Today on #HumanRightsDay, I'm thinking of former #Guantanamo prisoner Nizar Sassi who said, "if you want a definition of this place, you don't have the right to have rights." (Find the rest of my thoughts in the thread below.)
I'm also thinking about how, despite commemorating a day meant to celebrate universal human rights, that many in the global majority are denied these rights, with some outright expelled from the global community on the basis of being undeserving.
I'm thinking about the Palestinian people, the Sudanese people, and everywhere else across the globe where people are rising up against state violence and repression. I'm thinking of those who take their rights whether or note the state decides to bestow rights upon them.
I'm thinking of indigenous communities in the United States and across the world, whose land we occupy and who have never backed down in their resistance.
I'm thinking of Muslim communities from the around the world who suffer from global #Islamophobia that ranges from prejudice, discrimination, profiling, detention, torture, and murder on the basis that Muslims are less than human.
'm thinking about my Latinx siblings whose countries have been subjected to constant and violent US intervention.
I'm thinking of Black & Brown communities domestically & abroad who will feel the violence of #Biden's statement today: "Since taking office, my Administration has put human rights at the center of our domestic & foreign policy priorities."
I'm thinking of the people who know that nothing has been centered by this country other than violence and war.
Today, I'm thinking about resistance to the status quo & state violence. I'm thinking about a different future where rights violations are the exception, not the norm.
Finally, I'm thinking about a world where collective liberation is the basis of the provision of rights.
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