Our personal experiences and history keep us devoted to justice and reparation— this is what liberation means to us. While our collective efforts to attain this future are much stronger than they have been in the past, we must remember that our advancement requires constant maintenance against resurgent ideologies of hierarchy and violence.

Many have come before us to ensure the freedom of their descendants, so too should we answer this call at such a critical time. Our ancestors who suffered imperialism and enslavement did not imagine an incomplete emancipation—a freedom only for themselves—they believed in a total liberation. In Palestine we have seen apartheid turn to genocide. In central Africa and Haiti, in Sudan and Ethiopia, we see similar vestiges of colonial conflict which are ignored in apathy by those who benefit from neoimperialism and cyclical conflict. Worst of all, we have seen many amongst us who defend these atrocities.

Already fascism rises around us, emboldened by political ineptitude and economic stagnation. Censorship, overt propaganda, militarism and increased carcerality are harbingers of a tide which has permeated even into our educational institutions—which have always demanded a greater consideration of freedom and morality. Around the world some seek to revert to the logic of empire and domination, race and white supremacy. We face a critical moment which tests the resilience of our desire for freedom and right. So in Palestine is an unanswered question, an open probe, asking if we will resist.

But today is different from yesterday. We can see, unadulterated, the occupation in Palestine, the destruction in Gaza, the starving and the injured. We access the public rhetoric of state officials who speak of Palestinians in Gaza as they have spoken of us. Therefore, today we scrutinize the Israeli state with context and clarity. We resist with a capacity of organization which is more dynamic and powerful than at any other point in history. Our ability to disseminate information and ideas with speed and accuracy is unimaginable to past generations. Therefore, we must take swift advantage and make protection of these mechanisms to demonstrate and agitate.

We will be ignited and united in Palestine as to ensure that our own freedoms are ensured and to bolster norms of anti-apartheid and anti-genocide. We will seek recognition of our kin in our backyard in Haiti, in Africa, and elsewhere, and we demand the same scrutiny and consciousness of these conflicts as we have seen in Palestine. Our struggle did not begin in Palestine, nor will it end there. We must demonstrate our resolve against each and every retreat of morality and justice. We must be committed to the complete realization of our ancestors' imaginings. We must allow no more dreams to be deferred.

Signed,
Liberation for Today (LiFT)