Poetry as a Tool of Resistance: Dareen Tatour, Mariam Barghouti, Farah Chamma, Ashira Darwish

'Where Olive Trees Weep' June 6-27, 2024
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This conversation is released with the premiere of the documentary 'Where Olive Trees Weep,' along with 21 days of talks on Palestine with leading historians, spiritual teachers, trauma therapists, poets, artists and more.
Watch this full video and all 21-days of this collection of talks around "Where Olive Trees Weep": we.scienceandnonduality.com/o...
Verses of Defiance: Poetry as a Tool of Resistance
With Dareen Tatour, Mariam Barghouti, Farah Chamma facilitated by Ashira Darwish
In this evening of verse and resistance, Palestinian poets will take the stage to unleash the defiant, unbowed indigenous Palestinian voice.
Together, these word-weavers will give a voice to Palestinian narratives too often suppressed or denied. Their poems are emancipatory odes to the indomitable struggle for freedom and self-determination. In giving voice to what Israeli efforts seek to silence, our speakers will embody the revolutionary idea that no people can remain shackled when their poets are free. Their verses are balms for the soul and fuel for the liberation movement.
'Where Olive Trees Weep' is a poignant, heartbreaking film about the struggles and resilience of Palestinian people under Israeli occupation. It explores themes of loss, trauma, and the quest for justice. We follow, among others, Palestinian journalist and therapist Ashira Darwish, grassroots activist Ahed Tamimi, and Israeli journalist Amira Hass. It features Dr. Gabor Maté as he offers trauma-healing work to Palestinian women tortured in Israeli prisons.
The program expands on the themes explored in the film and provides a larger historical and social context. Access to the program and the film is by donation.
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Chapters:
00:00:00 - Introduction and Welcoming Remarks
00:08:36 - Censorship and the Power of Poetry
00:16:26 - The Healing Power of Poetry
00:27:15 - Dealing with Censorship

[@Leondra72]

Thank you, for all you do in the name of truth justice and a free Palestine 🇵🇸

[@rainbowpeace13]

You are my people......speaking truth and beauty through the brutality....transformative tears and courage....thank you thank you for your humanitarian spiritual work.

[@aidasulcs]

Thank you

[@bethechange52]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! These young women carry an essence of wisdom and courageous spirit that goes far beyond the present reality. Their tenacity and resoluteness is astounding. I am in AWE! The poems brought tears...my heart sends out love and protection to all! ❤💓💞

[@taahirahchothia6036]

I’m loving these chats. Thanks for giving this to the world.

[@kappa9gamma]

Thank you for this! Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[@MyWits_End]

I am immensely grateful to hear your voices, Farah, Ashira, Mariam, Dareen. I wish I could find the words to express how truly blessed I feel to have 'met' you and heard you. Thank you for your courage, wisdom & openness to share your beautiful souls with us. You carry so much and yet give so incredibly much. You are fierce and alive & you have touched my heart deeply. I thank you for having the courage and strength to help us to feel the depths of the truths before us all, so we may grow in love and understanding and overcome this devastating nightmare together 💞 To Zaya, Maurizio, Gabor, the SAND crew and all of the other contributing souls, thank you for helping to bring voices to those who need to be heard and for being such a powerful catalyst for truth-telling and justice-seeking for all of humanity. Thank you for your beautiful souls and invaluable work. Humanity needs this so much. Thank you 🙏

[@jamesreid7850]

Bless you women poets. Indeed ponder over the immensity of the crime's this time in Palestine it became clear in February that Palestine flights out of love for life not hate as the likes smottrich say. I see my irish grandma in you that I didn't understand until recently. Her devotion and love survived despite the horrendous abuse she endured as a girl 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇱🇧🇱🇧🇱🇧🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

[@isabellechouinard1024]

Thank you so much Zaya and Maurizio for every effort you're both making in this crazy world we live in to inform and soothe the pain and despair in our hearts. Congratulations to the brave poets present in this video. I have a lot to say, hopefully, I won't bore anybody. Some important words or names have been mentioned. Mahatma Gandhi is the one to remember I think. While reading one of the poems, the one about 'Resisting', images of Palestinians actually 'resisting' were shown. I am sad to say this but I think it is imperative to consider, that violence can only lead to more violence. How come no Palestinians stand up against the violence of Hamas? We all know that the civilians are harmless and are the main victims. Back to Mahatma Gandhi or John Lennon, 'Imagine all the people'! I dream of seeing crowds of peaceful protesters requesting that all weapons have to be put down. I dream of huge peaceful marches like Gandhi organized for his people. The poor Palestinian people have no 'wise' leader they can rely on and they are being oppressed by a diabolic crazy man on the other side. Hamas is not a solution because it just brings more violence. If some peaceful hearts were among this group, they would not have let happen what Palestinians are going through for the last months. Now it's too late for a peaceful march in Palestine, because everybody is in a mode of survival and hiding where there is no more place to hide. Very sad. My heart bleeds just like yours for all the people being killed by greedy and hateful hearts. Zaya often asks "How is this possible?", from a Buddhist perspective, 3 poisons can affect the human mind. Ignorance, desire-attachment, hate-aversion. When these poisons blossom they can do the most evil things.

[@rosannasun99]

Maurizio and Zaya, I love and thank you for the passion and power that you expressed.

[@KryCaNe]

Thank you.

[@FlowingWakefulness]

Beauty Will Save the World, but only when the heart is opened to truth and it is carried on the shoulders of justice! This conversation, in a fine assembly of courageous ladies is a living prove of that, even if seemingly perplexing reality, faced with obviousness of horror yet giving way for light to prevail 🤍🙏🏽🕊

[@mixedchic3050]

I watched the movie yesterday afternoon. Thank you so much! ❤

[@Angelaah.]

Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful hearts and poetry with the world. You are seen, heard and cherished. Where can we find Dareen Tatour's book? Her book seems to be with 'Drunk Muse Press' but then, on clicking on it, says URL has been deleted or not available. Is there some other way that we can support her work and buy her book - and also the work of Ashira, Farah and Mariam? Thank you 🙏

[@scienceandnonduality]

Let me ask her... can you email me at maurizio at scienceandnonduality dot com ?

[@scienceandnonduality]

Find our Palestine links and resources at whereolivetreesweep.com/resources/ ❤

[@mojorising1]

Jesus loves you ❤

[@nadiabensellam4504]

Thank you and me also I think that Israel has not the right to exist, and not Palestinian....