This thread is a few years old but it bears repeating. I’m tired of being treated as if I am invisible. Listen to Jewish voices when we talk about fascism. I am begging you.
Loujain alhathloul is a Saudi women's rights activist, and Free speech activists, just got out after staying in prison 1001 days, and we all celebrating this!
He was killed 1 year after this video, according to what I’ve gathered online. Someone tried to knock him off his bike and shot him even as he rode away. He made it to a hospital, but, he still died due to blood loss as he’d left a trail of blood in his path.
All activists who you can name/you see make an impact are viewed as a threat to those in power or those who regard themselves as having power over minority groups. The more of these names I learn, the more I wait in anticipation to hear if they are still here or if their lives have been taken too soon yet.
Here’s a PBS article because I like to believe they’re less biased than most.
Roosevelt Iglus had been charged with second-degree murder in the death of 32-year-old Muhiyidin Moye, better known as Muhiyidin d'Baha, of
This is exactly why we tell y’all stop posting protesters faces and clothes without black squares over them, not no pixelated or blurred stuff. STAY SAFE!!!
Saw someone pulling a “say their names! we need to give credit!” a while back on some protesters, and…look, kiddos, this is neither the time nor the place for that. You mean well, I know, but you’re going to get someone killed. Black squares. No names.
indian “celebrities” are now talking about how “non-indians should not intervene” as if they or the government have been considerate about how the laws affect the farmers.
kangana ranaut literally told rihanna to shut up. bitch you had the audacity. you WISH you were at her level.
rihanna is a humanitarian, and the news channels are now SLUT SHAMING HER and are talking about how much she paid for her fucking make up to portray that only “shameful women/people support farmers” while our “pious kangana ranaut is on the right side”
the thing is, people in india view the government to be this divine authority and we must accept what it does.
and like that is the total opposite of what a democracy is.
people don’t know that governments are supposed to be criticized, that a government is supposed to cater to the people’s needs, that our prime minister isn’t a fucking god and criticizing the government doesn’t make you an “anti-national”
the CAA protests (which was against a blatantly islamophobia law) was ignored and covid 19 caused the protests to stop, and nothing happened, nobody talks about it.
fuckers like kangana ranaut obviously called them terrorists or anti-national. the islamophobia in india is so rampant that apparently being a muslim makes you less of an indian.
the government expected the farmers protests to blow over, like the caa one. but it didn’t. they couldn’t stop the protests due to covid this time.
70 farmers died because of protesting. this was because so many of them were old and couldn’t handle the climate outside. people are labelling FARMERS as terrorists or anti-nationals.
the parallel between the farmers protests and blm is pretty clear. blm protests in america were peaceful and nobody wanted to listen to them?? and once it became violent, racists labelled blm protests as violent and don’t deserve to be listened to?? even if they haven’t been listened to since the very beginning??
its pretty much the same here.
the largest workers protests have been going on here and the government is trying to label the farmers as terrorists or too illiterate to understand the farm laws
and the police are building a wall in the capital to stop the protests. even some of the indo pakistani border isn’t this thick
greta thunberg extended her support and i am so so grateful for that, she also shared a toolkit to help the protests, (which unfortunately is deleted now)
and the indian news channels are trying to convince us that she doesn’t care about the farmer’s protests and she apparently wants to “dismantle the indian democracy”
india isn’t even a democracy anymore. the government now wants to obstruct freedom of speech by warning twitter of penal action if it doesn’t block the accounts which tweet about the protests.
please, this needs more attention. india is descending into fascism. “democracy” is just a blanket covering the chaos underneath.
here’s a petition to help
also thank you to the people who signed the UK petition to support indian farmers, now that the uk parliament is considering a debate on it.
All these bollywood celebs saying wE sHoUlDnT lEt pRoPaGaNdA dIvIdE uS have a special spot in hell. India against propaganda, it seems. There are people dying, and they’re sitting in their homes that are paid for by bjp. And the supporters are shaming Rihanna for being a victim of abuse and supporting Chris brown because they’d rather praise the perpetrator of a crime than a person trying to speak up about human rights issues. I’m just so angry at our fucking government and the people who think all the bullshit modi is pulling is okay
WHAT THE FUCK?? the media, modi and his fucking supporters are all bullshit. i am so angry.
