Hey, amidst the chaos of... everything on the internet, pay attention to Hawaii/Hawai'i!

There have been plans from a non Hawaiian organisation to build a 5 acre parking lot, 13 lot subdivision and a comfort station for tourists on the ridge of the sacred Pololū Valley!

This project doesn't acknowledge Pololū Valley as a wahi pāna (a celebrated and storied place in the cultural traditions of Hawaii/Hawai'i) and instead treats it as just plain land that can be sold to a highest bidder.

Pololū Valley is anything but that.

So please sign the petition to stop this project! As of writing this, 883,470 people have, but we need more!

Petition to protect Pololū Valley

Reblog to reach more people, please! Don't just like and move on, sign the petition and make sure more people see this!

you should also donate if you're able

and if you want more details on what's going on, there's a website by the organizers of the petition, you can sign up for their newsletter to get more updates

Salam

My family is still trapped in Sudan , under the threatening to be displaced again.

Kindly, share the link of the fundraiser that's my friend organized to help us reaching our goal ✨️💛.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-my-family-flee-sudans-war

⭕️ My campaign on X:

https://twitter.com/_Rnd8/status/1776972450921623940?t=5oyGITsNzwjDZQrWGVfouQ&s=19

goodnight everyone (:

donate to:

did some fact checking

on the death toll

from:

from: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231215-israel-social-security-data-reveals-true-picture-of-oct-7-deaths

on the distribution of weapons

from: https://www.fiassociation.com/article/672/argentina__military_support_from_israel_in_1982

I will note that the lack of common knowledge about the dirty war is far more likely attributible to overall lack of knowledge about Argentina from western sources

I doubt there has been any institutional obscuring of this information

*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

donate direct aid to gaza - ehab rida (longtime activist and volunteer, has been carrying out donations and humanitarian projects in gaza since 2021)

palestine children's relief fund

world food programme

aid to gaza - taawon/bank of palestine

help gaza’s children

female hygiene kits for gaza - pious project

donate to UNRWA

urgent humanitarian aid to palestinians - anera

medical aid for palestinians

urgent support for medical professionals in gaza

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

help journalist yousef escape gaza to treat his cancer

help mohamed evacuate gaza to get treatment for himself and his daughter

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

Petitions

‼️ urge icj to invite gazan journalists to testify

international cultural workers to strike from german cultural institutions for their complicity in oppressing palestinians and promoting genocide - strike germany

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

president whitten: reinstate samia halaby retrospective NOW - action network

demand the immediate release of mansour shouman

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)

no forced displacement! - action network

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)

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)

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

‼️ international criminal court

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

palestine diaspora network

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'm listening to gathering moss, by robin wall kimmerer, and she is talking about a very odd job she was consigned to do, where an eccentric millionaire recuited her to consult on a "habitat restoration". when she arrives, the job they actually want her to do is to tell them how to plant mosses on the rocks in his garden. he wants it to look like a specific, beautiful wild cliff in the woods nearby, with centuries-old beds of moss growing thick and strong. she tells him it is impossible. such a thing would take decades to accomplish.

later, she is called back to look at the progress of the moss garden and is amazed by the thick, well-established mosses. how did they do it? she asks.

then they take her out to the woods and show her that they have been blasting huge chunks of rock out of the cliff, packaging them in burlap, and moving them to the owner's garden.

This quote really got me: "The owner is a man who loves mosses, and the exercise of power. I have no doubts of his sincerity in wishing to protect them from harm, once they conformed to his landscape design.  But I think you cannot own a thing and love it at the same time. Owning diminishes the sovreignty of a thing, enriching the possessor and diminishing the possessed. If he truly loved mosses more than control, he would have left them alone, and walked each day to see them."

- Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

I think it’s right to emphasize that Palestinian men don’t deserve this and it’s also right to rally around Palestinian children, children being the most vulnerable members of any society and also being half of Gaza’s population

Like particularly in the case of Palestine. The idea that we, Palestinian adults, are uniquely hateful towards Palestinian children, and that Palestinian children come out of the womb clamoring for blood, is pretty integral to how Palestinians are dehumanized. Israeli politicians from Golda Meir to Ayelet Shaked have said as much, and Palestinian children are the only group of children in the world to be tried in military courts.

I think maybe the fact that a group of Palestinian kids sheltering in a hospital held a makeshift press conference in English and the gist of it was “can you please stop letting us get killed? We want to go to school” was forgotten a bit too fast

According to one analysis of wool production in Australia, by far the world’s top exporter, the wool required to make one knit sweater is responsible for 27 times more greenhouse gases than a comparable Australian cotton sweater, and requires 247 times more land. Sheep farming threatens native species around the world, from koalas in Australia to sage grouse in the US.

Domesticated sheep in the American West have, as my colleague Paige Vega has reported, been implicated in mass die-offs of their wild cousins, Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep, through the spread of the lethal pathogen Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae.

