remembering all the times i spent money

today is Nakba day, the 76th anniversity of the 1948 Nakba. About 15,000 Palestinians were killed during the Nakba in 1948. Since October 7, Israel has killed more than 35,000 Palestinians in Gaza, and 1.7 million people have been displaced — more than double the number of Palestinians displaced in 1948.

8,745 arrests have been made since Oct 7, including 292 women, 615 children, 75 journalists (49 of which are still imprisoned), and 18 who died in detention. it's important to note that this number excludes detainees, who are estimated by prisoner rights groups to be in the thousands.

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a Palestinian from my local group of activists is fundraising to bring her family to Canada. Najlaa is currently less than halfway to her goal of $80,000. please consider donating to help her family.

donations will go towards:

1. Covering the expenses of accommodation in Cairo, Egypt, throughout the visa and biometric process.

2. Meeting the cost of flight tickets from Cairo to Canada.

3. Securing affordable and suitable housing.

4. Addressing monthly necessities such as groceries, utilities, clothing, and shoes.

5. Ensuring access to healthcare and therapy, crucial for the well-being of our family members.

6. Providing monthly financial support until they secure employment.

as of April 10, they have been able to start the process of acquiring visas and passports.

currently at $26,630/$80,000

May 11: $27,347/$80,000

that's over $700 in a day. please keep spreading and donating to keep up and even increase that momentum. you will be helping Najlaa's family including her brothers and sisters in law and her nieces and nephews - a family of 21 people! and remember, every little bit counts. if everyone who reblogged this donated 5 dollars, that would be almost $10,000. it's okay if you can donate even just $1, it all adds up.

May 15: $27,512/$80,000

donations have slowed down considerably. once again, please consider donating even a small amount, it still helps!

there is something horrifically grim to it, but illustrations for gaza and palestinians tend to catch more mass attention that actual photos of people. this made me feel incredibly helpless for a long while, seeing both how people would rather look at a neat drawing of red black green and white than look a human in the eyes, and how online platforms would rather push a viral drawing while suppressing those begging for help at the same time.

a way to cope with this feeling has been taking advantage of it to directly guide people to helping palestinians.

if art gets better traction, then there’s an incredible amount of good that can be done by creating art that immediately links to fundraisers. creating art of the many images of those who are asking for help.

within hours of posting my drawing, there has been jumps in the thousands for bashar from gaza’s fundraiser. it’s a small effort in the grand scheme of things. it’s not a fix it. but it’s something good. please take care of each other and do what you can. i think this could help a lot of people if a lot of people did it.

here is bashar. i’ve drawn him, spoken to him, and known him now for a few months. any shares help, any art helps. draw who you see, draw what you see. thanks all

$41,551 AUD raised of $65,000 goal raised as of May 15. please donate what you can and share

i really like ryoko kui's dedication to making this elf chick smoke weed in every modern clothing art she appears in

by god this woman is hitting the bong in every universe except the one this story takes place in

goodnight everyone (:

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this really is the mood now and forever

The news keeps saying that “aid in Gaza is running dangerously” low, but with Israel seizing the Rafah-Egypt crossing there is literally nothing. That was the lifeline of Gaza. Now that Israel is encroaching on Rafah full force there’s nowhere for aid to go & people are dying a slow painful death

I’m running out of words to describe how cruel and inhumane this is

This comes in tandem with Rafah closing its main maternity ward—because the IOF keeps intentionally firing in its vicinity—and Israeli settlers burning the perimeters of the UNRWA headquarters in Jerusalem. This has forced them to close.

Things in the West Bank are no better. The IOF tear-gassed and fired at Palestinians on a raid in Qalqiliya, which resulted in the hospitalization of a 15 year old. How can you look at all this and just be okay with dismissing it as “they’re just terrorists” is the 15 year old Hamas too. Are the pregnant women with no place to go a threat to the great state of Israel

Can’t even tell you how many Palestinians are wounded / got killed by this either, bc the numbers are underreported and there’s no actual way to tell. It hits me over and over again how such a massive undercount the death toll of 33k Palestinians is. This is insane. And it’s still going on

I apologize for calling Macklemore cringe

Concentration camp.

They built a concentration camp.

I don't think words can describe what this other than genocide.

theres been bombs dropped on displaced families camps in congo so i wanna share some places to donate where u can help the congolese ppl

focus congo

friends of the congo

panzi foundation

if u cant donate just share and get it to someone who can!!

"Rafah is now a city of children, who have nowhere safe to go in Gaza."

There are around 600,000 children crammed in a 60km area in Rafah. A doctor said it sounds like a giant playground in Rafah with how many children there are in such a small area. Israel is currently trapping all of these children in, blocking the only exit they have, and preventing food and water from getting to them while it conducts deadly airstrikes and levels entire buildings on top of them.

This is a war on children, make no mistake.