I Eat Teeth As A Little Treat

*i regularly update this post with any new info i find so please always reblog the original post*

Donations

help buy e-sims for people in gaza (PLEASE HELP CONNECT GAZANS TO THE WORLD. if you would like to stay updated, please follow @/Mirna_elhelbawi on twitter)

donate to get food packages to gaza - care for gaza

support palestinians: buy a keffiyeh from the last and only factory in palestine - hirbawi

palestine children's relief fund

palestine red crescent society

save palestine - islamic relief canada

send medical supplies to gaza - palestinian american medical association

click to donate - arab.org

donate for the recovery of hisham awartani - gofundme

help bring down israel's weapon trade - palaction

Petitions

petition to investigate war crimes committed by israeli military

demand ceasefire - amnesty.org

open call for immediate ceasefire

american government call for immediate ceasefire

american government to stop funding israeli military

ceasefire and increase humanitarian assistance - oxfam au

petition to get canva to address their pro-israel stance

invoke the genocide convention to call for ceasefire in gaza - world beyond war

gaza call for ceasefire - oxfam (UK)

end israeli occupation - parliament uk (UK)

email your MP - medical aid for palestine (UK)

protect gaza civilians - islamic relief (UK)

stop fuelling genocide - action network (USA)

@ biden: call for ceasefire now - move on (USA)

ceasefirenow.com - jewishvoiceofpeace (USA)

call congress and demand a ceasefire - uscpr (USA - they provide a script of what you should say, so don't worry about it)

australia call on israel to stop attacking palestinians - apan (AUS)

immediate ceasefire and increase in humanitarian aid in gaza - actionaid (AUS)

email your MPs - stand with palestine (AUS)

[EN5622] call for ceasefire and end to occupation - parliament of australia (AUS)

[EN5628] retract governmental support to israel and demand ceasefire - parliament of australia (AUS)

sign to send letter to MP for ceasefire - nccm (CANADA)

ceasefire now! - ijv (CANADA)

ceasefire and allow aid to enter gaza - oxfam (CANADA)

house of commons petition 4661 (CANADA)

cessez-le-feu et un couloir humanitaire - le mouvement (FRANCE)

write to your député - assemblée nationale (FRANCE)

skydda civilbefolkningen i gaza! - mittskifte (SWEDEN)

singaporeans call for immediate ceasefire (SIN)

contact your elected reps and demand a ceasefire (GERMANY)

write to the EU demanding a ceasefire (EUROPE)

multiple actions you can take to help palestine - plant een olifbloom (NETHERLANDS)

den haag, maak nú werk van vrede in israël/Palestina - the right forum (NETHERLANDS)

māori call for palestine - ourActionStation (NZ)

special visa for palestinians in gaza with family in NZ - NZ parliament/pāremata aotearoa (NZ)

deem israeli actions as war crimes - NZ parliament/pāremata aotearoa (NZ)

basta ao genocídio em Gaza! - awaaz (BRAZIL)

globo e grande mídia, parem de desumanizar civis palestinos - the intercept (BRAZIL)

Campaigns

friends of al-aqsa

❥ UK-specific

❥ International

palestine action

islamic relief canada

decolonise palestine

text/call campaign for people living in USA

fax campaign for people in the USA

BDS movement

please let me know if you have any more links. i will add them in. and please reblog the original post!!

UPCOMING PROTESTS

PALESTINIAN LITERATURE READING LIST

You don't have to like weed but I find people who are vehemently anti-weed but claim to be left leaning infuriating. If you go into a rage because you smelled someone smoking pot, how the fuck do you expect to form community with people addicted to meth? It's easier to say you hate smokers than to say you hate all drug users in leftist spaces because one makes you sound a bit like a square while the other is the writing on the wall. You aren't anti-weed, you're anti-drug user and anyone who uses substances is not safe around you.

I know dozens of people who use meth, coke, and fentanyl. While heroin is harder to get I do know some folks who use it when they can. Some of these drug users are my neighbors, some are my clients, and some are my friends & family. One does not cease to be human just because they use a substance you find scary.

Community doesn't mean you need to invite them to your home and look away if they smoke there. It means you don't call your property manager because you suspect your neighbor uses. It means you don't require drug tests for homeless shelters and housing services. It means the very idea of someone who smokes meth in your community doesn't make you go, "what the hell."

Genuinely kind of a wild thing to see in the replies as someone who has been professionally practicing harm reduction for years.

Considering recent events over here in the States, this seemed like a good time to bring this back. Over the next four years, expect an increase in discourse around "undesirables." This will include but not be limited to drug addicts.

