"This International Women’s Day we call on all who identify as feminists to engage in the lifelong unlearning of their biases and to be in solidarity with Palestinian women, Sudanese women, Congolese women who are experiencing an ongoing genocide." from The Slow Factory, 08/Mar/2024: caption cont. under images.
In Palestine, more than 9,000 women have been brutally killed by the Israeli Occupation. 63 women killed per day.
In Sudan, 4 million Sudanese women & girls are at risk of sexual violence.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, more than 1 million women have been survivors of sexual violence.
In Turtle Island aka the so called USA, 94% of fatal violence committed again Trans people are committed against Trans women.
This isn’t about the stats, the poverty porn or the constant shock doctrine the West desperately needs in order to be inclusive. This is a call for solidarity and collective action.
Access to feminine hygiene products, bodily autonomy and the access to necessary safe and caring spaces as women are all human rights.
“We're not planning for this to be an operation that would require U.S. boots on the ground,” said a senior administration official.
Don't get me wrong, this is an extremely good thing Biden's doing here (especially if Palestine gets to keep the port), and it's a big win for the pro-Palestine pressure that activists are putting on him, but it's so fucking incoherent that we're sending troops into Palestine to oppose Israel while at the same time we're supporting Israel. "Pick a side, we're at war", except literal.
The Biden administration is working with governments and commercial partners to establish a maritime corridor from Cyprus to Gaza that will supplement aid already being delivered via airdrops and land routes.
The U.S. is resorting to this military mission because Israel isn’t letting in enough aid to alleviate the humanitarian crisis caused by the Israel-Hamas war plaguing 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza, officials said.
Biden will also announce the opening of a third land crossing into Gaza, which the United Nations confirmed Thursday will allow aid to flow into the northern part of the territory. The U.S. continues to push on Israel to open more land routes which allow for more assistance to reach people in needed more quickly and efficiently than via other avenues.
And thats so sus to me because of the IMEC which was announced BEFORE October and ALSO has a port set to go through Cyprus...
They aren't doing this for Palestine.
The post-Covid world is undergoing a politico-economic transformation. Instead of becoming part of any bloc, states are becoming more inclin
The India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) is a rail and shipping corridor that aims to boost regional development and economic interconnectivity between India, the USA, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel and the European Union. The project consists of two corridors: the eastern corridor will connect India to the Arabian Gulf, and the northern corridor will connect the Gulf to Europe.
[...]Moreover, India has not laid out any plans to deal with the instability in the Middle East, where the option of investing in infrastructure development carries great risk due to the physical terrain and violence by various armed groups. Hence, there are technical limitations that the IMEC may face, not least in the Middle East due to its vast desert regions. The construction of railway lines and subsequent transportation of goods would be a difficult task requiring everything from the standardisation of the railway track gauges to the engine configurations. What’s more, one of the main link ports of the IMEC, Haifa, is in Israel, a country which is unstable at the moment due to the Palestinian freedom struggle.
....so this is definitely why they're literally bombing everything and everyone to rubble and displacing Palestinians, right? It quite literally eliminates so many concerns raised. Israel is doing land prep and thats why the USA and the rest of them just Let it happen until the next phase needed to happen... Which is building it under the guise of humanitarian aid it seems.
....Guess when they brought up the IMEC?
The g20 summit. Which is in september. So they announced this trade corridor just under a month before Israel started it's genocide.
But why, right? This article tells us.
The launch of the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), an initiative that aims to bolster economic development between Asia, t
"In a piece of analysis released on Monday, the Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority (CERA) chairman emphasised that the eight signatories of the IMEC economic corridor represent 40 per cent of the world’s population and over 50 per cent of the global economy."
50% of the global economy. That's so much money idek know how to quantify it.
This is Not for Palestine unless the profits from this ALSO go straight back into Palestinian bank accounts and into rebuilding Palestine.
