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Gonna be fr grown adult queers should know better than to engage in crazy fear mongering telling other people it’s over and we’re all gonna be sent to camps and lose our rights and be criminalized and whatever like hey how about don’t tell a group of people with unbelievably high suicide rates that there’s no hope and life is over
everyone says join your local mutual aid groups and build community, but uh, what do you do if a lot of them seem to have dissolved and the other ones don't have consistent recurring meetings.
this is real, and it's a thing that a lot of people are going to run into in the fact of calls to "get involved," especially if they're people who haven't been deeply involved in their communities before. so here's what I can share:
You can't expect it to be built for you already. Community organizing has fallen apart in a lot of places. That means you may need to be the one to start it. Someone has to.
Your presence will matter. Local community networks are SMALL. That means that every single person has an outsized presence and an outsized absence. One person dropping off the map can feel catastrophic, but that also means that one person stepping up can make all the difference.
Find a center. Any community group needs a steady base. That can be a physical location - that's why coffeehouses were historically such effective grounds for building political and creative movements. It can also be a person or people who are consistent and reliable. If one person shows up to make space for work on a regular basis, they'll be there when the second person shows up. They'll be there for the third. That's how it starts.
Play secretary. A lot of activist groups are starving for some basic admin support. Maybe you're not up for being the leader, but maybe you can organize the Google drive. Maybe you can be the one that keeps phone numbers. There's a lot of unsexy shit work out there that needs to be done.
Count your eggs before you start baking. There is an economics of labor to why activism circles have shrunk. Be mindful of the time and hands you have available when deciding what work you're able to take on.
Build tolerance, build coalitions. Small organizing means you can't afford to fracture over every little disagreement. Decide your mission and your values from the start, the things that are non-negotiable, and don't get hung up on the rest. Be prepared to work with people you don't like. Focus on the task at hand.
Network! Know what other related or like-minded projects are out there, whether they are groups like yours in other areas or groups in your community who are doing work that intersects with yours.
Be there for people. Step up. Offer to help. Even outside an organizing structure, if you become the kind of person who shows up and helps, people will remember you and they will reach out to you when need arises.
hi usamericans. do you understand that your only hope is resistance and revolt yet? i know it sucks but it wasnt going to be good if kamala won either. the violence was simply going to be less visible to you. at the very least this fascism isnt wearing a smiling liberal mask to pacify the moderates with. the status quo must be made completely intolerable in order to inspire active revolt from the public. and as seen by the way the mass movements of the past few years have each fizzled out, somehow, that tipping point hasnt been reached under the democrats despite them being just as evil. you lost roe v wade under the democrats, the usa has funded a genocide under the democrats; there was no good option and the system will never hand you the tools you need to dismantle it. you have to band together and tear it down yourselves.
idk how much im gonna keep using tumblr bc i cant seem to find much enjoyment in it any more but i am alive and relatively well for anyone whos wondering. ive been mutuals w some people on here for going on a decade which makes me reluctant to stop using it altogether though
The United States is occupying Gaza and taking part in the genocide
We keep repeating this but it needs to sink in. Palestinians have seen American troops fighting in Gaza. America is not just complicit but an active partner in the annihilation of Gaza
i feel obligated to talk about this bc i am egyptian and one of the central reasons people from gaza have been fundraising is because of egypt's border policy, which is no longer active since the rafah border was destroyed
i know nothing gets people more heated or self-righteous than the idea that they might be getting scammed, and i know the gofundmes here can be overwhelming in your inboxes and i know for many people in the west who want some kind of reliable process this can seem sketchy but palestinian bloggers on here (and palestinians across platforms including on gazafunds.com) don't want you to be scammed any more than you want to be scammed, and they have put in an extraordinary effort to verify information literally in the middle of a warzone
the truth is you all have no idea how difficult this entire process is from top to bottom, tech companies and fintech companies literally hate anything that passes through this area. i'm banned from uber and doordash because i used an egyptian credit card while travelling and it flagged their automated fraud systems and they never reinstated it lol like that's how arbitrary it is. and egypt is one of the better-connected countries in the area.
