Lost but Hopeful

Tadala. 

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Cédric Kouamé, Gifted Mold Archive, 2015

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Akeem Smith, No Gyal Can Test. (2020)

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visual by zayn alarbi, words by ibrahim nasrallah

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Another aspect of the Gaza Genocide that I want to talk about is the complicity of Internet banking and crowdfunding websites like GoFundMe.

I have seen multiple Gazans raise enough money to leave for Egypt, but the banks and the crowdfunding websites freeze their money or cancel their funds for "suspicious activity" or whatever. Every day that passes in Gaza supplies get more scarce, conditions get more deadly, and the price to cross into Egypt gets more expensive. I've seen people, like ghost-90 here on Tumblr, raise the full amount to get their entire family out of Gaza, but their money gets frozen for so long that the original goal is only a fraction of the price now needed to cross the boarder.

These financial institutions should not be allowed to get away with contributing to the death toll in Gaza. They are intentionally keeping people trapped in a kill zone by withholding money that is rightfully theirs.

I'm so pissed and angry that every avenue for relief for Palestinians is being cut of left and right. It is vile that Gazans are being extorted for 10s of thousands of dollars by the Egyptian gov just to save their family's lives, but even when they play by this corrupt game, the world still finds a way to make them suffer.

My heart is with every Palestinian for the rest of time, from river to sea you will all be free. 🇵🇸❤️

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Some more information from killy, the organizer of ghost-90's crowdfund, about how fucked the process is for Gazans to actually get paid out by GoFundMe.

And this is just one story from one person who had a little visibility at the time. How many funds have been frozen that no one knows about cuz they don't have any visibility? How many do we not know about cuz the recipient died while waiting for their funds to be released?

These financial institutions have blood on their hands just as much as the bastards dropping the bombs.

And for the people in the notes saying that the banks are just fallowing the law, laws that allow free transfer of money to Western countries but heavily criticizes and restricts money sent to the Middle East (or really any country that isnt part of the West) is racist and imperialist. Fallowing racist laws is still racist. But I think y'all might be understating how much power the banks have in this situation, they are choosing to fallow these "laws" of their own volition.

Don't try to cover for multi-billion dollar organizations that are directly profiting off genocide and people's desire to save their families from brutal death.

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I'm glad for your help and thanks to anyone still helping 🙏❤️

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Hadi Rahnaward: 'Fragile Balance' (2023) rug sculpture created with matches

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My partners' estate yesterday

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The Snowy Day illustrations by Ezra Jack Keats

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The Bath of Venus (1898-1904, oil on canvas) | Charles Shannon

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It's 9pm should I go to the store and get a bottle of wine?

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yemen is the poorest nation in the arab world. but in two weeks time, it did what no oil or gas- rich arab nation could do. by seizing three ships and costing i****l more than 2 billion by forcing its ships to go around africa, yemen showed up.

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Louise Bourgeois  

Spirals

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Divorce ????

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By Ottenberg Simon, Sierra Leone.

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Why don't girls like history? No no, I mean like, watching YouTube videos about the Wehrmacht, not actually studying history, that's stupid and is for girls.

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Okay now do a breakdown of women of color

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Agnes Giberne 1898

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Victoria Carlson