Just wanna add that the USA has a long history of being jealous that Egypt owns the Suez Canal. The USA even attempted to overthrow their government once just so it wouldn't be state owned anymore and they could buy it. Cuz it's makes a Lot of money that the USA wants.
This is them trying to make their own alternative since their previous methods of trying to Take it haven't worked.
On a map the IMEC would be less than 100 miles from the Suez, quote literally making them competitors.
When I say Israel does not represent Judaism nor should it be tied to Judaism, this is what I mean. This is not about Judaism or religion at all. This is about an imperialist apartheid state that exploits religion to excuse its crimes and its illegitimate existence.
Palestinians are being starved in their fucking tents that they have to live in because their whole neighborhoods have been bombed
Congolese women are being raped for not meeting their quotas
People are pulling each other out of mines that have collapsed
Babies are laying next to their dead mothers
Trump is on the ballot in Colorado
Indigenous women and teens being kidnapped and murdered and no one wants to help
They won’t search the landfills for the remains of dead natives
We’re being fed stories by the same 6 media coroporations and AI generated fucking prompts are taking over all forms of video and picture we can’t even know what is real
The world is fucking burning and the ice is melting and earthquakes and tsunamis are shaking the fucking earth and people’s homes are being flooded and completely destroyed
But no lets just keep pretending like it matters if I pay my fucking taxes
On this year women's day, all we could think about are Palestinian women in Gaza.
Nearly 9,000 women have been killed in Israeli attacks in five months. Another 2,100 are missing and presumed dead, while 23,000 have been wounded and over half a million are displaced.
“Palestinian women, especially in the Gaza Strip, are exposed to the worst humanitarian catastrophe,” Ashraf al-Qudra, the health ministry’s spokesperson, said on Thursday.
Dozens of women and girls have also been detained and face harsh conditions in Israeli custody, including sexual abuse.
Women in Gaza also struggle to find menstruation products and access the necessary pregnancy and post-natal care. The consequences on reproductive health, including a rise in stress-induced miscarriages, stillbirths and premature births, have increased significantly.
Women in labour are undergoing caesarean procedures without anaesthetics, and a shortage of post-operative care such as medication, antibiotics and pain relief further exacerbates the situation.
According to the health ministry, 5,000 women give birth monthly in Gaza under “harsh, unsafe and unhealthy” conditions caused by Israeli bombing and displacement.
There are 60,000 pregnant women in Gaza suffering from “malnutrition, dehydration and lack of medical care.
There have also been repeated cases of Israeli soldiers mocking Palestinian women by posting videos and pictures of themselves rummaging through personal belongings in Gaza homes, making derogatory comments and posing with women’s underwear.
“We're not planning for this to be an operation that would require U.S. boots on the ground,” said a senior administration official.
Don't get me wrong, this is an extremely good thing Biden's doing here (especially if Palestine gets to keep the port), and it's a big win for the pro-Palestine pressure that activists are putting on him, but it's so fucking incoherent that we're sending troops into Palestine to oppose Israel while at the same time we're supporting Israel. "Pick a side, we're at war", except literal.
The Biden administration is working with governments and commercial partners to establish a maritime corridor from Cyprus to Gaza that will supplement aid already being delivered via airdrops and land routes.
The U.S. is resorting to this military mission because Israel isn’t letting in enough aid to alleviate the humanitarian crisis caused by the Israel-Hamas war plaguing 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza, officials said.
Biden will also announce the opening of a third land crossing into Gaza, which the United Nations confirmed Thursday will allow aid to flow into the northern part of the territory. The U.S. continues to push on Israel to open more land routes which allow for more assistance to reach people in needed more quickly and efficiently than via other avenues.
And thats so sus to me because of the IMEC which was announced BEFORE October and ALSO has a port set to go through Cyprus...
They aren't doing this for Palestine.
The post-Covid world is undergoing a politico-economic transformation. Instead of becoming part of any bloc, states are becoming more inclin
The India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) is a rail and shipping corridor that aims to boost regional development and economic interconnectivity between India, the USA, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel and the European Union. The project consists of two corridors: the eastern corridor will connect India to the Arabian Gulf, and the northern corridor will connect the Gulf to Europe.
