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just found out that there is a sudanfunds website! like gazafunds, it is a compilation of funds for people facing genocide
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appalachia is devastated. towns i loved, towns i visited all the time, are gone. not damaged, GONE. they are leveled to the ground. there is nothing left but rubble and ruin. people are dead. appalachia is poor to begin with and relies on tourism for a lot of its income, and multiple of those tourist locations are just...gone.
my town is okay, but it's flooded and wrecked. trees are blocking all but one way out of our neighborhood. power lines are hanging limp in the roads. we've been without power for over 24 hours and will continue to be without power for likely another 24+. disabled people and poor people are GOING to die from this. gods save appalachia.
it's always a hit or miss with appalachian charities. a lot are just evangelism with no action behind what they do. i suggest looking into them before donating.
adding some additional photos from the other side of the mountains here in northeast tennessee. there has been genuinely catastrophic flooding in many areas and billions of dollars of damage across NETN and WNC. we are not built to withstand this. 33 people are currently missing in unicoi county alone
to those of you reblogging this, thank you. i have not seen one negative comment about appalachia and i cannot put into words what that means as someone who has lived here for their entire life. we are used to being mocked, scorned, and dismissed, to being the butt of classist jokes, and y'all aren't doing that. thank you. so much.
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My friends who have never experienced flooding, and who are about to deal with it from this storm, please remember:
1. NO. YOU CANNOT MAKE IT THROUGH THAT WATER ON THE ROAD. I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU'RE DRIVING. TURN. AROUND.
2. DO NOT GO WADING THROUGH THE WATER. EVEN IF YOU JUST WANT TO SEE HOW DEEP IT IS. THAT. WATER. IS. CONTAMINATED.
3. IT IS CALLED FLASH FLOODING FOR A REASON. THE WATER RISES AND SURGES IN A FLASH. STAY. HOME.
4. If you're at risk of flooding, raise up any of your belongings now. Put the legs of tall things in buckets. Know where your important documents are.
5. Stay safe.
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Hey guys, BeitElbaraka is a Lebanese nonprofit that is currently working to provide basic necessities to the displaced people from southern Lebanon like food and mattresses. You can help by donating through their website (select South Lebanon Aid) and please spread the word. Israel had displaced well over 100,000 people in recent months and this number is only going to increase now.
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hi if ur unaware georgia 🇬🇪 (where i live) has officially banned gay marriage, gay ‘propaganda’, gender reassignment surgery and anything ’promoting’ it. a trans model, kesaria abramidze, has been murdered as a direct consequence of this legislation. if you have a queer georgian in your life pls let them know they are loved and let this solidify why we Need pride and hope cause jesus fuck man
some of you drive me insane. i am not speaking about the usa or the state
i feel like i have the right to be very upset at the people who after reading this blatantly ignore me mentioning georgia as my country, with the flag and assume it's the state. please educate yourself you are making yourself look deeply ignorant this is very upsetting and frustrating. fucks sake
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Funds for Haiti and Haitian Americans
- A Haitian American woman with long Covid and her daughter with cancer have both been struggling to raise funds that would help them during their illnesses. Both of them live in the Midwest, which is where a lot of the most recent fear mongering has been centered.
- COJEHA is a Haitian organization that provides financial support for youth, teaches agricultural skills, helps ensure children attend school, and teaches other soft life skills. They're working on building a farm with fish and vegetable crops where teaching occurs, which will also increase local access to fresh food.
- P4H Global is the organization that has been working on building the canal connected to the Massacre River, another agricultural project. They have also been working to support education in Haiti, with both teachers and students.
- The Haitian Community Center in Springfield, Ohio. Springfield's food bank, community health center, and a local Catholic organization that provides aid are also accepting donations.
- Richard Pierrin is a journalist who has had to flee Haiti and is trying to get a visa that will allow him to work, and that doesn't end after 3 months.
- Marc Henry and his family have been dealing with food insecurity for months, and are trying to get funds so they can eat, as well as supplies like livestock and fishing equipment so they can sustain themselves even after the fundraiser is done. They're close to their goal.
