Disruptive Empathy

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[abdullahfamily9]

Save my family from hunger

My name is Abdullah Al-Qassab, I’m 27 years old, and I am writing this message with trembling hands and an empty stomach — from Gaza.

Before the war, I had a small travel agency something I built with love, effort, and hope.I dreamed of a simple life… a dignified life.

But the war didn’t just destroy my home and business —it shattered my ability to dream.

Today, I’m not asking for dreams.I’m asking for bread. For water. For life I now live with my family in the open — no walls, no roof, just the cold ground beneath us.

We are in a catastrophic famine.

We go days without food.

We faint in the street from hunger.

Our bodies are giving up.

And still… the world remains silent.

My mother has a heart condition — she needs medicine and special food.

Now she lies in pain, her chest aching, and I have nothing to give her. My grandmother has high blood pressure — worsened by hunger and cold nights.

Her body is shrinking before my eyes.

And me😞?

I’ve collapsed more than once from weakness. From not eating.But I stand up again… because they need me.

What do you call this life?

Sleeping on the dirt… watching your family starve… praying your heart doesn’t stop before help arrives? This is not a life. This is a slow death. To anyone reading this Please… don’t turn away from me.

Help me buy food before we collapse again. Help me get medicine before my mother’s heart gives out.

Help me bring even one moment of comfort to my grandmother before it’s too late.

I’m not asking for luxury.

I’m not asking for comfort.

> I’m begging for survival.

Even the smallest act of kindness could mean the world to us. Please… save us from this hunger.

— Abdullah Al-Qassab

Gaza, Palestine

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Donate to Help Abdullah's family in their time of need, organized by Maryam Awad

"A Family Trying to Survive" My name is Abdullah Al-Qassab, a 27-year… Maryam Awad needs your support for Help Abdullah's family in

📩 Or DM me if you prefer to help directly.. 🙏🏻

Every dollar helps. Every reblog helps. Every bit of empathy matters... 🥹💔

Please don’t scroll past – Gaza is starving in silence.... 🙏🏻😞

[spookyabuki]

For folks in Arlington (Texas), you should know that there is an upcoming city council vote to remove sexual orientation from our city's nondiscrimination ordinance. If you live here, I would encourage you to call or email your city councilors (calling will probably be more effective, but whatever works).

Here's a link to some talking points:

Arlington Strikes Out

[spookyabuki]

If you can, please also attend the public hearing (they're calling on all community members, not just city residents) and sign the petition:

Restore Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Protections in Arlington City Code

On September 2nd the Arlington City Council suspended Arlington’s entire anti-discrimination ordinance. That ordinance, passed in 2021, had

[schoolhater]

the co-founder of 'crips for esims for gaza' and disability advocate, alice wong, has died according to her twitter account.

alice's disability advocacy naturally led her to palestine solidarity as the quote from the blog post announcing 'crips for esims' illustrates:

We also recognize that everyone in Gaza is now disabled due to the massive number of deaths, new disabilities, life-threatening illnesses and destruction of medical facilities going on. Such destruction also debilitates the land, water, and air, which will impact Palestinians and all surrounding life for generations to come. We owe our kin in Palestine to throw sand on the gears of genocide with our every breath. [source: the disability visibility project]

since december 2023, crips for esims for gaza has raised well over $3.1M and bought and maintained over 5,000 esims, undoubtedly saving lives.

in the past few days there has been intense winter flooding in gaza. donate to honor alice wong's memory–to keep people connected, to give disabled people the tools to advocate for themselves, to refuse to let palestine be silenced.

Crips for eSims for Gaza

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong. 

[littlestpersimmon]

Hey everyone, if you guys could please help spread the word; central philippines got hit with a devastating earthquake after the whole country just got back to back storms, one being the largest ever recorded this year (typhoon Ragasa); for scale, its significantly faster and bigger than hurricane Sandy. Theres been large scale protests over govt. inaction, but the people of visayas urgently need our help. So many are homeless and hungry and cold rn.

[littlestpersimmon]

Devastating (again) floods after another typhoon. More people are homeless, animal shelters have been destroyed, roads and cities underwater due to Typhoon Tino.

https://x.com/volcaholic1/status/1985667003265294605?t=1BmeKeyCHJzKzOGsdQPi8w&s=19

Please consider helping out.

[aswangpiss]

Adding some more donation drives/initiatives on to this post.

Concerned Artists of The Philippines (The one on the post for people without twitter)

Anakbayan Cebu (Link to post for more info)

Alibyo Cebu Ayuda Network (Link to post for more info)

[dev-tawfik]

My family needs your help to pay the rent.

My name is Tawfik, a young Palestinian from Gaza.

