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theproloser34 · 6 months

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I know that after a month or so of outrage and no concrete change can be disheartening but this shows that the outrage is getting noticed. This stuff unfortunately will take time for the powers at be to react and listen. I mean with both the writers and actors strike, that lasted months with huge support before they were resolved in the workers favor. The 2020 BLM protests lasted months before any changes (small as they were) were enacted.

With the US’s history of awful foreign policy decisions and the slow reaction to domestic outrage to those decisions, we’re gonna have to raise hell continuously until we see any reaction. But that doesn’t mean stop. And there are easy ways to continue your support and put pressure on.

This will easily mass email all your representatives about a Gaza ceasefire. I don’t know if there’s a limit to how many you can send in a day, but it takes less than 5 mins out of your day to add your voice to the call for a ceasefire.

Another easy way is to call your representative. And if you’re like me and hate talking to a real person over the phone, here’s a quick tip. CALL AT NIGHT WHEN NO ONE ANSWERS THE PHONE AND LEAVE A MESSAGE. Simple, easy, and you don’t even have to talk to anyone!

If you want to do more to try and help people down in Palestine, there is always donations that are needed and will be needed. PCRF is always linked but they are the best I know of and deserve to be linked to over and over.

As a bonus, Arab.org offers a quick and easy way to add donations to the cause. I personally can’t be too sure of how effective this is, but if it helps even a little, it’s worth to share and do.

And if you want to help someone directly in Palestine now, the best way you can do that is buy and e-sim. Currently internet access is constantly being shut down in Palestine and phone connections is the only consistent way people can get on the internet. So follow these steps, and you can help someone get access to the outside world.

I know things can feel bleak and hopeless right now, but resistance is rarely fast. Being part of a resistance is being into it for the long haul and helping consistently any way you can. Even though it’s not obvious, the pressure is being felt. Don’t lose hope and continue to help out and spread awareness.

#free palestine #free gaza #info dump #please donate #direct action #charity

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thequeerator · 5 months

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In case you haven’t heard, a global strike for a ceasefire has been announced for December 11, 2023. Unfortunately, I will not be able to participate, but I support everyone who is striking and wanted to share the news. if you are able to, please call out sick, take a self care day, do anything to put a pause on the economy.

In a perfect world, I would be striking, but I cannot risk losing my job right now or the state that my health is in that allows me to work so I will be doing everything I can to spread awareness of the strike and provide support in other ways.

Anyways, I wanted to share a list of ideas for things to do on the 11th for anyone else who may want to strike, but is unable to.

Many of these are ideas that have already been proposed in previous protests and events for Gaza but I don’t think it hurts to restate them. I’ll just group those ones in a bullet point though.

- Wear a kefiya, like, comment, post, and repost content, contact your reps, hypothetically leave awful reviews for companies manufacturing weapons that are being sent to perpetrators of genocide, continue boycotting, stop vaping (when it’s for non-medical reasons of course), or pull your money out of a national bank and switch to a local credit union.

- If you know anyone who is striking, see if there are any ways you can support them for the day. Maybe invite them over to your house for dinner so they don’t have to worry about paying for food for a night.

- For anyone who works at a job where are you are not allowed to discuss anything that someone else may consider to be related to politics without risking being fired, show support in subtle ways that other people who are Palestinian or who support Palestinians will be able to notice. This can look like wearing clothes or doing makeup in Palestinian colors, making a traditional Palestinian food for lunch, reading a book about Palestine during your break, or talking about how you won’t be buying gifts for the holidays this year. This is probably considered malicious compliance but what matters is that it allows you to create a sense of solidarity and community with others who are also passionate about humanity.

- Find the Palestinians in your community and see if there are ways you can be there for them.

- Take the first step in building community where you are that is there for each other. This might be doing research on what that even looks like or reaching out to some friends you haven’t talk to you in a while. Community outside of work is one of the most important things right now and will allow us to support each other and encourage each other and to help us not burn ourselves out. For some of you, it might also give you the option to be able to strike in the future for something like this. I hope that it’s never needed though.

- Not only do many cities have Facebook groups that support buying nothing in your city but I recently discovered that some cities have queer mutual aid/information/trade/help groups as well. Join these.

- Start a little free library and/or mini food pantry in your neighborhood.

- after work, hang some posters in high traffic areas about calling for a ceasefire

- Buy esims for journalists and medical professionals via Nomad, Simly, Holafly, and others and send the receipt with the attachments to [email protected]. Do not activate them. For more info: https://www.gazaesims.com/

I will continue adding to this post as I think of things. If you have other ideas feel free to comment them, too.

#thequeerator #free palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #strike

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