Watchalong Bonus: High-Minded Rhetoric and Empty Gestures (Community)
Phil and Kyle watch Season 3, Episode 2 of "Community"
Episode Notes
Phil and Kyle watch the hit NBC primetime show Community. A sitcom set in the weirdest community college one can find west of the Mississippi. Season 3, Episode 2 "Geography of Global Conflict" takes the gang to an overly-competitive Model UN -off. We discuss how the UN is of course a laundering factory for empire and ultimately contributes nothing toward the betterment of humanity besides empty gestures and rhetoric.
This episode comes at a time of horrible violence being committed by the American-supported, settler-colonial state of Israel on the people of Palestine.
“We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.”
- Nelson Mandela
Please, if you have the time or ability, donate to one or more of the causes listed below. The BDS movement has been illegally criminalised in many places in the United States, however you can still help in other ways. Free Palestine, end the Israeli apartheid.
https://free-palestine.carrd.co/#donations
https://laborforpalestine.net/
https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/where-we-work/middle-east/occupied-palestinian-territory
*According to Stars and Stripes (an US Army news outlet publishing from within the DoD) there are 18,000 contractors in Afghanistan as of January 2021.
"More than 18,000 contractors remain in Afghanistan, a Defense Department report released this week said, after the Pentagon announced Friday it had reduced its troop total in the country to 2,500."
This would make the ratio 7.2:1 contractor to troop.
**A good documentary on the Friday Protests from Empire Files, Gaza Fights for Freedom: https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/gaza-fights-for-freedom/