- An elderly couple's home was damaged multiple times over the last few years and they are trying to raise funds to finish construction. They are also very close to their goal.
- A fundraiser for children in Jacmel to provide food, water, and clothes.
- A fund for several families to secure plane tickets out of the country
- OTRAH is an organization that helps trans Haitians and wants to expand their services to combat HIV. They don't have a gofundme, instead donations are discussed over email.
- There is also this thread of Haitian gofundmes which updates fairly regularly
- This document explaining the leadup to where we are now also names some organizations that could use financial support
boyfriendgideon reblogged
the primary response to the virulent racist and transphobic rhetoric of the debate being laughter is actually so disconcerting. the memes are not funny we are not “so back” and i think the whole response just shows that america in general does not value the lives of any marginalized people especially if they have nothing
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every time i see discourse about pedohysteria amidst a trans genocide i think about that news article from 2016 about the mexican immigrant who voted for trump because trump said he’d get rid of all the “bad hombres” from mexico, only to be deported himself because it turns out what trump was really saying was that he wanted to deport all mexicans, not just “the bad ones”
not just him, but there were many other examples too, like white conservatives who have mexican immigrant friends and family or people in the community important to them who were mexican immigrants, and they voted for trump because they thought trump was just getting rid of “criminals”, and then they regret it when their families and communities get torn apart by deportations of their spouses, their friends, their favourite restaurant owners, etc.
anyways, i hope young queers, trans people esp, understand that when conservatives talk about “pedophiles” and “groomers”, they’re not talking about actual child abusers, they’re talking about all queer people. they’re talking about all trans people. it’s why in florida, they’re categorizing “drag” as a child sex crime, and making sex crimes against children punishable by death. they’re trying to execute every single trans person, and that’s just the rhetoric they’re using
so stop buying into the pedohysteria. it’s easy to think “well, i’m not a pedophile, so i’ll be safe” when you don’t realize that in the eyes of conservatives, every single queer person is a pedophile and deserves death, and contributing to their rhetoric by trying to figure out which trans woman is a pedophile is just accelerating your own march to the gallows
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poem by gazan poet nadine murtaja—(nadine.with.dr on instagram) shared on ig by majazz project
plugging nadine’s gofundme campaign once again. currently at $30.7/50k goal as of september 8th, 2024
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i know it may seem miniscule, but i genuinely can't stop thinking about how students in gaza were preparing for school around this time last year. and it's not just gazan children i'm referring to. it's little kids who were about to have their first ever day of school. it's university students in their last year of college. it's grad students who've been working so hard in their field, who just had years of labor and effort torn away just like that. we all have the luxury of continuing on, of starting this new chapter in our lives, while theirs seem to be on permanent arrest. it's just not fair. it's heartbreaking
guys please donate to and share ola's fundraiser. she's someone i could not stop thinking about w the onset of this academic year, bc she's a math grad student whose entire life changed in october of last year. she was working her way through grad school, teaching what she loved, preparing for the next step of her life - only to get a death sentence when the iof bombed her neighborhood, basically rendering her and her family homeless. they are still in north gaza, still trying to shelter from israel's relentless terrorism to no avail, and i am so fucking scared for her. the least we can do is donate what we can and share. please spread this so ola's fundraiser can reach more people. it has been stagnant for days and the conditions in north gaza are no conditions at all.
Only 4 donations in the past 4 hours!! Please continue to help Ola and her family. Do not let her campaign stagnate any further!!
