Assessing the Flames of Protest
It began with Aaron Bushnell and a visceral response of mine: Why would anyone do such a thing? Bushnell was the 25-year-old active-duty airman who set himself ablaze on February…
Aaron Bushnell
‘You Are Doing It Now’: If The Palestinians Are Forgotten, So Is The Holocaust
“What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide? The answer is,…
Aaron Bushnell’s Divine Violence
Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation was ultimately a religious act, one that radically delineates good and evil and calls us to resist. Aaron Bushnell, when he placed his cell phone on the…
Aaron Bushnell: An Inimitable Martyr
On this past Sunday, 25th February, as most of us carried on with our mundane weekend, Aaron Bushnell, a senior airman in the United States Air Force walked up to…
Aaron Bushnell Is the Latest Victim of Madmen Arsonists
More about why the U.S. Air Force airman did what he did may come to light. But what he said in the video that captured his final moments is sufficient.…
Aaron Bushnell’s Ultimate Protest
The live-streaming and subsequent videos of US active duty airman Aaron Bushnell’s extreme sacrifice in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. on Sunday 25 February 2024 should make…
Being alive is tough and even untenable sometimes …
Recently a person in the US Air Force killed himself in front of the US Isreali Embassy. He ended his life in protest of the genocide of the Palestinians. His…
Opposing genocide in Gaza, US Air Force soldier live-streams self-immolation in front of Israeli embassy
In a fatal Sunday afternoon protest, livestreamed and conducted in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington D.C., Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old active duty Air Force member, declared his opposition…
Why Would Anyone Kill Themselves to Stop a War?
In the past three months, two people in the United States have taken or risked taking their own lives in an attempt to change U.S. policies on Palestine and call…
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