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This year’s theme for the conference is “Radical Hope: Resistance in the Face of Adversity.” In Palestine, we are seeing the bravery and resilience of Palestinians in their continued resistance against occupation, colonization, and apartheid, including daily home demolitions, ongoing Zionist military encroachment on Palestinian lands, constant surveillance, and checkpoints. It is from them we learn the meaning and practice of radical hope. At the same time, across campuses globally, students, faculty and community organizers continue to build the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanction movement until Israel complies with human rights and international law, while resisting the ongoing attempts to silence and criminalize  solidarity with Palestine. This conference brings organizers together to connect and build the struggle across Turtle Island for justice in Palestine, which will help us strengthen the work here at the University of Toronto. Donate today to help build the BDS movement at the University of Toronto and on campuses across Turtle Island / North America. All donations, big or small, would be greatly appreciated. We ask all our supporters, allies, and friends to donate and to share this fundraiser with others.

My cousin didn’t make it and my aunt is currently in a coma. My other cousin who is three months pregnant (the baby is okay) and her boyfriend were also in the car and sustained serious injuries. They are dirt poor and going to have to make funeral arrangements for baby girl along with medical bills when this is all said and done.

If you can’t donate a reblog is just as good. They need all the help they can get.

me: 

Hi everyone, 

This is another attempt I’m making at fundraising. As many people know, I’ve been very ill for the past year and have been unable to do much (housebound), have basically lived at doctor’s offices, and haven’t been able to afford the majority of what I need to get better. I also am in the process of trying to sue a practitioner who caused my physical health to get to this point. The cost of diagnostic testing, prescriptions, supplements, adjunct therapies, doctors visits, medical bills, travel expenses, and legal fees is through the roof, exceeding $50,000. Most is not covered. I’ve started this fundraiser at a lower amount and may increase it if successful.. After a year and a half, I still have not yet been approved for disability, although my physical and mental health should qualify me. We are now bankrupt. I’m not comfortable asking for help, and my first fundraiser didn’t take off, but I don’t have other options right now. 

I’m approaching my 24th birthday in this condition, and it soon will have marked a year since these drastic changes took place. I already struggled with my health for most of my life, but in a different way- nothing this extreme or debilitating. If anyone has questions about my diagnoses, etc., feel free to message me.

Thanks a million, and a giant thank you hug to anyone who has supported me in any way these past several months.

I also accept donations via PP: paypal.me/awijoon