More links, PLEASE reblog or repost and add more resources:
OHCHR - Iran: Women and girls treated as second class citizens, reforms urgently needed, says UN expert
Iran: Where the regime opposes women’s rights
Read: The Wind In My Hair - My Fight For Freedom in Modern Iran by Masih Alinejad
Watch: Kiosk - Sweet Destiny (the movie)
I don’t think I’ve ever asked my followers to reblog anything but this time it would mean. The actual world. To the people of Iran. If you could spread awareness of the Iranian people’s fight for freedom right now. I’m not on Twitter or Instagram (although this post is optimized for instagram so PLEASE FEEL FREE TO REPOST IT ON IG) but from what I could see there is not as much noise about this as it should be. Nor is it easy to find posts with resources and basic information. And on tumblr I’ve only seen some posts from dedicated feminist blogs or actual Iranians. And from what I’ve gathered they NEED US to share what’s going on. They are shutting down internet in Iran so it’s up to us to not let the world look past this, not this time. PLEASE join the fight for women’s rights!!!
You may have heard of what happened in Lebanon today and if not, basically, there was a big explosion in Beirut that affected many cities, destroyed shops, homes, cars, caused many injuries and deaths. The cause is uncertain.
As a fellow lebanese myself (that also lives there), today was absolutely terrifying, probably the scariest moments of my life. We heard a deafening sound as the floors were shaking. Some of us thought it was an attack, others thought it was an earthquake. As soon as it ended many expected a second one, which luckily never happened.
Here's a video of what happened that was sent to me, there are also many others that you can find online.
Windows were broken, doors wrecked, cars flipped over, buildings collapsed, people hit by flying or falling objects, and unfortunately, many didn't make it out alive.
We were one of the lucky ones, our families and friends were all safe and our homes were fine.
Some people couldn't even get out of the crumbling builings, so we saw corpses being pulled out, although some people survived the crash. But wherever we looked, there was blood, poeple were half covered in it, their shirts, pants, hair, everything. And that sight was traumatizing.
We watched the news with elders severely injured, children with blood-spattered shirts and people in pain that couldn't get in the hospitals because they were full.
Some people are missing. Just try to imagine the pain and fear their families and friends are feeling.
Articles about what happened, there are a lot more
Officials expect death toll to rise after huge blast rips through Lebanon's capital.
The explosion took place at the port shortly before 19:00 local time (18:00 CET) with a large cloud of smoke billowing over the city. Eyewit
Not only are we in the middle of a pandemic, but Lebanon is also going through a very serious economical crisis. To give you an example, before, $1 equaled 1 500 lebanese pounds. Nowadays, $1 equals more than 7 000 lebanese pounds. Not to mention that we obviously don't have any dollars at disposition, so yeah we're fucked.
People are hungry, homeless, unemployed. And even if they are getting paid, it'll be useless since the prices of everything went up because they were affected by the economical fiasco.
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Today, I heard my 7 year old cousins scream in fear that they were going to die. I saw my aunt shaking, worried that her children won't survive. I saw my dad freak out while trying to reassure us when we both knew that we were uncertain about the next minutes of our lives. I heard the panic in the trembling voices of my family and friends as they couldn't believe what had just happened. I thought my loved ones and I were going to die in the next seconds.
I'm never forgetting those moments and feelings.
I don't think signing petitions will help, i don't even know if the following links will help either, I just know Lebanon and it's people are desperate for anything because the future of this country is extremely uncertain.
https://helplebanonnow.carrd.co/
How can you help?
https://lebanoncrisis.carrd.co/
Lebanon Needs You More Than Ever. Know more about the crisis in Lebanon, sign petitions, donate or explore volunteering opportunities.
Help families, domestic workers, and refugees in Lebanon with food and other basic needs during this economic and public health crisis
I think donating to the red cross would be the most helpful, so if you are considering it, it'd be great.
There are so many great threads on twitter about what you can do to help, just search help lebanon or something to find them. Also if you can, please donate, and as I said, the lebanese pound is pretty much worthless currently so USD is way more useful to us.