Also, from someone who works at a smoke/head shop: WAY MORE PEOPLE ARE DRUG USERS THAN YOU THINK. Way more people are addicted to opiates, meth, whippets, cocaine, you name it, than you have been lead to believe, and on top of that, they are often the "normal" or "functional" people you see every day, not just the person tweaking out at the gas stations. Judges, bank tellers, grandmas, teachers, the nice lady who runs your bakery— all of them. You are ALREADY IN COMMUNITY WITH THESE PEOPLE. Start fucking acting like it.

I'm gonna keep repeating this: 'community' is not a fucking friend group.

It's not a clique. It's not you and the people YOU think are cool and funny.

Drug users are your neighbors whether you're too much of an obnoxious self-righteous asshat to be aware of that or not. You don't *get* to say drug users don't deserve to be meaningfully connected to and included in the populations they call home (which is what community actually means, btw) and the mere assertion that you can is a big part of why ppl seek connection in drugs in the first place.

It doesn't matter if ppl use or not but tbh if we really wanted to cut down on addiction all we'd need to do is have fewer stuck up motherfuckers who look down on 'undesirables' in the first place.

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In this argument tho, there seems to be a huge bloody leap from "being annoyed by drug use" to "literally can't stand anybody who could possibly have ever used any drug"

I'm by no means a puritan, but not wanting to be exposed to fumes against your will is a pretty fucking normal thing.

it is, however, telling that anarchists once again seem to only have any sympathy for the most run-down strata of the lumpenproletariat, leftovers of a bygone mode of production and various rejects of the system. yes, we should sympathise with them, but it is seriously not irrational to exclude them from some things. drug addicts make terrible revolutionaries.

I don't usually reblog shitty responses to go 'whoa look at this shithead', but I'm gonna go for this one because it's an educational example and if you reblog this stuff directly from me and then write this, you're gonna piss me off. So here goes:

Look at the first two paragraphs, the way the post tries to start with a reasonable sounding take, of just 'being annoyed' and 'not wanting to be exposed to fumes'. It's a weak take because nobody said you can't be annoyed by people or that you can't have any non-smoking spaces. Everything was just about accepting addicts as members of your community and not subjecting them to isolation.

But, you see, the first two paragraphs are not meant to be a coherent response to the above, they're meant to set the tone 'I am the voice of reason', to soften the taste of what comes next.

And what comes next, the third paragraph, is just a bunch of slurs about addicts and very poor people. For those unfamiliar with marxist lingo:

And this is ended by rejecting the call of accepting addicts as members of your community because they supposedly 'make terrible revolutionaries'.

Note the huge shift here from 'annoyed by smoke' to judging the character and abilities of the entire group labelled 'addicts'. The original post said 'it's easier to say you hate smokers than to say you hate all drug users' and this poster just did exactly that: lead with 'not wanting to be exposed to fumes' to then whip out the open bigotry in the third act.

The idea that drug addicts can't be revolutionaries is bullshit of course. But this reveals the value system of the 'revolutionary' tumblr user writing this, They see nothing of value in including the most oppressed in their communities and their solidarity, simply for the sake of not leaving anyone behind. Their only standard for who matters is whether they can be productive enough to contribute significantly to the revolution.

With that kind of take, it's understandable why they want you to think it's just about 'being annoyed by drug use'. Because what comes next is just 'fuck the poor' wrapped in marxist language.

This is such a good breakdown of what I made this post about. It's so ironic to see people essentially complain about a supposed strawman and then reveal they themselves are made of straw.

Even if you claim to be a Marxist, you are not immune to conservative ideas and propaganda. The US has never truly left the War on Drugs. It is so ingrained in us that people have been using that same rhetoric against certain medications for years. I was not surprised by RFK Jr's anti-medication stance because of what was said to me when I first started taking medication for my mental illnesses as a teenager in the 2010s.

Being against one form of substance use is a pipeline to being against any form of substance use. Yes, this includes whatever you take that you think is safe from these talking points. The "Make America Healthy Again" movement in the US views you as inferior because you need support. When you understand that most drug use is self-medication, it's easy to understand the connections.

Also, I want to address the "of course anarchists are going to care most about the most poor of us" crap that one person spouted in fancy language.

First, just because it's kinda funny, but I never really claimed to be an anarchist. I don't think I am enough of an anarchist to call myself one, though I do really value their teachings and the work they do. If the anarchists think I am one of them, hell yeah, I won't complain. Fucking love anarchists.

