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Gaza is currently in another communications blackout and getting heavy air strikes from Israel.
This is the third time Israel has cut Gaza off from communications before intensifying attacks.
Activated e-sims are working in Gaza as of Nov 5, 2:36 PM EST.
Instructions for donating an e-sim from @/mirna-elhelbawi:
Hiba Abu Nada, from I Grant You Refuge (trans. Huda Fakhreddine)
Hiba Abu Nada was a novelist, poet, and educator. She wrote this poem on Oct. 10th, 2023. She died a martyr, killed in her home in south Gaza by an Israeli raid on Oct. 20th, 2023. She was 32 years old.
Quick reminder that Israel has deprived Gaza of electricity and internet. I read that they only get about 3 hours of electricity a day.
Meaning that extremely few people and only the most tenacious of reporters know what’s happening over there these days. Don’t stop talking about Palestine.
it goes against so much of what i stand for to share "palestinians are humans, they have hobbies, they have pets, they laugh and cry" kind of posts because i've spent so much of my life and career completely rejecting the notion that we should humanize ourselves, that we should ever be defensive, that we should entertain this racism at all
but it breaks my heart when i have to share them from people in gaza, who are using their five minutes of internet connection, their 25% of battery charge collected from a macguyvered car battery, emotionally exhausted, thirsty and hungry, sleeping in schools that have turned into refugee shelters and still making the time to say "please, i am human too, i am still alive, please fight for me" in english to appeal to the only people who have the power to help
i shared a tweet from a jjk artist in gaza i follow about a bts photocard being found in the middle of the rubble. even the love of anime and kpop and sports is no longer just a hobby, but an appeal to humanity. what was once a source of joy is now proof of life.
the worst part is that you won't find this content in arabic. palestinians don't post like this in arabic. but when they translate themselves, they recognize that they must humanize themselves first. it's an unspoken understanding of dehumanization, one that has dictated a whole region's understanding of the value of human life. in arabic they speak with dignity, with anger, with sorrow. in english, they appeal for their existence.
i share these posts not just because we have to reach everyone we can, because im being asked to and i will not refuse. but i also share them because they're evidence of how deep the racism has run. at what dehumanization leads to. of war crime after war crime. this too i will not forget.
Fair warning that CBC will likely lie about what's happening in front of their offices today in Montreal, and other cities.
For the record, there's about 50k people protesting in Montreal right now, and the protest is stationed outside the CBC offices. Posters naming and identifying martyred Ghazzan children on the entrance.
A pro-Palestine protester just got arrested by police. Police were blocking people from leaving using this as an excuse. Pushed people around for no reason.
Edit: and yes, there were children there.
CBC filmed protestors several times. Once at the beginning when everyone was gathering, and another time when they were protesting in front of the offices. Videographers stuck their cameras against the glass twice then to capture the crowd. They were accused of complicity in the genocide by the organizers and crowd, because of biased, propagandized reporting. A journalist who spoke at the march revealed that CBC censorship guidelines prevent any reporter from using the term 'Palestine'. If they even report on this event, they will likely paint the protestors as violent extremists. The reality is CBC and the Canadian government are the violent extremists, who cannot even denounce genocide when it is happening, who partake in it when it is happening. Who are the violent extremists? The ones who send and cosign the troops to partake in a genocide? Or the ones who refuse to pay for it? The ones who refuse for their 'representatives' to claim such atrocities in the name of their freedom?
Yep.
Anyways 5000 Palestinian children were killed in the genocide of Palestinians in Ghazzah, those were the names put up on those signs. Fixed the headline for you.
Even after the protests, the CBC continues to be complicit in the greenlighting and cosigning of the genocide of Palestinians.
“Copper was Africa's chief mineral export. Being an excellent conductor of electricity, it became an indispensable part of the capitalist electrical industry. It is an essential component of generators, motors, electrical locomotives, telephones, telegraphs, light and power lines, motor cars, buildings, ammunition, radios, refrigerators and a host of other things. A technological era tends to be defined by the principal source of power. Today, we speak of a Nuclear Age, since the potential of nuclear power is shown to be immense. The Industrial Revolution in Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries was the Age of Steam. In a parallel manner, the colonial epoch was the Age of Electricity. Therefore, the vital copper exports from Congo, Northern Rhodesia and other parts of Africa were contributing to the leading sector of European technology. From that strategic position, its multiplier effects were innumerable and were of incalculable benefit to capitalist development.
In the context of a discussion of raw materials, special reference must again be made to the military. African minerals played a decisive role both with regard to conventional weapons and with regard to the breakthrough to atomic and nuclear weapons. It was from the Belgian Congo during the second world war that the U.S.A. began getting the uranium, which was a pre-requisite to the making of the first atomic bomb. In any case, by the end of the colonial period, industry and the war-machine in the colonising nations had become so intertwined and inseparable that any contribution to one was a contribution to the other. Therefore, Africa's massive contribution to what initially appears as peaceful pursuits such as the making of copper wire and steel alloys ultimately took the shape of explosive devices, aircraft-carriers, and so on.”
Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
The pain and terror children in gaza live with constantly. He's trying to keep himself together, developing a tolerance for horrors that no child should ever witness. Where are the human rights activists? Or save the children organization? CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE NOW.
Updates from Ghazzah today. Posted by Palestinian doctor Yousef Mema. Today's martyrs:
- Mekki family (4 people)
- Palestinians taking refuge in Osama bin Zayd school (63 people)
- 12 Palestinian young men in the West Bank
- 2 families in Al Nusirat (7 people).
- Palestinians in Beit Lahia (unknown number)
- Palestinians in Al-Shejaya (unknown number)
The one about the school is particularly terrifying to me because I have family sheltering in a school in the South of Ghazzah.
@allthegeopolitics
November’s here! Just here to say once again, don’t stop talking about Palestine! Never stop till Palestine is free! That a ceasefire comes! That Gaza gets all the humanitarian aid it deserves! Be thankful that some of us are able to live comfortably while thousands are facing death and destruction! Not just in Palestine, but in other places too! Congo faces devastation from armed militias looking to do coltan mining for one example! Armenians are being pushed out by Azerbaijan with the support of Turkey! Please, let’s speak for all of them, as much as we can!
I recently reblogged a post stating frustration over how it seems situations like these seem to turn into fads to say without doing anything. I can go on and on about how sorry I am but that will not do anything productive unless I go out there and actually push for things myself!
So much is happening in the world! So many people are dying voiceless when there are people who can help! Who should help!
Let’s be their voices! Let their stories be heard! We have resources that they may not have right now! Utilize them!
Free Palestine! Stop the violence in Congo! Protect the Armenians!
Let’s keep fighting! 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇦🇲
how you can help palestine
*i regularly update this post with any new info i find so please always reblog the original post*
Donations
palestine children's relief fund
palestine red crescent society
help bring down israel's weapon trade - palaction
save palestine - islamic relief canada
click to donate - arab.org
send medical supplies to gaza - palestinian american medical association
NOTE: journalists based in gaza are saying that donations are not going to help atm. what will help is a demand for ceasefire. so please contact your local MPs every single day demanding as such. palestine need a ceasefire right now, not money (i will update when monetary help is needed)
if you want to donate, do this instead:
help buy e-sims for people in gaza so they may remain in contact with the outside world
Petitions
petition to investigate war crimes committed by israeli military
demand ceasefire - amnesty.org
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
location specific petitions
gaza call for ceasefire - oxfam (UK)
end israeli occupation - parliament uk (UK)
email your MP - medical aid for palestine (UK)
stop fuelling genocide - action network (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.
australia call on israel to stop attacking palestinians - apan (AUS)
sign to send letter to MP for ceasefire - nccm (CANADA)
ceasefire now! - ijv (CANADA)
cessez-le-feu et un couloir humanitaire - le mouvement (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
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)
Campaigns
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
palestine action
join the resistance
islamic relief canada
urge your MP to rally for ceasefire
text campaign for people living in USA
text CEASEFIRE @ 51905 to call for a ceasefire
BDS movement
get involved in boycotting companies associated with israel
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
🕊️freedom from settler colonialism now and forever🪶🇵🇸
And so it begins: Israeli media outlet Jerusalem Post has now labeled some of the most prominent and visible Palestinian journalists inside Gaza as "Hamas' Propaganda Team".
As I've been saying all along, when you can just label everything and everyone as Hamas, you dehumanize them and provide the moral justification for their targeting and killing.
The same tactic has been deployed against hospitals, refugee camps, bakeries, churches and ordinary people...
And for those who were still unsure or on the fence, this is your sign to stop listening to anything Israel says. Literally anything is H*mas to them if it provides them with justification for bombing with impunity.
from their instagram
Since the initial post (1:47pm PST), the ship has again undocked (3:04pm PST) and is headed to the Port of Tacoma in Washington! Those in the SEA-TAC area should plan for the ship's arrival!
Boycotting is literally a non-action, if you can't handle not buying things, you're just a weak person...
"don't demonize ppl who can't!!!" ... You can't not eat McDonald's and Starbucks? You're not capable of not buying a new laptop or puma shoes?? You can't resist sabras hummus????? huh?
"If you can't avoid McDonald's that's okay" ... I assure you if you live in America, the same ugliass highway section where the McDonald's is, there's a checkers, Popeyes, Wendy's or Burger King also in the vicinity...
But this...but that...but what if a dying child with cancer's last wish was to eat McDonald's and say the n-word and blah blah blah.
You all no absolutely no morals and will reason your way into absolutely anything. Grow a damn spine.
