{"id":339,"date":"2025-09-08T11:57:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalartmobilization.org\/?page_id=339"},"modified":"2025-09-08T12:00:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T10:00:55","slug":"manifesto-a-call-to-arts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.globalartmobilization.org\/?page_id=339","title":{"rendered":"Manifesto: a call to arts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>A global call to artists, performers, technicians, producers and event organizers for a worldwide mobilization against the genocide in Gaza and the West Bank!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cDon\u2019t ask me to be strong all the time.<\/em><br><em>But I\u2019ll say this:&nbsp;<\/em><br><em>I will not break.<\/em><br><em>I will not forget.<\/em><br><em>And I will not give up.&nbsp;<\/em><br><em>If I could ask one thing of you,&nbsp;<\/em><br><em>don\u2019t just be spectators.&nbsp;<\/em><br><em>Be a voice.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><br><em>Be action.&nbsp;<\/em><br><em>Be with us, in any way, in any language.<\/em><br><em>Gaza doesn\u2019t need pity\u2014&nbsp;<\/em><br><em>It needs life.\u201d<\/em><br><br><em>By Samar Al Banna, leader of children\u2019s choir Ahazeej from Gaza<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wake up, before you wake up in Gaza!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Use your performances, your art, your interventions to call for further protests, disruptions, direct actions and all forms of civil disobedience. Be what you already are: a voice of humanity! A voice for humanity!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>When silence conceals the truth, it becomes a lie. And when silence is complicit with human suffering and genocide, it itself becomes a crime against humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are calling on cultural workers everywhere to join the global campaign through wole September 2025, coinciding with the international humanitarian flotillas, to interrupt their performances with speeches, statements and slogans with messages of solidarity with the Palestinian people and of defiance against the machinery of genocide. We are calling on cultural workers everywhere to become a part of our movement and to connect with artists and performers from Gaza and the West Bank to build bridges no bombs can destroy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are calling for creativity against oppression, for imagination against censorship, for passion against apathy, for disobedience against submission and shouting, for singing and reciting against the conspiracy of silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peaceful protests against genocide are being violently suppressed worldwide. That is why we are calling for nothing less than a global revolution. A revolution against the world of genocides, against the world of fascisms and autocrats, against the world of technological control, oppression and mass murder, currently being tested and developed in Palestine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Float 2 Gaza collective, in the name of Sarah Hamed Al-Qarnawi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-339","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalartmobilization.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalartmobilization.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalartmobilization.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalartmobilization.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalartmobilization.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalartmobilization.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalartmobilization.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/339\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalartmobilization.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}