Aspiring Medieval Monk

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how you can help palestine

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

Donations

donations currently reaching gaza:

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)

he is born, raised and based in gaza. please help him reach his goal of $37.5K to get his family to safety across the rafah border into egypt. as of right now… it’s $7.5K per person to evacuate gaza.

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

secondary donations:

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

one of the three palestinian students shot by a racist in vermont for wearing kufiyas and speaking arabic. hisham’s injuries have left him paralysed from below the chest.

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

location specific petitions

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)

note: you can call everyday. they tally the number of calls per issue. so more calls = higher chance for them to take action. p.s. you mainly go to voicemail so don’t worry about phone call anxiety. fight through it just this once please.

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)

template of letters you can send (EU)

guide on how to contact your MPs in EU

p.s. if the template is outdated, just use it as a guide and add a few sentences here and there that reflect the current situation. i can’t find any recent templates so :/ at least this is something

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

includes: links for donations, emails to MP, emails to media, links to petitions and demonstrations

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

reach out to countries to back up south africa’s invoke genocide convention at the ICJ

friends of al-aqsa

❥ UK-specific

urge your MP to speak up for palestine

hands off al-aqsa

stop administrative detention

petition for UK to stop arming israel

❥ International

boycott puma — email them to end their partnership with israel

boycott coca-cola

palestine action

join the resistance

islamic relief canada

urge your MP to rally for ceasefire

decolonise palestine

poster campaign to raise awareness on the war crimes being committed against palestinians

text/call campaign for people living in USA

text CEASEFIRE @ 51905 to call for a ceasefire

text RESIST @ 50409 to send a letter to your representatives to pass HR3103–a bill that prohibits tax dollars from going to israel

download 5Calls app to contact members of your congress | (more info)

fax campaign for people in the USA

go on this website to send 5 free faxes per day

here’s a link to a pre-written fax copy you can download to send (the first link on the linktree)

here’s a video that explains how to fax your senator (it’s very easy and all you need is a valid email address)

‼️ BDS movement

get involved in boycotting companies associated with israel

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

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not to distract from this list of resources, but here's also few gofundmes to help Palestinians escape - you can really make your money count!

Save Sanaa and her Family (Gofundme)

Save Amjad Saher and his family (Gofundme)

Help a family of 13 escape Gaza (Gofundme)

Help a Palestinian children's book illustrator save her family of 12 (Gofundme)

[farmerbebop]

Can tumblr become the next PDF by watching The Prisoner?

References: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10

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[youarenumber-6]

I dug up my old essay on women in "The Prisoner!" Presented more below the cut:

Lost in Translation: How Gender Perception Changes Between Script and Screen

Patrick McGoohan’s master work, the 1967 mini-series “The Prisoner,” is well noted for its surreality and emphasis on a variety of broad themes, particularly individuality and identity in society. It was also notably ahead of its time in its portrayal of women. While women in James Bond films (the only real competition for McGoohan as one of the most famous British film and television spies of the 60s) play “Bond girls,” vessels for Bond’s testosterone and suavity; “The Prisoner” features virtually no romantic plots and women in the series are often in positions of power and prestige. However, this feminism did not always extend to the scripts themselves, and varies between writers, as well as what made it through the final cut of the show. Examining three scripts from three different authors (George Markstein, Gerald Kelsey and McGoohan, under a pseudonym, respectively) offers three rather different portrayals of women on the page. Markstein was a script editor whose main ambition was to create a rather standard spy drama for the period, and left halfway through production due to creative differences with McGoohan. While his episodes are among the more grounded in the series, his writing on the premiere episode, “Arrival,” shows a far less progressive view of women than the other two. 

Atonal to the series as a whole, Markstein’s writing tends to emphasize attractive young women in the background of scenes (“THERE ARE SEVERAL PEOPLE SWIMMING, INCLUDING TWO OR THREE ATTRACTIVE GIRLS,” pg. 21; “HE GOES TO THE WINDOW AND SEES THE RATHER PLEASING BACKVIEW OF THE GIRL FROM THE HOUSE,” pg.14). When McGoohan’s character – the Prisoner, better known as No. 6 – finds a girl driving the Village’s version of a taxi, in Markstein’s script, he remarks, “This is an unusual job for a girl,” (pg. 10), but is it really? It is certainly worth noting that the line never appears in the episode itself; there’s no “pleasing back view” of the young lady who utterly fails to seduce Six, and there is no real focus on any “bathing beauties” in the background of the episode. 

