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Assyrian Movement for Collective Liberation: Mobilizing as artists, educators, & organizers
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ܙܘܥܐ ܐܬܘܪܝܐ ܠܚܘܪܪܐ ܟܢܫܝܐ

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111 years of denial.
We remember the genocide of Armenian, Assyrian Aramean Chaldean Syriac people, Pontic Greeks, and Ezidis by the Ottoman turks and Kurdish tribes.

We still feel the generational violence, erasure, and collective memories of our histories and we use our continued existence and preservation through community care, song, dance, art, and language, and rise in solidarity with all Indigenous peoples.

Breaking the silence of the 1915 genocide is a moral responsibility where never again means never again for everyone, from Bet Nahrain, to Falesteen, to Turtle Island and Inuit Nunangat, to Sudan and The Congo, and beyond.

Thoughts and writings on nation-state building by Dr. @mariamgeorgis

Image descriptions in alt text. sayfo. 111 years of denial. suret and english text on a maroon background by @amcl_global

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May the new year prevail in all of us.
The year 6776 of the Assyrian-Babylonian calender marks the arrival of vernal (spring) equinox.

These commemorations and celebrations remain deeply sacred to us and we extend them to you. We carry and embrace ancient ancestral practices in the face of occupation, discrimination and imperialism.

As spring marks a time of revival and transformation, the spirit of Nisan calls for emancipation; to be ethically committed to the principles of collective liberation.

Nisan is not only survival. It is the will to transform our genocidal present to live self determining lives.

Photographs taken during the lead up to Akitu in Alqosh and Nahla, in now called Iraq by @hakawatiye

Image descriptions in alt text. May the new yesrnin us prevail. Images of the lamassu looking straight ahead and a collage of Assyrians wearing traditional clothes by @amcl_global

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AMCL may be quiet in our mourning but our rage and sorrow are palpable.

Our solidarity matters because we grieve and love deeply, we question our truths, and strive for mutual learning in approachable spaces, to reject borderland divisions and polarisations that not only disfigure history but justify collective punishment with impunity.
Our homelands were born of water, of fertile soil, of spirit, of song, of community, of co-existence.

To our friends and kin, we wish to remind you of your political power and autonomy in times of overwhelm and anxiety both in grief and isolation. This short post is by no means exhaustive, we don’t claim to have all the answers, but we aim to challenge rage-bait, unworthy of your invaluable energy.

We write this as a reminder to ourselves and extend our branches to you, in love and rage.

Mutual Care and Community Resources 🏷️

@ado.youth @freeyezidifoundation @migrantworkersaction @sindyan.community @ahwarinetwork @assyrianaidiraq @humansofdahieh @hengaw_organization @kurdishrefugeerelief @sepidehhakimzadeh @tanseqeye_shaabeye_lebanon @sindyan.community @arameanpride @suryoyotho @diyarbakir_suryani_dernegi @joesnellreports

Image descriptions in alt text. Finding focus in SWANA grief
from homeland and diaspora Assyrians who call many places home, places that are caught between occupation and imperialism
Mutual Care Resources (slide 2)
Assyrian Movement for Collective Liberation by @amcl_global

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I first met forced assimilation at the age of 6, when a white british school forbade me to speak my native tongue in order to continue attending school. Following this abrupt interaction that stunted intimacy with my identity, I unwillingly learnt at a young age the necessity to fight.

Assyrians, Chaldeans, Arameans and Indigenous kin, are still coerced and forced into cultural suppression at the hands of coloniality and orientalism.

Indigenous languages have a unique vocabulary that's interwoven with the spirituality of cultural animism and ancestral Lands. Linguistic diversity remains under threat as we are on average losing 1 language a week. In 2005, linguists concluded that 60-90% of the world's 7000 languages will be at risk of extinction in the next 100 years.

