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resources below!🕊️
DONATE:
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The Palestine Children's Relief Fund
IG: @thepcrf
Sulala Animal Rescue
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Care for Gaza, a grassroots organisiation in Gaza that gives care packages to Gazan families
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees
Operation Olive Branch
GET INVOLVED:
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Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN)
Twitter: @APAN4Palestine
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Justice for Palestine Magan-djin (Brisbane)
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IG: justiceforpalestine.magandjin
Justice for Palestine Melbourne
FB: FreePalestineMelbourne
IG: freepalestinemelb
Friends of Palestine (Western Australia)
Wage Peace, Disrupt War (Australia)
IG: disruptwars
BOYCOTTS:
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Australia
LEARN:
Decolonise Palestine
If you have any additional resources or funds that aren't listed, let me know and I will endeavor to add them on.
170 hours later and this behemoth project is completed. After being moved to tears three times by Dr. Alareer's poem, I needed to create something. Hopefully this honours his memory.
Hoping to get some funding from local orgs to get this printed into a physical booklet for distribution.
If anyone is looking for a keffiyeh, a friend of a friend in Palestine has partnered with an existing factory after their tourism business has been out of work. They finally got a website and a distributor and you can buy them here
This was in Arizona @macklemore was doing a concert jumps into a crowd grabbing a keffiyeh scarf and shows pride while waving. Macklemore has been in solitaire with Palestinian from day one. Thanks for showing so much support and using your voice Ben.
If you like this, please check out the masterpost (at the bottom of this post) of ways to help Palestine and remember that from Jan 21-28th we are on strike for Palestine!!
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description in Alt Text and below.
[Image ID: a multimedia piece of art on a sketchbook shows a person with a keffiyeh obscuring most of their face looking up to the top left. on the lower right is an unsliced watermelon. behind them is a nebulous water background and behind that is a metallic copper ink wash. \end ID]
WTAF. I spoke about this a few times before. People in many parts of West Asia/many Arab people have been wearing keffiyehs for CENTURIES. They represent many things, and yes -they do symbolize Palestinian resistance and solidarity -and if you have an issue with anyone wearing a keffiyeh in any space you're a genocidal apologist.
This is BEYOND ignorant and IS discrimination. I hope we see a class-action lawsuit that sues the provincial government for doing this/normalizing this because it's ILLEGAL. These politicians (especially the PC's -who were shouting no to overturn it and one of them saying they felt UNSAFE... the audacity) are just racist bigots.
A woodcut style dove wearing a keffiyeh over a poppy. The official national flower of Palestine as of 2016 actually seems to be the Faqqu’a iris, but many people will tell you that it's the poppy. Regardless of how official it is (often a vague thing when it comes to national symbols anyway) the poppy is an important national emblem for Palestine. It features the four colors of the flag (black, white, red and green) and is also said to represent blood shed on the land. Honestly I see it used a lot more than the iris (though both are lovely plants).
As usual, ALL PROCEEDS from this design are for my Palestinian best friend, to help his girlfriend afford to join him safely in America and to help his friends and family in Palestine and around the rest of the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the increasing Israeli raids in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries.
You can buy the design above on various products (shirts, stickers, etc) here. All designs found here (Redbubble will show you a random product, click on each to see more product options). Thank you to everyone who has helped out so far!
In an email on Wednesday, Speaker Ted Arnott said the legislature has previously restricted the wearing of clothing that is intended to make an "overt political statement" because it upholds a "standard practice of decorum."
"The Speaker cannot be aware of the meaning of every symbol or pattern but when items are drawn to my attention, there is a responsibility to respond. After extensive research, I concluded that the wearing of keffiyehs at the present time in our Assembly is intended to be a political statement. So, as Speaker, I cannot authorize the wearing of keffiyehs based on our longstanding conventions," Arnott said in an email.
Hey everyone, Hirbawi (located in Hebron, West Bank) is taking pre-orders on their next batch of keffiyehs! They'll ship as soon as the blockades are lifted, and all proceeds are going to Palestinian medical assistance.
As someone who has purchased multiple keffiyehs from the fine folks at Hirbawi over the years, I can't recommend them enough. The quality is insanely high, they're traditionally made, and you're supporting a Palestinian artisan instead of buying a mass-produced knockoff made elsewhere.
This IS BEYOND unacceptable -FU to Doug Ford and ANY politician/public figure in the Ontario Legislature who agrees with this. A keffiyeh is a traditional scarf worn by many Arab people, and people in West Asian communities. It does represent/symbolize Palestinian resistance and solidarity (among many aspects, of course), but that's not a crime -and trying to censure someone's right to wear traditional garments because you'd rather pander to zionists (as this article notes, many wear religious wear every day in office), is the real issue here -this is discrimination. This is legislated discrimination and is hateful.