At least 17,400 children killed in Gaza since October 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=733Ps87jAfA&rco=1

November 20th is UNICEF's World Children's Day. But on this day the Israeli military has ended more young lives.

Bombs rained down upon Gaza killing at least 17 people. The victims include children in the Jabalia refugee camp.

#WorldChildrensDay #Gaza #ChildGenocide #Israel #Hope

Everyone who has had a puppy know that this is just an example of the victory of hope over triumph. With an everlasting hope of something better, a single shoe is the only sample they need.

You can't ignore the work ethic though…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/18/japan-weasel-shoe-thief-kindergarten-gosho-kodomo-en-fukuoka

#Theft #Weasel #Hope #Expectation

A glimpse of some happiness, while under Israeli genocidal siege.

#Gaza #fishermen filled with joy as they caught some fish on the Strip's shore amid the famine caused by the Israeli siege on #Palestinians since October 7. They celebrate a bountiful catch, providing #hope amid a critical shortage of meat in markets due to the ongoing Israeli blockade and #genocide.

From Eye on Palestine on Telegram.

#StarvationAsAWeapon
#FreePalestine
#IsraelIsATerroristState
#IsraelWarCrimes
#RacistIsrael
#IsraelRogueState
#ArmsEmbargoOnIsrael
#USAFundsGenocide
#BoycottIsrael
#BDSMovement
#BoycottIsraeliApartheid
#StopGenocide
#ApartheidIsrael
#SanctionIsrael
#ZionismIsACult

I've just done a piece on the first commercial wind turbine ever built (in Denmark 1978), which went ahead despite all the experts saying it wouldn't and couldn't work. Only it did, and is still working.
(https://volewica.blogspot.com/2024/11/45-years-on-first-wind-turbine-still.html)

It made me optimistic: the share of wind and solar in total global electricity production has risen by 20% per annum compound since 2003. At that growth rate, they'll reach 80% by 2034. We will have broken the back of rising emissions.

#Hope

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#journalism #europe #theeuropeancorrespondent #EuropeanCorrespondent #media #eupol #politics #future #hope #truthseeker

« Every vital social movement immediately begins to generate art-songs, poetry, posters, murals, novels-an outpouring of the creativity that people will create from even the smallest crumbs of hope. »

― Aurora Levins Morales

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/733648807411236864/every-vital-social-movement-immediately-begins-to

#quotes #AuroraLevinsMorales #art #arts #SocialMovement #creativity #hope

Last time he got elected, I joined a big protest outside the American consulate in Edinburgh. I didn't hear about anything here this week, but this report is protests around the US is heartening!

#hope #resist

"Anti-Trump protests erupt across US from New York City to Seattle"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/09/donald-trump-protests-election?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

https://www.404media.co/why-the-work-still-matters-under-trump/

Remind yourselves the importance of not giving up the work in the face of overwhelming challenge. Together we will survive this.

#Unity #resistance #Mutalaid #journalism #hope

As we near the end of the #US Election, I'm going to wind down on talking about the voting stuff. If you have not voted yet, you still have the time to go to the polls and do so: this is close, and your state could very well be on the line. It would greatly benefit everyone here if Kamala Harris wins.

This post isn't about that though.

Something I want to say, as the din of everyone trying to get everyone out to vote dies down and before the chaos of Trump's inevitable preemptive victory declaration, is that we have to remember, either way, there is so much #hope for the #future.

Yes, a Trump victory will be disastrous. Businesses will close, culture will be damaged, lives ruined, and innocent people killed, in the US, #Ukraine, and #Palestine.

Yet we will continue to fight him and his people. There are so many of #activists who will do everything in our power to fight him, and to pressure Kamala Harris if she wins.

...and, in the long term, we are WINNING.

(continued in thread)

« Hope » (First Version) by George Frederic Watts

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/732924662912352256/hope-first-version-by-george-frederic-watts

#arts #artshare #paintings 🎨 #GeorgeFredericWatts #hope #music

📢 new post on The Winged Life !

a poem titled « The Miracle Is Worth The Wait » that was written around the end of november 2012, but was never released in that particular form, and eventually yielded the lyrics of a song with the same name…

🔗· https://poligraf.substack.com/p/the-miracle-is-worth-the-wait

#writing ✏️ #writerscommunity #CreativeWriting #poetry #poems #OriginalPoem #indie #selfpublish #author #authors #PoetryLovers #TheWingedLife @poetry

#faith #hope #destiny #maturity #humanity #spirit