So.....I was deeply humbled that a dear friend Dicky Bahto @dicky_bahto invited me and other Assyrian artists to share our words and imagery in his feature film 'A note on the ruins for visitors.'

Dicky writes, "I realized that the genocide hadn’t ended, and I needed to think about my relationship not only to the past of our community, but also to the present and to a future in which I decided I no longer wanted to take a passive role." The film investigates the materiality of cultural memory alongside its personal and spiritual dimensions, embodying the rebuilding of a community and connection to culture that honors the past while insisting on an open future.

This excerpt is from 'A note on the ruins for visitors' (2026) by Dicky Bahto. 69 minutes, Super 8 to HD, color & b/w, sound. In this excerpt you also see Esther Elia @malikta.esther painting the "blood and stone" prayer/poem in suret onto a prayer bowl.

Written suret translation by @tawtranslation

We invite you to watch the trailer and access the reader for the feature film here:
https://dickybahto.com/a-note-on-the-ruins-for-visitors/ by @amcl_global

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From Beth Nahrain to Palestine Fundraiser Print❤️‍🔥

This print features a one-line poem I wrote in 2024, frustrated about the perception of the ‘Middle East’ as a fundamentally violent and ‘war-torn’ region when the current instability is a result of Western invasion and colonial forces. I leave the rest of the poem for you to interpret.

It’s been a long time since I’ve organised any fundraisers. All proceeds from the sale of these prints will be split between the Al-Nahal family @sonofgaza11 whose campaigns I manage and the Palestinian Assyrian Friendship Committee @pafcommittee in Gaza.

This A4 print ($30) will be available in person to purchase at my next two markets stalls. It is also now on my online store with worldwide shipping.

Featuring ‘Beth Nahrain’ in Assyrian and ‘Palestine’ in Arabic by @amcl_global

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Every year on August 7, Assyrian communities around the world pause to remember a haunting massacre that took place in 1933 across Iraq and Syria – a detailed, planned, and methodical four-day massacre that shook the Levant and still affects it nearly a century later. Remembering this date stands as a duty for every Syrian citizen, as it shaped our Assyrian community and represents the continuity of tragic events targeting Christian Syrians.

في السابع من آب من كل عام، تستذكر المجتمعات الآشورية في مختلف أنحاء العالم مجزرةٍ مروعة وقعت عام 1933 في العراق وسوريا، مجزرةٌ استمرت أربعة أيامٍ ونُفذت بصورةٍ منظمة ومخطط لها، هزّت بلاد الشام، وما تزال آثارها حاضرة بعد ما يقارب قرناً من الزمن. إن إحياء ذكرى هذا التاريخ يُعد واجباً على كل مواطنٍ سوري، لما له من أثرٍ عميق في تشكيل مجتمعنا الآشوري، ولأنه يُجسد استمرار المآسي التي تستهدف السوريين المسيحيين.

By @shazaajk
Copy by @ammar_deeb @tayamoulla @shahed_hanna
Graphics by @arameanartist

#WanabqaHistory
#WanabqaDiversity
#WanabqaCulture taken in Syria - سوريا by @amcl_global

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I'm excited to share a collection of texts to accompany my recently completed feature-length film 'A note on the ruins for visitors', as a way of speaking alongside the themes and ideas that are in the film: how, through art, Assyrians preserve cultural memories that are ancient or recent, shared or personal, and furthermore through our art we are able to rebuild connections not only to our past but also to each other, connections that genocide sought to erase permanently.

The film was shaped not only by my own thoughts and experiences, but also by many conversations both in person and on-line with Assyrian friends around the world, and so this reader brings together essays, personal statements, Instagram posts, visual art, photographic documentation, and poetry made in places currently called the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany, Turkey, Lebanon, and Iraq. Many thanks to everyone for allowing me to include your words and images in this collection. May it inspire you, as Isla Hanna puts it, “to serve the living as much as the dead.”

Link to download in bio.