Second, and more importantly, saying that caring for the most disenfranchised of our population is a bad thing is really weird. It doesn't mean we don't care about anyone else, but if you won't figure out how to advocate for those with the least power in the room then you will only be able to serve those with the most power. This doesn't even go into the complexities of who is seen as a "good" drug user and a "bad" drug user in slightly more progressive spaces.

But if folks are going to freak out about accepting that they're going to be exposed to stoners, I really don't think those same people are ready to talk about people who take the "scary" substances, or even who is "allowed" to use substances and who isn't.

I think they referred to 'anarchists' because they reblogged this from me and I have anarchism in my username, but I'm glad that you like anarchists and welcome to the club. :)

About their response being weird... in case you're not aware (hope I'm not over-explaining): this persons' disdain for the most disenfranchised probably comes directly from Marx and Engels. They theorized that the 'working class' were those who sold their labor - who worked (legal) jobs. And according to them, there was another, inferior, underclass which they called the 'Lumpenproletariat': People of low morals who did not do recognized work and who were incapable of gaining class consciousness and of becoming true revolutionaries. Their description varies and often amount to a list of stigmatized groups. One description from Marx:

It's not hard to see how 'drug users' would make it on this list for a modern Marxist.

Marx and Engels were wrong about the 'Lumpenproletariat', of course. Escaped slaves, homeless people, sex workers, traveling workers, people doing criminalized work and addicts have always been class conscious and have frequently been fierce revolutionaries.

But for the dogmatic Marxist, the 'Lumpenproletariat' remains a tool of exclusion and of respectability politics. Is anything that poor people do to survive morally complicated or does it scare you? Then you can just call them the lumpenproletariat! Only the noble non-criminal, non-sex-worker, housed and employed worker is the true working class!

It's a no-true-scotsman game that allows the dogmatic Marxist to distance themselves from anyone among the oppressed who makes them uncomfortable, maintaining an exclusive club of appropriately civil revolutionaries and actually being proud of their exclusion of the most disenfranchised.

I wanna add to this that a thing Marxists like this have conveniently memory-holed is that tons of Marxists included queer people in the 'Lumpenproletariat' until the early 00's.

These homophobic and transphobic Marxists jumped on the fact that everyone from bourgie gay men to poor street queens visited the only gay bar in town, and used that to argue that queer people were 'class traitors' and that their 'obsession with sex and gender' kept them from developing real class consciousness.

And this is how 'Lumpenproletariat' has always functioned. It's a left-wing spin on calling groups of marginalized people 'degenerate' or 'anti-social'.

When I say “I love this artist” I either know 5 of their songs that I play on repeat or I know their entire discography and you just have to guess which one it is

Once you start thinking about humans as a species in a biome, it affects your entire way of looking at normal things.

The other day I referred to female morning joggers as an 'indicator species' in that if you see women jogging in the dark it means that the environment provides migration pathways (sidewalks, clear signs) and doesn't have any known predators of female morning joggers (guy with knife, bear, BigTruck, male morning joggers).

Though, I think that people consider framing humans as animals reacting to their environment as rude.

straight people are so fascinating even when they aren't actively trying to be homophobic. I had a class a few years ago where one assignment was to summarize some eighth century arabic poetry about going out for drinks with the lads before indulging in some gay sex and like half the class came in and said "I'm sorry idk what was happening in this one, they mention having sex with a servant but they also say the servant's a man? where'd the woman come from? I'm so confused." and a few days ago in a shakespeare class I made a comment about how cleopatra and octavius caesar are kind of parallel characters in possessively bartering for mark antony's attention and one of my classmates responded as though I'd been talking about octavia and not caesar, despite the fact that I said "caesar" and "him" multiple times while describing the actions he specifically took. fully incapable of comprehending of anything that's even a little bit gay.

"Why does Group A deserve human rights if Group B doesn't have them?"

Both groups deserve human rights. That's how human rights work.

Anyone who convinces you to barter one group's rights against another is not interested in giving them to either group.

"Hellen Keller is not real" is a right wing propaganda. It's literally something that was pushed by eugenistic tiktokers two years ago at least because they don't believe disabled people like Hellen Keller can do anything for themselves.

Literally feel like this everytime I see someone online talk about characters I like

Conservative paternalism is gross.

78 year-old adulterous rape culture icon and child molester rambling about fertilization is like music to the ears of MAGA.

Art snobs are actually a thousand times less annoying than people who respond to everything with "it's not that deep bro"

no sentence fills me with utter loathing so much as "i asked chatgpt"