NASA
Aqua Utopia｜海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
❣ Chile in a Photography ❣
art blog(derogatory)
Three Goblin Art
Kiana Khansmith
DEAR READER
wallacepolsom
Kaledo Art
RMH
almost home
occasionally subtle
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
No title available
Monterey Bay Aquarium
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
ellievsbear
YOU ARE THE REASON
Product Placement
Peter Solarz
seen from United States
seen from France
seen from Türkiye
seen from Singapore
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from France
seen from Netherlands
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Uzbekistan
seen from Mexico
seen from Netherlands
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Bulgaria
@raozaruk
***UPDATE REGARDING TENTS: there is a shortage of tents readily available for purchase due to traders withholding inventory. This is a combi
The Sameer Project, a grassroots aid organization led by four Palestinians in the diaspora, is proud to announce our first tent encampment p
Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza fac
PayPal and Venmo
The War in Sudan has created the World’s largest Humanitarian cris… Mustafa Ibrahim needs your support for Fight Hunger in Sudan: The Khart
[ID:
Picture 1: A tweet by Khartoum Aid Kitchen @ KhartoumKitchen. It says: "Yesterday, when we found Sadiq, no aid organizations were present in his neighborhood. He chose to starve himself so his children could eat, which left him wheelchair-bound. We're now providing food for him and others there. Please support this effort: gofund.me/bb54dfd1. Attached is a photo of an emaciated Black man sitting in a hospital wheelchair facing the camera. He is wearing an orange shirt which covers his knees and elbows. Behind him is the wall of a brick house.
Picture 2: A tweet by Deborah Augustine @ dbgermane which reads: "If you want to support Sudan but are not sure where to start you can make a contribution to this organization who provide food on the ground.
End ID.]
The people of Gaza are asking for YOUR help today. Here are some VETTED campaigns you should donate to and share widely.
(may 23rd):
Help Almoghrabi family to evacuate Gaza strip (@amjad20011) - Amjad needs to evacuate with his wife and his son, who isn't even 3 years old.
Support Ruba's family's urgent evacuation (@rubashaban) - Ruba's family are lacking the basic necessities of life; she has an elderly father who desperately needs to be evacuated.
Save little Yusuf and his family (@ahmednabubake) - Yusuf is in an intensive care unit fighting for his life in Gaza; he needs urgent evacuation alongside his family.
Help Belal and his family to evacuate from Gaza (@alaajshaat) - Belal has lost too much to this war and needs to support himself and his family.
Help Ahmed's family evacuate (@malkzaeem) - Ahmed needs to save his wife, 4 children, and severely injured father.
Help Ezzideen Shehab and his family evacuate (@helpezzideen) - Ezzideen, a young doctor, and his parents, siblings, and young brother Mazen urgently need to evacuate.
Help Iman’s family find safety (@imaneyad) - Iman has a family of 7 who need to find safety.
Support three orphaned children and their mother (@abedbahlool) - TW Graphic image. Asmaa is a mother of three and lost her husband due to the aggression.
Help save Bassam and his family (@lailashaqoura) - Bassam has five young children and has already lost 9 members of his wife's family.
Save Firas' family (@prosolitudeeee) - Firas is a father of two children, a 10-month-old boy and a two-year-old girl, who are in need of safe haven in Egypt.
Help Hani's family evacuate (@skatehani) - A Palestinian skater trying to evacuate 10 members of his family.
Help Omar evacuate (@omarsobhi) - Omar is a 20 year old Palestinian student who wants to save himself and his family from this genocide.
Help Tahseen and his family (@tahseenmush) - Tahseen and his family are from northern Gaza and need urgent help to survive this genocide.
Help Nader's family to evacuate from Gaza (@nadershoshaa) - Nader and his family, consisting of six members, are currently displaced in the south; help them evacuate and survive.
Marah needs to save her family (@marahsalem) - Marah is trying to get reunited with her family, which consists of 5 members who need to urgently evacuate.
Help Mahmoud's family evacuate (@mahmoud0qassas) - Mahmoud and his family need to get to Egypt. His brother in law needs medical attention ASAP.
Yosof's family needs to evacuate (@yosofzaeem) - Yosof’s family needs to evacuate urgently; member of their family needs medical attention.
This list is supposed to call you to action. Please do not scroll past without contributing. Choose at least one fundraiser to support today. $5 can save lives. If you cannot donate, share these campaigns.
Looking for more campaigns?
Thank you all for your support, even if it's little, you have made a big difference, but we have a long journey ahead of us to come together and complete it together. You are our last hope!
We have reached 4800 from 55,000 !
