[20/11/25 IG Repost]
We want to thank all of our friends, members, allies, and followers for helping PAA get to 5,000 followers on Instagram!
While we have no faith in Meta or IG as a platform due to its anti-Palestinian, monopolistic, privacy-violating, surveillance-capital & data-mining nature (among other reasons!), we would be lying if we said this was not an important milestone. From a small project of ‘historical memory’, we have grown into a real worldwide organisation once more, like a phoenix from the ashes of our early 2000s incarnation. We’ve signed over 40 bands & collectives to the network, joined the UNDER THE BLADE OF A ZIONIST NIGHTMARE benefit series, launched our Mutual Aid Initiative and raised tens of thousands of £$€ for Palestinian families & orgs, started our first-ever ‘Worldwide Festival of Resistance Music’, won MAJOR BDS victories like SMASHING THE AICHI-ISRAEL MATCHING PROGRAM, and we continue growing every day–thanks to all the support you have shown us. We have so much more in store for you for 2026 and we can’t wait to show it to you all!
Of course, we have always maintained that the real organising for any cultural movement is on the ground, with the online component simply being a *compliment* to that organising. A movement without flesh-and-blood people somewhere in the chain–even for those of us with severe disabilities and physical limitations–cannot be nourished, cannot flourish. BUT, that online component has been hugely important for us–not only in allowing us to connect with musicians all over the world, but also with folks on the ground in Palestine in need of urgent aid. We will keep growing those relationships–on or off Meta–as needed!
Of course, we believe that Meta’s poor decisions will one day destroy their own very profitable ‘walled garden’, as they seem hell-bent on doing. This is why we have always believed on duplicating our posts across platforms, from Blue Sky, to Mastodon, to Pixelfed, to Upscrolled, and even our own website–so go follow us on all those platforms too! While they aren’t all completely up to date, we hope that they will all soon be an archive of our public post history, should any one of our accounts run into problems. We reiterate that any liberatory future online will be open source, horizontal, and owned by the public, not by private capitalists and rentiers.
Having said that…as always: fuck the haters, fuck nihilism, up the punx, & free Palestine from the river to the sea!
