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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

donate direct aid to gaza - ehab rida (longtime activist and volunteer, has been carrying out donations and humanitarian projects in gaza since 2021)

palestine children's relief fund

world food programme

aid to gaza - taawon/bank of palestine

help gaza’s children

female hygiene kits for gaza - pious project

donate to UNRWA

urgent humanitarian aid to palestinians - anera

medical aid for palestinians

urgent support for medical professionals in gaza

donate to ahmed (@/90-ghost on tumblr)

he is born, raised and based in gaza. please help him reach his goal of $50K 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.

help journalist yousef escape gaza to treat his cancer

help mohamed evacuate gaza to get treatment for himself and his daughter

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

secondary donations:

click to donate - arab.org

emergency relief for gaza - pious projects

palestine red crescent society

save palestine - islamic relief canada

send medical supplies to gaza - palestinian american medical association

help bring down israel's weapon trade - palaction

donate for the recovery of hisham awartani

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

‼️ urge icj to invite gazan journalists to testify

international cultural workers to strike from german cultural institutions for their complicity in oppressing palestinians and promoting genocide - strike germany

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

president whitten: reinstate samia halaby retrospective NOW - action network

demand the immediate release of mansour shouman

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.

no forced displacement! - action network

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)

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)

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

‼️ international criminal court

submit evidences of israeli war crimes

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

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 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

palestine diaspora network

global strike guide - join the global strike!

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

PALESTINIAN BUSINESSES

[goddamnshinyrock]

it’s so embarrassing when you finally, reluctantly, with much foot-dragging, implement some piece of basic health advice and immediately feel better. how dare that work.

[konoko]

[for-the-ninth]

Saved up for another commission, this time from @rcrisdraws, who was an absolute pleasure to work with! They were super accommodating and communicative, and I cannot conceive of a universe in which I'd be less enthused about this damn drawing!!!

Aedan and Iris are two of my OCs from my DAI longfic, The Life That Left Me, and they are my babies and also The Babies of the story lmao Both grew up in the Kirkwall alienage and both are mages, but while Aedan struggled to utilize his talents at all, Iris' were too powerful to hide.

When she was 10 years old, the templars came for her, and against his parents' wishes, Aedan joined the Mage Underground in an attempt to liberate her that ultimately failed, as she was made Tranquil shortly before the Kirkwall rebellion. She fled Kirkwall after narrowly surviving the Annulment, and Aedan left home to look for her.

In 9:41 Dragon, Aedan is hired by a mercenary (who vastly underestimates who and what he's dealing with) to assassinate the Inquisitor in exchange for coin and intel on the whereabouts of Iris. His assassination fails because he's 17 and shit with a blade, but Shielan takes pity on his stupid ass and agrees to help him find her.

And he will find her, no matter how long it takes.

(for the love of god, click to enlarge)

[for-the-ninth]

fuck a cure for cancer i need somebody to figure out what makes my roommate clear their throat roughly every 3-10 seconds (no i'm not exaggerating) and fix that shit pronto

[insecuregodcomplex]

“ten years ago” and it’s 2016 oh ill throw up

[outofcontextdiscord]

submitted by @anx13ty-astr0naut

[for-the-ninth]

anybody else get the urge to delete their entire blog and start over for no reason or is it just me

[anarchblr]

“money isn’t real” “the law isn’t real” etc.

they are not the cause, they are the result

[anarchblr]

they’re real out of necessity, out of pressure, from the relations they obfuscate, they’re made “real” necessarily

[anarchblr]

no no no no no, friend, you misunderstand me, I’m critiquing this viewpoint!

We can’t just “pretend money never existed”, we have to change the relations that necessitates it in the first place! Change them to the point of complete departure, a break.

If we go forth without changing the conditions, these will force themselves back into existence by necessity. The good news is that they are contingent on how we relate to each other so if we relate in a different manner, we necessitate differently; or, put simply, don’t need money and laws etc.

This is also the bad news because it requires a complete overturn of even very basic things not least of which includes economic arrangements. It’s just a lot.

