It's with a heavy but hopeful heart that I watch Palestinian families fundraiser on here, slowly accumulating the precious little money to go around that they need to survive. However, not everyone is so lucky. A lot of Palestinians that have not had that kind of luck, that did not get early verification, that did not get massive platforms behind them from large bloggers, have approached me in my inbox, asking me kindly to do what I can for them. It kills me that I have so little to give myself, but I've seen this platform collectively raise enough to change someone's life. I've made a list of Palestinian fundraisers that are extremely low on funds, in the hope that drawing attention to people who have not been lucky at all can help turn that luck around. I know most of us can't possibly give enough to get all of these families safe in one go. But please, reblog this list. Pick one or two fundraisers, give what you can, and then keep track of it. Slowly, collectively, we can make a difference in these people's lives. Share and donate as much as you can. https://docs.google.com/document/d/178EGDFKkHlh3y4TMVX82kqgITHsqtoMdNccI2f_94Os/edit?usp=sharing

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"killing billionaires wont solve the problem of wealth inequality" no but killing elon musk would solve the problem of elon musk

A 22 yr old in my org got drunk tuesday night and kinda shit on the fact that I'm running a community cleanup for our chapter. Said something along the lines of "i didn't join up to pick trash." Which really bothers me and it took me a while to figure out why. The whole point of the community cleanup is that we're returning to the neighborhoods where we knocked doors for A4 to help clean up their streets and provide material improvement for free in an effort to build inroads with those neighbors.

Like... if your socialism doesn't include picking uo trash, I'm guessing it also doesn't include doing the dishes, babysitting, or anything else that is important but not prestigious. Idk man, fuck off with that shit. You'll pick up trash and you'll like it until you understand why picking up trash isn't anyone's job but your own. I hate that attitude. If helping and doing activism was always fun and visible and impressive, everyone you know would already be doing it.

Hello every one👇

I am Widad Alsbakhi from Palestine, Gaza Strip, married with 5 children, living in Gaza and currently living with my children in a very small displacement tent, after our beautiful home was destroyed by the damned war. We are currently living in very difficult conditions, seeing death before our eyes every day and every moment, as every day represents a new challenge to survive, as my children lack safety and the most important basics of life such as good food, clean water and clothes that protect them from the bitter cold, I hope you will help me and stand by me to save my children, as I and my children are in a state of fear and panic from what we are living now. Your sympathy and mercy for my situation will give me and my children the opportunity and hope to live again after we lost everything in life, and I am certain that you understand the magnitude of the tragedy we are living. I ask you to contribute to saving us. We are in dire need of your support and standing by us, to be part of the hope in this darkness that surrounds us. Please allow me to have this opportunity, and you will be the reason for making a real difference in my children's smiles.

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Death / Eclipse of the Real

art by Mike Dringenberg

Brandy for Vibe Magazine, 1998

You know what the most frustrating thing about the vegans throwing a fit over my “Humans aren’t Parasites” post is?  I really wasn’t trying to make a point about animal agriculture. Honestly, the example about subsistence hunting isn’t the main point. That post was actually inspired by thoughts I’ve been having about the National Park system and environmentalist groups.

See, I LOVE the National Parks. I always have a pass. I got to multiple parks a year. I LOVE them, and always viewed them as this unambiguously GOOD thing. Like, the best thing America has done. 

BUT, I just finished reading this book called “I am the Grand Canyon” all about the native Havasupai people and their fight to gain back their rights to the lands above the canyon rim. Historically, they spent the summer months farming in the canyon, and then the winter months hunter-gathering up above the rim. When their reservation was made though, they lost basically all rights to the rim land (They had limited grazing rights to some of it, but it was renewed year to year and always threatened, and it was a whole thing), leading to a century long fight to get it back. 

And in that book there are a couple of really poignant anecdotes- one man talks about how park rangers would come harass them if they tried to collect pinon nuts too close to park land- worried that they would take too many pinon nuts that the squirrels wanted. Despite the fact that the Havasupai had harvested pinon nuts for thousands and thousands of years without ever…like…starving the squirrels. 

There’s another anecdote of them seeing the park rangers hauling away the bodies of dozens of deer- killed in the park because of overpopulation- while the Havasupai had been banned from hunting. (Making them more and more reliant on government aid just to survive the winter months.) 

They talk about how they would traditionally carve out these natural cisterns above the rim to catch rainwater, and how all the animals benefitted from this, but it was difficult to maintain those cisterns when their “ownership” of the land was so disputed. 

So here you have examples of when people are forcibly separated from their ecosystem and how it hurts both those people and the ecosystem. 

And then when the Havasupai finally got legislation before Congress to give them ownership of the rim land back- their biggest opponent was the Parks system and the Sierra Club. The Sierra Club (a big conservation group here in the US) ran a huge smear campaign against these people on the belief that any humans owning this land other than the park system (which aims at conservation, even while developing for recreation) was unacceptable. 

