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#asked to post this earlier than i would lol#steelheart redux#arthur steele#zarian#my art#sparks art#weird and experimental and i kept saying “im not going to do [the next stage of this drawing]” and doing it anyway but i like it#id in alt
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The student protests for Palestine have been an amazing show of solidarity and support and seeing thr way that so many young people are willing to stand up for their values is admirable when so many others stay silent. But this is all to say that we are entering a pattern of glorifying these white “martyrs” from the global west to put all of this effort and resources and media coverage into instead of the actual cause they are fighting for.
I saw the same thing happen with Aaron Bushnell, when his self immolation was being talked about more than the actual genocide in Gaza (which went against everything he said he was self immolating for in the first place).
And again this happened with the prisoner from the US who worked 136 hours just to be able to donate his $17 check to Palestine aid efforts. In response to this, people wanted to help him and ended up raising over $100,000 in a gofundme for him. This feels almost satirical, as every gofundme to help Gazans evacuate Palestine and get to safety has a goal of less than $100,000 and most of them are not even close to reaching it.
And now, there are more and more posts on how to get aid to the college student encampments, and the “urgency” of getting enough bail funds for the students who have been arrested during them. Talking about Palestine itself and getting resources to Palestine has almost been put on the back burner in favour of making all Palestine related news about college students in the United States.
It think it is valuable to recognise the selflessness and importance of these protests, and getting these students resources but what is MORE important, and what these people are truly fighting for, and protesting, and make a statement about is PALESTINE. We have unsurprisingly reached the point where there are people who care much more about the white people fighting for the cause from the comfort of living in the global west than they care about the Palestinians undergoing a genocide in Gaza. It’s become almost blatant racism, the way people begin to drop everything the second a white/usamerican person does something in regards to helping Palestine, but will not put the same effort into a Palestinian IN Gaza who is telling their story or asking for help. I respect anyone who has done absolutely anything to help Palestine, but I hope people are starting to see the pattern of how the media gravitates towards the “white saviour/perfect martyr” instead of the first hand accounts coming from those in Gaza.
Anyway FIND A GOFUNDME AND DONATE TO HELP FAMILIES IN GAZA ESCAPE GENOCIDE
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ATTENTION! TIME TO PUT YOUR MONEY AND TIME WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS FOR STUDENT ACTIVISTS!
emory encampment just got violently raided by police after 5 hours of peacefully handing out food. i personally saw videos of a person having their heads thrown into the ground, a Black person clearly marked as a street medic being held down and tased repeatedly, and police grabbing and shoving people violently. a person was choked as they were thrown to the ground. there are reports of not only tasing, but tear gas and rubber bullets. remember also that this isn't just emory students, but students from universities across georgia— here are testimonies from spelman and morehouse students about the raid.
the bail fund is the ven/mo @hallestewart and the atl solidarity fund is helping as well
if you are in ATL show up to emory now. hundreds of students and community members have taken the place of the arrested, but WE STILL NEED MORE! we CANNOT let this happen again. EVERY BRUTALIZATION IS THE RESULT OF NOT ENOUGH COMMUNITY PROTECTION.
if you would like to make your feelings known to representatives and campus officials, contacts below. DEMAND any charges be dropped, and that students do not face disciplinary action. DEMAND justice for the people brutalized at emory.
and remember that there is a reason that the police in a predominantly Black county are the ones responding the most violently.
There is non-specific promotion of the campus contacts by the organizers, so contact these two with whatever you will— I would personally demand no disciplinary action and condemning their actions.
Office of the President:
404-727-6013
Campus Life Central:
404-727-5693
Demands for the contacts below— URGENT ACTION: Please contact these Dekalb Reps about the protest happening at Emory right now. Ask them to contact Dekalb DA to drop all potential charges against students. (If you have personal numbers contact folks that way, otherwise call office numbers this will take you to their Admin who is a Government employee so please be kind)
Possible script for below given by Georgia Muslim Voter Project: Hello, I am a concerned citizen and I am calling to urge [insert rep name] to contact the DeKalb County DA to drop all potential charges against students arrested at Emory University. Freedom of speech and assembly are core American values and the students are just exercising their rights.
