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*i regularly update this post with any new info i find so please always reblog the original post*

Donations

donations currently reaching gaza:

‼️ help buy e-sims for people in gaza

donate to get food packages to gaza - care for gaza

donate direct aid to gaza - ehab rida (longtime activist and volunteer, has been carrying out donations and humanitarian projects in gaza since 2021)

palestine children's relief fund

world food programme

aid to gaza - taawon/bank of palestine

help gaza’s children

female hygiene kits for gaza - pious project

donate to UNRWA

urgent humanitarian aid to palestinians - anera

medical aid for palestinians

urgent support for medical professionals in gaza

gaza evacs and prosthetics - raindove (link to donations in their bio)

donate to ahmed (@/90-ghost on tumblr)

he is born, raised and based in gaza. please help him reach his goal of $50K to get his family to safety across the rafah border into egypt. as of right now… it’s $7.5K per person to evacuate gaza.

help journalist yousef escape gaza to treat his cancer

help mohamed evacuate gaza to get treatment for himself and his daughter

support palestinians: buy a keffiyeh from the last and only factory in palestine - hirbawi

secondary donations:

click to donate - arab.org

emergency relief for gaza - pious projects

palestine red crescent society

save palestine - islamic relief canada

send medical supplies to gaza - palestinian american medical association

help bring down israel's weapon trade - palaction

donate for the recovery of hisham awartani

one of the three palestinian students shot by a racist in vermont for wearing kufiyas and speaking arabic. hisham’s injuries have left him paralysed from below the chest.

Petitions

‼️ urge icj to invite gazan journalists to testify

international cultural workers to strike from german cultural institutions for their complicity in oppressing palestinians and promoting genocide - strike germany

petition to investigate war crimes committed by israeli military

demand ceasefire - amnesty international

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

petition to get canva to address their pro-israel stance

invoke the genocide convention to call for ceasefire in gaza - world beyond war

suspend israel from international sports - diem25

UK to expel israeli ambassador - change.org

gaza healthcare workers for nobel peace prize - change.org

teachers around the world demand ceasefire - teachers for palestine

president whitten: reinstate samia halaby retrospective NOW - action network

demand the immediate release of mansour shouman

location specific petitions

gaza call for lasting ceasefire - oxfam (UK)

end israeli occupation - parliament uk (UK)

email your MP - medical aid for palestine (UK)

protect gaza civilians - islamic relief (UK)

stop fuelling genocide - action network (USA)

@ biden: call for ceasefire now - move on (USA)

ceasefirenow.com - jewishvoiceofpeace (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.

no forced displacement! - action network

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

immediate ceasefire and increase in humanitarian aid in gaza - actionaid (AUS)

email your MPs - stand with palestine (AUS)

‼️ australian senate to investigate australian citizens in the IDF for war crimes allegations - fpm (AUS)

‼️ arms embargo on israel - cjpme (CANADA)

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

ceasefire now! - ijv (CANADA)

call on your local mayor and council to demand ceasefire - LeadNow (CANADA)

cessez-le-feu et un couloir humanitaire - le mouvement (FRANCE)

écrivez aux député-es et sénateurs-trices - association france palestine solidarité (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

p.s. if the template is outdated, just use it as a guide and add a few sentences here and there that reflect the current situation. i can’t find any recent templates so :/ at least this is something

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)

māori call for palestine - ourActionStation (NZ)

deem israeli actions as war crimes - NZ parliament/pāremata aotearoa (NZ)

basta ao genocídio em Gaza! - awaaz (BRAZIL)

globo e grande mídia, parem de desumanizar civis palestinos - the intercept (BRAZIL)

manifesto ao governo brasileiro - petição pública (BRAZIL)

Campaigns

‼️ justice for palestine

reach out to countries to back up south africa’s invoke genocide convention at the ICJ

‼️ international criminal court

submit evidences of israeli war crimes

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

islamic relief canada

urge your MP to rally for ceasefire

decolonise palestine

poster campaign to raise awareness on the war crimes being committed against palestinians

text/call campaign for people living in USA

text RESIST @ 50409 to send a letter to your representatives to pass HR3103–a bill that prohibits tax dollars from going to israel

download 5Calls app to contact members of your congress | (more info)

fax campaign for people in the USA

go on this website to send 5 free faxes per day

here’s a link to a pre-written fax copy you can download to send (the first link on the linktree)

here’s a video that explains how to fax your senator (it’s very easy and all you need is a valid email address)

‼️ BDS movement

get involved in boycotting companies associated with israel

palestine diaspora network

global strike guide - join the global strike!

please let me know if you have any more links. i will add them in. and please reblog the original post!!

