Friends, we don't care about food right now... all we want is to save my grandmother. 💔🙏
It has been 4 days without any support or donations !? while my grandmother urgently needs her daily medication, which costs €60 per day—€420 every week.🙏💔😭
Please don't let her reach the point where the treatment is no longer effective and her condition becomes critical.🙏
My grandmother means the world to me. Along with my mother, my child, and my family, they are the most precious people in my life. We have given up our own basic needs, even food, because keeping my grandmother alive is our only priority.
If you can't donate, please consider sharing my campaign. It may reach someone who can help.🙏🙏
Every euro makes a difference, and every share could help save my grandmother's life.
Hilda🙏💔😭
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mutual aid means no hierarchy between givers and receivers
a new mutual aid org, Bridge of Solidarity, has been established in the gaza strip by 17 year old poet yazan mohammed in response to the exploitative practices conducted by some charities and encouraged by the existing charity-based model of fundraising for gaza. according to BoS: "the western attention economy and pity economy plays a large role in who lives or dies in gaza." essentially, people need to make themselves marketable in order to receive lifesaving aid; people who are not marketable die. yazan himself wrote about the damage this can do to one's self image, which you can read here.
after trying for a year to respect his own privacy, my friend siraj was also pressured into posting images of his son's emaciated body in order to gain sympathy from westerners.
we cannot keep forcing people to do this anymore.
here's a declaration of their values from bridge of solidarity's most recent post:
Our organization is against the Western gaze. We refuse to humiliate people. We refuse to force people to take photos. We refuse to force people to take photos with our flyer or logo. People will receive aid freely without being forced to pose. We will respect people's privacy completely. Our principles include autonomy, dignity, sovereignty, mutual respect, and mutual aid.
this org will prioritize giving aid to people without phones or social media, who do not speak english, and who do not have outside support or living parents. these are the people who are not palatable to westerners but who deserve to live with as much dignity as everyone else
as of five days ago, BoS are working on a water truck delivery
The Sameer Project desperately needs your support right now. They’ve had to scale back some of their operations due to dwindling funds. Please consider setting up a recurring donation to help sustain their important work!
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The Sameer Project, a mutual aid organization led by three Palestinians in the diaspora, are the proud directors and funders of three tent e
Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza fac
GAZA UPDATE: Our tent is flooded. We have nowhere to stay dry. 🌧️🙏
I wish I didn’t have to post this again… but the rain returned, and it destroyed what was left of our shelter.
The reality right now:
Our tent is flooding.
The ground is soaked and our bedding is wet.
The shelter is no longer safe or livable for my children.
I’m Mohammed Matar, a father in Gaza caring for my children, my family, and my late brother’s two orphaned children. This is not just a story—it is happening to us right now.
Our GoFundMe has reached $10,223, and I’m deeply grateful. That support helped us survive. But the storm has taken our roof again, and we urgently need help before the next nightfall.
🚨 EMERGENCY TENT REBUILD FUND: $545
This is exactly where the funds will go:
$120 — Waterproof tarps (protection)
$180 — Wood structure (support)
$95 — Nylon & insulation (warmth)
$150 — Blankets & mattresses (dignity)
Total needed urgently: $545
Even $5 or $10 can help keep my children dry tonight. If you cannot donate, please reblog/share. Your share may reach someone who can save my children.
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I am Mohammed Matar, caring for orphaned children and my family in Gaza. Your supp… Khaled Qattam needs your support for Emergency Help for
Even if you don’t live there, if you still live somewhere in the states, please, listen up.
“The MA legislature and governor just proposed dangerous social media surveillance legislation that would require everyone in the state, including adults, to upload a government ID or submit to a face scan to create a social media account. If something like this passes here, it will spread to other states faster than activists can fight back.
I have an op-ed out in today's Boston Globe explaining why this legislation would hurt kids and help Trump attack LGBTQ youth and undocumented folks. You can read it here (no paywall) https://archive.ph/rAK4P
If you're in MA, please send this to your state senators and the governor! They need to read it! You can also use this tool to easily call the key lawmakers who will be making decisions about this: https://www.stoponlineidchecks.org/ma “
- Fight For the Future Signal chat
I encourage reading EFF’s article linked below as it goes into the greater details of the legislation aside from this, but key notes:
• Forces everyone (not just kids) to upload a government ID or submit to a facial recognition scan to create a social media account or post online, even on educational sites like Wikipedia
• Force parents to send even more sensitive information to Big Tech companies to “verify” custody in order for a minor to create an account (think: sending a birth certificate to Mark Zuckerberg to let your teen create an account)
• Allow unsupportive parents to lock queer and trans youth off the Internet, restricting access to life-saving community and information with zero recourse
• Expand the Trump admin’s surveillance capabilities, making it easier for them to persecute people organizing protests, monitoring ICE, and criticizing the administration
• Cost Massachusetts tax payers enormously, as the legislation is clearly unconstitutional and would face legal challenges.
• Specifically harm undocumented folks who use social media to warn communities about ICE activity and raise money for family members
• Fine smaller and non-profit tech platforms like Mastodon and Bluesky out of business, further expanding the monopolies of Big Tech platforms
It is one of many of the worst pieces of digital surveillance legislation right now in the states.
If you’re in MA, please call and write to your state senators and governor through EFF’s article below, and if you’re not, either spread the word or call them too, but, don’t give them your ZIP code so they don’t know where you are.
