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This has been happening all month with little to no international media attention. Here are a few organizations you can check out for resources or to support:

ActionAid India

SEEDS India

GlobalGiving

Image one: a heat map of India with a Land Surface Temperature scale that goes from 10 degrees celcius in yellow, into red, dark red, black, and finally white at 60 degrees celcius. Most of the map is deep red and central India is blotted with black and white.

Image 2: a screenshot of text which says, "I want to explain what 48 degrees actually feels like when you live in a developing country, because it is terrifying.

You cant just 'stay inside and run the AC'. The power grid simply cannot handle the load of millions of people trying tobcool down, so we are dealing with rolling blackouts. Inagine sitting in a pitch dark concrete room that has been baking in the sun for 12 hours, with no ceiling fan, while the ambient temperature inside is still hovering near 40 degrees Celsius at mignight. You dont sleep; you just pass out from exhaustion.

The taps are running dry because the heat evaporates local reservoirs and water usage spikes. People who have to work outside—street vendors, construction workers, delivery drivers—are collapsing. Even the water coming out of the cold tap during the day is hot enough to literally brew tea."

Image 3: news headline reading, "97 of world's 100 hottest cities in India as brutal heatwave pushes temperatures past 45 degrees celcius."

Image 4: news headline and subtitle which says. "Laboring under Delhi's harsh heat, workers much choose health or wages. Severe heatwaves have been hitting India since April, forcing many of the city's essential workers to make tough decisions."

Image 5: screenshot of an article passage which says, "'We estimate that a single day of extreme heat causes approximately 3,400 excess deaths nationally; a five-day heatwave causes nearly 30,000,' the authors said.

Heatwave to severe Heatwave conditions were prevailing in north, central, and east India, woth temperatures consistently exceeding 45 degrees celcius in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, parts of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana over the oast few days.

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

They want buckskin and face paint, drumming, songs in languages they can’t understand recorded for them but with English subtitles, of course. They want educated, well spoken, but not too smart. Christian, well behaved, never question. They want to learn the history of the people, but not the ones that are here now, waving signs in their faces, asking them for clean drinking water, asking them why their women are going missing, asking them why their land is being ruined.

They want fantastical stories of Indians that used to roam this land. They want my culture behind glass in a museum.

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