Senator Parent:
(404) 656-5109
Senator Davenport:
(404) 463-5260
Senator Jackson:
(404) 656-6882
Representative Crawford:
(404) 656-0314
Representative Margaret-Oliver:
(404) 656-0265
please dm me if you have any other helpful info. AND
FUCK
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i don’t have enough up to date info to make a proper post but for those keeping track, emory university in atlanta launched an encampment this morning and is facing off with apd already. there have been arrests. keep them in your thoughts
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video reposted from @stopcopcity on Instagram.
this morning (4/25) at 7:30a students and protestors set up an encampment on the quad of Emory University in Atlanta demanding the university divest from Israel and connection to Cop City. within three hours ATL PD and Georgia State Patrol began dispersing the crowd with pepper bullets and tear gas and arresting at least 18 people for trespassing. it was reported at least one student was tased repeatedly. Emory administration just locked the majority of campus buildings to card access only and sent an email to faculty, staff, and students denouncing the protests as “completely unacceptable.”
#student protests#reblogs#emory#edit: can confirm the tasing i have seen that footage. if you seek it out be warned it is graphic
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If you're having trouble keeping up with what's going on in Palestine because of US news coverage of university protests, here are some articles you can read and a video you can watch:
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While CNN & all the other mainstream media try to paint the university protests as "pro terrorism" (which they're not, they're literally anti-war protests.) Palestinians are being slaughtered by the minute.
Please don't stop speaking about Palestine.
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link to the atlanta solidarity fund (bail funds and lawyer fees) if anyone can
i don’t have enough up to date info to make a proper post but for those keeping track, emory university in atlanta launched an encampment this morning and is facing off with apd already. there have been arrests. keep them in your thoughts
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i don’t have enough up to date info to make a proper post but for those keeping track, emory university in atlanta launched an encampment this morning and is facing off with apd already. there have been arrests. keep them in your thoughts
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My friend Mona has asked me to share her story with you all.
Here's the link to the evacuation gofundme. They're very close to their goal. They legitimately only have less than 10k USD left to go before all 9 of them can evacuate.
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columbia administration is threatening to call in the national guard tonight
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Masking overload ... :(
LMAOO you're all good dude no worries
#this made me giggle. thank u for the elaboration tho i was very confused for about 20 seconds#i was like what did i post......#ask#anon
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Sudan still desperately needs aid--it needs a lot of things, but it is approaching a dangerous point with famine and mass death due to hunger imminent.
These are the kinds of headlines we're getting now:
Here's an ongoing fundraiser:
I linked it before, to help with Ramadan, but it's an ongoing initiative, the need has not stopped.
I picked this gofundme because it's been boosted by people I trust and you can see pictures online of the food they've provided, e.g.:
But I also picked this because you can see the amount of donations. It's 2pm ET on Saturday, April 20th right now? For the next week, whatever's donated, I'll match for a total up to $2,000 (we'll say 2,750 CAD, since the gofundme is in Canadian dollars).
You don't have to send me a receipt, I just ask that you donate and boost.
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(i Will go back to everlasting haitus if that GFM slows down too much btw, seeing it to its goal ASAP is my primary focus right now)
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Please help donate and spread! Very time sensitive, please share with your followers, friends, and family - 57k out of 70k (4/12/2024)!
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I heard Steelheart Redux is getting an anime adaption trust me my dad works for Nintendo.
yeah the early look was wild. i just hope they can keep in all the scenes where the characters sing copyrighted music
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did anyone else's notifs just like. never un-break from april fools
#it shows one notification regardless of how many or few i actually have its driving me nuts#it might be bc i use one of the dash-unfuckers tbh. which is a pricei m willing to pay but#sparks speaks
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I heard Steelheart Redux is getting an anime adaption trust me my dad works for Nintendo.
yeah the early look was wild. i just hope they can keep in all the scenes where the characters sing copyrighted music
#steelheart redux#my art#sparks art#my ocs#zarian#arthur steele#willow jackson#david manalo#kathos#thin lineart my enemy. yes this looks more cohesive than my normal artwork but oh my god its so precise#id in alt#ask#pipefoxesonthemoon
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