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Honoring the lives lost in the Indianapolis shooting

Amarjeet Kaur Johal, 66

Amarjeet Kaur Johal was a 66-year-old mother, grandmother and member of the Indianapolis' Sikh community. According to her grandson's Twitter, Johal was planning to work a double shift Thursday so she could take Friday off. She later decided to grab her check and go home. He said she still had her check in her hand when they found her.

Amarjit Sekhon, 48

Amarjit Sekhon, a mother of two sons, was the breadwinner of her family who immigrated to the US in 2004. Her brother-in-law, Kuldip Sekhon, told the Associated Press she began working at the FedEx facility in November -- after previously working at a bakery -- and was a dedicated worker whose husband was disabled. "She was a workaholic, she always was working, working," he said. "She would never sit still ... the other day she had the (COVID-19) shot and she was really sick, but she still went to work."

Jasvinder Kaur, 50

Kaur had two children -- a daughter and a son, said Rimpi Girn, her daughter's brother-in-law. She immigrated to the US in 2018 and was the main breadwinner for the family. She sent money earned from her job at FedEx to her son living in India as financial support. Sekhon and Kaur went to work together every day, working the same night shift, Girn said. "They didn't want to work night shift anymore, they wanted to work day shift."

Jaswinder Singh, 68

The 68-year-old Indian immigrant decided to take a job at the FedEx facility because he was bored at home and the employer was popular among Punjabi immigrants. Relatives said Singh left the Indian state of Punjab, where the Sikh community is concentrated, about eight years ago to reunite with relatives living in the United States. Jatinder Singh, one of Singh’s two sons, told the Indian news outlet Republic World that the family hopes to return him to India for funeral rites but face complications because of the pandemic.

Samaria Blackwell, 19

Samaria Blackwell was the youngest of four children and looked up to her older siblings Elijah, Levi and Michaiah, her parents Jeff and Tammi Blackwell said in a statement. Blackwell played basketball and soccer and had "a tough game face" that "quickly turned to a smile outside of competition," they said. She was a straight-A student who graduated from high school last year and her parents described their daughter as "tenacious in everything she did."

Karli Smith, 19

Karli Smith graduated in 2020 from George Washington High School, where she was remembered as "a hardworking and dedicated student," according to a statement from Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS). "Administrators, teachers and classmates remember Karli for her sense of humor that often generated smiles and laughter. Karli was a bright light wherever she went. She will be dearly missed by all throughout IPS who knew and loved her," the statement said.

John Weisert, 74

John Weisert was a retired engineer and was working at the FedEx facility to make some extra money, his wife told CNN affiliate WTHR on Friday, while she waited for news about her husband. "He's just a package handler, a retired professional engineer, but after retirement he wanted to keep working. We had some things we needed to pay off, so he took this job," Weisert told WTHR. The couple was set to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary in the fall.

Matthew Alexander, 32

Those who knew Matthew Alexander described the 32-year-old as a huge baseball fan and a trustworthy, reliable and kind friend, WTHR reported. Family and friends gathered at Avon High School's baseball field Saturday to honor the former player before his father threw the opening pitch. "I didn't do near as well as he did in the day, but I was there and I knew he was looking down saying thank you dad."

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Hey yall.

I'm back with another donation post 🙃 & I'm honestly so exhausted & upset that I don't have the energy to go into detail about what's currently going on with me & making it all lengthy. I am very much still taking a break from here but I do need help + it's Black History Month so why not!

But anyways, if y'all have any money to spare (especially non-black ppl) I'll appreciate it & it will go towards food, housing, & transportation like before. If you can't donate, reblogging will be a huge help to reach those who can. Thank you.

(Any neg comments will get you blocked btw so just keep scrolling if you don't want to help.)

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URGENT Mutual Aid neeeded!!!!!!!

Genavieva Gutierrez Sandoval is a Trans and Indigenous person in need of funds for moving expenses for their upcoming move in the summer. This is their words-

“Over the last 4 years, I’ve lived in Denver, CO. It has been nothing short of a traumatic experience for me. To be blunt, I need to move. At this point it is life or death. I am trying to facilitate a move to LA by July, however the effects of the pandemic have left me unable to save money and pay bills. I am graduating in may meaning I will no longer be getting financial aid from school which I rely on to eat every month. Due to the pandemic, working has been able to bring me so few hours I get maybe $50/week. I see no point is staying in such a traumatic place with nothing to offer me but pain. I need to live somewhere where there are people who look like me. I am at a loss for what to do financially and am requesting reparations to help facilitate this move. I am worried if I do not raise this money I will not have anywhere to live, and that if I stay in Denver I will not be able to live to see the light of day. I do not have any family to help me or that I could move in with, and am trying to do something for myself that would make me happy. I am a trans, indigenous, two-spirit xicane person. Anything helps, even sharing liohbwana”

https://www.gofundme.com/f/29s4qjhuqo?member=8477750&rcid=2cfeafbc20fb47e298299391798012f4&sharetype=teams&utm_campaign=p_na+share-sheet&utm_medium=sms&utm_source=customer

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i was debating on whether or not i should post this on tumblr but seeing as there haven’t been posts about this yet, here it is. i’m exposing my real location and nationality but it doesn’t matter.

if you have been active on twitter, you may already know #savemyanmar is trending. long story short, there has been a military coup. several nations have released statements but i want to share insight on what’s happening in the country.

memes about a coup have been circulating around for a couple days and when i slept at 2 am last night, we were still under the rule of the National League for Democracy (NLD). while they are not technically democratic, they are the closest we’ve got. when my mother woke up at 6 this morning, she was notified that the country was now under the rule of the military.

banks services are no longer available. wifi was cut at around 7-8. some people got wifi again earlier but many got it barely thirty minutes ago. this is bad for businesses especially ones that require international communications. additionally, international students like myself are experiencing anxiety; how do we pay for and attend classes if we’re not sure wifi is a given?

myanmar has a long, complicated history with military governments. the last time the military went into rule was in 1962 and only stopped in 2011, following the 2010 elections. there was a huge protest in 1988 lead by students that resulted in lots of death. during the military junta, resources like rice, water, oil, were scarce. the gist is military rule is bad for us.

all of my followers are not myanmar citizens, i’m sure but as part of the international community, please help us. here is a petition that you can sign (although i’m not sure if that can do much). there may be protests in front of myanmar embassies so look out for those. most of all, please help spread awareness. 

the people here are coping with dark humor, primarily in the form of memes but we don’t know how long this rule will last, even though the official statement said only a year. here’s something that pretty much sums up our coping mechanism:

again, even a reblog helps

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my abusive and manipulative sister kicked me and my 8 month old son out and I'm currently couch surfing because I don't have family who will help :/ I'm nearly out of formula and diapers and while I'm worried abt him first, I'm also starving rn... if anyone could help with even $5, I would literally cry and thank you a thousand times

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hey folks. im in a really bad relationship and im trying to move back home to my family, but i’ll have to wait because i dont have enough money for the plane ticket yet. if you can reblog to spread the word, that would be the biggest help! if you can donate, it would be highly appreciated. Please do so at cashapp: $karso or you can send it to paypal.me/karsonandre