There’s a whole movement of ethical, slave-free chocolate companies, and the advocates who work to track the legal battle to make ALL chocolate slave-free, worldwide, at http://www.slavefreechocolate.org
You can see the current (2020) list of slave-free chocolate companies on their website at http://www.slavefreechocolate.org/ethical-chocolate-companies, or below if you don’t click links:
Aloha Feels Chocolate
Alma Chocolate
Alter Eco Chocolate
Amano Chocolate
Askinoise Chocolate
The Beach Chocolate Factory
Belicious
Black Mountain Chocolate
Cacaoteca
Cacao Medium
Caribeans Chocolate
Castronovo Chocolate
Choquiero Chocolate
ChoCoaque Chocolates
Chocolate and Love
Chocolate Cartel
Chocolat Celeste
Chocolate Tree
Chocolate Troubadour
Choconat
COCO Chocolate
Compartes Chocolates
Dandelion Chocolate
Dark Forest Chocolate
Denman Island Chocolate
Dick Taylor Craft Chocolate
Diego’s Chocolate
Divine Chocolate Co.
Eating Evolved
Eat Your Hat
Eclipse Chocolate
El Ceibo
The Endangered Species
Endorfin Foods
Enliven Cocoa
ENNA Chocolate
Equal Exchange
Fairafric
Fine and Raw Chocolate
Fire Fly Chocolate
Forever Cocoa
Fresco Chocolate
Fruition Chocolate
Gayleen’s Decadence
GEPA Chocolate
Giddy Yo Yo
Grenada Chocolate Company
Grocer’s Daughter Chocolate
Guittard
Habitual Chocolate
Hilo Shark Chocolate
HNINA Gourmet
Hogarth Chocolate
Honest Chocolate
Hooray Tuffles
Indi Chocolate
L.A. Burdick Chocolates
La Iguana Chocolate
La Siembra Cooperative
Lillie Belle Farms
Madecasse
Maverick Chocolate Company
Mayan Monkey
Mayordomo
Mexican Arabica Bean Company-Wholesale
Mia Chocolate
Montezuma’s Chocolates
Nayah Amazon Chocolates
Neary Nógs
Newman’s Own Organics
PARRÉ Chocolat
Pasha Chocolate
Purdy’s Chocolate
Omanahene Cocoa Bean Company
Ombar
OpuLux Fair Trade Chocolate
Original Hawaiian Chocolate
Parliament Chocolate
Montevérgine
Patric Chocolate
Plamil Organic Chocolate
Potomac Chocolate
Pure Lovin’ Chocolate
Raaka Chocolate
Rain Republic
Rapunzel Pure Organics
Ritual Chocolate
River Seas Chocolate
Samaritan Xocolata
Sappho Chocolates
Seed & Bean Chocolate
Shaman Chocolates
Sibú Chocolate
Solkiki Chocolate
Sweet Impact Chocolate
Taza Chocolate
Terra Nostra Organic
Terroir Chocolate
TCHO
The Xocolate Bar
Theo Chocolate
The Original Chocolate Bar
Tobago Estate Chocolate
TONY’S CHOCOLONELY
Truffle Pig Chocolates
Twenty-Four Blackbirds Chocolate
Valrhona Chocolate
Videri Chocolate Factory
Viva Cacao Can
Vivani Chocolate
Vosges
Wei of Chocolate
Xocolatl Chocolate
Zaks Chocolate
Zotter
Nestle’s net worth as of today is 10.46 BILLION dollars.
The largest, most prosperous of these slave-free chocolate companies (Vosges, which is also a female-owned corp if that matters to you!) is worth… $100 million.
That means that Nestle has $10,360,000,000 more dollars with which to pay its employees, INCLUDING AND ESPECIALLY the cacao farmers who are the backbone of their entire industry.
If all of these companies worth LITERAL BILLIONS OF DOLLARS less than Nestle can afford to be slave-free, so can fucking Nestle.
okay but waking up in the middle of the night to soft rain and knowing you’ve still got hours to sleep, when you’re toasty warm and comfortable & sleep has made you forget all your worries and responsibilities and u go back to sleep feeling as content as ever
im too much of a baby for tinder i wanna meet people the old fashioned way where we’re both on either side of a fish tank and notice each other thru the water…
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