UPDATE 23, May : My family is staying in a nylon tent , that doesn't pr… Marah Salem needs your support for Help Marah reunite with her fami
Please help and support my family with your donation
UPDATE 23, May : My family is staying in a nylon tent , that doesn't pr… Marah Salem needs your support for Help Marah reunite with her fami
it really is mind-boggling to me that the only reason i know about the Congolese and Sudanese genocides is because of the tireless work of grassroots activists and advocates posting on social media. I can honestly say that if I didn't have social media and didn't happen to be following Black authors and activists, I never would have known what was happening in Sudan and Congo because it is simply not being reported in the great majority of mainstream media. We're talking millions upon millions of PEOPLE enduring unimaginable pain and devastation with next to no official reporting. And yes that is in huge part due to the level of violence and displacement occurring that is preventing a lot of news from getting out of these countries, but it's also so blatantly due to anti-Black racism and the perception of African Nations as inherently savage and violent. But genocide is not and never should be normal for anyone anywhere. With that in mind, please keep Congo and Sudan in your thoughts. Check out Focus Congo for resources to help the Congolese people on the ground. Focus Congo's MO is a local organisation whose goal is to rebuild homes, rehabilitate land, and provide medical aid, education, and resources to Congo's most affected people. Also, Check out Keep Eyes On Sudan for how to help out and raise awareness of Sudanese people displaced by civil war. According to Sudanese TikToker bsonblast, donations to local food kitchens in Sudan are desperately needed to fight famine. If anyone has other resources specifically for helping Congo and Sudan, please add them and link them <3
Incredibly alarming that talks of “peace” in Gaza seem to extend no further than a ceasefire. How do you think they’re gonna start off where they left off themselves? Their houses are destroyed, so many have lost mothers and fathers and brothers and children, they still have no clean water and no food. Any area Israel withdraws out of is an area it already knows has been rendered inhospitable. There was even a direct quote by some IOF soldier gleefully stating how he “wasn’t sure Palestinians could go back to their homes.” So what happens when the US “succeeds at negotiating a ceasefire”? Who will be responsible for helping the Palestinians rebuild all that they’ve lost?
Palestinians are literally being treated as invalids & it hurts so much to see. It’s so heartbreaking watching footage of Palestinians walking the demolished streets of Khan Younis in shock, with some saying (with no emotion, bc they’ve been enduring this for months) that their homes are simply gone. There was nothing to come back to by the time Israeli troops left. These are whole, multidimensional human beings like you and me who no longer have homes they could live in. And there is literally no recourse. They’re supposed to just pick up the pieces all alone. It’s so dehumanizing I could cry about it.
So important to reinforce that advocacy for Palestinian rights doesn’t end at a ceasefire that has already come too little, too late. At that point it would be about advocating for Palestinians’ rights for quality of life, Palestinians’ rights to retribution, and most importantly Palestinians’ right to freedom. Although those numbers have certainly intensified since Oct. 7, the Palestinian struggle goes back decades. I don’t want to see anyone hanging up their hats when the US inevitably paints themselves as the western savior Palestine has needed all along, finally flying in on a golden chariot to broker peace. This is far from over when a ceasefire is declared, and it’ll be far from over until every Palestinian enjoys the quality of life any human being is entitled to.
a poem from gazan writer nadine murtaja featured in an edition of WAWOG’s “new york war crimes” in march. she dreams of becoming a dentist, though her schooling was interrupted by the current aggression and genocide.
please donate and share nadine’s campaign to evacuate herself and her family.
I'm Nadine Murtaja, a 20-year-old writer from Gaza, and I'm reaching out to you with… Nadine Murtaja needs your support for Help my family a
$10,463/$30,000 as of today (april 10 2024); nadine is just over a third of the way to her goal.
BTW this may be a great activism strategy. take large amounts of perishables sold by Israeli/Israel-supporting companies and abandon or dispose of them so they have to be thrown out. hopefully, the stores will have to stop selling products of those companies.
EDIT: zionists mad about this one lmao
[image ID: a tweet from Shayma (@/dpechesmode) posted on December 13 2023 that reads: “our house was bombed. my sister martyred and left two orphans behind. now i’m trying to evacuate my family of 16 out of gaza, but we need a lot of money to make it happen. your donation and sharing is very much appreciated. paypal.me/doaa94r” /End ID]
Go to paypal.me/doaa94r and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
shayma is the sister of doaa abuajwa, who worked as an arabic instructor at al azhar university in gaza. doaa was martyred, along with one of her daughters, in early november by an israeli air strike. prior to her murder, a tweet of doaa’s where she talked about being happy to be able to scrape together a small “birthday party” for her daughter maria’s fifth birthday gained significant traction. (maria survived the attack and is now in the care of shayma)
I’m in the process of organizing a gofundme for a family to get out of Gaza and into Egypt. If anyone with a big following on Twitter can help me spread it there, please let me know.
I’m really, deadly serious about this. Please do contact me if you or someone you know could help. If some tumblr blogs with significant followings can volunteer to spread it when it’s ready, too, please send me a message and I’ll send you a post with the link as soon as it’s ready
To introduce myself, I’m a Palestinian-American who has been to the West Bank many times. R… H A needs your support for Help Ahmed and His
Here we go. This fundraiser is for @90-ghost and I’ve had it set up on his behalf because gofundme isn’t available in Palestine. I’m collaborating with a DC-based organization to help spread this on Facebook, but it’s been put together on short notice and the reach is limited, so we need your help: the need for someone to help spread it on Twitter still stands.
