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HELPGAZACHILDREN!!!!!
Med @fairuzfan’s blog got terminated by tumblr which is obviously unjust for all the people who rely on them for resources on Palestine, but it now leaves Hussam’s helpgazachildren donation drive without a point of communication, and has deleted all previous information Med had shared about the drive.
Please remember to keep donating to helpgazachildren as Hussam’s hard work getting resources to families in Gaza should not have to be hindered while Med is working on getting their blog back 🤍🇵🇸
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fairuzfan appears to be restored
but helpgazachildren has been deleted
Tumblr needs to stop interfering with people who want to save lives
So tumblr staff didn't just delete 1 blog of Med's without warning (fairuzfan), they deleted 2. The first blog was helpgazachildren, which was Med's blog to campaign for donation drives for Hussam who distributes basic necessities on the ground in Ghazzah. They have consistently shown proof of acquisition and distribution of goods as results for every donation drive. There is no reason to kill this blog other than to kill the Palestinian children and adults alike that rely on it for survival. Make no mistake, the actions of this company, Tumblr, and its CEO have real life consequences for the people who use it as a lifeline for survival.
That makes up an entire section of the people trying to survive genocide in Ghazzah. And now with both of Med's blogs gone, there is no recourse.
Tumblr is going to be the reason for the death of several Palestinians. And if I'm right in suspecting they're taking my blog down next, this will happen to the groups served by both Mona, and Hussam, and the families who have contacted me through this website and are relying on my fundraising campaigns to get to safety. This is not a minor issue.
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Via @StarshipAlves at the It Was A Bird Once place: "Google has suspended drone courier flights because of raven attacks. Looks like the Ravens have taken our side against Skynet."
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“Capitalism was born in the violent process of enclosure—the enclosure of common lands and eviction of commoners—and concomitant primitive accumulation, which, as Marx noted, 'precedes capitalist accumulation; an accumulation which is not the result of the capitalist mode of production but its point of departure.' In separating the population from the commons people lost access to the means of subsistence, and thereafter obtaining the means of survival meant working for someone else.
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“The central drive of capitalism is not simply the profit motive, the accumulation of capital (accrual of net wealth), or boundless growth (“need [for] a constantly expanding market”). Rather, as Cleaver remarked, capitalism as a social system is defined by the endless 'imposition of work through the commodity-form.'
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“Bourgeois society might 'appear as an ‘immense collection of commodities,’ as Marx’s first line of Capital argues. But behind this facade, in its ideal, abstract form, capitalism is the ownership of the labor power manifest in commodities—private property defended by the artillery of the state. And the ability to impose the commodity form is the capacity to impose all other social relations.”
Excerpts from Kevin Van Meter, Guerrillas of Desire
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what's going on in the congo since there's also a genocide happening over there as well:
to sum it up, people in the congo are literally being worked as slaves to mine for this material called coltan, which is very valuable as its used for things like phones, laptops, just electronics in general. Congo is the number 1 producer for this material and the places behind this genocide is America, Britain, France, and Israel, wow what an absolute shocker. The worst places probably to ever exist benefit from a genocide. These places are funding Rwanda and Uganda military groups, to go into the Congo and kill MILLIONS of people. This has also been going on for YEARS. Many women have been SA'd and men are forced to work in INHUMAN conditions, resulting in their death and the colonizers are absolutely benefitting from this. 6 MILLION people have been killed and half of them are literally kids. Many of the Congolese people have also been displaced.
Please speak out about and raise your voice
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James baldwin’s the artists struggle for identity. Btw.
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Imposing order through coordinating bodies -- schools, religious organizations, vigilantes, militias, organized crime -- that project state power through decentralized and deniable operation.
This is quite literally textbook fascism
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A thing I love to do is telling prepper dudes that one of my disaster readiness skills is making stuffed animals. They never get it. Like, my dude, when things get very bad and we're all sharing overcrowded shelters, you're gonna want the power to comfort children. Trust me.
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April 28, 2024 - An unintentionally funny video by a zionist propagandist shows off some good organisation and discipline at the UCLA encampment for Palestine.
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Why do we say that capitalism must be “dismantled”?
You’ll hear phrases like “Smash the state!” “Eat the rich!” and “Smash capitalism!”
And, yes, of course, but… :)
However relevant those sayings are, our work must be careful, highly organized and above all planned.
Because capitalism and all of its associated systems are not discrete, abstracted entities we can attack independently.
It is a structure, like a complicated machine with many thousands of working parts…
And right now it is connected to absolutely everything.
If we do this… [picks up huge hammer and smashes the machine]
Then a lot of vulnerable people will die.
The machine was built and improved and redesigned and patched over the course of generations. It is very good at its intended purpose, which is ultimately to generate profit.