How fucking delusional does one have to be to believe that RIHANNA. RIHANNA was paid to tweet about the protest. That GRETA THUNBERG is part of an “international conspiracy” to divide India. The audacity of right wingers never ceases to amaze me. They reach new lows every. single. day.
What else can you expect from them whose leader, our beloved Prime Minister- follows trolls who give rape threats to women- on Twitter.
India is on a path to ruin. Intolerance is at an all time high. FIRs are filed against tv shows, comedians are arrested for jokes they didnt make, acts of sedition and UAPA are slapped on student activists and journalists to keep them in jail and stop them from speaking the truth.
The mainstream media is rotting everyone’s brains, vilification of anyone who speaks against the govt reins supreme, and I am terrified. I am terrified of the future, scared of the people around me, and feeling extremely desolate.
Speak up, please. Raise your voice. Support the farmers. Our democracy has been in danger for while now, we need to step up before it’s too late.
I can’t even let myself grieve or relax because I don’t even have enough money to be diagnosed properly OR treated.
So please, please. If you have anything to spare.. I need it now more than ever ..
I appreciate any and ALL HELP!!!
If you’d like to immediately help me my PayPal is
https://www.paypal.me/YvesOrage
I don’t want to die because I can’t afford to get treatment. I’ve come this far.. I’m desperate. I need my community now more than ever. Please don’t let me be forgotten
Kailey Babcock Medical emergency, in desperate need of treatment! Hello, my name is Yves, I’m a young, trans individual who recently moved t
Here’s my GoFundMe to help with everything, I can’t reach the funds fully til I reach my goal or I end it. I’m only at 10% of what I need. SO PLEASE SHARE IT EVERYWHERE!! COPY THE LINK AND SHARE IT TO YOUR FB, TWITTER, IG, everywhere!! It’ll help me tremendously, and it’s the perfect way to help me if you cannot donate anything. It’d be helping survive, thank you
IM RUNNING OUT OF TIME!! , please help in any way that you can. If you’re unable/ not in a place to be able to donate then PLEASE boost, or repost my story!! That helps me just as much !!! and I don’t have much time left to wait and hope for help.
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This is what i get all over my body when I get flare ups from stress. It’s extremely painful and leaves open sores, which is dangerous because I have a compromised immune system
My body is shutting down, and I’m fighting my hardest to get a diagnosis to TREAT whatever this is AS SOON AS POSSIBLE because the symptoms are getting more severe by every flare up I have..
I’ve had to have 3 emergency catheters so far because my bladder keeps completely shutting down..
I’ve been rapidly losing weight and having muscle loss. I’m not able to break down protein properly for some reason.
I went from 117 to 97
These are only SOME OF THE SYMPTOMS DEALING WITH, But here it is! As humiliating as it is..here’s what it’s doing to me in full view..
I’m exhausted. I just want this to end. I want to live a normal life…
I can’t mentally, emotionally, and financially afford this shit. I need help. I’m working so hard on my own to get everything I can done and it’s like it never ends.. I just want a break to breathe
PLEASE HELP ME‼️I now have severe inflammation and MORE tests, going to ANOTHER specialist this month and having another appointment in a week, besides my two procedures & now maybe three..
I’m just trying to stay alive day to day. My body is literally shutting down idk wtf to even do anymore. It’s extremely painful, and terrifying. I’m 23!!!and NO ONE could afford a MONTH of this, even with “help”. I appreciate ANYTHING‼️
I’ve been bedridden all day, I’m in extreme pain. They think I have psoriatic arthritis as well.. my whole body is swollen but especially my joints. To the point of my skin splitting. I feel like I have severe whip lash and am probably going to have to go to the E.R because I can barely walk. I have an appointment this week but I don’t even know if I can wait. I NEED HELP. I CAN’T afford my medical treatments alone, I need YOUR help. Boost, reblog, or donate, it all matters to me. Please help me get through this and survive..