the entire reason people in gaza are relying on gofundmes is because the barriers to entry and exit are not accidental—they're deliberate! this is literally what being occupied and middle-eastern means. it means you don't have easy access to bank accounts, you don't have easy access to fundraising, you don't have easy access to your own records, and you are automatically mistrusted by the world at large of how thoroughly dehumanized your language and your people have been during a genocide where you are being bombed and living in a tent. this is also part of what it means to be a refugee from the global south or to be a refugee from the global north, where these processes are expedited (as they were for ukrainian refugees, for example) precisely because they are part of the structure of a war.
like just to explain to you guys how difficult it was for me (someone with access to networks across the world) to get money to a friend in gaza, because egypt's also going through an economic crisis and transferring usd here is close to impossible: to get 15k usd (enough to get 3 people out of gaza) to the office in egypt that registers people for evacuation, that family needed
a stable internet connection to communicate with us (they were only able to get in touch briefly every other day)
first-degree relatives in egypt to register for them
people from abroad who could raise the money for them (which they did; they were family friends who knew them)
an egyptian with a usd bank account and a foreigner coming to egypt who could carry usd in cash to divide it among themselves because there is no other way to receive that amount of money here at once
we managed to get the money to their relatives here, they managed to register them, and then the rafah border was destroyed. so now the are just waiting while being bombed and displaced from one area to another. and this is a family who had every connection needed. imagine how it is for people where only one of these links are dropped?
that's why the work the palestinian bloggers do here to support palestinians in gaza is necessary, because they fill in for people who don't have good language skills, who don't have friends abroad to fundraise or vouch for them, who don't have relatives in egypt who can receive money for them, etc
does this mean every fundraiser is 100% reliable? no. this is why the verification list exists! the things i would be wary of would be if someone sends you a false or phishing link, or if someone who is running the campaign from abroad decides to scam the palestinians they're raising it for and refuse to send the money, both of which i've witnessed personally
but the likelihood of someone faking being from gaza and getting onto the verified list is much smaller because the verification process is rigorous and like i said, palestinians themselves don't want to be promoting scams. but also most of these gofundmes protect your donation, meaning if someone disputes it you get your donation back. they are paranoid to the extent that they will sometimes refuse to pay out people in gaza even after the campaign goal is reached for no reason except that anything from the middle east is generally regarded with suspicion. i've seen paypal also refuse to do the same
as a matter of fact from a tech standpoint it's so, so much easier for someone located in the west to create a fake gofundme/phishing scam than for a palestinian to do so, but by that token it's more difficult for someone in the west to convincingly fake being from gaza. which is why the verification list and other initiatives (like again, gazafunds.com) are so important
i have tried to get gofundmes on gazafunds before and i can promise you their process is rigorous. you might not see a lot of the paperwork behind a specific campaign but i know they don't add campaigns unless they verify their IDs personally or through a network of trusted references. the bloggers on here are a volunteer network working independently, of their own effort, and they are doing their best in what is a genuinely horrible situation. the border is closed now but people in gaza have worked out alternate ways to receive money raised online (again, often via relatives transferring to each other outside gaza or other means) and aid hasn't been coming in for months and those regulating the aid were killed, which means extremely limited supplies and high inflation, so money raised and received now is literally survival money that goes wherever it can, and people are very desperate to raise as much as possible as things get more dire. there is no employment in gaza right now. people have been living off their savings for ten months.
is that simple to convey to some blogger on tumblr donating 5$ to a gofundme? is it simple to understand? no. and that's part of the structure of genocide. you aren't going to be able to venmo someone and get a receipt like you do if you're donating to an org, so volunteers are doing their best to fill in the gaps for that by making sure you know how your money is helping real human beings while relieving the pressure on these humans, in a genocide with limited internet, to constantly post about themselves.