Gerald Kelsey’s episode “Checkmate” is a step up from Markstein’s writing, but its conception of women is, if anything, more complex. For a start, the episode’s original title was “The Queen’s Pawn,” (the episode features a human-scale game of chess with Village members as the pieces, with No. 6 as the White Queen’s pawn, thus the emphasis on the chess motif). A woman, then, is in a position of at least symbolic authority, certainly over Six, and there is a great deal of dialogue referencing him as “under the Queen’s protection,” which places Six as the benefactor of a woman’s power. (“Don’t worry, you’re safe, protected by the Queen.” Pg. 6; “He’s just a pawn. One false move and he’ll be wiped out.” “Not while the Queen is protecting him.” “The Queen! She’ll take no risks to help him.” Pg. 7.) The Queen is eager to help Six escape, and their initial relationship could be characterized as polite and between equals. 

The gender politics then have a very strange bend to them: the Queen – whose interest before was purely platonic – is hypnotized into thinking herself in love with No. 6 in order to act as a kind of organic tracking device to prevent his escape, and this previously independent, capable woman is reduced to a sniveling wreck of her former self. Is there an implication that women give up autonomy when in relationships with men? It is difficult to say. What is worthy of note, however, is that Kelsey describes the Queen as an “ATTRACTIVE YOUNG WOMAN” (pg. 3), but on film, she is not particularly either, and it would not be important for her to be so, as the devout Catholic and married McGoohan refused to have love scenes in his productions.

That leaves the third script, “Free For All,” written by McGoohan himself. While the episodes written and directed by him are by far the most abstract, they are also among the most progressive and it can be safely said they most closely resemble his vision for “The Prisoner.” While “Free For All” deals most specifically with identity and hypocrisy in democracy and dictatorship, it also has one of the most subtly powerful female characters in the series. Nameless for most of the episode, the woman referred to only as “the Girl” makes up the third most important character of the plot, aside from Six and the recurring character, No. Two. McGoohan makes absolutely no reference to her age (beyond the title of “Girl”) or her attractiveness, and she does not even speak English and yet is able to deftly navigate her surroundings, so that the only emphasis is on her capacity as a character and person in her own right, rather than as a receptacle for romantic or sexual interest. She acts as Six’s partner, and perhaps even his keeper, through much of the episode, as he attempts to gain power through a derelict democracy and thus a means of escaping the Village. This is all a noticeable step up from the writing of Markstein and Kelsey, but it is McGoohan’s twist ending that is by far the most bolstering for women: winning the puppet election, Six believes himself to finally be in control of the Village – only to find that it is the Girl who has been in charge all along. Her English is flawless, and not only is she cool in command (she even scolds No. Six for not understanding the truth sooner with, “Will you never learn? This is only the beginning,” pg. 61), other authority figures in the Village immediately follow her direction without question, because in this universe, a woman in charge does not merit even the blinking of an eye.

As creator and producer of the series, McGoohan had final creative say on what would and would not be done. This means that the translations of women from script to film – that is, as ultimately independent figures in their own right, rather than extensions of the men around them – has to be seen as a deliberate choice on his part. And considering the variety of ways they were written, from a variety of different authors, this makes the show an even more impressive achievement, nearly fifty years after its premiere.

[postmodern-blues]

—why did you resign?

[absoluteboatfreak]

theyre doing this to me right now

[odo-apologist]

My dealer: Got some straight gas 🔥😛 This strain is called "The Prisoner" 😳 You'll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

Me: Yeah whatever. I don't feel shit

Me ten minutes later: Woah I think that weather balloon is following me

My buddy Number Six pacing around The Village: I am not a number I am a free man

[03pilot]

[okhanagan]

Blue for an amazing reason When I posted this on insta it marked it as AI for some reason

[helledeh]

industrial experiment 01

commissions open for any design needs, through instagram- @helledeh

[crockpot-cowboy]

isn’t he glowing

[elodieunderglass]

Only $175 for this horrible thing with legs! Bargain!

...A bargain for someone else, that is. I will not be buying it.

Yee Hah

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no comment

[pmamtraveller]

Karin Hosono - Wind

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Photographs from The Prisoner press launch at MGM Borehamwood Studios, 9/20/1967

[slowmotionmovesme]

“Look, we all have our breaking point. Personally, mine is at 2:00, 4:00 and 6:00 every day.”