I have so many appointments, and rent is due and I’m late, due to an emergency visit….So PLEASE keep posting, reblogging, donate whatever you comfortablly can, all helps!! Please PLEASE help me survive.. and if not, share my story/ GoFundMe to all platforms. donating directly to me through PayPal is the best way to help me right now !!
‼️Had an appointment today, did some tests, and needed x rays of my hands. I’ll be on more meds, and have to see ANOTHER specialist. I can’t use my hands much because of my joints and inflammation. I also have to be careful because I’m at high risk of infection, due to the open wounds on my hands from them splitting open from swelling so much.. it’s extremely painful. & I can’t hustle without hands… SO PLEASE, help me if you can. Anything and everything counts! Directly donating helps the most w bills‼️‼️‼️
I now have an unexpected MRI on top of getting a catheter today, and two upcoming intense procedures where I will need after care… I literally don’t even know at this point. I’m so scared and lost. I feel so alone. No one NO ONE could afford this shit, live this shit, and have to do all of it at once. My mental health is taking a huge hit because of the stress of literally TRYING TO STAY ALIVE because of bills!!!!!!
I had to have an emergency catheter put in last night and I am in so much fucking pain. I can’t keep up with any of this.. any of it. I don’t have the money, time or ENERGY! One thing after another :( please keep this going for me so I can at least be a little less stressed.. I need help rn.
I have 300$ in my account rn I and I have to use it for meds tomorrow, as well as transportation :( I can show proof. I have an MRI coming up and two other appointments this week. PLEASE , PLEASE if you’re able and ok donate what you can, share, boost, reblog, repost, share my story!! I need to SURVIVE! I just want to be able to heal like I said
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Thank you for your reblog, I want you to know I see these comments and am forever grateful to y’all. This does matter and it does help me. More than a little, so thank you.
Look, NO ONE should have to go through this, I can’t imagine not having a proper health system to help in a situation like this. He has to live it and it’s unfair. If you can, please donate. If not, then reblog. Because I don’t know how to explain that you should care about the wellbeing of others.
I am now internally bleeding and have to have a procedure- maybe a surgery over it-
PLS help me just secure a safe place to recover and live! Please. I am scared, anxious, in pain - and exhausted.
Most hospitals are at capacity, & I am terrified of dying over this super virus - or my body giving up before I can get help. These last 2 months have been the worst of my life
i was debating on whether or not i should post this on tumblr but seeing as there haven’t been posts about this yet, here it is. i’m exposing my real location and nationality but it doesn’t matter.
if you have been active on twitter, you may already know #savemyanmar is trending. long story short, there has been a military coup. several nations have released statements but i want to share insight on what’s happening in the country.
memes about a coup have been circulating around for a couple days and when i slept at 2 am last night, we were still under the rule of the National League for Democracy (NLD). while they are not technically democratic, they are the closest we’ve got. when my mother woke up at 6 this morning, she was notified that the country was now under the rule of the military.
banks services are no longer available. wifi was cut at around 7-8. some people got wifi again earlier but many got it barely thirty minutes ago. this is bad for businesses especially ones that require international communications. additionally, international students like myself are experiencing anxiety; how do we pay for and attend classes if we’re not sure wifi is a given?
myanmar has a long, complicated history with military governments. the last time the military went into rule was in 1962 and only stopped in 2011, following the 2010 elections. there was a huge protest in 1988 lead by students that resulted in lots of death. during the military junta, resources like rice, water, oil, were scarce. the gist is military rule is bad for us.
all of my followers are not myanmar citizens, i’m sure but as part of the international community, please help us. here is a petition that you can sign (although i’m not sure if that can do much). there may be protests in front of myanmar embassies so look out for those. most of all, please help spread awareness.
the people here are coping with dark humor, primarily in the form of memes but we don’t know how long this rule will last, even though the official statement said only a year. here’s something that pretty much sums up our coping mechanism:
again, even a reblog helps
update :: all telecommunication means will be cut off at 12 am MMT
I can only speak as a Singaporean, but if you are/know a Myanmar citizen in Singapore, or a Singaporean overseas in Myanmar, the local government has released the hotlines to call:
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Duty office (24-hours): +65-6379 8800/8855.
