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Unforgettable Tragedies: The Legacy of Self-Immolation

Aaron Bushnell was a US military member who recently set himself on fire to protest Israel’s actions in Gaza. Self immolation, the act of lighting yourself on fire, is done with the same intention: for someone to willingly sacrifice their life in the name of a cause, to highlight an injustice, to pay the greatest price to demonstrate how far things have gone. In this case, the US had gone too far down a very dark path. This practice goes back farther, with a very public occurrence being the self immolation of Buddhist monk named Thich Quang Duc in 1963. He lit himself on fire to protest anti-Buddhist discrimination from the South Vietnamese government, which at the time, the U.S. was supporting in the Vietnam war. Photographs from this and noteworthy coverage led to it becoming a global story. This sort of radical protest, this willingness to give your life for a cause, has existed throughout protest movements. It was very popularly touched upon in “Revolutionary Suicide” by Huey P Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party. He proposed that there was a difference between revolutionary and reactionary. Reactionary was taking your life in response to circumstances, whereas revolutionary was a willingness to lose your life on the journey to change circumstances. This video is purely for educational purposes and if you are someone struggling with your mental health, please consider seeking a professional. There are resources below: https://mhanational.org/ Footnote Corrections: When I say from, I don't mean born. "Those who knew him in San Antonio, Texas, where Mr Bushnell lived from 2020 to late last year while stationed at Lackland Air Force base, said his death had rippled through a community of organisers and activists like a "shockwave" (Source BBC) *Correction on his final words, should be ruling class, not *class *Aaron Bushnell claimed to have intel information. (https://nypost.com/2024/02/27/us-news...) Find me on social media (◕‿◕): Instagram:   / queerbrownvegan   Threads: https://www.threads.net/@queerbrownvegan TikTok:   / queerbrownvegan   LinkedIn:   / queerbrownvegan   Twitter:   / queerbrownvegan   Pinterest:   / queerbrownvegan   Tumblr:   / www   ---- Time Stamps ----- 00:00 - Introduction 01:32 - Aaron Bushnell Overview 02:32 - Media Coverage On Suppression 03:09 - Politics On Gaza 05:06 - Self Immolation definition 07:40 - Conclusion