Images: 1. A trailer for the film
2. Cover of the reader
3. A drawing by Maryam Yousif
4. A photo from Esther Elia's family archive of family and neighbors in Urmia
5. A digital painting from Rami KD's series ܒܝܬܐ ܕܟܘܟܘܐ
6. A photograph of the Seyfo memorial at the Saint Efrem Syriac Orthodox Church in Beirut that I made when I visited in 2019
7. A photograph of the Saint Odisho church in northern Iraq by Ramsen Shamon

Reader info:
Edited and assembled by Dicky Bahto @dicky_bahto

With contributions by:

Isla Hanna @bintshalom
Anna Kinglsey @brickfactorydesigns
Tenise Marie @tenisemariemusic
Esther Elia @malikta.esther
Monette Eiliazadeh @monetteazadeh
Deena Ana @anadeena_
Sarha Abraham @sarhaabraham
Ramsen Shamon @ramsen_
Sami Seif @samiseifcomposer
Maryam Yousif
Lolita Emmanuel @lolitaemmanuel
Alfreda Eilo @dara.foielle
Sherly Kyorkis @skyorkis
Mariam Georgis @mariamgeorgis
Marz Sabri @heavypond
Rami KD @ramikd.art

With Sureth translations by:

Shibla BetShmuel @shiblabetshmuel
Yesh Malik @yeshmalik_
Ashuriena Abraham @ashuriena by @amcl_global

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Akhnan eewakh shirshayeh d’Bet Nahrain.
‎ܐܲܚܢܲܢ ܝܼܘܲܚ ܫܸܪ̈ܫܵܝܹܐ ܕ-ܒܹܝܬ݂ ܢܲܗܪܝܼܢ by @amcl_global

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🔗🌳LINK IN BIO

Mutual care fund for friends in Gaza
✉️ please share widely ✉️

Priority 1
for NUTRITION and TRANSPORT
Adult A is undergoing treatment for breast cancer. Funds required for daily nutrition, supplements & transport.

Priority 2
for ORAL HEALTH
Child B requires ongoing dental treatment for orthodontic and oral health management.

More information on chuffed page:
Mutual Care Fund for Friends in Gaza

Please donate & or share via link in bio

Thank you for your love and care 🙏🏼 by @amcl_global

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EXTREMELY URGENT MESSAGE FROM LEBANON

@lemkininstitute you are responsible to move from the language of warnings to accountable action whose main purpose is to stop this.

A doctor’s testimony from yesterday translated by @houssein_almahdi :
“What we witnessed was beyond anything we could have imagined. Never before has the morgue overflowed like this, we were forced to open an additional refrigerator to receive the bodies of the victims and what remained of them.”
- Dr. Saad Bou Hmein from Beirut Governmental Hospital

A Chrono-Cartographic List of Targeted Bridges/Crossroads 02/03/2026- present compiled by @cartographyofdarkness

02/03 Al-Qa’qa’iyat Bridge
05/03 Al-Qa’qa’iyat Bridge
13/02 Tireh Filsayh Bridge (Nahr Tireh)
13/02 Dibbine - Marjayoun road
13/02 Al-Khardali - Marjayoun road
13/02 Wadi Al-Hajir Bridge - Al-Qantarah
13/02 Tarfalsiyah Bridge
13/02 Al-Zarariyah Bridge (Litani River)
17/03 Al-Qa’qa’iyat Bridge
18/03 Al-Kinayyat Bridge (Al-Qassimiyah area)
18/03 Al-Qassimiyah Bridge (coastal highway)
18/03 Two ferries in Al-Qassimiyah and Burj Rahal
19/03 Al-Qassimiyah Bridge
22/03 Al-Qassimiyah Bridge
23/03 Al-Qa’qa’iyat Bridge
23/03 Ferry near Al-Qassimiyah Bridge (Litani River)
23/03 Al-Dalafi Bridge
08/04 Al-Qassimiyah Bridge by @amcl_global

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