Singapore Embassy, Yangon: +95-1-9-559-001 or 09-250-863-840.
Everyone else, please check with your local government regarding the situation and share relevant resources for recourse/aid.
see this is what the pro-porn “personal liberty” crowd keeps missing. the production of porn is INTRINSICALLY linked to human trafficking. you CANNOT separate one from the other. trafficked “performers” VASTLY outnumber those who “do it willingly”, and even those who “do it willingly” are likely coerced, forced, or blackmailed into the industry behind the scenes.
not only that, but what if someone “willing” changes their mind? moves on with their life? they can’t take back the scenes they’ve shot, they can’t remove their image from the internet. people will know, people will find out, no matter where they go or if they change their name. they live looking over their shoulder, because ex-porn performers have a shit track record for being allowed to hold normal jobs after what they’ve been through.
& before “well they should’ve thought of that beforehand!” the video states that the majority of porn performers now are TEENAGE GIRLS. if you don’t expect a whole-ass legal 18-year-old to have their entire life, college, career, etc planned out then why do you expect a younger, often more vulnerable person to be able to accurately predict how these decisions will affect their future?
these people deserve better than the porn industry gives them.
does any of that sound like personal liberty to you?
Isn’t it astounding that in spite of six thousand years of sexual, physical, and psychic brutality, women and girls STILL have to be beaten into submission or else we’d all run wild? And isn’t it amazing that in spite of the ongoing beatings, girls are still wild in the first place, some even stay wild, and even domesticated women can go feral at the drop of a hat?
Isn’t female resilience a fucking thing to behold? And yet here are these “from the DAWN of TIME” and “it has ALWAYS BEEN” and “there’s NO HOPE” posts, all over radblr, all the time? It’s like none of you are paying attention to the rest of the story.
Apparently Mike Pence and his wife are homeless and couch surfing in Indiana with the secret service in tow. Dude hasn’t owned a house in over ten years apparently. He lived in the Indiana governor’s residence and then at the Vice President’s residence at the naval observatory. In 2020 he still listed his voting address as the Indiana governor’s residence lol a little over a week ago he was the second most powerful human in the country and now he’s couch surfing
26-year-old Jamarion Robinson’s grandmother Beverly Nixon said her grandson was bipolar and schizophrenic. Still got shot 76 (!!!) times. Would a white person get the same treatment?
The witness said he saw more than a dozen patrol cars at the complex where US Marshals killed Robinson on August 5, 2016. Why were there no behavioral specialist? Surely one of them would know how to interact with a bipolar schizophrenic better than the police.
I’m absolutely disgusted.
Here’s Jamarion’s mother’s GoFundMe in case anyone is willing to help.
Hi, everyone. I don’t know how to begin this, I don’t know how everything had come to this, but I need help. I need help, and I don’t know who else to turn to. We’re very, very indebted - like the pandemic hit us hard, Mom and I. From losing family members, to almost facing homelessness, to almost starving, to me almost failing my finals because I had a dangerous hemorrhage, to almost losing my mother to covid - we’ve seen it all, lol. It was hard, and difficult, and the worse year of my short life. We’re very behind on rent (like a year behind), and the thing is, it’s started getting better. Mom got a job. I started doing better in uni, and I was going to pay the obligatory additional courses, and was saving up for my orthodontic treatment (which is obligatory - my overbite is causing me a lot, lot of pain and essentially making my life a living hell), but the point is : we were starting to get better and leaving the nightmare that was 2020 behind us for good. (Or so it seemed.)
And then yesterday, Mom got assaulted. In front of our house. They almost killed her. She has so many bruises, and I remember opening the door to see her arm almost torn open. I can barely sleep as it is because of that. They took everything - her driving license, her grey card, her id card, her debit cards, a lot, lot of cash money that she took to pay some debts she had pilled, the insurance, a usb key that contained 13 years worth of work, important documents, her phones - her work phones, where all the work she’s been laboring over for months and months is gone, the work she was going to get paid for this week is gone (like, what the hell?), her chequier (that contains +20 blank checks, meaning they can still steal a lot more than they already did - our justice system SUCKS so I don’t see them doing anything about it), and her glasses, too. Even my late grandpa’s driving license she kept as a souvenir was stolen.
