Christmas is Canceled in Bethlehem - Turtle Island Palestine Mixtape Vol. 2
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🗓️ 25 December 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Christmas is Canceled in Bethlehem
Turtle Island Palestine Mixtape Vol. 2
00. [00:00] TRN-KREZ News Radio
Weather and updates on the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
01. [01:02] Baby in the Rubble
Pastor Munther Isaac
Middle East Eye / Bethlehem church altars nativity scene to show baby Jesus wearing keffiyeh in solidarity with Gaza
02. [02:29] Revolution
Melanie Yazzie delivers a speech by The Red Nation on November 4, 2023 at the national march for Palestine in Washington D.C.
03. [06:50] Palestinian Solidarity Pt. 1
Mohammed El-Kurd speaks at the September 28, 2023 rally in Espanola, NM. He spoke minutes before the shooting and attempted murder of Indigenous activist Jacob Johns; a hate crime perpetrated by MAGA supporter Ryan Martinez.
04. [10:09] Gaza Before
Palestine & The Blockade On Gaza / Osama Tanous
Arab Resource & Organizing Center / Friday Night Forums:
Amidst a global pandemic, in the year 2020, Israeli settler colonialism hasn't stopped. A panel commemorating the Nakba, the catastrophe.
05. [24:25] Our Resistance is Global and so Are We
Palestine is an Indigenous struggle w/ Elena & Orien
The Red Nation-Santa Fe held a rally on Saturday, February 15, 2020 in solidarity with our Palestinian relatives who live under brutal occupation by the settler state of Israel. We were there to support Diné artist Remy and the images he put up in honor of the Palestinian people.
06. [35:56] Resist, My People! Resist!
Orien Longknife reads a poem by Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour, and connects Palestinian and Indigenous resistance in Ogapogeh — so-called Santa Fe, NM.
07. [40:44] All Natives Resist Colonists
Minneapolis to Palestine Teach-In and Panel
Connecting our movements for collective liberation: An Indigenous Perspective
Sana Wazwaz with American Muslims for Palestine
08. [52:44] Out of My House
You ain't a leftist if you haven't left yet w/ Mohammed El-Kurd
Mohammad El-Kurd joins members of The Red Nation after a press conference opposing a statue of colonizer Oñate in Espanola, NM on September 25, 2023.
09. [01:10:55] Palestinian Solidarity Pt. 2
Wael Omar from Palestinian Youth Movement delivers a speech on Indigenous Peoples' Day 2022 in Albuquerque, NM.
10. [01:15:20] Freedom
Indigenous Solidarity With Palestine / Nick
Wraps up our mixtape with a poem. We will achieve freedom and liberation!
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| 0:00.0 | The high temperatures lack of snow and presence of rain this December is beginning to shape up as the warmest winter in history. |
| 0:12.0 | On the genocide in Palestine updated reports indicate |
| 0:16.1 | that in the West Bank 3,450 people are injured 303 people are killed, including 76 children, and in Gaza. |
| 0:25.0 | More than 7,000 people are missing, more than 54,000, 36 people are injured, |
| 0:31.0 | and at least 20,422 people have been killed by the Israeli occupation |
| 0:37.6 | including at least 8,200 children. |
| 0:41.5 | In Bethlehem, Christmas has been cancelled and people across the world have made comparisons |
| 0:46.2 | of the families in Gaza to the family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. This year, Christmas celebrations are cancelled in Bethlehem and for obvious reasons. |
| 0:59.4 | It's impossible to celebrate while our people in Gaza are going through a genocide when children are being |
| 1:05.2 | massacred in such a brutal manner. |
| 1:08.6 | All the heads of churches in Jerusalem decided that Christmas celebrations will be |
| 1:14.0 | mainly prayers with no festive celebrations. |
| 1:18.2 | We thought of what does meaning of Christmas for us as Palestinians and what message do we want to send to the world |
| 1:25.0 | about the meaning of Christmas today. So we came up with this idea of a manger in the |
| 1:31.0 | midst of a rebel resembling a destroyed house in Gaza and the child Jesus as a child was under the rubble. |
| 1:40.0 | We've seen so many images of children being pulled out of the rubble and to us this is a message that Jesus identifies with our suffering. |
| 1:50.0 | He's in solidarity with those who are oppressed. He's in solidarity with those suffering. |
| 1:56.0 | So it's a message of comfort and hope to us. But it's also a message to the world that this is what Christmas looks like in Bethlehem with this is what Christmas looks like in Palestine |
| 2:08.4 | with occupation with destruction with the bombardment of children |
| 2:13.0 | while the world is celebrating, our children are under the world. |
| 2:18.0 | While the world is celebrating, our families are displaced and their homes are destroyed. |
| 2:24.2 | So this is Christmas to us in Palestine. be okay. Yeah, I'm here, I'm not so I'll |
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