I watched this performance of Sunggyu at the end of 2015 - a cover of Nell’s Time Walking Through Memories after a week of listening to his second solo album 27 nonstop. It still brings tears every single time I watch it. This was the moment my heart fell into a deep Sunggyu abyss. He sings with so much passion and heart. His voice is so bright and clear and stable, no matter what he’s singing.
Sunggyu, you love to sing and perform so much and I hope you can do that as long as you want and as long as it makes you happy. ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
Most of us are fortunate enough to live in places that, when we need to drink some water, wash the dishes, or shower, it isn't even something we need to think about. It's just the flick of a tap or the push of a button. That ease is a faint memory for so many in Gaza, especially the little kids who have to walk far & queue for hours, just to get a gallon or two of water for their families to last the day.
1 gallon = ~3L -> most people in the global north rely on anywhere from 80 to 350L a day. you should be drinking ~3L a day, forget everything else
(obvious point but) dehydration sucks -> that feeling of your throat and tongue sticking every time you swallow, your heart pounding so hard and fast you can feel each beat in your extremities, the blood rushing in your ears as you pant, feeling dizzy and the pressure building up into a headache, being relentlessly tired all the time & struggling to focus. and that's just if you're mildly dehydrated. severe dehydration can lead to death (kids under 2 & the elderly are particularly vulnerable to this). chronic dehydration can lead to long-term (& easily avoidable) illness (e.g., anything from kidney stones to kidney damage)
lack of clean water = lack of basic hygiene = spread of disease (e.g., hepatitis A -> 40,000 recorded cases of HepA in Gaza from Oct. 2023 to Oct. 2024. In the previous year, it was 85).
Water insecurity is a daily, terrifying reality for people in Gaza. But there's a way for us to help! Faten & her family are hoping to raise the funds to buy 2 large water tanks (~1000L each) to act as an immediate water point for themselves and around 30 other households. The aim is about $7,500 USD to get this set up (2 tanks + cost of filling them + cost of gas required to move them).
So please, donate what you can! (vetted here, #289).
Exchange calculators: Euro & USD
€10 = 119NOK $10 (USD) = 110NOK
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نحن عائلة غزّية مكونة من ٤ بنات ووشابين في بداية الحرب عشن… Momin Yasin needs your support for Help Faten's Family Rebui
"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!
bisan has just posted a video that israel has lit up the sky, signalling they will bomb tonight, and that she has nowhere to go. she is in khan yunis--the south, where she was told to go to.
you can hear planes overhead as she speaks.
she wants israel to finally admit the truth--they do not want palestinians to go to "safe" parts of gaza, they want people to leave entirely and recreate the 1948 nakba.
please spread the word, please keep bisan in your thoughts, and do not let this happen in silence.
What to boycott NOW to help stop Israel’s unfolding genocide of Palestinians in Gaza
We call on our supporters to strengthen our targeted boycott and divestment campaigns to maximize our impact!
Reminder that boycotting DOES work, there is historic proof! Don't let anyone discourage you otherwise!
The BDS movement uses the historically successful method of targeted boycotts inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement, the US Civil Rights movement, the Indian anti-colonial struggle, among others worldwide.
We must strategically focus on a relatively smaller number of carefully selected companies and products for maximum impact. Companies that play a clear and direct role in Israel’s crimes and where there is real potential for winning, as was the case with, among others, G4S, Veolia, Orange, Ben & Jerry’s and Pillsbury. Compelling such huge, complicit companies, through strategic and context-sensitive boycott and divestment campaigns, to end their complicity in Israeli apartheid and war crimes against Palestinians sends a very powerful message to hundreds of other complicit companies that “your time will come, so get out before it’s too late!”
Please reblog! Spread this! There is an effort by zionists to discourage people from boycotting! Don't let them trample your spirits and help us in the fight for a liberated Palestine!
Israel has worked hard to portray Gaza as a barren wasteland, backwater that is a terrorist stronghold. In reality, Gaza is a beautiful city/region with a rich history that has been decimated from constant bombings and strangled by the blockade. So much of what is being destroyed by Israel are restaurants, bookshops, schools, universities, houses and much of what contributes to life in Gaza and people’s livelihoods. Places that are attached to and filled with the memories of Palestinians in Gaza. It’s not just about making life miserable for the people who live there, but about projecting a particular image of Gaza to the world. This is also similar to how the US has portrayed places like Afghanistan to justify its invasions.
i'm seeing people losing hope for palestine i'm begging you seriously please don't. the death toll is high but there are still people alive, there are still journalists risking everything to make sure the world sees what is happening. please continue protesting if you have the option to, keep demanding for a ceasefire and keep talking about palestinians both alive and dead. you have to keep going until the very end or else you really did fail them.
Reminder that before all this, the population of Gaza was approximately 2,300,000. The current death toll is around 15,500 - possibly as many as 20,000. That's horrific, yes. But that means that there are still at least 2,280,000 gazans alive and kicking. There are 2.28 million people who would benefit from a permanent ceasefire; for an end to Israeli hostility; for increased aid and reliable access to food and water. There are still 2.28 million people that Israel has not managed to kill.
So keep making noise. Do whatever you can to help those 2.28 million living people, and to remember and honour the 15,000-20,000 lives that have been taken. Giving up on Gaza helps no one but Israel.
there’s something very dystopian like at the fact that we’re all supposed to continue on with our lives, go to work/school, carry on with our daily routines like we’re not witnessing SEVERAL countries (sudan, congo, armenia, palestine and more) go through a genocide and mass ethnic cleansing right now all through our screens (and even when things do get “better”, how do we move on from this?)
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