How can you talk about anything else today. She was six. Millions heard her cries begging to be saved. We heard her older cousin be slaughtered, heard the baby pull the phone from her cousin's dead hands, heard her cry and beg to be saved, to be allowed to live, to be pardoned for a crime no one in that fucking car committed. The occupation knew she was there, knew she was the only one alive in that pile of bodies, and they killed her anyway. They knew, they knew, they knew. They allowed paramedics to approach her, and then bombed them just mere meters away from her, then killed her. The occupation allowed them to believe she could be saved and then killed all of them moments away from her rescue. She was in a car fleeing the evacuation zone along the correct route as instructed. The ambulance waited three hours, three hours of her being trapped between the rotting bodies of her dead family, for the occupation's permission to save her, and when they gave it, the occupation killed them anyway. What else is there to say. How can you quantify that level of cruelty. How many more worse things have happened that we don't have a recording of? How much evil has the zionist occupation regime been allowed to get away with in the interest of western imperialism? How many six year old girls who love bratz, who have a bluey plush, who want to grow up to be doctors or ballerinas or astronauts, have been sniped from this earth? Their bodies desecrated, left to bloat and be eaten by animals and have their graves bulldozed and their organs taken? At least ten fucking thousand. At least.

*i regularly update this post with any new info i find so please always reblog the original post*

Donations

help buy e-sims for people in gaza

donate to get food packages to gaza - care for gaza

palestine children's relief fund

world food programme

donate to ahmed (@/90-ghost on tumblr)

support palestinians: buy a keffiyeh from the last and only factory in palestine - hirbawi

emergency relief for gaza - pious projects

palestine red crescent society

save palestine - islamic relief canada

send medical supplies to gaza - palestinian american medical association

click to donate - arab.org

help bring down israel's weapon trade - palaction

donate for the recovery of hisham awartani - gofundme

Petitions

petition to investigate war crimes committed by israeli military

demand ceasefire - amnesty international

open call for immediate ceasefire

american government call for immediate ceasefire

american government to stop funding israeli military

ceasefire and increase humanitarian assistance - oxfam au

petition to get canva to address their pro-israel stance

invoke the genocide convention to call for ceasefire in gaza - world beyond war

suspend israel from international sports - diem25

UK to expel israeli ambassador - change.org

gaza healthcare workers for nobel peace prize - change.org

teachers around the world demand ceasefire - teachers for palestine

gaza call for lasting ceasefire - oxfam (UK)

end israeli occupation - parliament uk (UK)

email your MP - medical aid for palestine (UK)

protect gaza civilians - islamic relief (UK)

stop fuelling genocide - action network (USA)

@ biden: call for ceasefire now - move on (USA)

ceasefirenow.com - jewishvoiceofpeace (USA)

call congress and demand a ceasefire - uscpr (USA - they provide a script of what you should say, so don't worry about it)

australia call on israel to stop attacking palestinians - apan (AUS)

immediate ceasefire and increase in humanitarian aid in gaza - actionaid (AUS)

email your MPs - stand with palestine (AUS)

‼️ australian senate to investigate australian citizens in the IDF for war crimes allegations - fpm (AUS)

‼️ arms embargo on israel - cjpme (CANADA)

sign to send letter to MP for ceasefire - nccm (CANADA)

ceasefire now! - ijv (CANADA)

ceasefire and allow aid to enter gaza - oxfam (CANADA)

call on your local mayor and council to demand ceasefire - LeadNow (CANADA)

cessez-le-feu et un couloir humanitaire - le mouvement (FRANCE)

écrivez aux député-es et sénateurs-trices - association france palestine solidarité (FRANCE)

write to your député - assemblée nationale (FRANCE)

skydda civilbefolkningen i gaza! - mittskifte (SWEDEN)

singaporeans call for immediate ceasefire (SIN)

contact your elected reps and demand a ceasefire (GERMANY)

write to the EU demanding a ceasefire (EUROPE)

multiple actions you can take to help palestine - plant een olifbloom (NETHERLANDS)

den haag, maak nú werk van vrede in israël/Palestina - the right forum (NETHERLANDS)

māori call for palestine - ourActionStation (NZ)

special visa for palestinians in gaza with family in NZ - NZ parliament/pāremata aotearoa (NZ)

deem israeli actions as war crimes - NZ parliament/pāremata aotearoa (NZ)

basta ao genocídio em Gaza! - awaaz (BRAZIL)

globo e grande mídia, parem de desumanizar civis palestinos - the intercept (BRAZIL)

Campaigns

‼️ justice for palestine

friends of al-aqsa

❥ UK-specific

❥ International

palestine action

islamic relief canada

decolonise palestine

text/call campaign for people living in USA

fax campaign for people in the USA

‼️ BDS movement

please let me know if you have any more links. i will add them in. and please reblog the original post!!

UPCOMING PROTESTS

PALESTINIAN LITERATURE READING LIST

i’ve updated the list.

‼️ - means urgent attention needed

🚨 Did you know you can call for ceasefire in Gaza by calling in sick this upcoming Monday?

