The millions of people who have died of COVID deserve to be memorialized with the reverence that will be shown for victims of the 9/11 attacks this weekend, but our grief over our COVID-19 losses cannot be weaponized to make us more patriotic or supportive of imperial warfare.
Pandemic grief, if let loose upon the world, at the volume it deserves, would shake capitalism to its core, or even upend it, so it is smothered with talk of getting "back to normal."
I'm not saying you shouldn't remember the people who were lost on 9/11. You should remember them, just as you should remember the hundreds of thousands of people who were slaughtered in their names -- a legacy no one in the towers asked for or deserved.
I'm saying that grief has power, and the death-makers know that. Your grief has power.
So as they try to bury your grief, in a failing performance of normalcy, while they evict people en masse, and cut off unemployment, forcing people to walk an economic plank to maintain this system, I say let them see the power of our grief and the rage that's buried within it.
I will not weep on cue, for the sake of nationalism. I will wail and roar at my real enemies -- the ones that maintain this system of disposability that we are all subject to -- and I hope you will too.
Also, please support the fight to #StopLine3.
https://twitter.com/MsKellyMHayes/status/1436002589892616205?s=20
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