i know all about waiting.

If you live in the New England area, make a trip out to the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Museum. Hear the history of the First Thanksgiving from the people who were most affected by it. They go into detail of the events and cultural impacts of the first five years after the Mayflower's landing.

alice's disability advocacy naturally led her to palestine solidarity as the quote from the blog post announcing 'crips for esims' illustrates:

We also recognize that everyone in Gaza is now disabled due to the massive number of deaths, new disabilities, life-threatening illnesses and destruction of medical facilities going on. Such destruction also debilitates the land, water, and air, which will impact Palestinians and all surrounding life for generations to come. We owe our kin in Palestine to throw sand on the gears of genocide with our every breath. [source: the disability visibility project]

since december 2023, crips for esims for gaza has raised well over $3.1M and bought and maintained over 5,000 esims, undoubtedly saving lives.

in the past few days there has been intense winter flooding in gaza. donate to honor alice wong's memory–to keep people connected, to give disabled people the tools to advocate for themselves, to refuse to let palestine be silenced.

in violation of the terms of its own ceasefire agreement, and along with other violations, israel has said it will cut aid to gaza by half.

aid for gaza was already extremely limited and inaccessible but this move is going to slow the recovery of gaza's economy, it's going to keep prices high and its going to limit who can access aid to whoever has a lot of money. which is why it's incredibly important that people do not lose interest in supporting gaza.

bridge of solidarity, the anticapitalist, anti racist and pro lgbtq org, is currently fundraising to keep people housed in the upcoming winter.

the sameer project, which manages multiple refugee camps in gaza and provides medical aid, reported that donations decreased by 50% since the ceasefire was announced. this deflation of our movement is part of the purpose of mainstream media surrounding the ceasefire. the sameer project is requesting donations for tents to house people during the rainy season.

connecting humanity is still trying to get people connected to the internet through esims. so is crips for esims for gaza

Israel bombed the last main fibre route in Gaza, which means that as of June 12, all internet and fixed-line communication services are now completely cut off, further isolating Gaza amidst an ongoing genocide.

I am seeing more and more calls from inside of Gaza for help with eSims as that is currently the only way they can connect internally and with the outside world.

- Buy eSIMs here.

- If you can't afford it, you can donate any amount to this eSIM fund.

Independent bookstores around the country have a particularly clever lifeline, one perfectly suited to the unprecedented moment we find ourselves in. The strange part? It came into being just weeks before the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, and before the bookstores started closing up shop wondering if they’d reopen at all.

The lifeline in question is called Bookshop. 

SUPPORT PALESTINIAN BUSINESSES

while it’s important for us to protest, raise awareness, boycott, and pressure our governments… it is also important that we appreciate palestinian people and palestinian culture. they are more than just victims. they are artists, entrepreneurs, fashion designers, movie makers, writers, musicians, scholars—they are people. so let’s celebrate all that makes palestinians who they are by supporting their businesses and showing our appreciation and solidarity.

FASHION

hirbawi

handmade in palestine

pali roots

watan studio

bella hijabs

falastini brand

kuvrd

levantinian

dār collective

wear the peace

west bank apparel

anat international

inaash

nöl collective

deerah

pali apparel

trashy clothing

barriersdenmix

nola creates

zaytoona stitches

lays embroidery

lubna palestine

haneenawadalla

thobe sitti - palestinian thrift store

natalie tahhan

halimeh

rami kashoú

BEAUTY & WELLNESS

sea of herbs

sitti soap - also sell keffiyeh

yafa queen

olive & heart

the dirty lamb

pressology

the soap dispensary - the business itself is not palestinian but they are selling “nablus soaps” (made in the 13th century old tradition of soap-making from nablus) and all the proceeds from the sales will be donated to PCRF

JEWELLERY

nominal jewellery

nurnei

stated

diana jewels

ARTS AND CRAFTS

tatreez and tea

folkglory

palitatreez

shalabiyeh

the tatreez circle - join tatreez workshops

HOME & LIFESTYLE

hilweh market

darzah

viva little things

fyrouzi ceramics

el bustan

the rustik home

BOOKS

interlink publishing

booklink booksellers

maamoul press - art, books, clothes, etc

crescent moon bookstore

FOOD

zatoun oil

canaan palestine

olive odyssey

knafeh queens

the coffee queens

luluscrackers

MISC.

shop palestine

NOTE: philz coffee is no longer palestinian owned and have been forbidding employees from wearing pins in support of palestine. take your business elsewhere.

*please follow @/books_palestine on instagram for more fun ways to support palestinians and celebrate palestinian culture. half of this list was made based off of their post (you’ll see in older reblogs i’d included the infographics they’d made. but i’ve since removed them bc i’ve made the list longer and organised it a bit differently to their list. did keep the first page on their infographic though ^^)

Like did you know the International Court of Justice has dismissed the case against the UAE for being complicit in genocide because they lack jurisdiction? Did you also know that drones have attacked Port Sudan, where aid would enter the country? The main power station has been hit, leaving the city in a blackout!

So please make noise for Sudan. We need a permanent ceasefire and we need the UAE, along with other countries, such as Russia, Libya, Colombia, and Saudi Arabia to be held accountable. Make sure to boycott, protest, and of course, donate! How about you donate and share my friend's, Randa, @rnd8, fundraiser? She is a Sudanese living in Rwanda and she is raising funds to evacuate her family. Thankfully, her father and 3 sisters have evacuated and reunited with her, but her two brothers are still left behind in Southern Khartoum to this day!

Let's reach the 34K mark ASAP! There is €816 left to go! Plus, GFM has given an extension, but it has passed, which means the fundraiser can close at any moment! You can match me. I have given €10, but you are more than welcome to give any amount! ! !

Verification: Shared by Jin (@/jinforjustice on IG), and @/northgazaupdates!

€33,184 / €35,000

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if you tell someone who has already killed 16000 children that they can double that number in a couple of days, and they still refuse to let trucks of fucking baby formula in, then you can safely conclude that their goal is to kill these children. babies can't consume anything except milk and formula. they cannot even consume water. if their mothers are also being starved to death, they cannot produce milk. and if a baby is 48 hours away from starving to death, then they have already suffered potentially permanent side-effects from malnutrition that will affect their development. hundreds of thousands of children in the gaza strip are already going to suffer the consequences of these two months of starvation for the rest of their lives.

This comes after more than 50 days (and counting) of Israel's complete closure of the borders, preventing food and medicine, among other life essentials, from entering Gaza. There are children crying out of hunger with trucks loaded with over 100,000 tons of food mere minutes away from them, which Israel continues to prevent from entering besieged Gaza.

This also comes after Israel had deliberately destroyed swaths of farmlands in Gaza, specifically targeting them with bombs and chemical weapons that destroy the chance of growing crops. Israel also made sure bakeries are destroyed as well as water sources.

Diabolical is an understatement when it comes to the Zionist entity.

There are still things you can do. On top of raising awareness and protesting when possible, independent organisations like APN are working directly with farmers in Gaza to rehabilitate the agricultural sector and restore local food systems to combat famine, counter the blockade and build food sovereignty. You can donate to their Revive Gaza's Farmlands initiative here.