Esral Shikh has organised a worldwide campaign to call for a permanent ceasefire in gaza. Here are the details:

We are protesting but our protests are going largely unnoticed by the people in power, so we need to increase pressure.

Stop all operations on a working day, let the world feel even a fraction of what it’s like to have your life put on hold. It’s only a day. We can do this. If we mobilise and get people together who support this cause, we can make this happen.

17,400+ people have been killed. 7,000+ of which are children. 1.9M people have been displaced. Please. You owe it to them to speak up. Please stop this. Please call for permanent ceasefire.

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!!

I heard there is second general strike on the 21st too. If anyone has info on that I can reblog, let me know.

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

Then bring me luck

the day after I posted this last time I was notified that I was selected for a really cool mentorship gig and got an unrelated glowing review at work

Please help a chronically ill black lesbian and her trans lesbian girlfriend catch up 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

I need help still so bad, we have so many bills to pay and need gas and food, I need a follow up appt but can't go until I can pay more on the bill from the last ones. Without the follow up i can't refill any of my prescriptions. I'm drowning. My car still needs more repairs. I work every damn day I can and it's still not enough.

I've not reached goal for some months now so I would need in all about $1500 to catch up, pay for my next appts, get some bills up to date, and get at least the diagnostics on my car. Please help.

I have a $66 internet bill, Almost $300 gas bill bc of the recent freezes, $127 power bill, $389 car payment, my car insurance is now $188 (despite me not having an accident or filing a claim and when i asked why they said bc market rates went up in my state), $135 phone bill all due by the 15th. This isn't even everything. I also need gas in our cars and food in the house.

Thank y'all so much in advance for sharing this and donating. You're saving our lives and hopefully, I can finally reach goals, and this vicious cycle of poverty will be a step closer to being over!

Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

Want to learn something new in 2023??

Cooking with flavor bootcamp (used what I learned in this a LOT this year)

Beekeeping 101

Learn Interior Design from the British Academy of Interior Design (free to audit course - just choose the free option when you register)

Video on learning to read music that actually helped me??

How to use and sew with a sewing machine

How to ride a bike (listen. some of us never learned, and that’s okay.)

How to cornrow-braid hair (I have it on good authority that this video is a godsend for doing your baby niece’s black hair)

Making mead at home (I actually did this last summer and it was SO good)

How to garden

Basics of snowboarding (proceed with caution)

How to draw for people who (think they) suck at art (I know this website looks like a 2003 monstrosity, but the tutorials are excellent)

Pixel art for beginners so you can make the next great indie game

Go (back) to school

Introduction to Astronomy (high school course - free textbook w/ practice problems)

Principals of Economics (high school course - free textbook w/ practice problems)

Introduction to philosophy (free college course)

Computer science basics (full-semester Harvard course free online)

Learn a language

Japanese for Dummies (link fix from 2022)

Ukrainian

Portuguese (Brazil)

American Sign Language (as somebody who works with Deaf people professionally, I also strongly advise you to read up on Deaf/HoH culture and history!)

Chinese (Simplified)

Quenya (LOTR fantasy elf language)

Ur damn right

This user needs the subtitles on or they miss all the dialogue

Need inhaler

Hey! I’m a bisexual trans man of color (latino native/asian) and I need help buying my inhaler tomorrow. Bottom line is that one inhaler will cost me around 200+ dollars. I’ll cover the rest but I just need $200 right now to go buy it. I’m also picking up my antidepressants tomorrow. I get paid well but I’m trying to finally pay off my hospital debt and I also pay for other utilities. Anything helps.  Please don’t tag as signal boost, donations or mutual aid. Thank you.  

Goal: 0/$200

I’ll reblog this with a link to my PP and Depop. 

PP: Hyakunosuke 

Depop: Homo 

Please boost this!

From the website’s FAQ:

“Who is this for? Full Cart is perfect for hard working individuals and families looking for a way to extend their grocery budget.

Why is there no charge for the groceries? Full Cart partners with generous companies and organizations you know and love to cover the cost of your meals. All you pay is shipping.“

This makes my heart happy (and less stressed)

Stay blessed y’all

If you’re in better circumstances, you can also support the site by funding meals for others.

Via Feminist News.

Evelyn Berezin built the first word processor.

Her patents include:

Not only did she build the first word processor..

..Which was entirely designed by herself. The first office computer.

I am furious I did not know her name.

Rest in power.

Evelyn Berezin (April 12, 1925 – December 8, 2018)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Berezin

i’m trans and that was found out yesterday and i’ve been called an ‘it’, a narcissistic parasite, a n*gg*r and someone who just wants to be special and cause problems on purpose.

my goal is $1500 as that should be enough for first & last months rent for an apartment and i’ve already got 200 saved up!

any and all donations & reblogs would be greatly appreciated!!

p*yp*l.me/JalaTaylor

v*nmo: jalaaat

$app: honeyluvr01

I’m sorry but I’m just so unbelievably angry today.

Hawaiians are dying. My people, our way of life is dying. Everyday homelessness, illness and age take my people.

And it all boils down to money.

Native Hawaiians only make up about 21% of the state’s population, but over 50% of individuals experiencing homelessness in Hawai’i are Native Hawaiian.

