Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke, the youngest MP in Aotearoa, starts a haka to protest the first vote on a bill reinterpreting the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi

While on the surface this seems good, in reality, the Egyptian government has so far not substantially helped any Palestinians, preventing them from crossing the border, and prior to that, only letting them if they paid extortionate prices.

Hazem Tannera (@hazemfromgaza) is one such Palestinian who was able to get into Egypt because of his brain tumor, but had to leave behind his ten family members, including his mother and three nieces/nephews. While he is receiving treatment there, he hopes to provide for them until the border opens again and he can reunite with them. But donations have been coming in very slowly, and there have been none for the past three days. His minimal budget for food, what used to be £20-£30 a day, has now risen to £70 a day because of the inflating food prices.

Please help Hazem provide for his family during this time. This is extremely urgent.

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please reblog the fundraisers you see on your dash. please. if you claim to care about palestine, NOW is the time to prove it. everyone said gaza will be worse off if trump wins - well, now he has. the least anyone can do now is reblog and share and DONATE to as many fundraisers as possible. especially if you're american. you want harm reduction? this is harm reduction. help gazan families.

you can't decide where to start?

nairuz and hussein's spreadsheet | gazavetters' spreadsheet | the butterfly effect spreadsheet

fundraisers linked on my blog

pick a name. any name. read their story. realize that what you feel now, they feel everyday, a thousandfold. donate whatever you can. at the very least, reblog if you can't.

there is no excuse not to.

When I see Breaking Bad memes and people making jokes like "lol if only they had universal healthcare" I get it, but I always just go:

@samy-family55 Sami's family is SO COLD and the baby needs milk and pampers!!!

A small child having to live with no diapers is beyond inhumane!!!

Let's get this family some blankets, milk, food, diapers, and clean water!!!

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Donation-protected!!

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Vetted by association -- check it out at this link as well as an art incentive for donating!!!

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Guys they're nearly there!

Please share and donate if you can to help the Khartoum Kitchen!

answering a couple questions i got on this post since i realized ppl genuinely wanna know:

tl;dr:

the post linked above has examples of how donating to individual families can help a lot. if you want to help more than one family at a time, there are many gazan-led initiatives focusing on rebuilding their infrastructure and distributing aid fairly that are worth donating to instead of large charities that already get the majority of donations.

as i mentioned in the last post: @/careforgaza on twitter is a nonprofit started by gazans, it's been endorsed by multiple palestinian journalists.

the sameer project is a collective organized by diaspora palestinians offering emergency shelter to gazans.

ele elna elak is a project aiming to bring water, food, shelter, etc. to gazans and has been promoted by bisan owda.

and the municipality of gaza itself is fundraising to rebuild water infrastructure.

all of these organizations are active inside gaza right now and are being run by gazans. if anyone knows of other gazan-led mutual aid projects, nonprofits or charities feel free to link them in the notes! hope this helped!

long answers under the cut!

plugging gaza soup kitchen for those with the means to donate! it's another gazan-led initiative currently providing food, water, classes for children, and medical care across the north and south. you can donate through their website or their gofundme, or follow them on instagram for news about their projects

I know there's the funny ha ha of a capitalist's worst nightmare of a product being too durable you don't need to replace it, but the situation is actually quite interesting to look into

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/tupperware-brands-files-chapter-11-bankruptcy-2024-09-18/

A lot of articles tend to point towards a lack of "relevance" but ultimately that's not what is happening.

One of Tupperware's biggest hurdles is availability, not demand. They previously relied on independent sellers, down to individual independent sellers, like the Tupperware Parties of yore (people, usually women seeking financial independence from the 50s onward, would hold events to sell Tupperware to other suburban women -- similar to Avon). 2022 was the first year Tupperware could be found in places like Target. At All. Their exclusivity and middle(wo)men decreased their reach as the parties became less and less of a thing.

The next issue for Tupperware is in manufacturing. It only has a single US plant (which it now closed) and struggled post-(early)covid to pay for rising costs of plastic and transportation of materials.

THEN Tupperware got fucked by investors trying to make bank first on their success and then also on their failure as they got swept into "meme stock" betting, where inexperienced traders gamble on stock around jokes/irony.

So ultimately, Tupperware has failed to get with the times as it has always relied on suburban lady sales while countless imitation products hit shelves in places where working class people shop for cheaper and sometimes comparable products, the cost to make a good product went up and as Tupperware struggled, investors and gamblers who are addicted to Line Going Up cashed in on betting on their failure rather than success, and because Tupperware is so synonymous with plastic food storage, IP gremlins are more than delighted to crash and burn a company to get it on the cheap and turn it around to make the numbers go back up again.