UPCOMING PROTESTS

PALESTINIAN LITERATURE READING LIST

PALESTINIAN BUSINESSES

Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...

Azurite, amethyst, malachite et. al. New Pathways in Science: The Earth Then and Now - Book 6. 1940. 

Harris’s Hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus), pair nesting in a saguaro cactus, family Accipitridae, order Accipitriformes, Arizona, USA

mega blaziken redraw for @poketcg-art's #poketcghoenn event!

original under the cut along with the above art without formatting. i wanted to go crazy with colours, partially inspired by card artist mingo. and i ended up reusing the formatting from my previous card redraw.

yup. in 2018 a group of teenagers in new york city did a study of loitering/trespassing/etc laws that bar young people from public spaces, and in just a one block radius in the bronx, they documented all of these:

they also described more thoroughly how this signage is backed up by the force of the legal system:

Evidenced by these observations, there are several ways young people are made to feel unwelcome in cities. They include legal and regulatory methods, such as anti-loitering ordinances, youth curfews, no trespassing laws, noise rules, no skating/rollerblading laws, park closing times, dress-codes, parental escort policies, customer-only rules, and restaurant time limits; physical and functional constraints, such as lack of seating, defensive architecture like spikes on ledges and skate stoppers, lack of things to do, and auditory deterrents such as classical music or ultra-sonic sound; and social intimidations and obstacles such as family-enforced curfews, surveillance (especially in stores), catcalling, the cost of things, and bullying.

While most, if not all, teens can relate to experiencing at least one of these restrictions, the burden and consequences are most heavily felt by young people of color. Several of the Black and Latinx youth we interviewed described incidents in which they were followed in stores or were stopped and questioned by the police for their mere presence in public spaces or stores.

Added to this, young women, LGBTQIA youth, and young people with disabilities are also often the targets of other societal hostilities.  Nearly every young woman we spoke to has a story about men harassing her on the street, and many LGBTQIA youth have been the victims of bullying.

When such restrictions are implemented through aggressive forms of zero-tolerance policing, the consequences can be devastating to both the mental and bodily well-being of youth. Since many of the spaces young people tend to hang out in are privately owned and managed, like clothing stores, fast food restaurants, and malls, teens are at the mercy of how these spaces enforce their policies, which can include security kicking out or detaining people who they consider to be disturbing other patrons or breaking the rules, or the police being called to handle the situation.

When it comes to our own apartment buildings, in not only public housing, but also in residential buildings whose landlords have signed up for “Operation Clean Halls,” the NYPD can regularly patrol hallways and stairwells to deter drug use and sales, and remove non-residents who are loitering, which can lead to confusion and possible escalation with young people who are just hanging out in these spaces.

Added to this, in New York’s public schools, School Safety Agents are considered NYPD officers who have the power to control a situation through physical force or arrest. This is what’s often called the School to Prison Pipeline. Also, minor infractions such as trespassing (which could even include being in a public park after it closes), can lead to a misdemeanor charge or worse.

Rather than keeping us safe, such approaches as broken-window policing increase the possibilities for teens to encounter the police, which can be emotionally traumatic, lead to physical confrontations, or potentially ignite a cycle of incarceration at an early age.

The limits cities, businesses, and individuals place on teens combined with the lack of spaces for young people to hang out and feel free can have a damaging effect on youth development. When society over-monitors and criminalizes teenagers, we are deprived of the ability to explore our identity, take risks, learn to self-manage, practice social skills, cultivate friendships, be creative, and exercise self-determination. Teenagers have a right to the city, and our criminalization is unjust and counter-productive. We aim to reframe loitering from something that is undesirable, to something that is good and activates a space.

and they also developed policy recommendations for how to make public spaces less hostile and more accessible. they called their work the Yes Loitering Project - you can read more about it here:

To work it out, I let them in. All the good guys and the bad guys that I've been. All the devils that disturb me, and the angels that defeated them somehow. Come together in me now.