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Action needed!!

Pro Palestinians are protesting peacefully in front of the Indiana governor's house when 14 of them got arrested. Please call these numbers and demand for their immediate release without charge.

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Please, please constantly challenge and reject the narrative that any region is naturally more prone to war than any other, like that's a characteristic inherent to its make-up, like that's geographically assigned risk the same way an area can be earthquake-prone or hurricane-prone.

There has never been a utopia on Earth and nowhere is entirely free of conflict, but this disastrous scale of violence inflicted upon the SWANA region is a deliberate and calculated effort of destabilization by Western powers who want to bleed the region dry. It's not an immutable part of the contour of the land that its people must adapt to and live with. It can be stopped and should be stopped. These people were once free and can be freed again.

Every time you see someone hand-waving a crisis at this scale as "conflict in the Middle East" it is an abominable tool to dehumanize Arabs to the point where nobody bats an eye at the death of their children.

Examine what that phrase means. What is a "conflict in the Middle East"? What happens in Yemen isn't what happens in Morocco isn't what happens in Palestine isn't what happens in Iraq, but this catch-all term is meant to translate in your mind into "problems are happening where problems are always happening", because of course they are! Conflict in the Middle East? What else is new, clouds in the sky? Fish in the sea? It lulls you into apathy; Arabs are dying - but that's what they do, don't they?

And so three goals of the perpetrators of this violence are achieved. First, they wash their hands from it; they didn't set the place on fire, it was already like this when they got there! Second, does it even matter whose fault it is? Who cares about a dead brown child anyway? Who's counting the death toll? Third, since this is an unchangeable quality of their region, and has nothing to do with the West, why protest it? Why fight for them? Why demand anything out of Western leaders?

#southeast asia hours

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Update From North Gaza: Third Proof of Purchase!

This is Mahmoud Abusalama from North Gaza in the beginning, explaining the process of buying flour while at the same time distributing food packaged to families. The 2nd portion of the video is what he managed to buy at the end of his scavenge hunt for food and supplies. This will conclude our first North Gaza drive, which was held between March 4th-10th with $25k.

Mahmoud can't thank you enough for all your donations and efforts in this quick drive and wants you to know that so many people are sending tumblers their sincere and warm prayers 🙏

Don't forget, Hussam's campaign in South Gaza (Rafah) is ongoing and very much needed, especially during the month of Ramadan. Let's make sure the refugees have a nice iftar meal after 14hour fasting.

HelpGazaChildren Notion Site || #helpgazachildren tag

Paypal Link || GoFundMe Link

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I have organized airlifts of women legislators, judges, and journalists out of Afghanistan as Kabul fell; delivered ongoing aid to Ukrainian front-line villages during Russia’s invasion; worked on efforts to build runways, roads, and highways to deliver aid to Rwandan refugees after the genocide; and delivered aid shipments to enclaves besieged and under attack by the Syrian army. None of it prepared me for the challenges of trying to bring a few trucks of food and medicine per week into the Gaza Strip. It’s easy to point the finger at Israel, the country that is implementing the blockade of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents, half of whom are children. Yet trying to work the issue from every angle on a daily basis to get urgent medical and food aid in, I’ve come to the conclusion that President Joe Biden, for whom I hosted fundraisers and worked to elect in 2020, has signed on to Israel’s end goal of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza. The Biden administration isn’t just complicit by refusing to condemn Israel’s blockade of humanitarian aid — an absurd situation leading the U.S. to incur significant costs and unnecessary risks for symbolic airdrops. He’s actively supporting Israel’s oft-stated but ill-defined war aim of eradicating Hamas, a military effort with little concern for Palestinian lives or the fate of Israel’s hostages held in Gaza. MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell got an honest, if muddled, answer from Secretary of State Antony Blinken last week. She asked him to explain the “incompatible policy” of being “the leading supplier of weapons to Israel” while, at the same time, “leading an international rescue effort” being impeded by Israeli government officials. Her question laid bare the ugly reality of Biden’s complicity in Israel’s campaign resulting in the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

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well. moving slow as hell on the pod project. but the zine is pretty solid looking at the moment. woohoo T_T

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Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish reciting his Poem of the Land

#poetry #power

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The best way to contact me is to meet me in my dreams at 3am

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holding hands - persepolis, iran.

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First Intifada. This particular picture used to be everywhere back in the day.

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picking off these comms today! finally hitting a better stride with my work and happy for it.

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.”Life, and Nothing More…” (Persian: زندگی و دیگر هیچ‎‎) directed by Abbas Kiarostami

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Happy plagueiversary

#filled with hella rage as we wenter yet another year of this shit #from what i know the spanish flu didn't last more than 5ish years #but uh.... I mean they made efforts and the world was so different back then #sustainability who

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The United States is making a bipartisan bid for one of the most aggressive displays of censorship we ever seen and I’m pretty sure a mega corporation just murdered a whistleblower while the Congressmen they have in their back pocket look the other way

#its no fucking surprise i can barely make rent LMAO #the problems pile up while the fucking pandemic continues

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rachel corrie’s letters

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Egypt 1919

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Finally got to watch Nocebo and it was awesome to hear Bisaya in a foreign film, let alone from one of my favorite actors, Chai Fonacier. "Unsay wa sa huna-huna?" What isn't in the mind?

Also leave it to an Irish director to portray an English citizen in... well watch to find out. In sum, Ara Chawdhury said it best in the article below: "Their [dystopian] fiction is our post-colonial reality.”

https://www.cnnphilippines.com/life/entertainment/Film/2022/11/15/nocebo-ara-chawdhury-chai-fonacier-interview.html

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