Please support this initiative! For every $10, SIHA Network is able to provide one menstrual hygiene kit for a Sudanese woman or girl. That is a small amount to pay for an incredibly powerful donation.
Donate directly at the link below.
(I found this charity from this tweet. The price for menstrual hygiene kits seems to have gone up since it was written.)
I AM DOING A HUNGER STRIKE FOR GAZA
It has been almost 200 days of genocide in Gaza, and during this time Palestinians have been in the worst stage of starvation and famine. Children have begun dying from starvation and malnutrition, and more and more photos of Palestinian children are coming out where the child is nothing more than skin and bones.
Personally, I know I take the food I eat for granted every single day. I am no more deserving of a meal than the children of Gaza, so for that reason me and a few of my friends will be doing a minimum of FIVE day hunger strike in solidarity with my brothers and sisters in Palestine.
We will be starting on 1 May, as to hunger strike safely there is preparation needed. I making this post now in case anyone wants to join me and will want to prepare. I am not doing a dry hunger strike, I will be having fluids and I also don’t believe I will be able to hunger strike safely for more than 15 days for health reasons.
“Sponsor me” on my hunger strike!
Join me on my hunger strike!
If you want to participate, please do your research and do it safely. I am doing this for the Gazan children who don’t have a choice right now, and I know in my heart I owe it to them. There is so much we consider a basic right and take for granted that people in Gaza don’t have access to. This hunger strike is solely in solidarity/raise money for Anera, there is no specific end result.
Today, people in Oakland, California, Eugene, Oregon, and Chicago, Illinois have blocked major highways. Demonstrators in Minnesota blockaded an Amazon facility. Others from Canada to Australia have shut down ports and other infrastructure.
These courageous actions in solidarity with Palestinians are just one step towards stopping the genocide in Gaza, where the Israeli military has slaughtered over 34,000 people, the majority of whom are women and children.
It's up to us to create a world without colonial violence of any kind.
For Eid, Hussam hired some entertainers and bought some chocolate, biscuits, and flavored milk to put into a goodie bag to help bring a bit of joy to Rafah camp children.
He managed to put together 200 goodie bags for the kids, which you can see being put together in the video! After that, they gathered all the children to enjoy a celebration with music and dancing while also hiring entertainers to help them out.
The kids loved it! Thanks to your donations, you helped put a smile on these children’s faces, yet again!
[ID: First part of video is of people putting together goodie bags. Second part is various shots of the Eid celebration while they sing songs and a clown helps entertain the kids. At the end they distribute the goodie bags.]
There is a part two to the eid celebration Hussam did!
There are refugees who are not associated with a camp or school and they put up tents in places like between buildings and on the side of the road. These refugees are considered "forgotten" because they are not associated with any camp or school that can distribute food or necessary items.
Hussam decided to then focus on these families. He brought the children 200 necklaces and plastic watches, and for the families with babies, he distributed 100 cans of baby formula.
[ID: First image is of a woman handing a person inside a tent a can of baby formula, with another child standing in front of the tent holding another can of formula. The second image is of a woman handing three girls packaged necklaces as they stand in front of makeshift tents. The third image is of a group of kids standing in front of makeshift tents amidst rubble and unfinished buildings. The third image depicts the "forgotten" refugees who are not associated with any school or camp system.]
"We, the Iranian Jews, strongly condemn the heinous crimes of the oppressive Zionist regime against the discriminated and defenseless people of Palestine. We express our solidarity with them and call on the international community to help them." - The Jewish community of Yusef Abad Synagogue demonstration in support of Palestine, Tehran (30 October 2023).
Because this is my first ever hunger strike, and because I still have to commute/study/attend to other responsibilities, I’m tentatively shooting for a sponsored 5-day strike (for now).
To sponsor my hunger strike, you can donate any amount you want to Anera (Anera has a minimum of 5 dollars, but that is the only stipulation—otherwise how much you donate is up to you). Please send proof of your donation to my inbox (with the date on it, just so I can verify that the donation came in light of this post). Feel free to omit private information. If we reach a threshold of 250 dollars in donations to Anera, I will be starting my strike on May 1!!
I’ll follow the same guidelines in Ibtisam’s post—but I’ll essentially just stop eating for 5 days. It’s been incredibly hard seeing the children of Gaza suffer through this horrific famine, while people like me continue to have the luxury of food and security, so this form of protest means a lot to me. Thank you Ibtisam for coming up w such a wonderful idea 🤍 you continue to amaze me with the depth of your kindness & compassion
Please spread this so more people can donate/participate in Ibtisam’s strike if they’d be able to!!
this call was released anonymously (understandably) but my local Palestinian organizers who I literally trust with my life have endorsed it, and it seems to be gaining momentum in multiple cities, so I encourage you all to get involved:
"A proposal to coordinate a multi-city economic blockade on April 15th in solidarity with Palestine recently received overwhelming commitments to participate around the US and internationally.
The proposal states that in each city, we will identify and blockade major choke points in the economy, focusing on points of production and circulation with the aim of causing the most economic impact, as did the port shutdowns in recent months in Oakland, California and Melbourne, Australia, as just a few examples.
There is a sense in the streets in this recent and unprecedented movement for Palestine that escalation has become necessary: there is a need to shift from symbolic actions to those that cause pain to the economy.