$33,668 raised of $50,000 goal as of August 29, that’s $16,332 left to raise
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i don't know how many ways i can beg people to please please check the fucking exchange rate before making a donation---when you don't check and you make teeny tiny donations in weaker currencies, that costs the person on the other end because their campaigns get less support. do you know it takes so much longer to fundraise in weaker currencies that i have seen some palestinians prematurely close out campaigns in currencies such as SEK and try to open new ones, from scratch, in higher currencies like USD and EUR?
this is yet another stupid bureaucratic way that US hegemony and the dominance of the US dollar end up costing people their lives, and you can prevent it by simply taking 5 seconds yourself to google and figure out how much 5 or 10 USD is worth in the currency you're donating in. even campaigns that state the exchange rate in their gofundme, even Mohammed's campaign where i constantly state the exchange rate in my posts, some of you simply cannot be bothered to do basic math and instead you donate piddling little amounts that are way less than what you give to other campaigns.
i don't know what else to even say at this point except that he, and his 27-person family, need that 5 USD or 10 USD---approximately 52 krona or 125 krona, if you still cannot be bothered to look it up---he needs the same donation amounts you consider reasonable in higher currencies, his need is not any less just because he is fundraising in SEK!
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website is still a work in progress but this link directs to the list of vetted fundraisers!!
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@danashehab has been fundraising since may and is just over €15,000 away from their goal l. as stated in the screenshot people are starting to believe the rafah crossing will open so it’s important to make sure everyone has the funds in case they are allowed to evacuate.
thee shehab family consists of dana (13), sahar (14), mona (9), malak (5), yehya (1.5), fahed, (38), reem (32), and grandmother mona (60). they have been shadowbanned and deleted a few times. you can also find this family at @monashehab
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Also, like, I'm sorry but if you've set up a free shelter, and people refuse to go because sleeping on the sidewalk under a freeway bridge is more pleasant, that's fucking on you, that's not on them.
You really can't compete with sleeping under the overpass so you are going to force people into shelter?
Unspeakably cruel and stupid.
Most Correct Take on this subject.
AIUI the most common reason for this is that most shelters don't let you do drugs while at the shelter. If someone prefers doing drugs to sleeping in a bed is that the shelter's fault?
Reasons I have heard from local homeless about why they won't go to shelters include:
- Can't bring your dog
- Can't bring your prescribed medications
- Can't sleep due to noise, light, or forced schedule
- Fleas, bedbugs, and other infestations
- More likely to get in a fight than when living on the street
- More likely to get stolen from than when living on the street
- Not enough space for personal belongings
- Curfews that don't match work schedules
- Why bother when there's a monthslong waitlist to get into the shelter, and then you get evicted from the shelter after a week, because you arrived two minutes after curfew, because the bus was late?
- Requirement to hold down a job
- Required to do daytime "volunteer" work at the shelter, preventing job-searching or actual job work
- Required to attend Christian services, as often as twice daily
Those last two in particular were listed as reasons that people don't use the single available shelter in Grants Pass.
also, yeah, it is the shelter's fault if someone chooses sleeping outside over dealing with any/all of the above while also going through drug withdrawals. The average adult doesn't want to go a day without coffee, and yet can't understand why the immensely painful/dangerous ordeal of quitting hard drugs cold turkey is a turnoff from a bed in a shelter. Almost anyone would pick their tent on the sidewalk to avoid that experience. Put a damn safe injection site in your shelter.
I was waiting for that last addition... like. OK, if that IS why they choose not to sleep at a shelter, they aren't "preferring doing drugs to sleeping in a bed." What a fucked up, compassionless take.
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terroristiraqi
the post celebrating waffaa's fundraiser completing has more notes than the posts boosting waffaa's (and now her family's) campaign. expected and unsurprising
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half the tags on the former are just "OMG! some good news!!!" i know there's like. a level of difficulty to witnessing crimes against humanity but that's so inconsequential compared to actually experiencing these atrocities. i honestly dont feel like we deserve to be celebrating good news for this long while there are thousands of campaigns just stagnant
donate to waffaa's family's campaign. they are at $800 in 3 days, we got over €9,000 for waffaa in the same amount of time. we can get this family to safety inshallah
terroristiraqi
$4,260 out of $5,000 daily goal
three different people have donated to this campaign and submitted their proof of donation. raffle information is in my pinned post !!! please help this family, time is RUNNING OUT!