[...]Moreover, India has not laid out any plans to deal with the instability in the Middle East, where the option of investing in infrastructure development carries great risk due to the physical terrain and violence by various armed groups. Hence, there are technical limitations that the IMEC may face, not least in the Middle East due to its vast desert regions. The construction of railway lines and subsequent transportation of goods would be a difficult task requiring everything from the standardisation of the railway track gauges to the engine configurations. What’s more, one of the main link ports of the IMEC, Haifa, is in Israel, a country which is unstable at the moment due to the Palestinian freedom struggle.
....so this is definitely why they're literally bombing everything and everyone to rubble and displacing Palestinians, right? It quite literally eliminates so many concerns raised. Israel is doing land prep and thats why the USA and the rest of them just Let it happen until the next phase needed to happen... Which is building it under the guise of humanitarian aid it seems.
....Guess when they brought up the IMEC?
The g20 summit. Which is in september. So they announced this trade corridor just under a month before Israel started it's genocide.
But why, right? This article tells us.
The launch of the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), an initiative that aims to bolster economic development between Asia, t
"In a piece of analysis released on Monday, the Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority (CERA) chairman emphasised that the eight signatories of the IMEC economic corridor represent 40 per cent of the world’s population and over 50 per cent of the global economy."
50% of the global economy. That's so much money idek know how to quantify it.
This is Not for Palestine unless the profits from this ALSO go straight back into Palestinian bank accounts and into rebuilding Palestine.
This comic was inspired by a post that I cannot find [redacted rant about how much tumblr's search function is the closest there is tho pure evil]. So you know, if anyone has that post hand it I will actually make you a silly litltle doodle.
Repost of Instagram post by alessandra_sanguinetti:
“In 2004 I worked as an intern in Newsweek and had to go through the wires coming in from the Middle East.
The Iraq war was raging. Israel was committing its routine violations and killings.
The images were devastating and unequivocally condemning of both the USA and Israel, but I remember the editors would reject all my picks and demand images of burnt cars or vague images of destruction.
So I brought a hard drive and collected everything they didn't publish.
It was my first live glimpse of the lack of ethics or integrity in most US media.
Not the journalists on the ground, but of the senior editors making the calls - in their self important glass cubicles.
And no, to the cynics out there..it's not all too complicated to discuss on social media.
Social media is the only reason we know what's happening in Palestine.
And the only reason mainstream news has to keep up and sprinkle some actual news now and then.
Meanwhile we are seeing much less footage coming out of Gaza - Israel has been killing off all the journalists.
This is terrifying.”
Photo credits: Nasser Ishtayeh, Yossi Alon, Saif Dahlah, Jaafar Ashtiyeh, Musa Al-Shaer, Abed Onar Qusini
Hey so Canada is apparently erasing "Palestine" from people's documents. If you apply for a new document to be issued, you have to say you have no place of birth, with Palestine not being an actual option you can use
Canadian citizens born in Palestine before 1948 are still allowed to choose Palestine as their place of birth.
However, Canada currently doesn't recognize the state of Palestine (just like the USA and several other countries) so no, if you were born in Palestine after 1948 Canada does not recognize the nationality. But this is not a recent change, Canada has never recognized Palestine
So the "food" that the US dropped to Gaza is MREs. Expired. Saw a stitch of this video from a woman saying this is the same thing they did with Hurricane Katrina survivors.
MREs are shelf stable for 7 years. Total. These ones were over 15 years old.
And ofc there were people in the comments being like "ummm well our military eats them just fine, they were expired when I was in the army too" THATS NOT OKAY THO?? NO ONE SHOULD BE FORCED TO EAT EXPIRED FOOD!
Fuck the US, fuck the Israeli government, and fuck you if you think that this is any kind of help to the people of Gaza. They're starving to death and the US is sending expired applesauce while also giving bombs to their murderers.
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