In case anyone is suspicious, I hate to have to do this, but I’ve reverse-searched Ahmed’s images (featured in the gofundme), checked his posts to see that he does use authentic Palestinian Arabic to the best of my knowledge (my family is from the West Bank and I’ve been there a lot), checked the story of his sister from 2021 and found confirmation of her murder, etc. If you have questions about me, well, Ahmed will vouch for me, and you can see from looking at my blog that this is a cause that has been near and dear to me for a long time; I’m Palestinian and would sooner die than do wrong by a fellow Palestinian fleeing death itself. Please help Ahmed by donating and/or spreading far and wide!
and the Iraqi people welcomed the Americans with flowers. I wanted to set a historical event to teach Bush a lesson from the Iraqis, telling him you lied, we did not welcome you with flowers, and instead we are saying goodbye with our shoes.“
Muntaza Al Zaidi, the Iraqi reporter who became known as the guy who threw a shoe at Bush and later ended up in jail for three years because of it.
happy 12 years to bush shoeing incident
Following the rape and murder of Palestinian women at the onset of al-Nakba, Ben-Gurion in the 1950s turned his attention to the issue of Jewish women’s fertility, shaming Israeli women who did not bear at least four children as having “failed their Jewish mission,” and awarding those who bore ten children a special prize. The Zionist paranoia about the Palestinian “demographic threat,” the likelihood that Jews will once again be a demographic minority in Palestine, has always politicized Palestinian women’s reproductive issues, resulting in the many restrictions on their access to health care while pregnant. Thus, Palestinian women in labor have routinely been detained and delayed at checkpoints, and prevented from reaching a hospital. Many have given birth at checkpoints, or by the side of the road, and newborn infants have died for lack of neonatal care. A 2007 United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights report detailing sixty-nine such incidents remains unanswered by any Israeli officials.
Nada Elia, Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/nationalism, and Palestine
where is that quote by arundhati roy about how nonviolence is a spectacle for the oppressor and needs an audience and how people have the right to violence to resist
[ID: “Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience? People have the right to resist annihilation” ― Arundhati Roy /END ID]
in general there is much "what will israelis do?" and "where will israelis go?" "how can you expect israelis to accept palestinians?" and not
"where will palestinians go after being ethnically cleansed from gaza and the west bank?" "how can palestinians be asked to coexist with the people who stole their land, massacred them and made them refugees for 75 years?" "how can palestinians coexist with people who approve a genocide?" "how can palestinians coexist with people who imprisoned and murdered their children?" "how can palestinians coexist with the people who denied their existence?" "how can palestinians coexist with people who violate every international agreement?" "how can palestinians coexist with an entity that sees their very existence as a threat?"
the demand of palestinians to accept israel after the nakba was a demand for palestinians to show superhuman ability to compromise and they did it. in 1988!!!! and in return they received more violence, more dispossession, more diplomatic and political betrayal, more death. the greatest hasbara trick israelis ever pulled off was convincing the world and their own population that "they offered peace and a two-state solution but palestinians didn't take it."
the question has never been "why aren't palestinians peaceful?" the question has been "why does israel punish palestinians for compromising?"
the answer is that israel does not care for palestinian compromise when it seeks total palestinian domination and dispossession. this is what palestinians are being "asked to make peace with" as though palestinians have any say in peace. it's also why asking about israel is a distraction and a cruel exercise in false liberal values. israel and the vast majority of the israeli electorate is not a partner capable of making peace or coexisting with. therefore palestinian human rights cannot be contingent on israeli consent. it's their legal right to return, to live on their own land, to have a state, to be free of occupation. any and all arguments should begin from this basis. it doesnt matter one iota if israelis feel existentially threatened by it and engaging in arguments on this basis is legitimizing their narrative and fear over their tanks and bombs.
existential fear is not a political reality—it is a justification of a political reality. the reality is the genocide of palestinians which is not only an equally legitimate existential fear but a concrete truth. the international community can and should use every single tool at its disposal to force israelis to adhere to international humanitarian law.
instead, the international community enables them. so don't ask anything of palestinians, least of all about what will happen to israelis, who fear only what they are actively doing to palestinians as we speak.
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.
Al Jazeera posted a long-form article about the Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza. It talks about who they were, their hopes and their dreams.
At the bottom, there is a Romanized searchable version of the list of names of people killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza.
The first 7 pages are children below the age of 1.
He didn't even get the chance to be named.
This is a genocide.
FREE PALESTINE
CEASEFIRE NOW
Read the full article here:
A Palestinian child in Gaza is killed in an Israeli attack every 10 minutes.
Resources and action items to call for an end to the violence in Gaza.
I haven’t seen this linked on here so: this is an awesome resource for how you can help the people in Palestine. It has donation links, helps you figure out how to contact your representatives, and a regularly updated list of planned protests. It is USAmerican centric but the list of protests is international.
If you are American this site has a tool that sends an email for you. All you need to enter is your name, email address, and street address so they can auto-find your senators. It will take 30 seconds.
