The Phonostuff

Musician, sound designer, digitizer and preserver of musical heritage

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As many of you already know, it’s really looking bad in Aleppo right now. Here’s some recommendations for charities serving refugees or offering humanitarian aid for civilians caught in the Syrian Civil War.

*TULIP for Syria Relief* specializes in providing short-term life-saving emergency relief for Syrians in the country or on the Syrian-Turkish border

*Helping Hand for Relief and Development* specializes in providing global humanitarian relief in Syria, Burma, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Haiti, Mexico and many other countries

*International Rescue Committee* specializes in global humanitarian aid and development

*Islamic Relief* specializes in providing international humanitarian relief. They provided 40,000 gallons of clean water to Flint, Michigan recently

*Karam Foundation* specializes in education services for Syrian children resettled in Turkey & currently raising funds to rebuild schools in Syria

*Mercy Corps* specializes in global humanitarian aid. Currently serving displaced Syrian families with immediate needs for food, water and shelter

*Sunrise USA* specializes in providing emergency relief, trauma-care and orphan sponsorships

*Limbs for Life Foundation* specializes in providing prosthetic limbs to amputees in Syria and other countries like Nigeria and Mongolia

*NuDay Syria* my friend’s mother created this org. Provides humanitarian, education and financial services to Syrian women and children

*Hand in Hand for Syria* - works inside Syria, taking emergency humanitarian aid to the people in most desperate need. 

— Sarah Harvard, Identities Mic writer

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The concentration camp was never the normal condition for the average gentile German. Unless one were Jewish, or poor and unemployed, or of active leftist persuasion or otherwise openly anti-Nazi, Germany from 1933 until well into the war was not a nightmarish place. All the “good Germans” had to do was obey the law, pay their taxes, give their sons to the army, avoid any sign of political heterodoxy, and look the other way when unions were busted and troublesome people disappeared. Since many “middle Americans” already obey the law, pay their taxes, give their sons to the army, are themselves distrustful of political heterodoxy, and applaud when unions are broken and troublesome people are disposed of, they probably could live without too much personal torment in a fascist state — some of them certainly seem eager to do so.

Michael Parenti, Fascism in a Pinstriped Suit (via vinegardoppio)

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Vic Mensa shows solidarity with #NoDAPL protesters in the best way possible

follow @the-movemnt

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New York: Emergency Protest – Communities United to Confront Donald Trump at the Plaza Hotel, December 11, 2015.

Photos by Farhad Ebrahimi

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And remember, this is 2016. The government itself starves Native Americans who just protect their own land. 

The media is silent, as usual.

God bless these warriors. 

#NoDAPL #NoJusticeNoPeace

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The demand must go to the North Dakota authorities that the kind of military presence that exists there is simply not what is acceptable. So, we have written to the president. We are going to continue to put pressure on the president to do everything he can to protect the Native Americans in the area and the protesters in the area.

Senator Bernie Sanders, interviewed by Amy Goodman Monday night. See the clip from the interview here, or watch the full interview on YouTube. (via democracynow)

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John Oliver gives 2016 the proper fucking send off it deserves

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“Registration of any group of people, and certainly registration of Muslims, is a prelude to internment. This is something that we cannot have happen again. It is dangerous and it is a moral bankruptcy.”

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Don't Be Passive Observers of Last Night's Terrorization in Standing Rock: Here's What You Can Do

Last night, as the temperature in Standing Rock plunged below 30 degrees, hundreds were blasted with water cannons.

As a Native woman who has been to Standing Rock three times, and whose health now prevents me from making a fourth trip, I have my own asks. Call every  number put in front of you. Jam every phone line. Look at the target list of financial institutions supporting this pipeline. Pick a bank. Shut it down, just like we did in Chicago on Saturday and people did in Philadelphia this morning. The Trump administration hasn’t even taken hold yet, and I watched over a livestream last night as my friends and people were battered with water streams that can tear skin from flesh and eyes from sockets. I watched my people hold space and scramble to save one another as drops of water froze to razor wire.

I know marginalized people around the county are organizing for their own survival right now, and sitting around tables discussing the difficult days ahead. But a strategy of protection, defense and obstruction cannot wait for the inauguration of an autocrat. It must be applied here and now.

Please show us that you see us. Please do all you can to stop this.

If you cannot travel to Standing Rock, or support or organize an action where you live, consider contacting one of these Sheriffs and police departments that have loaned out the officers who are abusing Native peoples in Standing Rock. Jam their phone lines and tell them to bring their people home. If your community is on this list, actively organize to recall the deployment.

Michigan City Police Department Michigan City, IN [phone]

North Dakota Highway Patrol Offices across North Dakota [phone]

Hammond Police Department Hammond, IN 219-852-2900

Munster Police Department Munster, IN [phone]

Griffith Police Department Griffith, IN [phone]

Anoka County Sheriff’s Office Andover, MN [phone]

Washington County Sheriff’s Office Stillwater, MN 651-430-6000

Marathon County Sheriff’s Department Wausau, WI [phone]

La Porte County Sheriff’s Office La Porte, IN [phone]

Newton County Sheriff’s Office Kentland, IN 219-474-3331

South Dakota Highway Patrol Pierre, SD 605-773-3105

Jasper County Sheriff Rensselaer, Indiana 219-866-7344

Lake County Sheriff Sheriff’s Department Crown Point, IN 219-755-3333

Laramie County Sheriff’s Department Cheyenne, WY 307-633-4700

Wyoming Highway Patrol Cheyenne, WY 307-777-4301

Ohio State Highway Patrol Columbus, Ohio 614-466-2660

Nebraska Emergency Management Agency Lincoln, NE [phone]

Supply note: With at least two hundred injured last night, Standing Rock medics are in critical need of the following items:

Milk of Magnesia Wool socks Wool blankets Space blankets Hand warmers Trauma kits (portable) Suturing kits Straw bales

Supplies can be shipped to: Standing Rock Medic and Healer Council PO Box 1251, Bismark ND, 58502 or if you are shipping via UPS or Fed Ex, please use the address: 220 E. Rosser Ave. 1251, Bismark, ND, 58502

Or you can donate to the Standing Rock medics.

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Reblogging for that anon that sent me that last ask.

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here’s a link to donate to the medic & healer council.

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I am shocked to see so many police coming out of Indiana. I will be sharing and making donations as I can’t travel there myself.

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Did they still have to give him a Glock? Check out my other artwork at HERE.

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#fridaysbelike -"So just to be clear, there will be no social events this weekend". -"No"

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The Nightly Show, April 12, 2016