once again, we are on the final day for ammar's injection
last week was extremely bad, as deadline after deadline passed without enough money. this week, i am begging everyone to be kind to ammar and give him enough
the deadline not being reached on time meant he had a heart attack and then fell unconscious - we are extremely lucky he did not end up in a coma, as with his condition it's very uncertain if he'd wake up from such
therefore, i am begging everyone to get this money to ammar before the deadline of 4 pm tuesday for samah. that's in gazan time
unfortunately, though we rang the driver, he said he wasn't available to pick us up until night time - meaning the extra $30 in cash is now something we're forced to pay, when we have the money available. frustratingly, the rate has also increased to $82, calculations for this are under the cut
we received enough for ammar's heart injection and fever reducing medicine for that injection, but we still need the rest of the money in order to pay off his transport and his immune globulin injection
without that injection, he will fall into a coma and still die, it's urgently needed
we have 3 and a half hours until 10 pm for samah, which is still the deadline for this. please, if we can get it by then, it will be the best for ammar's health
for night time cost:
$30
$30 -> cash conversion fee 45% = $54.55
30% paypal fee = $77.93 to be sent to her
5% ko-fi fee = $82.03 to be raised
night time cost [$82.03] + rest of costs [$2430] = $2512 total
watching alice waters' chefs table and genuinely fascinated by the very very white world of us farm to table dining, its hilariously settler colonial mindset, its complete reliance on french or italian food culture and ignorance of native foodways or even like, broader latam culture or the reality of immigrant agricultural labour.
nature does it better, we must eat local, food is central to justice etc etc but it involves ignoring both the history of the land and the people on there and we must Retvrn to another culture on another continent with a completely different ecosystem.
Our research revealed two imaginaries-sets of values and
symbols that shape the discourses and practices of a social group. In what we call the white farm imaginary, market participants valorize the predominantly white vendors who “grow their food”, rendering invisible the low-paid, predominantly Latino/a workers who do the bulk of the cultivation. [...]
This imaginary ignores the justification of Native American displacement by white homesteaders, the enslavement of African-Americans, the masses of underpaid Asian immigrants who worked California’s first factory farms, and the mostly Mexican farm laborers who harvest the majority of food grown in the USA today. Therefore, it is quite possible that the romantic notions of yeoman farmers and rural culture do not resonate with many people of color whose collective history recalls the racism and classism of America’s agricultural past and present. [...]
The invisibility of farmworkers within the prominent alternative agriculture
discourse prevents the movement from addressing structural forces that
shape agricultural possibilities. For example, the white farm imaginary
leads those seeking food system reform to assume that market farmers hire only relatives, making regulation of employment practices seem
unnecessary. [...]
Customers draw upon the complimentary community imaginary to depict themselves, as well as their friends and neighbors, as ethically motivated supporters of struggling family farmers. Many managers, vendors and customers unwittingly draw upon the community
imaginary to justify or obscure the structural barriers that prevent
the participation of low-income people and people of color [...]
[Alice] Waters compared the Berkeley
Farmers Market to the street markets in Provence that initially inspired her California-French Cuisine. Similarly, Marie Sarita Gayt´an’s (2004) study of northern Californian Slow Food convivia found that the group puts rural European food culture on a pedestal, rendering it discursively exclusive to people of color and the urban working class. In their allusions to European culinary and agricultural superiority, these institutions serve to strengthen the notion that alternative agriculture and food, both generally and in North Berkeley, is the province of whites.
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