And it all got me thinking about how, as much as I love the National Parks, there are times when its insistence that nature be left “untouched” (except, ya know, for recreation) can actually harm both the native people who have traditionally been part of those ecosystems AND potentially the ecosystems themselves. And I just think there’s a lot of nuance there about recognizing that there are ways for us to be in balance with nature, and that our environmentalism should respect that and push for sustainability over preserving “pristine” human-less landscapes. Removing ourselves from nature isn’t the answer. 

But apparently the idea that subsistence hunting might actually not be a moral catastrophe really set the vegans off.  Woopie. 

I've been homeless for almost 5 months. have about $30 to my name rn, no food, no transportation, and I will be in this hotel until tomorrow at 11 and don't have anywhere to go none of the people in my life help me or answer the phone unless it's to use or manipulate me

im genuinely considering moving back in with my abusive family in Delaware and if that happens i don't know what will happen but it will be devastating. i am so tired and alone and nothing i do can help this. i cannot pretend that i haven't been deeply traumatized by my experiences this year. i don't know why i can't find a true friend. i just want to fade away.

please help. i made so many posts that fell off. if you're seeing this for the first time, donate, share, whatever you can.

paypal.me/tominova

venmo: tominova

I can't keep sleeping in hotels and fighting with these shady websites to get refunds like PLEASE help me

While I have you here

Ahmad and his family need your help escaping gaza

Please don't ignore this

These people are in a living hell, if you can afford it please do what you can to help them

male loneliness leads to evil but female loneliness leads to rpf

I've been homeless for almost 5 months. have about $30 to my name rn, no food, no transportation, and I will be in this hotel until tomorrow at 11 and don't have anywhere to go none of the people in my life help me or answer the phone unless it's to use or manipulate me

im genuinely considering moving back in with my abusive family in Delaware and if that happens i don't know what will happen but it will be devastating. i am so tired and alone and nothing i do can help this. i cannot pretend that i haven't been deeply traumatized by my experiences this year. i don't know why i can't find a true friend. i just want to fade away.

please help. i made so many posts that fell off. if you're seeing this for the first time, donate, share, whatever you can.

paypal.me/tominova

venmo: tominova

I can't keep sleeping in hotels and fighting with these shady websites to get refunds like PLEASE help me

Save my life 🩸🙏

I am Kawthar Zeyad Ramadan from Gaza, I am 29 years old.

I live every day war, destruction and fear, a feeling that can only be described by those who live it.

War is not easy, as I lost part of my family, my home and my work.

I graduated from university with a high grade and worked as a fashion designer and opened my own project because it was my hobby from the beginning.

I developed and succeeded in my field, but the war came and I lost everything in a moment.

My work was my source of livelihood for my family, so because of it there was no longer any source of income.

Also, my mother has been suffering from kidney failure for years and needs dialysis 3 times a week.

Because of the war, she suffered from going to the hospital in danger and long distances.

Also, the lack of adequate care caused her severe fatigue and hospitals became an unhealthy place because of the large numbers who needed treatment.

I had many ambitions and dreams that I wanted to achieve and succeed and become a famous fashion designer.

All we wanted was to survive the war. We were forced to be displaced more than 10 times at least.

We suffer a lot from the tent as we lived the summer with its extreme heat as it is made of poor quality nylon

And from insects and diseases

And now winter has come and we are drowning in the tents and the extreme cold

We fear death every day, we love life

Your help by donating even a small amount is able to save my life and my family's from death

Every €15 or €20 will contribute to saving

my family

https://gofund.me/4eadb983

Vetted by @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #145 )

vetted by 90-ghost

Vetted by @gaza-evacuation-funds

Ibrahim is only 15 years old and living through a genocide, and now he has told me the upsetting, terrible news that his uncle & two cousins have become Matyrs due to an Israeli missile.

Ibrahim's fundraiser is 73% raised, but it's still not enough at this time, and he has already lost family members while waiting for help to escape Gaza. Please think about donating if you can, or spreading this post so we can get Ibrahim to safety!

He is #25 on this spreadsheet & below is his gfm

Donations needed urgently

My family and I are halfway to our goal, and we need as much help as we can get!

This donation was verified by @gazavetters , and is number 43 in the spreadsheet.

We don't ask for much, just 10€ should be enough!

By donating, you are not only helping me, you are saving me and my family.

We have managed to raise 26,000€ since the beginning of our campaign thanks to you, and like any other Palestinian fighting for his life against the oppressors, I do not wish for us to surrender to the murderous regime. Please, together we can raise enough to afford basic necessities and also to enable us to escape through the border crossing, once it opens.

Note:the above art is the work of artist @catnapdreams thank you for this beautiful drawing ♥️🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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so much of being an ok person is just 1) not panicking, 2) not taking things personally, and 3) not letting the vindictive gargoyle that lives in your head tell you what to do. this sucks because brains love doing those things

so much of being an ok person is just 1) not panicking, 2) not taking things personally, and 3) not letting the vindictive gargoyle that lives in your head tell you what to do. this sucks because brains love doing those things