Justice for the #Filton10 – 88 Days

On Saturday 2nd November the Resistance Kitchen marked 88 days that the #Filton10 have been unjustly imprisoned without trial, for trying to stop genocide in Gaza. The ten activists are accused of dismantling the research and production hub of Israel’s main armaments supplier Elbit Systems in Bristol.

#Filton10 detainee Fatema Zainab wrote a beautiful poem in prison “I dream of a love” which her mother first read out at a solidarity event at a university in London.

I Dream Of A Love...

To the people of Gaza

I write to you in my state of love and grief

At night I dream of a love so wide and so deep it frees us all

It stretches across continents to fill the space between my brown body and yours

I wish the love I dream of, was enough

I wish the love I dream of would hold your grief the same way that our silence holds violence.

When there’s nothing else to write about, I write about love.

Because there’s no life worth living, no strength worth perception if not for love

The kind of love that forces you to witness

The kind of love that does not stay silent

Love that is not patient or kind but relentless and harsh

I dream of a love so encompassing it hurts.

A love that does not make us less afraid

But a love that makes us less compromising.

At night I dream of a love so wide and so deep it frees us all

When dawn breaks I dream of waking up to a love that is not new but old and ancient and unforgiving.

The type of love that stands to action

There is no greater act of love than standing uncompromising between all which you know and (that destroys) and all which could be (rebuilt anew).

Fatema Zainab Rajwani

The poem has been wonderfully read in this video by Tania Haberland

New Placard - Justice #Filton10

This week we created a new placard featuring a few lines from this poem by Fatema Zainab. This was also used in the evening at the protest outside the prison where she is caged.