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Soviet-Mongolian friendship mosaic in Tsetserleg, Mongolia, 2009

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NUMBERS

1980

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we're getting closer to the day that will mark two years of the genocide in gaza. conditions are worsening. while there is no individual who is unimpacted by the happenings in gaza, many are bearing the brunt of the genocide.

children, old people, pregnant women, and people with disabilities are unable to get enough food to nourish themselves. they don't have access to life saving medicines and the aid they require.

mohammed is a disabled child who was receiving regular physical therapy before the genocide. due to the invasion, his life has been flipped and he is unable to enjoy his childhood or get access to physical therapy.

his parents are fundraising to help him. kindly consider donating to them so that they can help their little boy. the fundraiser is verified.

donate here

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people dislike ai users and their first idea what to do about it is to invent a 'slur' and make "hard r" and "- will not replace us" jokes with it. total right wing cultural victory

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Detail of Utagawa Hiroshige’s “Joruri Town: Flourishing Flowers”. A street vendor who sells maneki-neko clay dolls. This drawing, published in August 1852, is an early example of a beckoning cat drawn in a painting. Text by Ota Memorial Museum of Art

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LMAO??

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Sofia at night during socialist times

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Hans Baumgartner. View from the castle of Meersburg in winter, 1950.

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portraits of utility poles

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I think the level the anti-immigrant hysteria has reached in the USA, where it has turned even upon its imperial partners and is jailing and assaulting Canadian citizens, EU citizens, etc., represents a qualitative shift in inter-imperial relations, such that the split between the US and its junior partners which has been growing for some time now is finally rapidly breaking apart. The relationship between the US and many of its partners, which has for a long time now been very frayed, is becoming increasingly antagonistic as the US has expended the utility of its partners and now finds more interest in severing relations. Immigrants from the imperial periphery have always been brutally repressed and subjected to intense violence and immiseration, but now the barrel of the gun is pointed also at the people who first passed the gun to the US. Much more is happening right now which also points to this qualitative shift happening, but the anti-immigrant hysteria is perhaps the easiest to recognise and grasp at the individual level.

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Agitation is something we always say to do but what is it? In short, it's asking questions and poking buttons on your target to get them to think "is this really acceptable?". For example, in my unionizing salt work, we would agitate our coworkers by asking them if they really liked the job, the bosses, the pay, the conditions, etc.. Often, this is be met with initial push back but as you build that rapport, you will inevitably get your target to reveal and admit that there are in fact problems. It is also used to push your target to take action. Drawing from unionizing work again, this can take the form of writing and signing petitions to change something in the workplace (this usually doesn't work, but it is a tactic in the grader scheme of getting targets to do further action). Agitation is the first step in getting workers out of apathy and into caring about and doing stuff. It can also be considered a kind of survey where you find out what the issues most pressing to your targets are. Targets also don't have to be limited to singular individuals; you can target groups or entire sections of the population. Each audience will require different approaches, and answer to different questions as each groups conditions and contexts are different.

Inoculation, on the other hand, is the opposite pair to agitation. This tactic is used once your target has done some processing and agrees that the status quo is unacceptable. At this point, they'll want to do something, be it a petition, walk-out, a march, or protest, or something else entirely. But the thing about having little to no power is that you will fail a lot of the time. We do not want these failures to discourage our targets back into apathy or inaction. Thus, inoculation is used to, well, "inoculate" the target against failures. Drawing from the previous example about the petition, you might say "what if the boss ignores the petition?", "what do we do if not enough people sign it?", "what if the petition is accepted but nothing changes?". Sometimes, this can get the target to think further on their own; they might suggest a walkout or a sit-in- or a group meeting at the managers, or they might want to retreat, in which case, we try to agitate them back into action again. This repeated exposure thus builds confidence in the target. On a larger scale, repeated large protest action is also a way for larger target groups to become more used to taking action.

Agitation and inoculation go hand in hand and act as a dialectical force in the organizing effort. It can be applied both to the individual case, and to large collective cases. These are some of the most crucial rhetorical tools that we use to reach the backwards, convince the intermediate, and spur the advanced into action.

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"I've never encountered this issue you're talking about" o.k 👍

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'Scholasticide' refers to the systemic obliteration of education. To deprive a people of education is to deprive a people of a future; it is to deprive a people of the chance to rebuild their society; it is to deprive a people the ability to express and assert themselves. Ultimately, depriving a people of education is to deprive a people's existence.

Source: All universities in Gaza have been destroyed. What does this mean for Palestinians?

With all universities in Gaza destroyed, students are turning online to continue their education. Yes, they are still studying even while surviving through a genocide. After all, education determines their future, and also the future of Palestine.

However, continuing their education online is difficult. With the frequent attacks, students often do not have reliable Internet, and electricity, the necessary equipment, or even the space for them to continue their online studies. And thus, Ihyaa (@ihyaasociety) is born. Ihyaa is a Gazan youth-led initiative that aims to provide a space with Internet, electricity and study equipment to help university students continue their education.

However, Ihyaa needs your help. Without enough funding, Ihyaa cannot electricity and Internet costs to help students access their online lessons, nor can they provide stationary and a place for students to study!

Help students in Gaza continue their education, and with that, you can help them rebuild Gaza's future! Please share and donate if you can.

Ihyaa is started by the vetter Mohammed Ayesh (who vets the fundraisers on this list). It has also been promoted by @/gaza-evacuation-funds (also see x, x, x), and promoted by nabulsi

You can enter my necklace raffle (2.0) if you donate to Ihyaa (deadline: 15 July!)

Ihyaa's Instagram: ihyaa.society

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Many Ghazzawis on Twitter are now reporting that the markets in Gaza are filled with lots of food again, even food that hasn’t been available in months, alhamdulilah. Political pressure works! Now it’s up to us to keep donating to fundraisers so they’re able to afford food. If you see a stagnant fundraiser, even $5 can help a lot. If you can’t donate, share it and engage with it as much as you can.