three GoFundMe's I want to highlight right now. Can vouch for these, met a founder of the Camp Breakerz Crew who had evacuated in person yesterday and he confirmed that these links are active and legit. This dance school has switched over entirely into trying to figure how to provide aid and support to their community right now and need more funding in order to continue providing food. There is also a GoFundMe for Camp Breakerz Crew members who need to evacuate with their families.

"The Gaza Strip has a few refugee camps where families live with only basic medical and educational resources provided by the U.N. Most of these families have many children and rely heavily on these basic services. It is challenging for these families to raise their children and provide for their basic physical needs, let alone provide the sense of safety and security that every child deserves. Camps Breakerz Crew (CB Crew) is a dance team that was established in 2003 by a group of local youths to represent the Palestinian children and support them through the emotional and social struggles caused by the political turmoil around them by performing and teaching dance. CB Crew helps the children of Gaza heal from trauma, express and understand their emotions. Moving to the rhythm helps them gain a feeling of existence and belonging, and gives hope and spreads awareness...

At this time we are under war time. We are praying to stay alive and pass this scary phase. We go to shelters to motivate those children who seeked shelter after losing their homes.

We will require to rehab and restore our community mental health after this phase. Please do what you can to support us."

three GoFundMe's I want to highlight right now. Can vouch for these, met a founder of the Camp Breakerz Crew who had evacuated in person yesterday and he confirmed that these links are active and legit. This dance school has switched over entirely into trying to figure how to provide aid and support to their community right now and need more funding in order to continue providing food. There is also a GoFundMe for Camp Breakerz Crew members who need to evacuate with their families.

"The Gaza Strip has a few refugee camps where families live with only basic medical and educational resources provided by the U.N. Most of these families have many children and rely heavily on these basic services. It is challenging for these families to raise their children and provide for their basic physical needs, let alone provide the sense of safety and security that every child deserves. Camps Breakerz Crew (CB Crew) is a dance team that was established in 2003 by a group of local youths to represent the Palestinian children and support them through the emotional and social struggles caused by the political turmoil around them by performing and teaching dance. CB Crew helps the children of Gaza heal from trauma, express and understand their emotions. Moving to the rhythm helps them gain a feeling of existence and belonging, and gives hope and spreads awareness...

At this time we are under war time. We are praying to stay alive and pass this scary phase. We go to shelters to motivate those children who seeked shelter after losing their homes.

We will require to rehab and restore our community mental health after this phase. Please do what you can to support us."

Philadelphia’s (democratic) Mayor has enacted this completely fascist plan to forcibly arrest an entire neighborhood of drug users, sex workers, and unhoused people in our city to make way for gentrification and the financial interests of developers, btw.

Phase one: force your citizens into unliveable conditions of abuse and poverty that prompt or increase reliance on opiates

Phase two: increase criminalization and stigma, cutting off any kind of safe supply and forcing people dependent on opiates to turn to drugs cut with xylazine and fentanyl, increasing overdoses and health crises

Phase three: use your power as elected officials to bully, threaten, cut funding for, and ultimately try to remove any harm reduction organizations started by affected people in the area you’ve concentrated them into

Phase four: use taxpayer money to send hundreds of armed & violent pigs into that area to kidnap, arrest, and beat people they profile at a glance as drug users, sex workers, ‘undesirables’ etc

Phase five: attempt to distract from the blood on your hands by having cheap luxury apartment buildings put up

Image description coming when im not exhausted unless someone else wants to add one first

image text:

Kensington Initiative Plans

Phase One: Warning and Opportunity

This will be the introduction to the initiative, in which the PPD will partner with the various programs and City partners wishing to provide services and treatment to those experiencing addiction and housing issues along the avenue and surrounding area. This phase will serve as a warning to all who occupy this area that this will be the final opportunity to take advantage of shelter and treatment services prior to enforcement efforts that will follow Phase One.

Phase Two: Law Enforcement & The Community's Establishment Expectations

This phase is the enforcement component of this initiative and begins with a heavy police presence in the form of a narcotic initiative and warrant sweep in the immediate area. This will be a multi-day initiative that will include arrests for narcotics, prostitution, quality-of-life crimes, and other criminal acts. The PPD will document the enforcement by embedding its audio-visual teams in the operation and ensuring that all personnel assigned body-worn cameras activate their body-worn cameras. The law enforcement in Phase Two will be a focused and intense effort, requiring extensive planning and coordination with PPD partners. We anticipate that this operation will take place one to two blocks at a time, while monitoring any displacement within the surrounding area and maintaining the blocks as the operation moves forward. A highly coordinated team of City service resources and providers will need to be in the wake of the sweep to clean these areas to prepare for Phase Three.