the fact of the matter is that your risk of being scammed by a gofundme from the verified list or gazafunds dot com is extremely low, but the damage of of assuming (and even worse, claiming) these campaigns are a scam is extremely high
if you don't trust a campaign, don't donate to it. if you notice a red flag you feel like the bloggers verifying might have missed, alert them to it. if you notice someone impersonating one of the verified campaigns on here (also common) alert people to it. i often have difficulty identifying which blogs are legitimate because they are deleted and remade so frequently, so i just try to reblog posts from the verified list or promoted by palestinians bloggers as i donate to them.
don't cast doubt on the process if you don't understand it, and don't be cruel about a situation you should pray you never experience—and odds are, if you have a US passport and a US bank account, you never will.
also i want to add a couple of extra things:
sometimes people DO use stock images to explain their situation, like "this is the area i'm in" or "this is an example of what's happening to me" because they feel like those images are more descriptive, they don't want to use images from their real lives for privacy reasons, or they don't have a good camera or a good connection to send their own images. i have seen this happen with a few people i know personally, some of whom were able to describe this ("the image used is just an example") but some of whom were unaware that they needed to do so. so this criteria unfortunately is not always helpful, unless someone is obviously trying to pass off a stock image as their own or lying about it.
more than once palestinians i met in cairo in person have shared a gofundme that they've started and they'll say "a nice person online helped me set this up" or "a friend of a friend got one so we set up ours" because that's how these have worked so far, and i look at them and i know they seem fake or unconvincing because they don't have enough images or they don't have enough descriptions.
conversely, a lot of people have learned to over-embellish instead to make it seem more convincing and appeal to more people, which has clearly had the opposite effect here.
a lot of times i've thought, "if i didn't vouch for this nobody would believe this was a real fundraiser" and that's particularly why i found those posts so casually dismissive and ignorant. unless you've been in this situation or have tried to help fundraise, you won't understand how harmful and generally unproductive these "watch out for scams" posts were.
this is why you shouldn't take these "i vouch for this fundraiser" posts lightly, because this is literally all there is to it. yes, you might not know that blogger so that is meaningless to you, in which case—fine! it's not meant for you! it's meant for that person's following, who do know them and have known them.
some of the posts in your inbox are spam but not all—they are people completely unfamiliar with this website who heard it's a good place to fundraise trying to fundraise in any way possible, usually by going through the notes of a popular post and messaging people there with a stock appeal for help. they don't have success with everyone they send to, and certainly some are scammers taking advantage (more than a few of which palestinian bloggers were the first to notice and warn against). these are people for whom social media is also entirely hostile and it's also grown more difficult to fundraise on twitter and meta because palestinians keep getting shadowbanned, and so they use social media as a tool and not as a hobby. this includes strategies like mass-messaging and appeals to humanity, because they're not here to make friends or blog. they're here to fundraise.
most of all if you don't feel comfortable with it, then just ignore it! there is no need to absolve your guilt of ignoring these messages by deciding they're all scams, and there was absolutely no need to smear the bloggers who do participate in this without understanding what they do. i said above if you feel confident that something is a scam (especially if you are familiar with the situation, less so if you know jack shit about it), you should message the bloggers who have vetted it and ask because they don't want to be promoting scammers either. there is no shortage of other ways to help, and there is no shortage of people who need help.
yeah man no such thing as thought crime. however you know that a thought is an inside action? your mouth and hands cannot be moving for it to be a thought
people got mad at me for this post where i simply state that your hands and mouth cannot be moving for your thought to be a thought. a thought ceases to be a thought once you start posting it online and telling people this is a principle you believe in. because then those are your values. if i start posting about how i find my tv hot every day and how i want to marry my tv and have sex with my tv then people will think i want to marry my tv because these are the words coming out of my mouth. i don't even want to marry my tv she may be a sweet lover but she is a cruel mistress
It's kind of telling to see some of the exact same people who've cheerfully been making and/or circulating those "political action is supposed to be disruptive – if it was easy to ignore it wouldn't work!" posts turn around and jump on the "these Palestine fundraising requests making it mildly inconvenient to curate my Tumblr inbox must be part of some nefarious scheme" bandwagon. Like, disruption is good right up until the point it affects you personally, eh?
