The Deprogram

The American imperialists occupied Vietnam for 20 years, but eventually the tunnel complexes of Củ Chi and Quảng Trị remain after 51 years and 7.66 million tons of bombs. The Zionist colonizers restructure Palestinian and Lebanese landscapes for settler-colonialism, but eventually the tunnels of Southern Lebanon and refugee camps of Nablus and Hebron remain after 78 years of Nakba Holocaust. Western settlers burned and erase hundred millions of Indigenous and Black peoples, but eventually the descendants of Turtle Island and Africa remain thriving. Occupiers kill and steal, but they cannot uproot the origins. Natives sow and grow, because their roots are unwavered. The dialectical contradictions of momentary ravagers and long-lasting resistance.

Imperialists are momentary because their history and cultures are lived on borrowed time, while the rightfully natives are dignified by their land's permanent existence. Colonizers' sky occupation is paths to the ground, while indigenous resistance's tunnel complex is paths to the cloud. Settlers commit ecocide because the land is their profit, while natives cure the ecosystems because land is lifeline. The ones who stay have nothing to lose, the ones who invade need lengthy boasts to beautify their lies and ideal. The violence extremity of occupation is momentary, but every native victory engraved into the land is forever. Whose rooted have nothing to fear those who rootless. Our enemies made watches, but the times are with us.