Before the war, I was studying in peace and safety, but because of the war and the loss of my family’s source of income like so many others here our life completely changed. I’m deeply grateful to everyone who has donated, shared my campaign, or supported me. Your kindness has given me hope and light to continue my education despite everything. Now, after the war, I humbly ask for your support once again , to help my family cover rent, food, and medicine, and to allow me to continue my university studies until we can rebuild our lives and recover our source of income.

Deadline: 16 Nov.

$20,896 / $21,800 ( $904 left)

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Donate to Support Tawfik Dream of Higher Education, organized by Tawfik Wal

In the heart of Gaza City, amidst the turmoil of conflict and resilience, Tawfik's… Tawfik Wal needs your support for Support Tawfik Dream o

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Support Tawfik

[dev-tawfik]

Hey friends,

I’m really struggling right now.

My family can’t afford the rent this month ,we need $904 just to keep our home.

If you can help, even a little, it would mean the world to us.

If not, please just reblog or send a kind thought our way.

Sometimes hope is all we have left. 💔

[hagiomoto]

Message from the Sameer Project! Please boost!

You’re starting to see more images of food in the markets, of prepared meals in community kitchens, stalls serving modified menus. The word “famine” is not being used as much. This is the plan, this is part of the modified and strategically engineered genocide.

To meet aid delivery quotas and to pacify an international audience who became increasingly more alarmed at the images of starving children, the occupation is letting in more goods. But what is being let in is certainly not quality, but quantity, and certainly of limited nutritional value.

The occupation is providing Palestinians in Gaza with sugary soft drinks, candy, instant noodles, canned goods, anything with a high calorie count in order to bulk up the population but without giving them healthy or nutritions food. Where is the chicken, the meat, vegetables and fruit? They are controlling Palestinian’s diets, making sure their consumption leads to diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, and other ailments.

Our teams are still providing meals for families and on October 13, Translating Falasteen (@translatingpal) x The Sameer Project distributed 200 hot meals of rice at Jenan Camp 3 near Hamad City in Khan Younis. [X]

South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water

**With Famine on the rise, we will significantly lower tent purchases and focus on food (rice and bread) and water over the next couple of w

For less than $6 per meal you can help feed families that have no one else to rely on, no source for nutrition and care. Donate to the South Campaign.

Other ways to donate include:

paypal.me/mahertali (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "South aid")

account.venmo.com/u/Maher-Ali (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "South aid")

[shames-gaza01]

Hello my friend 🙏

✅️Vetted by @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #672 )✅️

Support Shams and her family

Hello! My name is Anna – I'm launching this campaign in support of my friend Shams and her family, who are in Gaza. Please consider helping,

Thank you all for supporting me in the past, but now I am in urgent need of your help.

I am about to start a new stage in my life — university — and I am also the one who supports my family. The war has ended, but the suffering has not.

Our home was destroyed, our house was bombed, and our dreams were stolen. I am here asking for your help.

I was also scammed by the first campaign organizer, so I created a new one. I am in desperate need of your support once again.

I need to start over — to support my family and myself, and to register for university.

Remember, no matter how small your donation is, it will make a difference in my life.

Do not hesitate or ignore — the war may have ended, but the suffering has just begun.

Please donate and help me 🙏🥹

[ahmadwaleed55]

My friends, please understand, the so-called “ceasefire” is not real. In some areas the bombing has stopped, but the Israeli army still surrounds Gaza and allows only a tiny amount of aid to enter, just enough to keep people barely alive. From time to time, they resume bombing and destruction again, bringing more fear, more ruin, and more blood. 💔

We live among the rubble, covered in dust and smoke, with no shelter, no hospitals, no clean water, and no safe roads. Every day is a struggle to survive hunger, illness, and despair. Families are torn apart, children cry from pain, and the elderly wait for help that never comes.

Please, don’t ignore us. Don’t let my family and others fade away in this deadly silence. Your donation means food, medicine, and a small chance to survive another day. It means a glimpse of hope in a place that has forgotten what hope feels like.

And to the governments of this unjust world, where is your humanity? You unite and move mountains for the remains of a few Israeli soldiers, yet you abandon more than two million people to live in conditions beyond human endurance. Gaza is not a headline; it is a land full of souls still fighting to live.

Please, help us survive. Don’t let our lives fade away in the dust and smoke. 🙏💔

Donate to Help Gaza Families Secure Essential Needs, organized by Ahmad W

Dear Esteemed Donors, My name is Ahmad , and I am a 14-year-old resident of Khan Yo… Ahmad W needs your support for Help Gaza Families Secu

📌 Fundraiser vetted (#167 by el-shab-hussein & nabulsi)

[ahmadwaleed163]

My family is going through very hard times and we’re struggling to survive with dignity. Please, donate 🙏💔

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[greenapplegirl90]

meagan has been moved to federal custody, specifically FMC Fort Worth. *And* they booked her under her deadname, because of course the federal government would do that to her. She still has the state charges, but the federal government has decided to press charges before the state of Texas got around to it.

