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"Saoirse means freedom, something we are witnessing being violently denied to the people of Palestine. This is a song for peace, an outpouring of grief and a refusal to be numb to what we are seeing. Genocide. Man-made famine. An attempted erasure of a people," Maruja share in a statement about the track.
"Like the olive tree, the Palestinian people have deep, resilient roots. They’ve resisted decades of forced displacement, military occupation, illegal settlements, and now enforced starvation. Since the 1948 Nakba, where over 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes, the violence has not stopped. We must look to their strength and stand with them and demand more from the governments who make us complicit by spending our taxes in facilitating war crimes."
"Saoirse is about resistance, and about the roots that tie us all together. We don’t choose where we are born, but we can choose to act. It’s our decisions that define us. At our gigs, through listening to our music, you lift us up, our bodies physically moving through the crowds, our messages amplified. Through Saoirse we ask you to hold up more than us. Hold space in your mind for Palestine. Hold up your fists. Do not look away," they continue. "Saoirse don Phalaistín."
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