Welcome again to everybody. Take a seat make yourself at home, we are out of tea though. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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If I disappear for a time, it’s probably me trying to take a break from following things closely. Sometime today after reading the news about satanrael passing a death penalty law for Palestinian prisoners, I had what I could only describe as an emotional breakdown. I was getting uncharacteristically angry about random things (not at anyone, just in my own time) and then eventually broke down crying and realized that’s what was eating at me more than anything else.
I don’t really want to stop following things, I want to be informed and not look away, but I may have to force myself to for a bit so I can cope. I think the pain of it has been building up in me for a while.
As someone that updates the News thread regularly, always take breaks. Take a walk and, if possible, socialize with people that you hold dear.
Also, never forget that this pain, this sadness, and anger is not yours to keep. It is fuel to be used for our agitation. It is fuel to push us to organize and to make others join us to form a movement such as the solidarity rallies.
Our power is in the masses. When enough people of the masses feel and desire a better world, that’s when the movement turns into action capable of changing reality.
Thanks. I agree with everything you said, though sometimes it’s hard to think of it that way, emotionally. I’ve been doing a daily thing for more than two years now where I write down what I’m feeling here and there, throughout the day, but it seems I still have trouble with letting stuff bottle up. I am probably not letting myself feel things enough in the moment, so that I can process them then. Though part of it, I know, is just a matter of channeling it into appropriate action, rather than treating it like something to process and let pass (the latter could end up more like pacifism if taken to the extreme).