Reposted by Ryann Liebenthal
I freak out bc way too many of them don’t get through it (the 17th century) :/
Ryann Liebenthal
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Spent the past 5 years raising two boys and writing a book about student debt, called BURDENED. You can learn more about the latter here: ryannliebenthal.com
![On the night before he was killed, Palestinian schoolteacher, activist, and father of three Awdah Hathaleen addressed solidarity activists from around the world in a webinar that we hosted to strengthen support for the Palestinian struggle in the Masafer Yatta region of the West Bank. Awdah was from the Palestinian Bedouin hamlet of Umm al-Khair, where he had been born in 1994, just under 50 years after his family was expelled from the Naqab desert during the Nakba, and a decade after the encroaching Israeli settlement of Carmel was established as part of a strategic corridor of illegal developments designed to systematically expel Masafer Yatta’s rural communities. Awdah played a central role in efforts to counter settler attacks, land expropriation, and state violence throughout the region, all of which have intensified over the last years, especially since October 7th. [THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE IS HIGHLIGHTED:] “Here in Umm al-Khair, every day, something is going to happen. We don’t know when, we don’t know why, we don’t know what. But something will happen,” Awdah shared on the last night of his life. “I want to be safe. I want to tell my family: ‘Nothing is going to happen tomorrow.’”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pm7ul3veyei5kp6mg7shmhix/bafkreiacqqak6h5xsfd2c7emb4kgvdwzdydjym6it3ucqfgozwfd3tahvu)