"But some of them are scams" sure, but so what? All humanitarian crises attract vultures – there's no reason to expect this one to be the exception. If you think you've got a scammer on your hands, the appropriate response is to block and move on; it's certainly not to participate in the targeted public harassment of folks who've taken it upon themselves to curate lists of vetted fundraising efforts on the basis that you think some of the entries on their list have weird vibes.
tolerance break almost over cant wait to get back on the substance that treats my migraines and arthritis and agoraphobia and ibs and alcoholism and also gets rid of my dreams so im not constantly waking up irritated and groggy due to factors outside my control. were just going to 7/11 man why do you have to smoke weed first is something wrong with you? yes lots
I've seen little about it so, Just an FYI what's been unfolding in England today. Far-right protestors are literally trying to kill asylum seekers in hotels.
In Rotherham, Yorkshire fascists have tried to set a hotel on fire with migrants staying there. Some signalling cut-throat gestures at the people staying in the rooms.
In Tamworth, Staffordshire the very same thing is happening. Another hotel has been set on fire with asylum seekers still inside alongside racist graffiti.
Other similar protests that are going uncountered are happening in Middlesbrough, Hartlepool, Stoke-on-Trent and many more areas, chances are there will be one somewhere by you if things keep going the way they are. Nazis are literally strolling about unchallenged and these people are marching happily with them. There are more sensitive videos online which I won't share here but there are groups of nazis chasing down and circling black people in cities and beating them up, indian and chinese takeaways being targetted, turkish barbers being set alight and there have been incidents of muslims being assaulted and even stabbed.
BUT... There are success stories from UK cities where riots have failed due to no turnout or due to antifascists driving far-right pricks out of the city.
Cardiff, Wales - About 5 fascists turn up compared to 500 conuter-protestors. They failed to get anyone here despite trying two times.
Liverpool, Merseyside - A significant EDL mob is marched out of the city and fought against. Counter-protestors form a ring around a mosque being targetted.
Bristol, City of - antifascists block the entrance to a hotel that nazis are trying to get into as well as a fierce citywide push against the EDL and racism.
Nottingham, East Midlands - A huge antifascist counter protest outnumbers EDL and the far-right, preventing a riot from occuring.
There are many many more of these riots planned. If you're in the UK get organised and be prepared to fight alongside the people who make our communities stong and resiliant and make our country and cities a wonderful vibrant and friendly place to be. Help by whatever means you can. If you are not from the UK then please signal boost this because this needs to stop this nastiness from spreading and to make nazis afraid again.
I am beyond sad but more so outraged by the lacklustre support today shown for Wafaa's nieces and nephews (@wafans-blog). The emotion hadn't strike me fully in the chest until I saw Wafaa had reblogged my plush toy giveaway post in Arabic out of desperation for people to see the fundraiser, for them to care about her family, before editing her reblog and rewriting the post so that it is in ENGLISH. FOR YOU TO READ AND SHARE.
Palestinian families like Wafaa are doing this every day, logging onto a website with hate mobs just waiting for Palestinians to present themselves as less than "perfect victims" so they can accuse them of being bots or malicious scammers. Do you know how mortifying it is to have to bare your soul and your rawest emotions onto the internet for all to see? For strangers to see your suffering and for you to continuously beg for help to save your children and your loved ones only for it to fall on deaf ears?
Palestinian bloggers have been verifying posts FOR YOU and Palestinian families have been posting their pictures and their family stories all in English FOR YOU. The least you can do is shut up and share the campaigns of those who are already verified. The second thing you should do is donate whatever you can spare. No one is asking you to devote your entire fortune to saving anyone. But even a $5 donation, the cost of coffee before tax, will be enough to make a difference.
Go donate to Wafaa's family so her sister and brother can register their beloved children for evacuation. Muhammad fears every day that he will watch his newborn son waste away before his eyes and there is nothing he could do to prevent this except hope for money to be raised so the older children could take Salem away from this place. Please. Do what you can.
