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Carl Selfe's avatar

Where is the wellspring from whence your enthusiasm flows? I need to buy that so I can bottle and gift that water or wine. Please say it is wine! Jess, you are a remarkable advocate, and I am blown away every time I hear you. Thank you!

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Jess Craven's avatar

That's kind of you. I like to think it's love. But sometimes it's just strong tea. (:

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Pam Birkenfeld's avatar

Thanks Jess, always an upper to read your enthusiastic comments!

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Jess Craven's avatar

Thanks, Pam!

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Rae Gold's avatar

If Hamas would only release the Israeli prisoners there then could be an end to all of this. Why don't they talk more about that. Israel didn't start this. Hamas did. Let the people alive and dead go and it can end.

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Sylvia Taylor's avatar

Do you really believe that if Hamas released any remaining hostages there would be 'an end to all of this?' This is genocide, the attempted annihilation of a race of people and Netanyahu has made it clear that is his intent.

Yes, Hamas committed an atrocious act and should have to face justice, but to try to eradicate a whole race of people is neither morally justifiable nor human.

Have you seen the photos of starving children? Have you read the reports of children and adults shot whilst trying to get food and the admission of IDF that they actually target children?

It will not end as long as Netanyahu and his cohorts are in power in Israel and the West continue to supply Israel with arms.

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Julie Perry's avatar

Hamas did not start this. Israel has occupied Gaza since the 1960s and has been engaged in the oppression, displacement, and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians ever since. Israel does not want to end this conflict. They want to eliminate Palestinians once and for all. The October 7 attacks provided the impetus Israel needed to drive this conflict further with broad support from the international community due to the terrorist nature of the attacks.

Follow Drop Site News for some of the best, in-depth independent reporting from the Middle East.

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Sylvia Taylor's avatar

As you probably know the conflict in Palestine started long before the 1960's. In 1917 Palestine was under the jurisdiction of the British. They endorsed the idea of a Jewish Homeland in Palestine, resulting in Jewish immigrants flocking to the region.

After WWII sympathy for the survivors of the Holocaust, and the problem of where to put the displaced Jewish people, resulted in the formation of a Jewish state in Palestine, effectively dividing Palestine into 3 Jewish sections and 4 Arab sections and the creation of Israel in 1948. Conflict between Palestinian Arabs and Jewish settlers started almost immediately afterwards and many Palestinaian Arabs fled Palestine. The conflict has continued in one form or another ever since.

(sources: New York times web archive, Wikipedia)

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Jess Craven's avatar

I wish they would release the hostages. I really do. But at this point the immediate urgency is that 2 million people in Gaza are on the verge of dying from starvation. Just because Hamas is a terrible--TERRIBLE--actor doesn't make that OK. Kids must be fed. Babies must be fed. Women, the elderly. Even the press are starving. It's obscene. You don't need to be an expert in Middle Eastern policy to see that the famine needs to end. I think we can all agree on that.

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JustRaven's avatar

Thank you, Jess, for all you do. I hope you are coping reasonably well with the huge influx of readers, followers and supporters. I occasionally look at your Insta and am heartened to see that instead of thousands of "likes" you now get 10's of thousands of "likes." Haven't looked at your Resistbot followers but assuming that has also grown.

In case anyone wasn't aware, you can choose to follow a creator and get notified whenever they create a new petition! From within the Resistbot app, type

FOLLOW JESSCRAVEN101

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Jess Craven's avatar

Thank you!

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Andy's avatar

Keep them 🍁 Elbows UP! 🏒

The next big national protest this summer is in TWO days:

Families First

Saturday July 26th

https://www.familiesfirstnow.org/?utm_source=moveon

The initials "DC" also stand for Decency and Compassion first. Not Cruelness. Not stupidity. Cuts and attacks on families are destroying the fabric of America, turning it into something worse than a third world nation.

Make your voices heard.

Nationwide Anti-Trump 'Families First' Protest Planned for July 26

https://www.newsweek.com/nationwide-anti-trump-families-first-protest-planned-july-26-2100685

Jeff's Musical Car - Dee Hernandez

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7PBrkfb7pY

🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁

Juzzie Smith - SUPERHEROS Offical Video

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=37J2vb81Z8o

🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁

Keep protests peaceful.

Don't kill anyone.

