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Reblogged lastparty
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Hey, oomfies! This Eid, let’s spread some more love to Gaza. Grassroots orgs there are doing incredible work despite the many limitations...getting food, meds, and shelter to families who’ve lost everything. Even a few bucks can make a real difference. Donate the cost of a coffee!

Dahnoun Mutual Aid
We are Dahnoun Mutual Aid, a group of grassroots organizers working to provide life-sustaining aid in Gaza. 
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South Gaza: Tents, Cash Aid, & Medical
**Tent prices have come down slightly and thanks to eveyone's contributions we are able to take advantage of this decrease in order to purch
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North and Central Gaza: Food, Water, Diapers + Milk, Medical Aid
Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza fac
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The Refaat Alareer Camp - by The Sameer Project
The Sameer Project, a grassroots aid organization led by four Palestinians in the diaspora, is proud to announce our first tent encampment p
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Reblogged matchas
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I genuinely feel ashamed that all I can do is write words while more and more Arab people die - but momentum for fundraisers is one of very few things any of us can do at the moment

Please donate to the Sameer Project. They are doing amazing work on the ground. Try to do what you can. Sharing and donating as little as 5 dollars can culminate into a big difference. I have enough of a following to know that we can make a truly big difference if this didn’t simply go ignored bc people decided they’re bored now

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Reblogged capricornpropaganda
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COVID Advocacy NY - Stop Mask Ban NY Action Toolkit
COVID Advocacy NY

Hi everyone especially to New Yorkers! Gov Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams are trying to pass a mask ban with the new NY budget. For the sake of our disabled comrades, we can't let this happen!

Please contact the NY Governor's office at 518-474-8390 to voice your opposition to her mask ban (option 2 to get a human, option 1 to leave a message.) If you call, you only have to give your NY Zip Code. You can also use the form here.

Please also contact your other state representatives (state assembly and state senators)

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie: 518-455-3791; Speaker@nyassembly.gov

Assembly Health Committee Chair J. Gustavo Rivera: 518-455-3395; grivera@nysenate.gov

Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins: (518) 455-2585; scousins@nysenate.gov 

Senate Health Committee Chair Amy Paulin (a co-sponsor!): 518-455-5585; paulina@nyassembly.gov

Mayor Eric Adams contact form

Non-New Yorkers, contact iLoveNY: info@iloveny.com

Anyone Jewish, please sign the Jews for Mask Rights letter

More details and links, including social media handles for the people mentioned above, at http://bit.ly/StopMaskBanNY.

Please don't let the bystander effect take over--call, email, and contact, don't just reblog.

Explain how you and your loved ones will be impacted by this mask ban--the NYC subway is full of germs, and even if you only visit once a year, a mask ban will affect you! Anyone can get COVID, and anyone can get long COVID. Masking is essential for COVID safety, especially in high-density places like NYC.

Thanks!

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annoyingouroboros asked:

Favorite decolonialist authors and books?

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estrellasrojas answered:

Notebook of a Return to the Native Land + Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire

Black Skin, White Masks + Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

History of Pan-African Revolt by C.L.R. James

Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam by Muhammad Iqbal

Sociology of Islam by Ali Shariati

Zionist Colonialism in Palestine by Fayez Sayegh

Groundings with My Brothers by Walter Rodney

Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América by Rodolfo Kusch

Philosophy of Liberation by Enrique Dussel

Black Metamorphoses by Sylvia Wynter

Basic Call to Consciousness by the Haudenosaunee

Native Science by Gregory Cajete

Ch'ixinakax utxiwa by Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui

As We Have Always Done by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Peace, Power, Righteousness by Taiaiake Alfred

Red Skin, White Masks by Glen Coulthard

Autonomy is in Our Hearts by Dylan Eldridge Fitzwater

Decolonizing Methodologies by Linda Tuhiwai Smith

Critical Thought in the Face of the Capitalist Hydra by the Sixth Commission of the EZLN

