Free Palestine

I am doing a donation match of up to $200 for two verified Palestinian fundraisers - $100 each. To participate, please donate to both using the links below and reblog with proof of your donation, then I'll match accordingly:

Arij Mohammed's fundraiser here (verified on @/gazavetters list #562).

Amal Ashour's fundraiser here (Amal's former fundraiser is #175 on @/nabulsi, @/MohAyesh, and @/el-shab-hussein's spreadsheet. However, she had to start a new joint fundraiser on chuffed with the Shehab family. The Shehab family's former fundraiser is #764 on butterfly effect project's spreadsheet, was additionally verified by @/el-shab-hussein, and shared by @/90-ghost).

You can read more about their background and stories below. Both of these lovely women have been through the wringer and they are happy to answer any questions that people may have. Please consider donating and sharing their campaigns with your friends, coworkers, and family. Anything you can donate, even $5 will help these women and their families out a lot.

Arij's story:

@arijsobh is a 29-year old single mother of two adorable daughters, Maryam and Talia. The Israeli occupation kidnapped her husband and the father of her children, Adnan, and they have no idea if he is dead or alive.

Now Arij is left to care for them all on her own. They live on the 8th floor of a bombed apartment building with no warmth or heating and a missing wall. Imagine going through the pain of separation from your partner on top of hunger, cold, sickness, and constant bombardment. Right now, Arij's oldest daughter, Talia has been diagnosed with Hepatitis A and she needs our urgent support.

Amal's story:

@amal-ashour-new gave birth to a beautiful girl named Mina about a month ago, but is struggling to take care of her because of the harshness of winter and the lack of food. Her most immediate priority is to rent a house for 3 months so she needs to raise about $4000.

Donation matching campaign update:

@arijsobh's campaign $25/$100 has been matched

@amal-ashour-new campaign $0/$100 has been matched

Please consider donating!

The FBI cut the phone lines during the 1977 disability rights sit-in. Then they turned off the hot water.

They locked the doors from the outside. One hundred and fifty people were trapped on the fourth floor. Half of them used wheelchairs. The government assumed they would leave.

Kitty Cone was thirty-three. She had muscular dystrophy. Her muscles were failing, but her logistics were flawless. She knew how to organize people.

The federal government had promised to sign regulations protecting disabled Americans from discrimination. The policy was known as Section 504. They printed the promise on paper. Then they stalled. Without a signature, it was just typography.

The protesters entered the regional Health, Education, and Welfare building in San Francisco on a Tuesday morning. They took the elevators to the director's office. They brought sleeping bags and catheters. They informed the staff they were not leaving until the law was signed.

By sunset, the police surrounded the exits. Kitty sat near the windows. She organized the floor plan. She assigned committees for security and sanitation. She kept her medication in a small cooler.

According to federal memorandums released decades later, the strategy to end the occupation relied on medical attrition. The building was not equipped for long-term habitation. The FBI calculated that a population requiring ventilators, specialized diets, and daily medical aides would voluntarily evacuate if the environment became sufficiently hostile. They instituted a blockade.

The blockade went into effect immediately. No food deliveries allowed. No medical supplies permitted through the lobby. Guards stood at the main doors checking identification.

Kitty's muscles deteriorated faster under the physical strain. She couldn't walk. When the phone lines went dead, the fourth floor lost contact with the press. The government waited for the quiet.

Kitty dropped to the floor. She realized the barricades were designed for standing adults. The police had blocked the hallways at waist height. They hadn't blocked the linoleum.

The floors were covered in cigarette ash and spilled coffee. She dragged her body through it. She crawled under the barricades to reach the restricted elevator shafts and unguarded offices.

She carried notes in her pockets. She found a single working payphone the FBI missed. She called the local news desks. She called the mayor's office.

She crawled back. When her arms failed, someone pulled her by her ankles. The Black Panthers heard the news reports. They crossed the police lines with hot meals. The FBI could not stop them without a riot.

They shut off the elevators, so she crawled.