Oh, and our home’s keys. These assholes know our exact address, the exact appartement (as it’s written down on her id card) and they have the keys. We can’t even change the locks just yet because we cannot afford it, so we’re blocking the door from the inside and one of us has to stay at home when the other goes out, but imagine not being safe in your own house. Just imagine.
So that’s what has been going on. And furthermore, because of that, Mom missed a 1500$ opportunity job since she cannot make the trip. So, in short, we’re fucked, we’re facing homelessness yet again, and we don’t know what to do. We don’t even have money to buy food. And everyone’s calling on the debts Mom owes - she’s currently overdrawn in her bank account by 590$ due to bills, and it’s not even close to how much we owe as a whole. So please, I’m asking from the bottom of my heart, please help in any way you can, whether it be by reblogging, or donating even a dollar, or anything, it’ll mean a lot. The exact amount we need is gigantic so I don’t expect to reach it, but anything will help us out, really.
Here’s my old paypal: https://www.paypal.me/mimspecunia.
Thank you for your time, everyone! And please, please be safe.
Go to paypal.me/mimspecunia and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
So I’m aware I haven’t really posted anything in a while but I hope this reaches someone. My brother’s name is Efren. Growing up he used to tease and make fun of me, but among all the teasing he also helped raise me along with our mom. When he was little he wanted to be an architect. But his is the story that a lot of Mexican American working class families face: either take the opportunities available to you to attain your dreams, or curtail those in order to take care of your family. He chose his family.
After graduating high school he turned down full ride scholarships in order to stay and work to help pay the bills. It was just him, my mom, and me. After a couple of years we got stable enough economically that he was able to go to college, but after graduation we fell on hard times again and instead of finding work in his field or applying to architecture school like he always dreamed, he decided to stick around and help us again. It’s because of his choice to help our family that I was able to go to college too, something that for a time I didn’t think was possible. It’s because of him that I was able to apply to and get accepted into a PhD program in the hopes of becoming a professor. It’s because of him that my mom has a house to call her own. My mom and I owe him everything.
Yesterday, he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). He’s uninsured. I’m a student, our mom works in childcare. There’s a high success rate for remission if he gets treatment, but we can’t afford it. He’s all me and my mom have, and we can’t lose him. He chose family growing up, and it’s my turn to choose him. Please, any donation helps. I just want him to come home.
I know times are tough with covid and everything so if anyone could please just spare a dollar or a reblog thatd be great. I can’t lose him.
I found an article written by a woman who pretended to be 11 year old girl online for 7 days, and it has a lot of descriptions of online sexual abuse of minors, but with the right point of view; minors cannot consent and have no agency in being sexually abused online, and it’s on adults to protect them from ever being put in the danger of becoming a target of predator. I’m going to post a link because I want all my underage followers to know how predators online talk, what they will say and demand of you, and to recognize on spot when someone is trying to sexually abuse you. If anyone has ever talked to you in this way online, if you recognize any of that behavior in someone you chat with, you should know that what they’re doing is illegal and a crime against you. You are more than allowed to shut that conversation down and block the predators, and if you can, report them. Nothing that happened in those conversations is remotely your fault, and just the fact that you were exposed to something like that means this world has failed you. Here’s the article.
“I upload the photo to Instagram — a generic, innocuous selfie of Bailey with an ear-to-ear smile — and caption it.
v excitedd to see my friends this weekend at carly’s party! Ilysm!!
followed by a string of emojis and a #friends hashtag.
The photo publishes on Instagram and we wait quietly for something on the big screen to change.
This part never takes long. It’s always unnervingly fast.
At the beginning of the week, on the very first night as Bailey, two new messages came in under a minute after publishing a photo.
We sat mouths agape as the numbers pinged up on the screen — 2, 3, 7, 15 messages from adult men over the course of two hours. Half of them could be charged with transfer of obscene content to a minor.”
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