hello. as you might seen my previous post, my mom passed away on the night of 31 january. me and dad are both heartbroken, and we try our best to take care of ourselves and of each other. we were covered by mom's mother (my grandma) for the funerals.

but how mom was also working, we lost a significant financial source. i also work and dad is retired and receives retirement money, but it could not be enough. any donation that was made by now, will greatly help us cover up any expense regarding food, bills, car fuel and rent.

if you wish to donate, and only have the means and doing good financially, my paypal link is: paypal.me/bluezander. reblogging it also helps a lot.

again, thank you for the kind words and donations, even my dad is emotional to hear how all of y'all are so supportive.

[Id: a video showing IOF soldiers standing in front of a bulldozer that's demolishing a home in Hebron, the Occupied West Bank, brandishing their guns. Three Palestinian women stand in front of them, one of them crying on the other's chest, and the other shouting at the camera. She says, in Arabic, "They destroy and we build!"

The video cuts to show a woman standing in front of the rubble of her house, being forcibly carried away by IOF soldiers. A group further up the road runs to help her. They try to fight the soldiers off and they push them away, one of them trying to grab a woman by her hijab. Another falls to the ground. They move to the front of another house, crying, and the soldiers park between them and the house.

A woman stands in the bones of her house and waves a Palestinian flag, putting them over the iron columns of the structure. The video cuts to show a woman sitting on the rubble, as several soldiers stand over her. They point at her to move away, then to another man trying to salvage something from the house. They start pushing them away.

The video cuts again to show the house the women were standing in front of earlier. The bulldozer starts demolishing it. A woman starts screaming in distress and is pulled away by several soldiers. Two kids stand to the side, one of them crying heavily into their hands, the other with an arm slung around their shoulders, looking lost. The women are pushed away again. The video ends showing the bulldozers demolishing the houses, surrounded by soldiers. / end id]

3 days ago, the Israeli Occupation Forces destroyed the house of the al-Atrash family.

"I thought that if I could get into the house, then they wouldn't be able to destroy it," she added, recalling her desperation to save her family's new home. They had been building it for the past three years. 

These people will be left homeless. If you follow media coverage on Palestine, this kind of video is very common. Just in the past two months, the Bedouin village of Al-Araqeeb was demolished again, for the 196th time since 2000. 69 homes were demolished in Silwan, at the premise of building a tourist location for Christians. Just two weeks ago, three families had to destroy their own homes, under threat of having to pay a fine for the IOF to destroy it themselves. The village of Al-Awaja in Jerusalem is under threat of demolition. IOF soldiers have assaulted people holding vigil for the Salim family, under threat of expulsion in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.

I can't emphasize enough how all of this, besides being immoral, is illegal. Israel illegally attaches land (in the case of Jerusalem, during the 1967 war, in the case of other lands, through the construction of military bases, historic attractions, ecological parks, etc), then imposes their own legal system on them (refuse to issue building permits or create laws saying the lands can be claimed by Jewish settlers if they can prove their ancestors lived there), then demolish the houses saying they're illegal.

Besides that, there's a constant onslaught on Palestinian land. Today, on the first day of 2022, Israel has bombed a resistance outpost in Gaza. This comes days after Israel held an inauguration ceremony for the Gaza Wall, that surrounds the region in its entirety, including the sea opening and underground. Their goal is to kill and arrest anybody who tries to leave. Try to put yourself in this place, if an outer force built a wall around your entire state and patrolled it so one could leave. It's an open air prison, where these people suffer shortage of food and water and are constantly bombed.

Besides that:

What we're seeing is the early stages of colonialism. The United States colonial project is 415 years old, Israel is only 74 years old. Their goal is to colonize the indigenous population of Palestine, pushing them away, starving them, destroying their food banks, and killing them. The only difference is that Israel poses itself as a beacon of human rights in the Middle East, coating themselves in propaganda and legal terms.

Just in December, Israel passed two laws, allowing IOF soldiers to open fire at fleeing rock throwers and to come into Palestinian houses without warrants. This is particularly disheartening because Israel routinely arrests children for rock throwing.

Don't look away from Palestine. Here's some resources for you to take action this year.

[Id: a video showing IOF soldiers standing in front of a bulldozer that's demolishing a home in Hebron, the Occupied West Bank, brandishing their guns. Three Palestinian women stand in front of them, one of them crying on the other's chest, and the other shouting at the camera. She says, in Arabic, "They destroy and we build!"

