Andreas Gripp poetry + art

🔹 Displaced families face a third winter in dire conditions; 11 children have reportedly died from hypothermia.
🔹 UNRWA vaccinated over 5,800 children during a campaign with @‌who.int, @unicef.org & partners.

Latest update on #Gaza and the #WestBank:

Jamila, 78, has been displaced 14 times and is now living in an UNRWA shelter in the #GazaStrip. Since the war began, she sustained a serious injury and lost 21 family members.

UNRWA continues to provide essential services to her and many other displaced people across Gaza.

#UNRWAworks

Look what's just arrived!!! And right on time for Valentine's! Available from my website for only $10 + $5 postage: andreasgripp.wixsite.com/andreasgripp...

Les Royalistes This website I’ve discovered is vastly sophisticated. It’s not imploring me to accept intrusive cookies—rather, crème brûlée— its outward, sugared sheen, in touch with its inner pudding. Oatmeal choco...

New poetry up on my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/andreasg...

Russia renews attacks on frozen Ukrainian cities

Russia renews attacks on frozen Ukrainian cities https://aje.news/8435lf

The Prognosis There’s a man so attuned to the Earth, that whenever it quakes so does he.

A new poem from Give Us This Day: open.substack.com/pub/andreasg...

All the more reason to love Monday mornings 🥶

Israeli bulldozers begin demolishing a number of Palestinian homes in the town of Tarqumiya, the occupied West Bank, forcibly displacing its owners.

Russian drone strike kills 15 in Dnipro as Zelenskyy says more Russia-Ukraine talks next week A Russian drone strike on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro has killed 15 people, according to Ukrainian emergency services.

BREAKING: 15 people have been killed in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro after a Russian drone struck a bus carrying mineworkers, emergency services say.

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

The Wino My every chug of wine is utterly medicinal. I accept you won’t believe me.

or, "Why They Kicked Me Out of AA": open.substack.com/pub/andreasg...

Activists unveiled a giant portrait of five-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab in Barcelona on the second anniversary of her killing.

Hind was trapped in a car and targeted at close range by Israeli forces in Gaza after they had killed her relatives.

There's no "both sides" to theft and genocide. Ukraine belongs to Ukraine. All of it 🇺🇦

First Nations in Alberta sounding alarm over foreign interference First Nation chiefs say they have “legitimate concerns that Elections Alberta is ill-equipped to deal with potential foreign interference."

Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation, the Blackfoot Confederacy, and Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation say they have 'legitimate concerns that Elections Alberta is ill-equipped to deal with the potential of foreign interference in the referendum.' www.aptnnews.ca?p=282869

#photography #monochrome

My newest baby is dropping real soon! Available to order from my website: andreasgripp.wixsite.com/andreasgripp...

The Beholder The adage goes the beholder will determine what is glorious. The line of shine/penumbra on our evening’s ghostly orb; how the craters take on depth we never notice in the day.

a poem from Give Us This Day---dropping soon: open.substack.com/pub/andreasg...

165 drones overnight. Civilians injured in Odesa, including children, with people possibly still trapped under rubble. Homes destroyed, a kindergarten and cultural site hit. Energy infrastructure attacked in Mykolaiv region. This wasn’t a battlefield. This was life.

None of this would have happened if Kamala had been Prez...

Alex Pretti wasn’t a part of “engineered chaos.” He was a nurse who cared about people. An individual. What is “engineered chaos” is what this admin is doing in blue cities to justify invocation of the insurrection act.

Trump is coming after all of us. All of us who oppose his tyranny and brutality. All of us who defy his dictatorship. All of us who seek accountability and challenge his murderous goons.

All across America we must rise up against this oppression, as peacefully but as definitively as we can.

Happy Birthday. Never surrender.

Sorry I Can’t Join You for Shinny They say that it’s so cold here folks will gorge on ice cream to warm themselves up. It’s the kind of day a puck will feel relief— freed from being thwacked because it’s adhering to a glassy pond’s ve...

This is my excuse for not venturing outside today. A brand-new poem!
open.substack.com/pub/andreasg...

yes and yes

If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it?

[Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

🔹 Israeli forces entered and demolished parts of the UNRWA compound in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem.

🔹 In Gaza, winter storms have left 800,000 people in flood-prone sites and UNRWA schools were reportedly destroyed.

Latest update on #Gaza and the #WestBank: www.unrwa.org/resources/re...

When I think of peace, I think of Putin, Trump, and Netanyahu. St. Francis, eat your heart out.

Who are the Kurds? The Kurds are widely believed to be the largest stateless ethnic group in the world.

The Kurds are widely believed to be the largest stateless ethnic group in the world.

The Blade Those who take up the sword shall perish by the sword. —Matthew 26:52 Sword must be the mightiest word in the world.

A poem I wrote this morning. I think I'm entitled to wine and the afternoon off... open.substack.com/pub/andreasg...

An Inuit woman sings during the protest against Trump's policy towards Greenland in front of the US consulate in Nuuk. [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]

People protest in front of the US consulate in Nuuk, Greenland. [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]

Donald Trump on Saturday escalated his quest to acquire Greenland, threatening multiple European nations with tariffs. [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]

In a statement, EU leaders said the bloc "stands in full solidarity with Denmark and the people of Greenland". [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]

Thousands march in Greenland against Trump’s threats to take it over https://aje.news/f70j2d