Ghadeer Awwad

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“the concept of a “meme” which for our purposes is no different from an “idea”. A meme is actually a collection of ideas that have a strategy for replicating themselves.”
Srinath Srinivasa, The Power Law of Information: Life in A Connected World

Edward Snowden
“Ultimately, arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”
Edward Snowden

Shoshana Zuboff
“it is no longer enough to automate information flows about us; the goal now is to automate us.”
Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Paulo Freire
“The oppressor shows solidarity with the oppressed only when he stops regarding the oppressed as an abstract category and sees them as persons who have been unjustly dealt with, deprived of their voice, cheated in the sale of their labour — when he stops making pious, sentimental, and individualistic gestures and risks an act of love.”
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“If I must die,

you must live

to tell my story

to sell my things

to buy a piece of cloth

and some strings,

(make it white with a long tail)

so that a child, somewhere in Gaza

while looking heaven in the eye

awaiting his dad who left in a blaze–

and bid no one farewell

not even to his flesh

not even to himself–

sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above

and thinks for a moment an angel is there

bringing back love

If I must die

let it bring hope

let it be a tale”
Refaat Alareer, If I must die

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