Rather than a "oh the woe of durability" story, or lament that a product is not used anymore, this is an excellent microcosm of the vulturistic nature of capitalism.

How dare you read the article and add nuance to this headline upon which I may project my grossly uninformed postulations of Our Society and consumer behavior.

Honestly after so many MlM scams of people inviting others over for "parties" just to get stuff, I honestly thought Tupperware parties were like. A scam.

They really didn't get with the times, jfc. Before their business model could've worked but now there's so many scams people just. Won't.

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autistic anger issues are So Much. i have my temper more under control now in that i rly dont yell/lash out anymore but i do regularly boil inside with incandescent uncontainable rage over something inconsequential and then it evaporates in the span of ten minutes. incomparable

Autism:

Some tweets about Tyre (Sur), Lebanon because you should know this and not because a city needs to be thousands of years old and a UNESCO heritage site to not be targeted by a settler colony of numbered days that's trying to expand

Guadalajara, Mexico @antifastreet

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the children of gaza almost a year ago, in a press conference outside a hospital, pleaded for protection with the world to put a stoppage to the genocide being committed. 10 months later, and the impunity of israel (financially backed by western countries) still continues its onslaught. children should just be children. everyone was once a child. it should be full of good times and playful memories to help us cope during difficult days. the reality on the ground in gaza was far from that tho. and i want to bring your attention to these families with 5 children each to help them survive and escape. SAVE THEIR LIVES BY CONTRIBUTING OR BY CAMPAIGNING FOR THEM. THEY NEED YOU TO CARE FOR THEM THE WAY YOU CARE FOR YOUR OWN CHILD OR A WHITE CHILD OR THE WAY ONE MUST CARE FOR ANY CHILD:

Abusweireh children @hatem1790

Atallah children in their family @mohammedatallahsblog @mohammed-atallah @atalah-mohammed @mohammedatallah

tag list under the cut for wider reach. i am truly so sorry for the inconvenience. i hope it is okay. dm me to be included/excluded. (i would reply next wk tho bc of irl issues) tysm for understanding. 🇵🇸 from the river to the sea, palestine will be free within our lifetime.

[Video description: a tweet by Prem Thakker @ prem_thakker, which is captioned "Kids in Gaza holding a press conference, in English, to beg the world for life.

'We come now to shout and invite you to protect us; we want to live, we want peace… we want to live as the other children live'

Over 4,200 kids, like these, have been killed."

Attached is a video of several Palestinian children, and a boy is holding a piece of paper and says the following:

"Since the 7th of October, we have faced extermination, killing, bombing falling over our head. All of us in front of the world. They lie to the world saying that they kill the [???], but they kill the people of Gaza, their dreams and their future. Kids of Gaza run out of loved ones and [???]. We come to Al Shifa hospital to keep us from bombing. We suddenly run out of there for more of their bombing the hospital. The occupation is starving us. We don't find water, food, and we drink from the unusable water. We come now to shout, and invite you to protect us; we want to live, we want peace, we want to judge the killers of children, we want medicine and food and education and we want to live as the other children live." /End video description]

[PT: Save their lives by contributing or campaigning for them. They need you to care for them the the way you care for you own child or a white child or the way one must care for any child./End PT]

a year ago today [Nov 7, 2023] the children of gaza begged the world in a language foreign to them. in the hopes that the world would halt the mass murdering machine from spilling more blood. whenever i look at these kids, i can't stop my mind from wandering how many of them are still alive? how many of them are still persevering despite the carnage around them? and i want to ask you all how many more preventable deaths before enough is enough? when do you draw the line? i know a lot of americans are scared for their freedoms after the elections but consider the fact that the end of the world is upon the people constantly dehumanized by the western media apparatus so you won't feel guilty when ignoring the pleas from global southerners like this. i am trying to appeal to each reader of this long post again to please continue supporting palestine. give your best in becoming a better person every day. and please don't be selfish. help the vulnerable groups in your community and join anti-imperialist collectives if you wish to save more lives. consider donating to my friends @mohammedatallah and @hatem1190 or making scheduled posts for them. more hands make the work lighter. all aid is welcome, help them provide their children some basic necessities. they don't have the comfort of home like they do because there are bombs and bullets raining on them nonstop and tanks and drones funded by the US government. time is of essence. do not forsake them.