Phase Three: Securing The Neighborhood

This phase will be the "hold" component of the initiative. In this phase, we will use resources to secure and hold the blocks cleared by the PPD and other City services. The blocks will be patrolled with police personnel and secured with equipment with the objective of not allowing the destructive, criminal behavior and nuisance activity to return. Barricades or bike racks will be employed to maintain the sidewalks and business corridors until areas are completely restored. During this hold process, the PPD will work with the local business associations to advise which business entities will occupy this corridor and have the City beautify and fortify the selected blocks by installing lighting and front fixtures of the storefront locations.

Phase Four: Community Transition

In this stage of the initiative, the blocks are handed back to the rightful owners of the community and its residents. The PPD's enforcement efforts will be executed with the explicit purpose of saving lives and restoring a neighborhood where children, families, and business owners can thrive and be safe. A major part of this phase will be the collaborative work between the City and the residents, business owners, and community at large to ensure proper funding is established so this community thrives after the PPD sweeps. We envision that this would be the time for the community to establish long-term goals for Kensington and continue to build out a strategy that grows this community.

Phase Five: Sustainability

During the last phase, the PPD will begin to redistribute police resources from this area and redirect them to other priority locations throughout the city. Based on the long-standing historical challenges with open-air drug markets in the Kensington neighborhood, the PPD is planning to augment the Kensington mini police substation along Kensington Avenue during this initiative. However, as the community transition phase concludes and improvements have been made, we will lessen staffing to minimize the appearance of continuous over-policing, while ensuring police services are maintained.

*Information taken from the Philadelphia Police Department 100-Day Report as of 04/24/2024.*

Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies. I want to be like those poets who care about the moon. Palestinians don’t see the moon from jail cells and prisons. It’s so beautiful, the moon. They’re so beautiful, the flowers.

— Noor Hindi, from “Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying,” DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW.

"Most of Sudan is only one step away from a full blown famine. In a lot of areas the only thing stopping people starving is the presence of community kitchens. This is why we setup 3 kitchens in Khartoum State and are in the process of setting up a 4th. But there has been a massive drop off in donations after Ramadan. Please help with what you can.

#Sudan"

link to the GFM below:

three GoFundMe's I want to highlight right now. Can vouch for these, met a founder of the Camp Breakerz Crew who had evacuated in person yesterday and he confirmed that these links are active and legit. This dance school has switched over entirely into trying to figure how to provide aid and support to their community right now and need more funding in order to continue providing food. There is also a GoFundMe for Camp Breakerz Crew members who need to evacuate with their families.

"The Gaza Strip has a few refugee camps where families live with only basic medical and educational resources provided by the U.N. Most of these families have many children and rely heavily on these basic services. It is challenging for these families to raise their children and provide for their basic physical needs, let alone provide the sense of safety and security that every child deserves. Camps Breakerz Crew (CB Crew) is a dance team that was established in 2003 by a group of local youths to represent the Palestinian children and support them through the emotional and social struggles caused by the political turmoil around them by performing and teaching dance. CB Crew helps the children of Gaza heal from trauma, express and understand their emotions. Moving to the rhythm helps them gain a feeling of existence and belonging, and gives hope and spreads awareness...

At this time we are under war time. We are praying to stay alive and pass this scary phase. We go to shelters to motivate those children who seeked shelter after losing their homes.

We will require to rehab and restore our community mental health after this phase. Please do what you can to support us."

ID: a laptop screen that is pixelated with many vertical and horizontal lines. A closed laptop with the screen entirely broken, where a piece of the outer metal screen has fallen off and the wires and cables are visible.

so my laptop is entirely broken and because of where I am right now and risk of being barricaded in without ability to leave, I can’t leave to go use library computers. I need to replace my laptop ASAP, as I have four essays left to write before I graduate and have a lot of things I need to do for my work (data analysis, etc etc etc) that can only be done on a laptop.

I don’t have enough to buy another laptop right now. The laptop I’m planning on buying to replace it that can handle the software and storage I need for my other work is $350. I have $200 of that right now, but need to fundraise the other $150.

after recently becoming a wheelchair user and getting let go from one of my jobs because of Palestinian liberation activism, money is really rough right now. any help is so so appreciated, but please prioritize other survival fundraisers, especially fundraisers from Gaza right now.

