#congo protests

[the-amazing-boop]

This is the first I'm hearing of this today so I'm waiting for news outlets to confirm his death so I'm still looking for more information.

Regardless, Aaron Bushnell, thank you for your sacrifice. Self immolation is the most severe form of protest. I'm sorry it came to this.

First, the man in Congo, now this. Every single day, I feel ill.

Edit: several reports confirm Aaron has passed. I don't know if I'll stop crying before I go to bed. I may need day to take a break and sit with this. We haven't seen this much self immolation protests documented so forwardly since Vietnam.

[lappyisgaming]

November’s here! Just here to say once again, don’t stop talking about Palestine! Never stop till Palestine is free! That a ceasefire comes! That Gaza gets all the humanitarian aid it deserves! Be thankful that some of us are able to live comfortably while thousands are facing death and destruction! Not just in Palestine, but in other places too! Congo faces devastation from armed militias looking to do coltan mining for one example! Armenians are being pushed out by Azerbaijan with the support of Turkey! Please, let’s speak for all of them, as much as we can!

I recently reblogged a post stating frustration over how it seems situations like these seem to turn into fads to say without doing anything. I can go on and on about how sorry I am but that will not do anything productive unless I go out there and actually push for things myself!

So much is happening in the world! So many people are dying voiceless when there are people who can help! Who should help!

Let’s be their voices! Let their stories be heard! We have resources that they may not have right now! Utilize them!

Free Palestine! Stop the violence in Congo! Protect the Armenians!

Let’s keep fighting! 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇦🇲

[counterintuitivecomics]

MASK UP FOR GLOBAL LIBERATION

Protect your community by wearing N95s and KN95s when meeting indoors or in crowds! The more of us mask up, the less we get sick, the harder it is for police to surveil us, and the safer we make our shared spaces for our disabled and immuno-compromised comrades and loved ones.

Get started by finding local mask resources on the global COVID Action Map (you can also submit groups to be added). If you have the means, donate masks and tests to your local orgs and encourage accessibility so we can ALL join the fight (bringing in interpreters/translators and medics, ensuring accessibility for wheelchairs/mobility devices, offering child care, filtering the air indoors, setting up virtual options etc).

UPDATE: Download this 8.5"x11" poster for free on itch.io to print and distribute! Includes files suitable for color, black and white, and risograph printing. Any donations will go to printing costs, or buying masks for my local mutual aid groups.

Pandemics have no borders, and all our struggles are united!

[intersectionalpraxis]

If you aren't already following her, please do!! This is such an extensive list with resources for many countries. They are an educational-based page, and they share so many donation links for many world issues ongoing -and also amplify Palestinian voices, art, creators, and culture. I love their work/page so much.

They also posted this recently about Palestinian embroidery. I have shared their content here previously, but I wanted to let folks know once again:

[fluoridosulphonic]

Spread the word, they will all be free no matter what

[thepeopleinpower]

source

“companies that ‘support’ israel” …no idea what they meant by the use of quotations here but…

Yes, boycotting is a legitimate form of protest, for reasons both ethical and tactical.

No, boycotting colonizers who are committing genocide in the name of the Jewish people is most certainly not antisemitism, in fact it falls in line pretty well with Jewish values.

Ffs. Why do I even google things anymore.

[violottie]

[felidaefatigue]

I designed this poster with the intention of making limited edition linocut prints* but I also wanted to make the digital version available for free download for anyone who might wish to use it for posters, signs and the like. So here that is

*which I have, and am in the process of finishing to make available with a donation match process but i haVENT figured that out yet. stalk my insta to keep up on that if you want one.

[demonic-shadowlucifer]

yes, we shouldn't ignore the terrible events going on right now (Palestine, Sudan, etc), but I think we need some reminders because some of the posts i've been reading have been giving off *extremely* guilt-trippy vibes: Not posting about current events or bad things =/= not caring. Not reblogging =/= not caring. Adding "don't scroll past this" or "reblog this or block me" to posts is guilt-trippy as hell. And lastly, online activism is not the only form of activism.

[pien-art]

@ dutchies join me tomorrow in the march against genocide in maastricht! insta post here <-

[thecosmicpunk]

A protest for Congo in Paris, France! 🇨🇩

FREE CONGO 🇨🇩

[thatonetransdumbass]

PLEASE REPOST THIS!!!!! In the midst of the Palestine genocide, not NEARLY enough people are even aware of the genocide happening in the Congo. I urge you to at least be aware of it. I urge you to see this and go against it the same way many people are against the genocide in Palestine.

[skyethebisexualwolfwizard]

DON'T FORGET

DONATE

BOYCOTT, DIVEST, AND SANCTION

PROTEST

CLICK

POST

SPREAD THE WORD

FIGHT TOOTH AND NAIL FOR THE PERSECUTED PEOPLE OF THE WORLD.

PALESTINE, CONGO, SUDAN, TIGRAY, HAITI

LIFT THEIR VOICES, ORGANIZE PROTESTS

[intersectionalpraxis]

I hope Apple's stocks fall to deep depths and never recover in this lifetime. Keep resisting and protesting this company's full complicity in the suffering of and for the deaths of thousands of Congolese people being killed to mine cobalt.

Free Congo.

[notyourtoday]

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[pilloclock]

KEEP BOYCOTTING TO HELP 🇵🇸🇨🇩IT WORKS

And if boycotting Starbucks in solidarity with Palestine works then so will boycotting technology in solidarity with Congo 🇨🇩❤️

We have to keep talking about world issues and advocating for freedom of all countries living under occupation. We have to keep continuously boycotting and protesting and speaking out against genocide and war crimes and evil in the world.