Which means most of my people who live on our land, live without a home.

Native Hawaiians make up around a quarter of Covid-19 cases and around 40% of Covid deaths.

Which leads me to my next point.

Distrust of the government.

Many Native Hawaiians hesitated to get the vaccine, because the American government cannot be trusted with my people. We mask and be safe, in fact, Hawai’i had rules about masking in your car as well as outside for a long time. We care about our communities, our elders. But we do not trust the government to care for us.

I myself am fully vaccinated, with my booster scheduled for next week. But I understand the mistrust of government present in my community.

The US government has let us down endlessly. Our land was robbed from beneath us. Our sovereign money, money that should be distributed amongst the people is wasted on half finished unless monorails and new hotels. Billions have been poured into a useless monorail and nothing is ever completed. Recently it was delayed 10 YEARS and has cost us 12 BILLION DOLLARS while my people starve to death in the streets.

Government assistance is slow if available at all. The Hawaiian Housing is a joke. A fucking joke. My parents have been on that list for almost a decade, and it doesn’t matter. We never heard anything. We lived in a concrete apartment the size of one bedroom.

And for a long time, only people 50% or more Native Hawaiian could benefit from the program. Which is so so rare. Because my people have been murdered and killed and reduced to nothing. Only older generations are commonly 50%, or if your parents are older like mine, you can be 40%. But even that is a lot. Now you have to be 25% which is becoming rarer and rarer. Most people my age are less than 25%, mostly mixed with other Asian or Polynesian races.

Native Hawaiians can attend college for free. But your GPA has to be competitive, and in lower income communities like Indigenous communities, GPA rates are lower due to the struggles of poverty.

My people suffer and die and never get help. And we rarely get noticed.

I’m so tired of watching my people fade away.

Fund Native Hawaiian communities. Restore our sovereignty. Respect our sacred land and listen listen listen

I encourage you all to follow ainamomona, an incredibly helpful page related to Hawaiian culture and Native Hawaiian issues. They have a wonderful website and Instagram page.

This is a link to their petition and donation page. Please check it out and sign up for their newsletter.

https://www.kaainamomona.org/kokua

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so

we have this app called toogoodtogo where restaurants/cafes/bakeries/hotels and so on sell their leftovers for really cheap to reduce foodwaste

i got all of this for €4 from starbucks

bless

The America version is called FoodForAll

I love TooGoodToGo all of this sushi cost me £3.50 (the chinese food cost me £3.59)

YOOOOOOO, they’re formalizing this?!?!

I used to do community service at a community breakfast, we’d go to the local Safeway and get all their stale bread, the local bakery for their stale baked goods and whatnot.

They throw away so much food it’s ridiculous, I’m glad someone finally created a program like this!

The American app isn’t available everywhere but if you’re broke in NY or Boston, check it out!

The US app logo currently looks like this and was last updated 3 weeks ago (as of January 25th 2020)

TooGoodToGo is available in many European countries, including the UK, much of Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy and the Iberian peninsula. 

In Canada we have flash food, I dont know if it’s just confined to loblaw stores but you can get food that stores have to throw out for dirt cheap

I know I reblogged this once already but I’m back to say there’s an Australian version!

YWaste has been around since 2017 apparently, so they’re quite well established if you’re Australian and in need of options

I used to be broke and knowing about this app would have been extremely helpful. Hope it helps some of you folks out there ❤️

I use flashfood and it’s literally what enabled me to pay off my student debt and start saving

remaking this post since the last one got a lot of notes and stopped getting donations

we’re two trans women stuck living with abusive family with no money, please help if you can

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/violarose

🆘EMERGENCY🆘

I literally just got this message TODAY and I have literally NO WAY to secure a one month deposit + rent + moving expenses in such short notice! I was already struggling with physical therapy and I NEED HELP FR

This really hit me like a freight train and my anxiety is now on 1000000 I can’t believe this is fucking happening it’s making me ill

$cosmicxo

Venmo: DarlingNik

I don’t even know what to do anymore

I’ve been scamming the Dominos app promotion where you take a picture of any pizza for free points. For three weeks in row, not only has their shitty camera always interpreted any photo of my cat as pizza, I always tell them it was “the worst I’ve ever had” and “made at home”.

Excuse me @crooked-fingers may i see a picture of your cat plz? This sounds genuinely awesome.

And I just love cats

Here he is, the Pizza Boy

And so it continues

Mmmm, another week, another delicious pizza.

That’s all, folks. Six cat pictures within six weeks, and for a total of 60 Dominos points, redeemable for a medium 2-topping pizza of my choosing. I will be getting pepperoni and chicken, mine and Charlie’s respective favorites. He will be given many tiny pieces of chicken for being a perfect little model pizza boy, and also for aiding me in tricking a multimillion dollar company into giving me free food. Thanks for giving him the love and attention you all have given this post! He’s gonna try to stay humble.

GUYS REBLOG THIS THIS COULD FEED A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO NEED A MEAL

This also works with pictures of pizza. So if you take a picture of an image of pizza from a computer or other phone it works. That’s how I did it!!