If y'all want to mail her things, I'd really appreciate it. Use Meagan as her name in the letters but the name below on the envelopes, and it should be fine.

Bradford Morris 11136-512

FMC Fort Worth

FEDERAL MEDICAL CENTER

P.O. BOX 15330

FORT WORTH, TX 76119

(here's the rules for mail: https://www.bop.gov/inmates/communications.jsp#mail

Please, more than ever, she needs support as a trans woman. Getting your name changed by force like this is painful, and she needs all the love we can get her

[mausers]

Some tips that might be helpful to those writing from Black and Pink, which helps facilitate pen pals for LGBTQ+ incarcerated people:

To note specifically, rules vary by prison system and are enforced arbitrarily: "Some prison systems, like Texas, have decided to ban all postcards and greeting cards as a way to prevent drugs… Some won’t accept construction paper, or mailing labels, or glitter. Pennsylvania scans all mail in a facility in Florida and then prints it."

These are Texas' rules. In general, be aware that someone is reading what you write and may be looking for reasons to deny the correspondence.

[free-and-to-none-accountable]

#meagan was arrested for a crime she did not commit#and is being misgendered by her jailers and state appointed defense attorney despite a name change in 2007

Protest or 'ambush'? Woman arrested in Alvarado ICE facility shooting says it started peacefully

Meagan Morris, 41, shared with KERA News in interviews her perspective of what happened July 4.

Support DFW Anti ICE Protesters

Español abajo Support DFW Anti ICE ProtestersOn the night of July 4th, local police arrested 10 people outside the ICE Prairieland detention

[stamenpistil]

“The state came to massacre, it wasn’t a [police] operation. They came directly to kill, to take lives,” one woman in Penha Complex told the AFP news agency.

“There are people who have been executed, many of them shot in the back of the head, shot in the back. This cannot be considered public safety,” said 36-year-old resident and activist Raul Santiago.

Brazil’s Justice Minister Ricardo Lewandowski said President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is “horrified” by the scale of fatalities and surprised that such an operation went ahead without prior knowledge of the federal government.

(source 1) (source 2) (source 3)

[stamenpistil]

Adding my own previous tags:

I’d sincerely appreciate it if non-Brazilians reblogged this. Media outlets all over the world (and especially in my homeland) will try to sweep this under the rug but the horror has spread nationwide. We call it chacina for a reason.

It would be of great help if other countries and their citizens held Brazilian politicians/figures of authority accountable. Or, at least, acknowledge very publicly that there's an ongoing effort by the Brazilian police force to exterminate black and brown people, especially in Rio.

[venusianmystique]

If y’all are interested in helping out the trans community in Jamaica after hurricane melissa, Transwave has opened a mutual aid fund

TransWave Jamaica

TransWave: Empowering Jamaica’s Trans Community Since 2015 Founded in 2015, TransWave has been the leading organization advocating for the t

[disruptiveempathy]

Support Sudanese Comrades - Open Collective

Sudanese anarchist comrades are building grassroots committees, mutual aid networks, and political education through their publication Al Am

Donate to Sudanese anarchists working to support the people of Sudan by "building grassroots committees, mutual aid networks, and political education."

[disruptiveempathy]

What's happening right now in El Fashir and Sudan is an atrocity, and still, many there are holding strong. Which is why I'm sharing this statement and donation opportunity for folks who want to help.

—Prince Shakur

[mosabfamilynew]

My children are shivering from the cold and my wife has no medicine we urgently need your help DONATE NOW

Today we woke up to rain pouring through our torn tent. My three children are completely soaked and shivering with no protection, and my wife is sick and cannot get her medicine.

💔 Our only hope is warm clothes and a safe room to keep them secure. Every passing second in this situation increases the risk to their lives.

🙏 Your donations can save them today. Be the reason our family feels warmth and survives before it’s too late.

Vetted by gazavetters #520

[girlfromtheantilles]

Beware of scammers! The government of Jamaica has set up an official donation page.

[girlfromtheantilles]

The Embassy of Jamaica in Washington DC is coordinating disaster relief in the U.S. They have asked people to contact them at [email protected] to coordinate support.

Please donate if you can and spread the word if you’re not able to do so at this time.

P. S. Thanks to those of you who have been boosting my posts on Hurricane Melissa donations. I appreciate you and your support.

[loveridden1999]

‘A true genocide’: RSF kills ‘at least 1,500 people’ in Sudan’s el-Fasher

Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkiye, Jordan and Qatar express alarm as more evidence emerges of mass killings by paramilitary forces in Sudan'

[tearsofrefugees]

Israel says it opens fire on suspects in Gaza, local authorities report six killed

Israel’s military said it opened fire on Tuesday to remove a threat posed by suspects who approached its forces in the northern Gaza Strip,