Hello, my name is Wafaa 42 years old. After my campaign ended, I wanted to start evacuating my… Said As needs your support for Help Mohammad
NO DONATIONS IN PAST 20 MINUTES. PLEASE HELP THIS FAMILY. $16,556 raised currently, can we raise another $444 to get the family to $17,000 in the next two hours?
Only TWO DONATIONS in the past hour!!! Please don’t let this stagnate, we are very close to the $18,000 milestone, let’s get there in the next two hours at the latest!!!
$17,738 currently raised of $18,000 milestone, that’s just $262 more to raise!!!
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Every morning, we wake up to the sounds of bombings and explosions, searching for food and water for our children in a city besieged by war. My home, which once was a safe haven for my family, is now a pile of rubble, and the future of my children is shrouded in fear and uncertainty. 😔
Ibrahim, our seven-year-old, loves to play and is full of innocence, but now he questions safety. Ahmed, our youngest, doesn’t know a life without fear. We just want to give them a chance to live, laugh, and grow up in a safe environment. 🏡❤️
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Join us in this fight for life. Every donation, no matter how small, can be the ray of hope we desperately need. 🌟
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Hello,I am reaching out from Gaza, where my family and I are living through unimaginable hardships due to the ongoing war. Our lives have become a daily struggle for survival, and we are in desperate need of help. 💔
I am writing to ask you from the bottom of my heart to Document our donation campaign and share it with your friends and acquaintances. This campaign is our only hope to secure food, water, and shelter for my children. We live in constant fear, and every donation can make a significant difference in our lives and give us a chance to survive. 🙏
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We try to live under miserable conditions in tents in Mawasi Khan Yunis, south of Gaza. It is difficult for me to find the words to describe what we face every day in Gaza. No food, no medicine, no clean drinking water, oppression, helplessness, psychological pressures, doubts, and daily trauma due to the loss of loved ones. In Gaza, it's not just hunger, disease and fear; Rather, it means actual death.
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Fidaa is @wafaaresh and @mohiy-gaza 's sister. Mohyi shared her account with me.
Currently Fidaa's gfm has $230/$5,500
Fidaa's gfm is now at: 4,154 and her new goal is 10,000 dollars.
"You can't facilitate genocide in Palestine and not expect US and Europe to be taken over by fascism btw."
"I truly believe the racist riots we have seen this weekend in the UK are linked to the international reaction to the Israeli genocide in Palestine. Muslim lives have been devalued on such a grand and gruesome scale that every racist with a taste for violence has been emboldened."
The Imperial boomerang
twitter link to the video (in it, you can hear these fascists loudly screaming "are they white?" and "they're white, they're white! they're english!" before letting the cars pass).
remember how the american and british press stirred up an absolute panic about the non-violent, pro-palestine campus protests? how they endlessly slandered the students as antisemitic extremists, creating justification for the violent police crackdown that would soon follow?
compare that now to how they're covering (or not covering) the fascist pogroms in the UK, where, for the past few days, violent white supremacists mobs have been terrorizing muslims, migrants and other non-white communities, forming mobs to intimidate and violently attack anyone they perceive as non-white and non-British.
the hotel shown in the video above is now the second hotel housing asylum seekers that these fascist mobs have attempted to set fire to, and yet, the harshest words the majority of the UK press is willing to use to describe them, are "far-right rioters, "anti-immigration protesters" or, if you're the BBC, just "protesters."
here's from skynews (UK), with the almost comical framing of "anti-fascists (left)" vs. "people protesting"
again, if you compare that to the headlines they were running during the campus protests...
this goes beyond some racist "bias" in their reporting: you can draw a direct link here between the UK media's coverage of palestine, and the fascist mobs willing to burn asylum seekers alive.
obviously there are other factors at play, but the genocide denial, the portrayal of arabs and muslims as terrorists and antisemites (which again, gets projected onto britain's migrant population and asylum seekers as a whole), the overall dehumanization and othering of the palestinian people — all of this has been feeding into, and stoking up, the racism and islamophobia that's now boiling over, and erupting into nakedly fascist violence.
