Timestamp on this is about an hour ago. I'm seeing reports that a few are using roaming SIM cards so a few things are getting out.
Please don't turn away from this. A lot of horrible things are happening with the support of western powers. I'm ashamed to say my country didn't even vote today, didn't even have the balls to admit that we are in the USA's pocket so we have to stay silent on genocide.
I can't stay silent and I'm begging you all not to stay silent. Speak, share, just something.
PALESTINIANS ARE SUFFERING A MAJOR BLACKOUT AND HAVE NO WAY OF COMMUNICATION. THEY ARE BEING MURDERED AND BOMBED IN THE DARK. DO NOT STAY SILENT. THEY NEED US. REBLOG, SHARE, WRITE TO YOUR POLITICIANS.
Note: While the speaker of a poem shouldn’t automatically be assumed to be the poet, I do want to clarify in this case since I used we/our/us, I am not Palestinian. But since it’s an erasure, there wasn’t another option to convey the Gazan perspective.
Poem 19
Process: Erasure
Source: Neil Gaiman. American Gods. New York: New York, 2001. 503-514.
THERE IS A FUCKING BLACKOUT IN GAZA RIGHT NOW PLEASE FUCKING SHARE AND SCREAM ABOUT THIS. WE DON'T KNOW WHEN IT'S GOING TO END AND IF ANY OF THEM ARE GONNA COME BACK ALIVE.
After I finish up my Septictober art for this month, any fanart or posts having to do with my fandoms will slow down for a while.
I'm aware that this isn't my usual content, but I've heard the screams and cries for help. I've watched bomb after bomb rain down on Gaza, helplessly watching through a screen. I've seen the statistics of how many people have died in Israel, versus how many people have died in Gaza.
It's sickening. It's vile. I didn't know what side was lying to me until I saw clear evidence myself.
DON'T STAY SILENT. SILENCE DOESN'T HELP.
This isn't war, this is a literal GENOCIDE. I will not stay silent anymore, because no one deserves to die. FREE PALESTINE.
I can't do much as a minor in a family full of misinformed idiots. But whenever I do come on here, I will be reblogging anything having to do with Gaza. Please donate if you can, and do your own research about the history between Gaza/Palestine and Israel.
Current updates on what is happening in Gaza. They are experiencing a blackout and they are being bombed
Source
Silence is Violence. Write to your goverment officials, donate, share posts and resources, sign petitions. Do whatever you can to help out. Innocent lives are depending on this.
Okay, with the blackout happening tomorrow, I'm going to be harsh. Mutuals, if I see any of you post anything other than Palestine tomorrow, it's gonna be a block.
One day. Don't post/reblog anything unrelated for ONE DAY. Can you do that?
If not, then you don't care about Palestine. This blackout is for them, and it only works if a lot of people join. It'd REALLY work if everyone did.
Don't think that you won't make a difference. You will. But only if you participate.
March 2nd. Full blackout. Only post/reblog stuff about Palestine, or don't post at all.
We are so close to a ceasefire. Hopefully this will put it over the edge. If not, it will still get us closer and closer.
If some world-shattering news happens tomorrow during the blackout, SAVE AS A DRAFT. Reblog it the day after. I'm being so serious right now, breaking this will defeat the entire point.
Free Gaza, stand with Palestine.
March 2nd.
Feel free to reblog this if you plan on participating in the blackout, too. Reblogs are on.
EDIT: I'm realizing how many people do not know about this, so I'm gonna judge the block thing case by case. But yeah. Stand with Palestine.
"Our goal is to persuade 50 million Americans to participate in a Tax Blackout this April 2024 by refusing to pay at least 5% of their income taxes and donating that money to community-building organizations and emergency relief for Gaza. Otherwise, we are asking people to not pay whatever additional amount they would owe after filing and prepare their W-4s for long-term resistance. Studies have shown that by mobilizing just 3.5% of the population, demands for change are more likely to be answered. We understand 50 million people, about 16% of the population, is an ambitious goal, but if we are to stall the march of the Capitalist Death Machine long enough for us to dismantle it cog by cog, we must present a more united front and show up fiercely for each other."
tax blackout 2024 is a campaign against the united states government's funding of israel utilizing the method of the tax resistance. more details coming soon!