The occupation lasted twenty-five days. It remains the longest non-violent occupation of a federal building in American history. On April 28, the Secretary of HEW signed the regulations without a single alteration.

The protesters left the building the next morning. They went back to their apartments. The Rehabilitation Act regulations laid the groundwork for every accessibility law that followed. The HEW building still stands on United Nations Plaza. The elevators run on a schedule. The doors are heavy glass.

Kitty Cone: the woman who crawled under the barricades.

Source: Kitty Cone's oral history, Bancroft Library.

Verified via: National Museum of American History.

in new zealand, our evil government are trying to legislate definitions of women and men, in ways that are legally incoherent but clearly trying to pave the way for more horrifically transphobic legislation. we have an election in a few months but our main opposition party, and all our mainstream news media, are so spineless and cooked that there's a good chance the ghouls will win reelection.

it took 2 whole months for local terf group 'speak up for women' to get 2,000 signatures on the petition that led to this new bill in our parliament.

it's taken five days for this pro-trans 'they don't speak for us' petition to get 17,000 signatures.

this is a show of support that is really heartening for a lot of trans people in our corner of the world.

cis/ish women, if you're from here but haven't signed yet, please do. and if you're not from here and you know any new zealanders, could you send them this petition? a full fifth of our population lives overseas, and there's a good chance they don't follow the news.

What a weird thing to do.

Zionazis will constantly talk about how they don't like Mamdani or want him around but then do this because he refuses to March in your Nazi parade.

The same parade that Bezalel Smotrich, who has repeatedly said he wants every child in Palestine murdered, also marched in.

They're very obsessed with Zohran and his wife.

Oh and they forced their kid to partake in the video as well.... someone should call CPS

The occupation has announced that it will annihilate Gaza City – and they have been murdering the journalists who are bringing the truth to us...

People do not want to leave Gaza City, as they are starving, weakened, and know that once they leave they will never return – and they do not have a safe passage to the 'safe zones'.

People will be bombed and sniped either way... 123 people were killed within 24 hours, the death tolls are only increasing, the bombardments are ramping up – so global pressure and support must ramp up..

Very little food is being sold at exhorbant prices. The trickle of aid getting in is not enough – the airdrops that western and regional countries boast about are humiliating, they have killed people, and are filled with sand and mould...

Aid seekers have been shot, trampled, tear gassed... did you know that 1,600+ aid seekers have been killed in Gaza? They came with empty bullets, and got bullets instead... people have been kidnapped at these sites and held in detention... this isn't aid – its slaughter.

The trucks that are getting in get looted, and fave heavy constraints from the occupation. Our donations are helping people get food, and they are helping people not have to risk their lives...

Without a doubt, your donations are crucial, and a lack of donations can sent people to their deaths...

If you can afford to buy a cup of coffee, you can afford to help Mohammed Youssef ( @mokahaed ) and his family... he has five children – and they have been subjected to genocide and torture that no child should ever have to face... ever.

They are verified, number 88 on the @/gazavetters list ... and also verified here.

The last donation was 44 minutes ago as I write this.

"After our homes were completely destroyed, displacement number 14 has now been made from Al-Tuffah neighborhood in northern Gaza. My family of 27 and I do not own anything due to the sudden flight from the area. We do not even have the most basic necessities of life. No food, no clothing, no drink. I was not even able to bring a tent due to the urgent evacuation request from the area."

Could you imagine ?? please donate if you can...

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They had been accused for years but until this recent report came out they basically got everyone to look the other way.

The report detailed systematic, sadistic, and multi- perpetrator assaults on young children. These acts took place in community locations, including synagogues, forests, and cemeteries. He interviewed different girls who didn't know each other and they provided identical details naming the same perpetrators, locations, and methods.

There's a one hour long TV documentary about this that I don't have in me to watch.

it’s probably an animation error, but sometimes edo tensei sasori is drawn taller than deidara and my headcanon to explain this is that sasori gets revived in his 35yo human body