The video cuts to show a woman standing in front of the rubble of her house, being forcibly carried away by IOF soldiers. A group further up the road runs to help her. They try to fight the soldiers off and they push them away, one of them trying to grab a woman by her hijab. Another falls to the ground. They move to the front of another house, crying, and the soldiers park between them and the house.

A woman stands in the bones of her house and waves a Palestinian flag, putting them over the iron columns of the structure. The video cuts to show a woman sitting on the rubble, as several soldiers stand over her. They point at her to move away, then to another man trying to salvage something from the house. They start pushing them away.

The video cuts again to show the house the women were standing in front of earlier. The bulldozer starts demolishing it. A woman starts screaming in distress and is pulled away by several soldiers. Two kids stand to the side, one of them crying heavily into their hands, the other with an arm slung around their shoulders, looking lost. The women are pushed away again. The video ends showing the bulldozers demolishing the houses, surrounded by soldiers. / end id]

3 days ago, the Israeli Occupation Forces destroyed the house of the al-Atrash family.

"I thought that if I could get into the house, then they wouldn't be able to destroy it," she added, recalling her desperation to save her family's new home. They had been building it for the past three years. 

These people will be left homeless. If you follow media coverage on Palestine, this kind of video is very common. Just in the past two months, the Bedouin village of Al-Araqeeb was demolished again, for the 196th time since 2000. 69 homes were demolished in Silwan, at the premise of building a tourist location for Christians. Just two weeks ago, three families had to destroy their own homes, under threat of having to pay a fine for the IOF to destroy it themselves. The village of Al-Awaja in Jerusalem is under threat of demolition. IOF soldiers have assaulted people holding vigil for the Salim family, under threat of expulsion in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.

I can't emphasize enough how all of this, besides being immoral, is illegal. Israel illegally attaches land (in the case of Jerusalem, during the 1967 war, in the case of other lands, through the construction of military bases, historic attractions, ecological parks, etc), then imposes their own legal system on them (refuse to issue building permits or create laws saying the lands can be claimed by Jewish settlers if they can prove their ancestors lived there), then demolish the houses saying they're illegal.

Besides that, there's a constant onslaught on Palestinian land. Today, on the first day of 2022, Israel has bombed a resistance outpost in Gaza. This comes days after Israel held an inauguration ceremony for the Gaza Wall, that surrounds the region in its entirety, including the sea opening and underground. Their goal is to kill and arrest anybody who tries to leave. Try to put yourself in this place, if an outer force built a wall around your entire state and patrolled it so one could leave. It's an open air prison, where these people suffer shortage of food and water and are constantly bombed.

Besides that:

What we're seeing is the early stages of colonialism. The United States colonial project is 415 years old, Israel is only 74 years old. Their goal is to colonize the indigenous population of Palestine, pushing them away, starving them, destroying their food banks, and killing them. The only difference is that Israel poses itself as a beacon of human rights in the Middle East, coating themselves in propaganda and legal terms.

Just in December, Israel passed two laws, allowing IOF soldiers to open fire at fleeing rock throwers and to come into Palestinian houses without warrants. This is particularly disheartening because Israel routinely arrests children for rock throwing.

Don't look away from Palestine. Here's some resources for you to take action this year.

Palestine Economic Week

I haven’t seen any posts about it on tumblr but this week is Palestine Economic Week, this is your opportunity to lend financial support to Palestinian businesses in your communities and around the world. If you have some money to spend or want to support Palestinian businesses, I recommend doing it in the websites listed below: 

Some businesses to support: 

Hirbawi is the last remaining keffiyeh producer in Palestine and ships worldwide: https://www.kufiya.org/

NÖL COLLECTIVE: https://nolcollective.com/

Shoppalestine: https://www.shoppalestine.org/Default.asp

Watan Palestine: https://watanpalestine.com/

Taita Leila: https://www.taitaleila.com/ 

Jeel Design House: https://jeeldesign.com/#/

ANAT: https://anat-international.com/  

Nnbynn: https://www.nnbynn.com/

Sunbula: https://www.sunbula.org/

Please be cautious of knockoffs if you are searching for Palestinian products online. Palestinian designs, jewelry, clothing, and our keffiyeh have been routinely stolen by larger companies and organizations - including Louis Vuitton which recently put up a appropriated Keffiyeh design on their website. Make sure the websites you buy from explicitly say Palestinian and are run by Palestinians, if you cannot support financially, spread the word. 

