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do people even know the extent of sanctions on the iranian people? my mom's family can't afford fruit anymore. it's a state of psychological warfare; literally nobody living there has any sort of hope for the future. added sanctions from the EU are going to destroy the lives of 87 million innocent people

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its important to do this every time a museum or school thinks this is a good idea

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"Here are your tortured poets. All from Mahmoud Darwish to Dr. Refat Alareer to Khaled Juma, these are tortured poets. Tortured by longing for a home they can never return to, tortured by the world they were born to for BEING BORN. Palestine, home to the tortured poets department." [@/folkoftheshelf on X. April 20th, 2024.]

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realizing that sticking to the "do it bad" "do it scared" mentality implies theres also a "do it bored"

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Please take the time to read and share this🙏

Together we will make a difference

For every ‘Free Congo’ item purchased, we donate directly to a globalgiving.org project dedicated to rescuing and rehabilitating these children, offering them a path towards a brighter, hope-filled future.

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Update: North Gaza Aid!

As part of his promise, Hussam sent 20% of your HelpGazaChildren donations ($4000) to Mahmoud AbuSalama for the 5th time now, including the earlier North Gaza Campaign (as location on our notion site) to buy food and necessary products for families still surviving the dire situation in North Gaza. The food package contains, as you see in the picture below: flour, lentils, canned food, formula, diapers, and women pads!

Please continue donating and spreading the word — every penny means so much! Feel free to share our campaign link to other platforms as well!

Donate to our GoFundMe which goes directly to Hussam, who manages camps in Rafah, with NO middleman in between!

HelpGazaChildren Notion Site || #helpgazachildren tag

GoFundMe Link

[Quick ID: The video is of Mahmoud speaking in front of bags of flour and a tumblr sign. There are captions to the video in english. The image below is of groups of packages of items in front of a tumblr sign.]

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Palestine Commissions Association

Who are you? We are a group of artists, donators, and supporters teaming up to encourage donations to Palestine.

What do you do? We want to build a community of vetted artists/creatives, and charities/fundraisers. We host events such as charity auctions/raffles, and Palestinian movie nights.

How do I join? We have a discord! Most events will take place here, with exceptions. We do not have a limit on artists, and both artists and donators are encouraged to join!

We also have moderator positions open to Palestinians who can help run culture/history nights

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Palestine Commissions Association Spreadsheet and Discord now open!

If you're an artist/creative of any sort that is interested in doing commissions to raise money for Palestinian charities/GoFundMe's/etc or a person interested in commissioning something and want your money to go to a good cause at the same time, we're trying to set up some resources to help make this easier for everyone!

First, we're trying to create a unified, easy-to-reference database where artists can share their commission info and commissioners can find artists who make the kinds of art they're interested in more easily!

The database is located here:

Commissions for Palestine Database

And if you'd like to add your own information to the database, you can submit them here:

Commissions for Palestine Submission Form

Second, we've created a Discord to help connect artists with commissioners that is intended to work in conjunction with the database! You don't have to join in order to submit your information, but we hope you will! We're trying to create a community where artists can connect with donators and talk with other artists. Our goal is long term financial and community support for Palestine.

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The student protests for Palestine have been an amazing show of solidarity and support and seeing thr way that so many young people are willing to stand up for their values is admirable when so many others stay silent. But this is all to say that we are entering a pattern of glorifying these white “martyrs” from the global west to put all of this effort and resources and media coverage into instead of the actual cause they are fighting for.

I saw the same thing happen with Aaron Bushnell, when his self immolation was being talked about more than the actual genocide in Gaza (which went against everything he said he was self immolating for in the first place).

And again this happened with the prisoner from the US who worked 136 hours just to be able to donate his $17 check to Palestine aid efforts. In response to this, people wanted to help him and ended up raising over $100,000 in a gofundme for him. This feels almost satirical, as every gofundme to help Gazans evacuate Palestine and get to safety has a goal of less than $100,000 and most of them are not even close to reaching it.

And now, there are more and more posts on how to get aid to the college student encampments, and the “urgency” of getting enough bail funds for the students who have been arrested during them. Talking about Palestine itself and getting resources to Palestine has almost been put on the back burner in favour of making all Palestine related news about college students in the United States.

It think it is valuable to recognise the selflessness and importance of these protests, and getting these students resources but what is MORE important, and what these people are truly fighting for, and protesting, and make a statement about is PALESTINE. We have unsurprisingly reached the point where there are people who care much more about the white people fighting for the cause from the comfort of living in the global west than they care about the Palestinians undergoing a genocide in Gaza. It’s become almost blatant racism, the way people begin to drop everything the second a white/usamerican person does something in regards to helping Palestine, but will not put the same effort into a Palestinian IN Gaza who is telling their story or asking for help. I respect anyone who has done absolutely anything to help Palestine, but I hope people are starting to see the pattern of how the media gravitates towards the “white saviour/perfect martyr” instead of the first hand accounts coming from those in Gaza.

Anyway FIND A GOFUNDME AND DONATE TO HELP FAMILIES IN GAZA ESCAPE GENOCIDE

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WOOP WOOP GET SOME SOUP

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"The Stoppables"

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verso books has made books on palestine, mass protests, and student rebellions free to download on their website

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you. american adult with a drivers license. can you tell me who has the right of way at a 4 way stop

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Palestine Commissions Association Spreadsheet and Discord now open!

If you're an artist/creative of any sort that is interested in doing commissions to raise money for Palestinian charities/GoFundMe's/etc or a person interested in commissioning something and want your money to go to a good cause at the same time, we're trying to set up some resources to help make this easier for everyone!

First, we're trying to create a unified, easy-to-reference database where artists can share their commission info and commissioners can find artists who make the kinds of art they're interested in more easily!

The database is located here:

Commissions for Palestine Database

And if you'd like to add your own information to the database, you can submit them here:

Commissions for Palestine Submission Form

Second, we've created a Discord to help connect artists with commissioners that is intended to work in conjunction with the database! You don't have to join in order to submit your information, but we hope you will! We're trying to create a community where artists can connect with donators and talk with other artists. Our goal is long term financial and community support for Palestine.