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#to read.
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Reblogged geminus
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Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run
The pro-Palestine student was arrested without due process for exercising his right to free speech. He will not be the last.
The Atlantic

(This is a gift article)

Due process is a cornerstone of democracy and the rule of law. Without it, anyone can be arbitrarily deprived of life or liberty. Leaders who aspire to absolute power always begin by demonizing groups that lack the political power to resist, and that might be awkward for the political opposition to defend. They say someone is a criminal, and they dare you to defend the rights of criminals. They say someone is a deviant, and they dare you to defend the rights of deviants. They call someone a terrorist, and they dare you to defend the rights of terrorists. And if you believe none of these apply to you, another category might be “traitor,” the label that Trump and his advisers, including the far-right billionaire Elon Musk, like to give to anyone who opposes them.

I would add that as this article went up, the Trump administration released a statement explicitly saying that Khalil is not being accused of any illegal activities and is being targeted because of his speech.

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Checked this on AP news (updated 9 March 2025)

Greer [Khalil's lawyer] said she spoke by phone with one of the ICE agents during the arrest, who said they were acting on State Department orders to revoke Khalil’s student visa. Informed by the attorney that Khalil was in the United States as a permanent resident with a green card, the agent said they were revoking that instead, according to the lawyer.

Later in the same article

The Department of Homeland Security can initiate deportation proceedings against green card holders for a broad range of alleged criminal activity, including supporting a terror group. But the detention of a legal permanent resident who has not been charged with a crime marked an extraordinary move with an uncertain legal foundation, according to immigration experts.

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US people: there are scripts/sites to contact reps about this here, here, and here. there’s a fund for mahmoud’s family/legal fees here.

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some recent reads

novels

  • winter in sokcho by elisa shua dusapin (delicate and sensual this was specifically written for me)
  • greek lessons by han kang (!!! my fave book from her, her korean is so beautiful and rich i was in awe for every page)
  • les guérillères by monique wittig (not even a novel it's a series of vignettes abt a community of lesbians and the different stages of their utopia)

fun reads

  • interview with the vampire by anne rice (how to live in a godless world when ur one of satan's creations)
  • emily wilde's encyclopaedia of faeries by heather fawcett (quirky and lovely)

poetry/play/short stories

  • approximations : poèmes épars (1956-1972) by alejandra pizarnik (a collection of all the poems she never put in specific books, loved it immensely)
  • devotions by mary oliver (this will be my nightstand book until i die)
  • the welkin by lucy kirkwood (12 angry men except they're women, excellent and revolting)
  • shoko's smile by choi eunyoung (cried for almost all the stories, my favourite might be xinchao xinchao)

essays

  • why is classical theory classical ? by raewyn connell (highlights the link between classical theory and imperialism)
  • are prisons obsolete ? by angela davis (excellent on all levels, u HAVE to read this)
#maeum.txt#i need to read more poetry...
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Reblogged watermotif
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Low Donation Vetted Gaza fundraisers with big families!

Below are several vetted Gaza fundraisers that support more than 15 people and yet has received less than $10k USD

You can enter my freshwater pearl necklace raffle if you donate to any of the above fundraisers! (deadline is 31 March 2025!)

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excuse the terrible lighting im not interested in aesthetics at the moment but I just finished reading winter in sokcho and I genuinely thought it was written in english but turns out the author's french-korean so I read it in the original text. it's a great debut novel and I especially loved the sensual scenes and how delicate the narrative was..

#at first I was complaining that the original cover is ugly compared to the us cover#but I feel like it fits the story better??#what r ur thoughts on the book if you've read it. personally it made me crave octopus#maeum.txt
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Reblogged capricornpropaganda
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Can someone help me eat this week? Im flat broke as usual so any help is welcome im a Black + bi woman who is poor as shit n struggling with sucidial thoughts n an ass work enviorment.

Venmo: hope-soda

$hopesoda

Oliverodera@gmail.com

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Srsly im losing weight n ppl are starting to comment on it🫠

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Paypal is @OderaO

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