and yellow tulips reads, “Kindness by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Consider the tulip, how it rises every spring out of the same soil, which is, of course, not at all the same soil, but new. How long ago someone's hands planted a bulb and gave to this place a living scrap of beauty. Consider the six red petals, the yellow at the center, the soft green rubber of the stem, how it bows to the world. How, the longer we sit beside it, the more we bow to it. It is something like kindness, is it not? The way someone plants in you a bit of beauty—a kind word, perhaps, or a touch, the gift of their time or their smile. And years later, in the soil that is you it emerges again, pushing aside the dead leaves, insisting on beauty, a celebration of the one who planted it, the one who perceives it, and the fertile place where it has grown.”
Photo of a ginger colored dog with freckles smiling with semi-closed Bodhisattva eyes wearing a red and pink xoxo bandana.
Face of light auburn colored Brittany dog with freckled nose and fluffy ears with text over green clovers that reads, Kiss Me, I’m Irish… (not really.)
Sandy bottomed sparkling bubbling brook flows past oak trees then pans to white and rust colored Brittany dog on water’s edge.
Photo of Mahmoud Khalil with yellow text in bold, “The people are with Mahmoud.”
A photo at night of plane carrying former President Rodrigo Duterte to The Hague takes off in Manila,
Photo of the Dr. Seuss book, “Yertle the Turtle” and a canvas book bag labeled, “no such thing as too many books” resting on a green grassy lawn.
Art: BRITON RIVIERE, UNA AND LION, NINETEENTH CENTURY depicts in shades of gold and brown, a young woman dressed in a simple long dress looking downward at a young jumping lamb while a lion follows right behind her gazing up in adoration or hunger. Today is the first day of March 2025.
Poem text on photograph of blue sky with clouds over tree reads, Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between the regions of kindness. How you ride and ride thinking the bus will never stop, the passengers eating maize and chicken will stare out the window forever. Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho lies dead by the side of the road. You must see how this could be you, how he too was someone who journeyed through the night with plans and the simple breath that kept him alive. Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing. You must wake up with sorrow. You must speak to it till your voice catches the thread of all sorrows and you see the size of the cloth. Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore, only kindness that ties your shoes and sends you out into the day to gaze at bread, only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say It is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend.
Brass colored text on textured gold background reads, “Solidarity is not a concept; it is an active, embodied practice.”
Clip from “February 10 episode, On The Ground in Gaza: Serving the People in Palestine” Revolutionary Left Radio Willy Massay returns to the show to discuss his recent (second) trip to Gaza as a medical volunteer. He got back two weeks ago and stayed for over a month. He discusses his heart-wrenching experiences, the wintry conditions and terrible air quality in Gaza and how both are impacting the health of every single Palestinian on the ground. He also discusses the ceasefire, the spirit of the Palestinian people, the insane cruelty and horrific war crimes of Israel,”
Text summarizes, “Inaugural Joint Statement by The Hague Group, 1/31/25, declares an intention to uphold UN Resolutions and obligations under the Rome Statute, prevent munitions and the docking of vessels carrying weaponry to Israel in compliance with international obligations and humanitarian law and to take measures to end the illegal Israeli occupation of the State of Palestine as well as assist the Palestinian people in their right to self-determination. Via Progressive International Read the full statement at https://thehaguegroup.org/“
Book cover in black with white and blue text that reads, “Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism,” by Yanis Varoufakis.
4 page factsheet from The National Immigration Law Center, “Know Your Rights Under the U.S. Constitution - No Matter Who is President” (4/2024)
Images of The National Immigration Law Center’s “Factsheet: Trump’s Rescission of Protected Areas Policies Undermines Safety for All”
Hearts encircling goalpost in silvertone with text reading, “The Goal of Human Flourishing necessitates the flourishing of all Mother Earth's children, human and nonhuman. Quote from Martin Luther King, Jr. reads, “Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness." #CompassionCoup