Thank you so so much.

links:

pypal

Vnmo: @transaxolotl67

$0/150

$50/150

Thank you SO so so much. Truly appreciated.

$150/150

Because of the kindness of a very dear friend, this is now covered. Thank you so so so so so so SO much. Truly.

ID: a laptop screen that is pixelated with many vertical and horizontal lines. A closed laptop with the screen entirely broken, where a piece of the outer metal screen has fallen off and the wires and cables are visible.

so my laptop is entirely broken and because of where I am right now and risk of being barricaded in without ability to leave, I can’t leave to go use library computers. I need to replace my laptop ASAP, as I have four essays left to write before I graduate and have a lot of things I need to do for my work (data analysis, etc etc etc) that can only be done on a laptop.

I don’t have enough to buy another laptop right now. The laptop I’m planning on buying to replace it that can handle the software and storage I need for my other work is $350. I have $200 of that right now, but need to fundraise the other $150.

after recently becoming a wheelchair user and getting let go from one of my jobs because of Palestinian liberation activism, money is really rough right now. any help is so so appreciated, but please prioritize other survival fundraisers, especially fundraisers from Gaza right now.

Thank you so so much.

links:

pypal

Vnmo: @transaxolotl67

$0/150

$50/150

Thank you SO so so much. Truly appreciated.

ID: a laptop screen that is pixelated with many vertical and horizontal lines. A closed laptop with the screen entirely broken, where a piece of the outer metal screen has fallen off and the wires and cables are visible.

so my laptop is entirely broken and because of where I am right now and risk of being barricaded in without ability to leave, I can’t leave to go use library computers. I need to replace my laptop ASAP, as I have four essays left to write before I graduate and have a lot of things I need to do for my work (data analysis, etc etc etc) that can only be done on a laptop.

I don’t have enough to buy another laptop right now. The laptop I’m planning on buying to replace it that can handle the software and storage I need for my other work is $350. I have $200 of that right now, but need to fundraise the other $150.

after recently becoming a wheelchair user and getting let go from one of my jobs because of Palestinian liberation activism, money is really rough right now. any help is so so appreciated, but please prioritize other survival fundraisers, especially fundraisers from Gaza right now.

Thank you so so much.

links:

pypal

Vnmo: @transaxolotl67

$0/150

three GoFundMe's I want to highlight right now. Can vouch for these, met a founder of the Camp Breakerz Crew who had evacuated in person yesterday and he confirmed that these links are active and legit. This dance school has switched over entirely into trying to figure how to provide aid and support to their community right now and need more funding in order to continue providing food. There is also a GoFundMe for Camp Breakerz Crew members who need to evacuate with their families.

"The Gaza Strip has a few refugee camps where families live with only basic medical and educational resources provided by the U.N. Most of these families have many children and rely heavily on these basic services. It is challenging for these families to raise their children and provide for their basic physical needs, let alone provide the sense of safety and security that every child deserves. Camps Breakerz Crew (CB Crew) is a dance team that was established in 2003 by a group of local youths to represent the Palestinian children and support them through the emotional and social struggles caused by the political turmoil around them by performing and teaching dance. CB Crew helps the children of Gaza heal from trauma, express and understand their emotions. Moving to the rhythm helps them gain a feeling of existence and belonging, and gives hope and spreads awareness...

At this time we are under war time. We are praying to stay alive and pass this scary phase. We go to shelters to motivate those children who seeked shelter after losing their homes.

We will require to rehab and restore our community mental health after this phase. Please do what you can to support us."

Just a reminder for people who may not know, in light of protestors at UCLA being shot in the face with rubber bullets— rubber bullets are not bullets made of rubber. They are metal bullets encased in rubber.

Despite being called “non-lethal” or sometimes “less lethal”, they are well known to cause death and permanent disability.

Here’s a photo showing their size— these are actual rubber bullets used during the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.

Do not let them downplay the severity of what they are subjecting this students to for standing against genocide. Stay safe and stay educated.

“While officially designated as rounds that can be fired at the ground to then bounce into people’s legs, the rubber-encased projectiles often directly hit skulls, chests or eyes. In a 2009 study, researchers at Wayne State University found rubber bullets can hit with a force greater than 3,500 newtons—more than twice as hard as being punched in the side of the head by a professional boxer—which was enough to fracture cadaver skulls.”