Every human being alive today relies on the byproducts of the machine to survive, without exception.
The machine’s engineers want it to keep working like it does. In fact, they want to optimise it.
That will kill all remaining life on Earth.
So, we must destroy the machine, quickly and carefully
We must examine its deadly programs and mechanics and replace them with alternatives we built together.
The engineers don’t want us tampering with the machine.
However, we make it run…
So we can make it STOP. Together.
How will YOU help us to safely dismantle the machine?
iww.org
p.s. My computer is on its last legs. If you would like me to draw you a little cartoon and help me get a new computer, learn more at this post.
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I don’t remember where this story was from but it was about how the writers older brother died when he was young and years later had a son who, had never met the brother had the same mannerisms as him. Ok I think I remember the key words were “my son drinks from the water fountain like my brother” or something
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goodnight everyone (:
do your daily click
spreadsheet of families in Gaza you can help today
donate to:
Buy an e-sim
Help diabetics in Gaza
The PCRF
Anera
UNRWA
Taawon
Help Gaza Children
Sudan Tarada Initiative
Help a Sudanese family escape conflict
Darfur Women Action
Ramadan for Sudan
Period products in Sudan
Sudan Emergency Appeal
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Red or Blue they beat us just the same. Has been this way since forever.
some photos i took from emerson college’s encampment for palestine. most of these were taken only a few hours before the boston PD attacked hundreds of protestors and brutally arrested 108 students, most of whom were poc, jewish, and/or queer.
anyone who spent any amount of time in the encampment will tell you just how much it brought us all together—there was always food, music, arts and crafts, and hundreds of messages of support written in chalk.
after the BPD was done brutalising us for peacefully protesting, they power washed down the walls of the encampment—all of these messages are gone. theyre trying to erase what happened, but they’ll never truly be able to. everyone saw, and everyone will remember.
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I really don't see any difference between what the police are doing to people protesting genocide in Gaza under Biden from what they were doing to people protesting street executions of Black folks under Trump.
Do you?
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TODAY: faculty at northwestern university have been operating on a 24 hour shift schedule so theyre always there in groups protecting their students.
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The university of Tokyo students stand with Palestine.
Tweet source: https://x.com/cherry0423_ut/status/1783897225078456635?s=46&t=kvJFP3BjKnMEl5NO2bJUMA
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Statement from the Palestinian Educational Collective
We, a group of Palestinian youth, students, and university workers, stand shoulder to shoulder, in solidarity and pride, with our comrades who are protesting on university campuses across the United States, Europe, Egypt, Australia, and other parts of the world. We hear you, we appreciate your struggle, and together we will triumph against oppression.
These protests mark a decisive turning point in the struggle for our collective liberation. Emerging from a long tradition of global struggles for the freedom of colonized and subjugated people, the ongoing protests mark the most significant moment in recent history of people across the world putting their bodies, freedoms, and futures on the line to force an end to the ongoing 76-year genocide and perpetual war against the Palestinian people.
As protesters are met with brutal violence that vilifies the legitimacy of the struggle, institutions of higher education professing to be spaces of critical thinking and freedom of expression sanction the repression. Rather than defending the academy’s public role and the students’ right to protest, these institutions have dropped their democratic façade to unequivocally side with the Zionist regime and its allies, who continue to unleash a genocide on the Palestinian people while live-streaming it for the world. The genocide in which these institutions are complicit has thus not only wreaked havoc on the lives of Palestinians, but has also shattered the democratic and liberal values that these institutions purport to uphold.
We condemn the use of brutal and militarized state force against protestors. Although not surprising, it is appalling that police forces are brutalizing and arresting students and faculty members.
But your struggle has joined the hundreds of students and faculty members from Palestinian universities and educational institutions who have been killed, incarcerated, tortured, and brutalized by the Zionist regime. The tactics used to shut down the global protest movement that is shaking the imperial core highlight the material and discursive links between colonial and oppressive regimes in quelling political and social mobilization while affirming the interconnectedness of our struggles. Today, it is clearer than ever before: we need to abolish these inherently violent and racist systems.
As you erect tents across campuses, as you demand that colleges and universities divest from companies profiting from genocide, as you demand to put an end to academic programs with Israeli institutions, you are making history! Your loud cry for Palestinian liberation is being heard and is slowly but forcefully resonating around the world.
Together, we are collectively making history as we fortify our long tradition of resistance against injustice and fight for a just, free, and liberated future.
The Palestinian Educational Collective
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'During the aid efforts amidst the Israeli war in Gaza, a musician plays the oud to bring solace to displaced Palestinian children residing in tents in Rafah.'
from Quds News Network
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