Ruminant farming’s hunger for land has made it a prime engine for colonial expansion around the world; we see this in Brazil, for example, where cattle ranching is driving illegal seizures of Indigenous land. Sheep brought by colonists to Australia “immediately trampled and destroyed all of the native yams and edible vegetables that Aboriginal people had.

The land that Aboriginal people never ceded was taken for pastoral practices,” said Emma Hakansson, the Australia-based founding director of Collective Fashion Justice, which advocates for what she calls a “total ethics” fashion system: one that’s fair to people, animals, and the planet. “Animal-derived materials in particular are a focus for us because it’s in those supply chains that all three of those groups are consistently harmed.”

the older i get the more frustrating i find it how little people recognize or acknowledge it when massive problems start to get solved... i get the concept of focusing on unsolved problems and injustices to keep up the pressure of public opinion, but we should also acknowledge it when great things are accomplished. we just started rolling out the first-ever malaria vaccine which will likely save millions of children's lives. about half a million people die of malaria every year and over half of those deaths are children 5 years old and under. ive seen literally no one i know talking about this huge triumph for humanity

we're also on track to completely restore the ozone layer. we have averted one horrifying environmental catastrophe and we can do it again. our planet is not doomed

Donation

Thread

site: Donate

Thread

___________

CareForGaza-this charity seems to being giving actual healthy foods like veggies, actual money, diapers, etc to people in gaza. They seem legit and have over 67 thousands followers. If you want to donate. If you know about this charity and want to give more info, let me know.

News Sites: aljazeera english (youtube, instagram, twitter/nitter), ajplus instagram (twitter/nitter, tiktok), Palestinian News & Information Agency-WAFA (twitter/nitter), mondoweiss, Quds News Network (twitter/nitter), Timesofgaza, Middle East Eye (tiktok, instagram, twitter/nitter)

Press in Gaza

motaz_azaiza (twitter/nitter, tiktok), wizard_bisan1 (tiktok), bayanpalestine (twitter/nitter), byplestia (twitter/nitter), ismail.jood, hindkhoudary (twitter/nitter), samarabuelouf, saleh_aljafarawi, mohamed.h.masri, mahmoudhamda, samerzaneen, rabie_noqaira, abd.sabbah, majdi_fathi, hamdaneldahdouh, madhoun95, MuhammadSmiry

Other accounts to follow

LexiAlex, LibyaLiberty, megan_b_rice, iamsbeih, eye.on.palestine (backup account, twitter/nitter), everydaypalestine, mohammedelkurd (twitter/nitter), mirna_elhelbawi (twitter/nitter), anat.international (tiktok), BreeNewsome, gazanotice, muhammadshehad2

That all the press in Gaza I could find. If you know more press in Gaza, leave their social and I'll update this.

you can give seven days of internet connection to someone in gaza for just 6 USD

gazaesims.com is a website dedicated to helping people donate esims for people in gaza. there are multiple options for where to purchase an esim to donate, for the price i listed you want to use nomad esims. then use the promotional discount code from this article (BACKPACKNOMAD) to get $3 off your purchase (note: this only applies to the first purchase you make on nomad) this discount obviously also works on the more expensive options too if you are able to spring for those! also it took over an hour for the email with my information to come through so don't panic if it doesn't show up right away.

Lakota Nation vs. United States (Jesse Short Bull & Laura Tomaselli, 2022)

11 November 2023

People & countries mentioned in the thread:

beginning to believe that the liberal and pseudo-intellectual mind is simply unable to understand what an aistrike or a bomb or a missile is. like im serious but they are acting as though airstrike deaths simply don't count—even for israeli hostages. they'll talk about bringing them home but if you tell them that the hostages are being bombed too their eyes glaze over

there's a lot to be said about how the west experiences airstrikes and drone warfare as the moment of deliberation before your fingers push a button but the middle east has experienced airstrikes as screaming, being buried alive under rubble, burns that are not on the curriculums of medical schools, being crippled for life by a new weapon that will not be publicly acknowledged for years, blood everywhere, bodies decomposing under buildings and memories and childhoods that will no longer exist

drone warfare was in part to spare soldiers the mental difficulty of killing face-to-face, but i think it has also created an unbridgeable gap between the entire populations of those who make the bombs and those who receive them

If you are unable to afford donating, this link allows you to click a button every 24 hours in order help donate to Palestine.

American mutuals, I seriously urge you to tell Congress and Biden to stand with Palestine, and do not stop sending this message. You can also donate here.

This is not a war; what Israel is doing to Palestine is genocide. Do not sit idly by and do not stay quiet. Now more than ever is the most important time to not look away.

More links to help Palestine:

Gaza Emergency Appeal

UN Relief for Palestine Refugees

Support Gaza Hospitals

Islamic Relief Palestine Emergency Appeal (UK)

Medical Aid for Palestinians

UN Crisis Relief

Humanitarian aid

Palestine Red Crescent Society

There are more links in this thread.