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Life is rarely predictable when you're surrounded by bombs and bullets.

I regularly talk to Mohammed, and right now donations are urgently needed, right away. Donations have stagnated severely (and not for the first time). The last donation was 8 days ago and the one before that was 10 days ago.

Despite having campaigned since March 2024, Mohammed's fundraiser for his family has only reached €454. Four hundred fifty-four euros for six months. That's atrocious.

Fortunately it doesn't have to be that way. This can change if more people just donate to the Batish family.

https://gofund.me/ae8461fb

Hi, I am Mohammed Al-Batish, a Palestinian young man from Gaza. I h… Mohammed Al-Batish needs your support for Help my Family Evacuate Gaz

@mohammedbatish is his Tumblr, but it's difficult to advocate for himself given that the internet is really bad and some electronics are broken. Feel free to read his story in his own words.

He's been vetted here! Thank you @dlxxv-vetted-donations

#palestina #i don't know what to say for people to care this is just #important #really important #aid for gaza #if you want to donate to someone consider donating to this bright young guy and his family #vetted gfm #verified gfm #gaza fundraiser #signal boost #palestine gfm #gaza aid #support palestine #palestine #gaza gofundme #palestine aid

human-pet-they

when the author describes someone dying and you can just tell they’ve never actually died by the way it’s written

juniper-petunia

they should make a version of socializing that doesn’t make you feel like you’re still the weird 12 year old kid that doesn’t know why she’s not normal like the other kids

#thankfully 162 thousand people agree so that's comforting

nepofledgling

“In retrospect, it’s easy to say it was a desperate act. When arguments and demonstrations don’t work, nor hunger strikes or chains, there is only one language the authorities understand, and that is their own language. It was just a shame we didn’t have enough respect for the explosive device.”

Niillas A. Somby is a sámi activist and member of the Sámi Action Group during the Alta conflict. He was one of the seven activists who participated in the 1979 hunger strike outside of the norwegian parliament.

After a long fight over the Alta controversy, the supreme court ruled in 1982 to go ahead with the project. On the 20th of march 1982, he and two others attempted to blow up a bridge in a sabotage action in Alta, with no intention to harm anyone. The explosive detonated too early, and he suffered serious injuries to his eye and one arm, his arm was later amputated. Somby was labeled a terrorist, and risked the maximum sentence for the crime.

Somby later said “I didn’t think this was something we should be held responsible for. We hadn’t done anything wrong other than blowing my hand off, and that’s my own business.”

After half a year in prison, he escaped the country with a fake passport and dyed hair, and ran away to Canada with his family. Somby and his family was then taken in by local indigenous communities and hidden by several indigenous families for the next two years before being caught and deported.

As a free man, Somby has worked as a journalist and photographer. He is now 76 years old and a supporter of the younger generations of sámi activists. The bridge they tried to blow up is now referred to as “the Somby bridge” by locals, but the name hasn’t been officially accepted.

“Who owns the earth and who owns the water? Only a few generations ago it was unthinkable to ask such questions. Of course no one owns the earth, we are a part of the earth. But you can’t think like that today, today you have to fight for your rights.”

nepofledgling

SHOUTOUT TO THE ALLIES IN CANADAAA 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️