(if you are Palestinian and run a small business or product, do not hesitate to link yourself!) 

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Mona Alkurd , one of the Palestinians Israel is trying to kick along with 28 families out of their decades long homes in Sheikh Al Jarrah , the last Palestinian block in Al Quds ( Jerusalem ), to complete the restriction of the area to Israeli Jews .. simply an Apartheid by settlers.

“ Your posts and tweets are treasures to us “

Here a rough translation of what she said:

“ It falls on us and Palestinians and the honorable people supporting us with posts and tweets. You have no idea how much that means to us. Everyone who shares even one short post or tweet. Don’t feel like you’re doing nothing. Those posts and tweets are treasures to us. Help us get our cause heard. We are 28 families. 500 individuals. If we are removed, then there will be no Palestinians in Al Quds. And in the end, Allah is our hope. And it falls on us. And we will remain here to our last breath defending our lands and homes”

Palestine's case is one of the rare ones where retweets, hashtags, reblogs, etc... are one of the most effective forms of support (besides boycotting and protesting) because donated money goes nowhere and petitions do not work in an apartheid state that seeks to eliminate its victims openly. We need the rest of the world watching and protesting and speaking out.

Here’s a more thorough translation (with the help of my mother who is a translator):

“We are going to hold on to our homes until the last moment. We depend on the youth and people of Al Quds (Jerusalem), those who are in Palestine, and anyone who can reach Al Quds. And we depend on the honorable people who stand with us, and who tweet using انقذواحيالشيخ_جراح# and #SaveSheikJarrah daily on all social media platforms. We count on those people. For us, the support of these people, even if [just] with a hashtag or post, even a short post or a short tweet, on any platform. For us, it’s like a treasure. So, we don’t want anyone, anyone to feel like they’re not doing enough. Anyone who posts or interacts with the hashtags, and posts about the cause and spreads awareness, and gets the word out that: if four families are removed, or seven or eight, then twenty-eight families will be removed, five hundred people. Those 500 people, if [we] are removed, then [all Palestinians] will be removed from Al Quds. This is why it’s important to spread awareness among people on this matter. Continue the campaigns on social media. This supports us. Those who can’t reach Al Quds and Sheikh Al Jarrah, keep going [with the social media campaigns]. This is the best kind of support for us. In the end, our hope lies in God and ourselves. This is our right (we are in the right). We’ll stay to the last moment and our last breath, in our lands and in our homes.”

Eid Mubarak to all those who celebrate.

Eid Mubarak to Palestinians living under Israeli occupation who will be spending their Eid in mourning.

Eid Mubarak to Yemenis who have been suffocating under the war and devastation in their country.

Eid Mubarak to Muslim Indians who are having their rights taken away from them.

Eid Mubarak to Syrians who have been scattered around the world and had their lives shattered.

Eid Mubarak to Kurdish Muslims who are fighting to be recognized and for their right to exist.

Eid Mubarak to Black Muslims who are fighting to be heard and for an end to white supremacy.

Eid Mubarak to AAPI Muslims who have been facing violence and discrimination.

Eid Mubarak to French Muslims who are having their religious freedoms taken away from them.

Eid Mubarak to LGBTQ+ Muslims who have been rejected from their families and homes.

Eid Mubarak to Muslims everywhere who are facing injustice and pain this Eid al Fitr.

Eid Mubarak to Quebecois Muslims who are fighting for their religious freedoms.

Eid Mubarak to the Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan and various other countries who have literal laws against them, among those laws one that prohibits them from saying they are Muslims 

I know in my original post I forgot to mention many groups. So here are a few well wishes based on suggestions in the tags of my post:

Eid Mubarak to the Uyghurs who are being forced to detach themselves from their identities in reeducation camps under terrible and violent conditions.

Eid Mubarak to German Muslims who are under threat of hate crimes for their beliefs.

Eid Mubarak to Afghans who will be spending this Eid in mourning due to the horrific conditions and constant threat on their lives.

Eid Mubarak to Muslims who cannot celebrate because they have lost people to the Covid-19 virus.

Eid Mubarak to Muslims around the world who cannot celebrate or must celebrate away from their family and loved ones due to pandemic restrictions.

[cw police brutality, racism, blood, massacre]

5/6/2021 Today in Rio de Janeiro, the police massacred 25 Black people from the favela in violation of a court order. It is one of the city’s most deadly attacks.

