As salaamu alaykum, Indiana—
I know you are also heartbroken.
I wake up thinking about the sheer terror that the survivors in Gaza are facing. I go to sleep with a prayer for the children who have seen their parents and siblings killed in front of them.
It is too much. But we must bear witness, we must persevere, because we have to.
We've made half a million calls and emails to Congress; pressured Citibank to stop being a silent partner to genocide; stood with Google and Amazon workers calling for an end to tech for apartheid; pressured Meta to stop censoring and silencing us; and been on the streets nearly every single day, in every city that MPower members organize in.
But the airstrikes keep coming, the children keep dying, and our hearts keep breaking.
We have to do more. That means we need more resources.
At MPower we are working every waking hour for what the people of Gaza desperately need: a permanent ceasefire, and a chance to live. I am haunted by the words of a 4-year-old child in Gaza who said: "When the war ends, I'm going to live."
I want her to LIVE. I want all of us to live. And I want her to be free.
I want freedom for all of us.
I want that for my Palestinian, Muslim, and Arab families. I want that for my Black, Brown, Asian, and Jewish allies. I want freedom for all of us who are dying inside watching the horrific killing of our sisters and brothers in Gaza.
We will only achieve that freedom when we stop this genocide and build more power.
Thank you for everything you've done this year.
I am motivated by the necessity of this time. We have no choice but to keep the pressure on and stay loud and responsible.
In solidarity,
Linda and the MPower Change team
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