cavi stares back from the void

Donations

palestine children's relief fund

palestine red crescent society

help bring down israel's weapon trade - palaction

save palestine - islamic relief canada

click to donate - arab.org

send medical supplies to gaza - palestinian american medical association

NOTE: journalists based in gaza are saying that donations are not going to help atm. what will help is a demand for ceasefire. so please contact your local MPs every single day demanding as such. palestine need a ceasefire right now, not money (i will update when monetary help is needed)

if you want to donate, do this instead:

help buy e-sims for people in gaza so they may remain in contact with the outside world

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

location specific petitions

gaza call for ceasefire - oxfam (UK)

end israeli occupation - parliament uk (UK)

email your MP - medical aid for palestine (UK)

stop fuelling genocide - action network (USA)

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

note: you can call everyday. they tally the number of calls per issue. so more calls = higher chance for them to take action. p.s. you mainly go to voicemail so don’t worry about phone call anxiety. fight through it just this once please.

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

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

ceasefire now! - ijv (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)

template of letters you can send (EU)

guide on how to contact your MPs in EU

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

includes: links for donations, emails to MP, emails to media, links to petitions and demonstrations

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

Campaigns

friends of al-aqsa

❥ UK-specific

urge your MP to speak up for palestine

hands off al-aqsa

stop administrative detention

petition for UK to stop arming israel

❥ International

boycott puma — email them to end their partnership with israel

boycott coca-cola

palestine action

join the resistance

islamic relief canada

urge your MP to rally for ceasefire

text campaign for people living in USA

text CEASEFIRE @ 51905 to call for a ceasefire

BDS movement

get involved in boycotting companies associated with israel

please let me know if you have any more links. i will add them to a follow up post.

PayPal.me/AKirk432 (pls send via friends and family)

Venmo: @catmom934 (pls don’t send via purchase protection)

◾️ zwarte piet is racisme // black pete is racist ◾️

where i’m from, Sinterklaas is celebrated today; a winter holiday like Christmas, but imagine instead of jolly elves giving you presents and bringing you joy, it’s white people in blackface - Zwarte Piet, a racist caricature.

because of this, late november - early december is Hell for black people in the Netherlands and Belgium. you walk down the street seeing white people doing blackface minstrelsy, you grow up seeing tons of blackface imagery in stores or on TV, and the conversation on whether or not its racist is being dominated by complete disregard to the Dutch colonial & slavery history. 

while changes are being made (slowly), the amount of gaslighting and racist violence black people and POC here have to endure is draining and traumatizing. “it’s for the kids!” they say, but i’ve seen first hand how it has negatively impacted black kids in my family, making them question their place in society, myself included. black activists have campaigned against the tradition and those speaking out have been beaten and harassed by both the police and the far-right. and yes, this happens in a country that prides itself on being sooooo tolerant.

So, around halfway through November, Sinterklaas arrives with a big boat full of gifts, and delivers them to the kids. Every day up until the fifth, kids get a gift. And on the fifth, the saint’s “birthday”, he gives everyone a lot of gifts. The story goes that black Pete gets black by going down the chimney to help sinterklaas deliver these gifts. This is just an excuse, though.

The only thing the kids really care about is the gifts. Doesn’t matter if they’re delivered by black Pete, white Pete or fucking rainbow Pete. They don’t fucking care. Everyone holding onto black black Pete is old, outdated and just plain doesn’t understand what the holiday is about. Black Pete was never the main character in the story of Sinterklaas. They helped, sure, but Sinterklaas was the one doing the magic and delivering most of the gifts. You could cut all Petes out of the story and-

Oh wait someone already did that ITS CALLED CHRISTMAS.

That’s why pro-Piet people violently stopped Black and White people demonstrating against this racist tradition, with tacit support of the police and local governments.

Nobody in power wants to change this, as the minister showed by twisting the words of the only Black member of Parliament. She pointed out how pro-Piet people violently suppressed the constitutional right to demonstrate and that the police let them, which the minister turned into a personal attack on the police. Which can put this MP in danger.

The Netherlands is a White-supremacist country with a bloody history of colonialism and slavery. It’s not ‘a dark page’ in the past, it’s the foundation, the walls, the furniture and the roof of this country. And people will use violence to protect this.

For more info on racism in the Netherlands read Philomena Essed’s Everyday Racism and Gloria Wekker’s White Innocence.

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Ostensibly people just kinda eat fried things and light candles and contemplate. Yes.  But its also “The current ruling party demanded we not be jewish, forced conversion and desecrated our places of worship. So, its time for a rebellion to kill the occupation and take our shit back. Welp we did it, but they fucked up the temple real bad and the way time works says we won’t have the right things to keep our sacred fire burning. We can use this oil we found but it probably won’t last the whole time we need to wait. Wait, holy shit it’s lasting all night! x 8 nights. Lets fry some things and make it a holiday.”

Its another “They tried to kill/convert us all, they failed, lets eat and remember this keeps happening” holiday.

No, its not jewish xmas. No its not anywhere near our be all end all holiday.  It IS however a very good “eat food in winter and focus on the light in the world etc in the middle of the winter” thing. 

Blue/purple lips and fingernails is a symptom of low oxygen in lighter skin tones.

In darker skin tones you're looking for grey or white lips and fingernails. Other places where this may be not evidence is the tongue and gums.

Figured since everyone gets taught what low oxygen looks like on lighter skin. Everyone should know what it looks like on dark skin too.