In a barbaric and dehumanizing display, one of the police officers propped up a dead Black man on a purple plastic garden chair, with one finger placed inside his mouth.

There were executions of people who had already surrendered. Please pay attention to Brazil. Please pay attention to these Black lives. Please. I am begging you. They are Black lives that mattered.

#ChacinaDoJacarezinho #BlackLivesMatter

Here is an ongoing Twitter thread by a Brazilian discussing the recent police attack in Rio, along with information on the ongoing genocide and deliberate government attempts to let Covid and starvation murder Brazilians. [Content warning for the thread as it contains graphic videos of the aftermath of the massacre on the favela in Rio.]

If you are not Brazilian and trying to support and donate:

Here is a thread with a list of places international people can donate (you may need to use google translate for some of them) Remember that 1 USD is 5.28 BRL so US dollars go a long way!!

Here is a thread teaching international people how you can help if you don’t have money to donate

I will list the donation sites here in case you can’t access the thread:

The OP of the twitter thread offered to vet donation sites if you find more that you want to link here.

* Remember that it is likely going to be very hard to get actual aid to the poor & marginalized Black people in the favelas so for international people these are our next best options for now

If any Brazilians can reblog this with more ways we can support the favelas, let me know and I will boost it for you.

Update: I’ve learned that Voz Das Comunidades (listed above) is the fastest and most reliable way to get help to Brazil

Here is their Twitter with updates: https://twitter.com/eurenesilva

Here is their PayPal: contato@vozdascomunidades.com.br

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hey i haven’t seen this gofundme circulating here yet, but this is organized by the son of Hyun Jung Grant, one of the eight atlanta shooting victims.  his mother was a single mom and they don’t have any other family in the united states, so he will be raising his younger brother and organizing the funeral on his own.

please consider sharing this link and/or donating to alleviate some of the stress and in memory of his mother and the other victims in atlanta.  the original goal at this time has been met, but this family will be dealing with long-term expenses on top of the trauma they’ve suffered. 

https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/atlanta-area-spa-shootings-fundraisers

this is a link to four verified gofundmes for families of the atlanta shooting victims.  the fundraising goals for Paul Michels and Elcias Hernandez Ortiz have not been met yet so please share and donate if you can

signal boost

i’m very sorry for making a post like this again… after last year’s “escapades” i genuinely believed i wouldn’t have to do something like this again but i guess this decade has a different idea.

this tuesday (23th february) our father passed away in the hospital. he was sick for some time but his death came very sudden regardless. thanks to the current crisis and other things (broken roof, pipe bursts, etc) it seems like we are unable to pay his funeral, or give him one at all because it is a very huge expense.

any donation - no matter how small it is - and reblog would be very appreciated. 

paypal.me/seradotwav

Help her reach her goal by donating or following and interacting with her tiktoks so she can get money from the creator fund

0/100$ raised

Please help us help Yazid!!!

Thank you everyone for all of your kindness thus far ❤️❤️❤️ It mean the absolute world to me and yazid both.

@wesonga-01

Okay whatever

My name is Ezekiel. I'm a twenty one year old trans woman with severe mental issues stemming from abuse and trauma that makes it difficult for me to function at all. I regularly self-harm through forced starvation, am constantly suicidal and have violent mood swings. I can't hold down any jobs. In my current one, my hours have been cut down to eight a week, and I am probably gonna get fired eventually, I don't know. I'm a loser who can't hold down a job because 1. I'm trans and 2. My brain doesn't work.

I honestly don't know what to do anymore besides offing myself. I can't go back to my parents because they're homeless and hate me. None of my friends or other family members can take me in. I'm alone.

If you want to see me live longer please send me money. I'll send you nudes. I'll help you write an essay. I don't fucking know. I am just totally desperate and don't have hope in anything anymore, I'm at the end of my rope.

PayPal: PayPal.me/violetlk

Venmo: @Vivian-Kessler-1

Hi, I’m a teacher in Mindanao and I’m trying to find people who can help this kid, she needs medical assistance right away. Due to the pandemic I can’t really reach out to other foundations but I have been trying to and trying other ways to get some help with this poor kid. Her name is Princess Mae Deloso she is 10 years old her family is very poor and both parents cannot support her medical needs. For the support or donations kindly send this here.

Thank you and God Bless!

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