As Yemen is bombed to secure global trade, and billions of dollars are sent to the Zionist war machine, we must recognize that the global economy is complicit in genocide and together we will coordinate to disrupt and blockade economic logistical hubs and the flow of capital."
since I posted, organizers in St. Louis, Seoul, Brussels, and the Netherlands have signed onto the agreement, so if you saw this before and your city wasn't listed look again. anyone with the capacity to do some outreach, and a few connections to start with, could take the initiative to bring their city or region on board. read the solidarity agreement and check out the resources, and if you know trustworthy people in your area who might be interested in this sort of thing, talk to them about it.
remember that this isn't a series of protests (although some cities are organizing protests in conjunction), it's a commitment to take mass direct action and to maintain a united front in the face of any state repression. many organizers are (and have already been) using an affinity group model to actually coordinate those direct actions. autonomous groups can take action on April 15th whether or not others in their city/region have committed to this agreement. just do your homework (look up know-your-rights info specific to where you live + general direct action safety tips) and take good care of each other Blockades: a short guide to getting in the way Basic blockading Practical Protest Techniques: using your body Blockading: a guide ACT UP civil disobedience guide
i've been seeing this around a lot lately as like a little memey jokey thing but "this is what they took from you" is a fascist meme.
"they" are jewish people/"the global elite"/"cultural marxists"/"globalists"/"the woke left" etc.
and it's basically the same as "RETVRN" like this is explicitly a fascist thing that fascists say about their fascist beliefs
please don't go around saying it
you can talk about capitalist enshittification without invoking fascism, and just because YOU mean something different doesn't mean it's not invoking those things it's explicitly meant to invoke
"reject modernity, embrace tradition" is another fascist slogan I'm seeing people use like it's a cute meme. please stop with this shit.
A House of Representatives petition has just been filed. Unlike other petitions, this one will be presented to the House and requires a response from a Minister.
Elbit Systems, the Israeli defence contractor responsible for much of the weaponry currently causing devastation in Gaza, has just been awarded a $917 million contract with the Australian government.
The demand of this petition is to remove all contracts and deals between Australia and Elbit Systems.
Again, this is more than a change.org petition - this is a government petition with a certainty of being tabled before the House of Representatives. This is just one step of many that this country needs to take in ending Australia's support for the genocide of Palestinians.
Please sign and share the petition here. And don't forget to confirm your signature via the email afterwards.
The deadline is April 17th - make sure to sign before then.
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Maternity kits, medical threads and scissors, water testing kits, anesthetics, mobile desalination units, etc do you see the pattern? Israel is not only starving the people of Gaza but it also wants to ensure the spread of disease through contaminated water and surgical tools, as well as ensuring injured Palestinians suffer through horrendous pain.
It's beyond sickening.
Palestinians often smile while getting arrested as a symbol of resistance. They know they will face severe torture, isolation, discriminatory laws, and prejudice without fair trial yet smile to signify their strength.
It's been a long time -- reacquainting myself with the crew of My Jet Now Air 🛫
LMAO not Israel calling for an emergancy UN meeting, when they have done NOTHING but shit on the UN and their resolutions the entire time.... why should we listen to Israel and their "emergancy" when they didnt listen to Palestinians and the countries trying to protect the palestinians by calling for a ceasefire? Israel needs to learn to fight their own fights but they know they'll lose on their own. cry harder assholes.
the absolute GALL on these people to think that they can bomb whoever they want, whenever they want without consequences and then go cry to the UN and Uncle Sam when someone does retaliate, is just mind boggling honestly and truly.
2010s Black Tumblr didn't die organically. It was killed. Not just by staff, not just by the porn ban, but by the white userbase as well. Black bloggers were (and still are) being mass-reported and harassed off the platform constantly. White Tumblr users would post gore in problack tags, racefake left and right in Black people's askbox, pick random AAVE to call racist/misogynistic/transphobic, etc then get the Black people who were nice enough to explain what it means to them mass reported for harassment, the list goes on.
#yeah people forget the black community on tumblr was once so visible and massive we had Events#the blackout has p much been forgotten#the popular aesthetic blogs that created things like the art hoe movement are GONE#black tumblr is still here its just suppressed by unbearable whiteness#thats why we all get genuinely annoyed by your silly little polls and posts proclaiming loudly that you dont know donna summer.#or james baldwin#black people had a very active and connected community here once with its own subcultures and we were sundown towned out
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Hi, I don't really post but I would like to share these two GFMs that two families had reached out specifically.
This family has a set of twins younger than 5 and are exremely sick and don't have enough food for sustenance I am in contact with the mother Alaa so if you have anything to ask don't hesitate .
Another family had also asked for help is this one they aren't in much contact but they are also desperate
if you can't donate please reblog and repost if you want but please don't ignore.
“it’s going to be WW3!!” no bitch it’s going to be vietnam, korea, afghanistan, it’s going to be another war wherein the US commits unspeakable and indefensible acts against a severely weakened people seeking self determination. it’s going to be another war where protesting is criminalized and “freedom of speech” is gutted in the interest of pushing propaganda. it’s going to be another nation of people added to the long list of victims of US imperialism and another demonstration of the strong undercurrent of fascism running through the foundation of america
