paradisovacui

Art, photography, architecture & more. FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸

[paradisovacui]

Sliman Mansour, Palestinian artist 🇵🇸

[cocainejuul]

[sukimas]

my career advice isn't "do what you love" it's "do what will give you the most money without making you want to kill yourself"

[sukimas]

yes.

[thesituation]

the awakening people are having about the depp heard trial is quite frankly too little too late, the time to stand with her and against the pattern of men abusing women and getting away with it was WHEN the trial was happening, not two years later. you blew it. you ruined a woman’s life because you couldn’t be fucked to do any amount of objective research into a trial before joining in on everyone making fun of a vulnerable and beaten down woman having to publicly stand trial to decide whether she gets to speak about her abuse. i’ll literally never forgive society for what they did to amber heard and no amount of “i was just joining in, i didn’t realize what was going on” can take away the fact that the mask came off for a second there & showed everyone for the shallow mean spirited misogynists they are

[momosane]

Marcelat Sakobi of Democratic Republic of Congo, at the end of the women’s round of 32 boxing match against Uzbekistan's Sitora Turdibekova, made a strong gesture to raise awareness of the ongoing genocide in the DR Congo by placing her hand in front of her mouth and pointing two fingers at her temple.

Resources for Congo:

Friends of Congo

Panzi Foundation

War Child

CammeDRCongo

Genocide Watch

A guide to the decades-long conflict in DR Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Industrial mining of cobalt and copper for rechargeable batteries is leading to grievous human rights abuses.

An explanation thread from 2019.

Books on Congo.

Feel free to let me know of other resources to add.

[suburbanjustice]

Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project - Lifeline for Congolese asylum seekers who relocate to Maine, which is one of the most popular places in the country for asylum seekers from the RDC and Congo.

Amjambo Africa - Completely FREE nonprofit newspaper that you can get at grocery stores in cities around Maine with large African populations. It offers news in French and is critical for disseminating information about immigration law and policy changes in a way that's actually accessible. They take donations, because again, they don't sell the paper, they give it out for free.

If there are a lot of Congolese asylum seekers in your community, consider learning French! Typically asylum seekers who come in the land route from Brazil to Texas speak very, very minimal English because of the urgent nature of their evacuation. If you live in a community with a lot of Congolese people, you will start to notice people struggling to convey their needs at places like the DMV, town hall, and post office. One real concrete way you can help immigrants from Congo and the RDC right now is to learn enough French to help interpret.

It seems like it's a steep learning curve, but for someone who is already fluent in English, French isn't that hard. I taught myself French independently while working in the govt and got hours of daily practice with people from Congo and the RDC and that was enough to make me able to serve clients in French and to this day I can step in at places like the post office.

Learn to pronounce French names. Learn how to pronounce names in Lingala, which has the most straightforward and unambiguous pronunciation system of any language I've ever seen. Learn how to pronounce phonemes like mb-, nk-, nd-, etc. Imagine how dehumanizing it would be to have your name mispronounced everywhere you go - your name, a core piece of how you conceptualize yourself. Imagine how it would feel to finally be addressed correctly.

You don't have to have spare money to give to make concrete change. Just effort.

[cindca]

"The Forest"

An illustration I painted and turned into an animated gif. This was very tedious but I like how it turned out.

[paradisovacui]

Naomi Campbell

[varenychenko-moved]

proud to see my country do this, in spite of russia targeting our fields and grain silos. please support ukraine and palestine 🇺🇦🇵🇸

[thebrownart]

There are no words to describe the hunger that people are enduring in Gaza, according to Ali, a Palestinian in Gaza.

Residents of the Palestinian enclave say Israeli authorities are severely restricting life-saving food deliveries once again, bringing back the extreme conditions experienced in March, leading to the death of at least four children from malnutrition just last week.

The UN's hunger monitoring system, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), released a report on Tuesday showing that a "high risk of famine persists across the whole Gaza Strip".

The report said more than 20% of the Palestinian enclave's population, over 495,000, are now facing "catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity" involving "an extreme lack of food, starvation, and exhaustion".

The IPC found that while aid deliveries to northern Gaza increased in March and April, and found their way to the south too, the situation had deteriorated in recent weeks.

The report found that over half of households in Gaza reported that they often have no food to eat in the house, and over 20% go entire days and nights without eating.

"We don't know how much more can we endure of this," says Ali. "Every day we fall apart and break down. Every day is worse than the day before it."

(the linktree to donate for the people of Palestine is in my bio)

(✍🏾: Lubna Masarwa, MEE)

[self-hating-zionist]

This will make you cry.

[paradisovacui]

isabellrose on Instagram ~

[paradisovacui]

No peace without liberation. Free Palestine

[agentfascinateur]

A reminder about Palestine:

Firstly, the existence of the country of Palestine was never in question. And secondly, as per the UK's own words in the oft-referred to "foundational" "Balfour Declaration":

"NOTHING SHALL BE DONE WHICH MAY PREJUDICE THE CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS RIGHTS OF EXISTING NON-JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN PALESTINE."

Plain as day.

[tortagnamgnam]

This is the lucky clover cat. reblog this in 30 seconds & he will bring u good luck and fortune.

[la7ma-mafrooma-deactivated20251]

"B-but Palestinians can get their freedom with peace not violence 🥺🥺" no. Screw your feelings. The armed resistance against colonizers and murderers is what will give Palestinians their freedom and what will eventually achieve real peace.

An enemy that bombs and uses white phosphorus against civilians doesn't know nor practice what your broken moral compass describes as "peace". Freedom was proven throughout history not to be achieved through kneeling and asking the oppressor to kindly stop. Freedom needs to be taken by force. Your little Utopian way of thinking doesn't work in the real world. Your feelings don't matter because you're not the one living under occupation. Your feelings don't matter because you're not one of the thousands of children who lost their limbs. You're not one of the children who became orphans due to this genocide. You're not the mother who lost her child to the carpet bombing. You're not the father carrying the remains of your child in plastic bags. You're not the newlywed woman who lost her husband. You're not the one at risk of either getting killed any second or losing your loved ones in the blink of an eye!

"Peace" is not really a thing you see during a live ethnic cleansing!

[good-old-gossip]

PEACE is a WHITE MAN's WORD. LIBERATION is OURS.

[la7ma-mafrooma-deactivated20251]

Reblogging this as a fuck you to the previous person who opposed the resistance.

[heyftinally]

Peace will never liberate oppression. It just won't, and if you think it will, you're too ignorant of history to be involved in this conversation.

Not once has "please stop oppressing us" made an oppressor go "aw, shit, my bad, sorry bro". Oppressors want power. They don't want equality. If someone is willing to murder in order to prevent you from having equality, they won't care if you ask from that equality "peacefully". They'll take it as an opportunity to murder you and make an example of you to make everyone else fear the same fate, thus allowing the oppressor to keep their power.

Equal rights are taken, not given. Peace was never an option, and that was decided the day Israel first began displacing, oppressing, and terrorizing Palestine when they took over and colonized the country for their own Zionist views.

[paradisovacui]

On November 27th 2005, a Palestinian woman named Mahfodah Shtayyeh was photographed embracing an olive tree after Israeli settlers attacked it. She was quoted, ‘I hugged the olive tree… I’d raised the tree like my child’.

Many Palestinians in the past and present relied on olives as their primary income, olives and olive oil were a huge export of Palestine. Due to their abundance, slow growth, and incredibly long life-span, the olive tree is one of many symbols of Palestine and the Palestinian’s connection to their land. This famous photograph helped make olive trees become a symbol of resistance to occupation.

[cherifaouachani]

Don't stop talking about palestine!!!!