Here are resistance related guides from around the world:

🇺🇸 Fundamentals of physical surveillance: a guide for uniformed and plainclothes personnel

https://archive.org/details/fundamentalsofph0000silj

The RCMP has its own publications including:

🇨🇦 GCPSG-022 (2025) - Threat and Risk Assessment Guide

GCPSG-010 (2022) - Operational Physical Security Guide

🇨🇦 GCPSG-019 (2023) - Protection, Detection, Response, and Recovery Guide

https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/physec-secmat/pubs/index-eng.htm

The non-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation also has excellent guides on:

🇺🇸 Street Level Surveillance

https://sls.eff.org

🇺🇸 Surveillance Self-Defense

https://ssd.eff.org/

🇪🇺 🇸🇪⚠️ Resistance Operating Concept

https://jsou.edu/Press/PublicationDashboard/25

🇺🇦 🇺🇲 Radio Free Ukraine Resistance Manual

https://radiofreeukraine.com/3d-flip-book/resistance-manual/

⚠️ John Hopkins University:

Assessing Revolutionary And Insurgent Strategies (ARIS) Studies

This one is used a lot by ICE, so the Trump Regime keeps suppressing it. Here are alternate links as it keeps getting moved around by the good guys:

Small Wars Journal

Assessing Revolutionary and Insurgent Strategies (ARIS) Project

https://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/blog/assessing-revolutionary-and-insurgent-strategies-aris-project

Author's website:

On Resistance, Revolutions, and Insurgencies

https://zimmerer.typepad.com/resistance/

Free PDF download of the book from the original author:

Casebook on Insurgency and Revolutionary Warfare, Volume II 1962 - 2009

http://zimmerer.typepad.com/Documents/ARIS%20Casebook%20Vol%202%202012%20s.pdf

⚠️ Civilian-Based Defense: A Post-Military Weapons System

https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/civilian-based-defense-a-post-military-weapons-system/

🏁 Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States Office of Strategic Services

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184?ref=404media.co

⚠️ Library of Congress

Revelations from the Russian archives: documents in English translation

https://www.loc.gov/item/96024752

🏁 Robert Reich/Resistance School

Communicating Across Difference

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaT8gjnOmQl3dguy0_E0vVCL5ZYEyCTzu

🏁 Bernie Sanders:

https://m.youtube.com/@BernieSanders

🏁 CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists:

Safety Kit

https://cpj.org/safety-kit/

🏁 Activist Handbook:

https://activisthandbook.org/introduction

(⚠️ These are USA sponsered websites. Some publications may have been removed by the Trump regime)

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Trina's avatar

I'm going to the Families First protest on Sat. Got a sign and a cow bell.

Called my 3 Congressfolk to urge them to attend one of the protests.

And to do something, anything, to stop starvation being used as a genocidal weapon of war.

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Susan Travis's avatar

Peeps, read Jill Filipovic's most recent post about keeping the Epstein scandal in mind while also remembering other horrifying travesties going on. Maintaining our humanity is vital. ❣️

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Jess Craven's avatar

100%

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V Hamer's avatar

Ho, the joy of schadenfreude! May it only grow.

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Richard's avatar

I'm right there with you on the present tribulations of Trump. May they continue to increase.

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Barbara Grinell's avatar

I will call my senators and congressmen. I demand justice for all

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Jess Craven's avatar

Thank you!

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Lyn Colenda's avatar

"March for Integrity: Get Money out of Politics"

July 27, 2025. Wash D.C. and Nationwide.

moneyoutofpolitics.org

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Linda's avatar

Couldn't get Resistbot to respond to Gaza code for petition. I wonder if anyone else had that problem or if it is just me.

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Jess Craven's avatar

Hmmm still can't?

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Linda's avatar

No. Just tried it again at 1:50 pm, PT

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Laura Chandler's avatar

Thank you!

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Linda Rey's avatar

I'm severely concerned that this GHISLAINE MAXWELL meeting is a blatant cover up to pardon her and lie about the relationship with EPSTEIN. Why would he please the fifth and two others I can't remember when the question was asked if he ever hung out with Trvmp with girls under the age of 18. DISGUSTING.

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Lyn Colenda's avatar

thank you for all that you do.

Here is another event this weekend. "March for Integrity": Movement to get money out of politics. In D.C. and Nationwide.

July 27th-12 pm to 6 pm in Wash. D. C.

moneyoutofpolitics.org

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Patti M's avatar

✔️✔️✔️ Thanks Jess! Love ya! ✊🏻

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