[anarchistettin]

in my lifetime, every attempt to address this need - even just speaking about it - has been met with deadly opposition

[evilgoatsimulator]

The part about “relations they obfuscate” is important because saying “I owe my landlord 1000 dollars every month” doesn’t explain the actual relationship but “if I don’t pay the police and the courts will make sure I am evicted”. So it’s really a description of a power imbalance between tenant and landlord (but mostly between agents of the state and those they oppress)

[anarchblr]

#i really hate when people say something is a social construct #and then say that means its ‘not real’ #no it is real its just constructed #like the law is a social construct #technically if we all woke up tomorrow and had the memory of the legal system erased from our minds #along with any physical representations of it #then sure it would vanish #but that’s pretty unlikely so therefore the law will probably be still around #the point of identifying something as a social construct is to show that it is not immutable that it can be changed #e.g. race is a social construct #it is not inherent or grounded in fundamental biological differences other than aesthetic ones in some cases #but it is very much real #and significantly affect how people relate to each other and the power structures around them #whether they get the job the loan etc. #a house is constructed #but it is still real #its just that can also be renovated #or i suppose maybe one day abolished #in the analogy of money (via @tiarnanafainne)

Good commentary only

[zanmor]

In the 1680s, a Huron-Wendat statesman named Kondiaronk… engaged in a series of debates… [in which] he argued that punitive law and the whole apparatus of state exist not because of some fundamental flaw in human nature but because of another set of institutions–private property, money–that by their very nature drive people to act in such ways as to make coercive measures necessary. Equality, he argued, is thus the condition for any meaningful freedom.

Introduction to Mutual Aid, PM Press 2021

[thatneoncrisis]

griddlehark is awesome because while harrow was objectively in the wrong and grossly misusing her power over gideon their entire lives, gideons response to this is to keep fucking killing herself to put harrow in eternal moral debt. unparalled reaction

[for-the-ninth]

there is something especially surreal about seeing an ex friend or ex partner reblogging posts like, "You Shouldn't Do X Cause it's Harmful/Unhealthy," after doing that exact thing to you repeatedly when y'all were still connected

[roycohn]

do it scared. do it stupid. but most importantly, do it bitching and moaning the entire time

[milksockets]

from working it: sex workers on the work of sex - matilda bickers (2023)

[dysphoria-things]

(no beers in) do you guys think i'm redeemable

[explicitlyrics]

many on here need to be learning this lesson

[for-the-ninth]

I've said it once and I'll say it again: none of us are entitled to 24/7 comfort. That doesn't mean you can't seek out people, places, situations, objects, and experiences that bring you comfort.

It doesn't mean you must stay in environments or relationships that consistently make you uncomfortable.

It does mean that unless someone is actually harming you, there's a decent chance that your discomfort avoidance is doing everybody a disservice.

We tend to think we're entitled to 24/7 comfort. I hear that entitlement in phrases like, "Protect your peace," or "Let go of relationships that don't serve you," or "It's just a boundary for me."

People use these phrases to get out of situations that challenge them or inconvenience them in some way. And they frame it as a right they have, to be comfortable.

Years ago one of my roommates physically threatened another roommate. A house meeting was called. We felt unsafe. But the roommate who made the threat was uncomfortable talking in person, so we spent a good 2 hours going back and forth via text to try and convince them that a house meeting was necessary to hold them accountable and repair harm. "You can't force me to do something that makes me uncomfortable," was their response, on repeat. Because they believed they had a right to comfort, and that "right" trumped everyone else's safety.

I once had a colleague go behind my back and over my head to our supervisor about something I was doing in my classroom that she didn't like. She was 20+ years my senior and he took her word for it. It put a target on my back for the rest of the year. When I confronted her directly and asked why she hadn't done the same, she said, "I just wasn't comfortable." Because she felt entitled to comfort and thus justified in avoiding discomfort, even when it negatively impacted me.

You are "allowed" to do whatever you damn well please, but know that avoiding discomfort in the absence of real harm is often doing a disservice to you and everyone else.

(For all my autistic homies - no, I'm not talking about when we avoid sensations that make our skin crawl. Nobody benefits from us wearing itchy sweaters, and although there's something to be said for increasing our tolerance for distress overall, steering clear of sensory aversions is generally a net positive for our well-being.)

[smashcut]

On the day of Dick Cheney’s death, I’m thinking about a lot of horrible consequences of his actions, but I’m also thinking about Lauren Hough telling Dick Cheney to waterboard her “if it makes him feel better” when she repaired his cable.

[teaboot]

I don’t mean to be old but computer used to just have games. U didnt have to pay for em either but if u wanted u could get a little CD that put the game onto the computer and you could play it forever and ever even if the company that made it went to hell and shit. You didn’t even need the internet or wifi or anything. And it was pretty neat

[teaboot]

It would be a finished game, too. If you played long enough and did really good you could go to all the places and get all the stuff. You never had to pay more money later it was just there. onn compter