If you can donate, you're not just giving money... you're giving my nephew another chance at life, a chance to fight, a chance to live.

Life outside seems easier than the 'prison life' we endure in Gaza. I try to imagine other places where life is difficult, but I realize that even the harshest environments are open; at least there is a way out. Gaza is a closed prison. A rocket could kill you at any moment, food and water are rationed, and the heaviest burden is being besieged by memories, destruction, and graves. It is a constant cycle of physical and psychological torment.

i want to remind you we started a new month today as you everything in gaza is back to be expensive and limited

Day one of the month done with 0 donations 😔💔

8th of the month and we’re up to 228$

No donations for the past 3 days …

“When I speak of Indigenous peoples surviving an apocalypse, I’m not speaking metaphorically. The colonization of the Americas represents the largest genocide in human history. Indigenous populations declined by an estimated 90% in the century following European contact, which was about 1/5 of the world’s population at the time. This over just a one-hundred-year period. Entire civilizations vanished. Languages died. Sacred sites were destroyed. After that culturally genocidal policies were enacted like banning religious ceremonies and children being stolen and forced into boarding schools designed to “kill the Indian, save the child.””

["But in doing so, you must not, under any circumstances, allow yourself to hate. Not because your tormentors have not earned it. But if you allow hatred to take root, it will flourish and spread during your years in the camps, driving out everything else, and ultimately corrode and warp your soul. You will not longer be yourself, your identity will be destroyed, all that will remain will be a hysterical, maddened, and bedevilled husk of the human being that once was. And this is what will come before God should such a creature die while still behind bars. And this is just what "they" want. So, when you look at any nut or bolt of that machine— whether he has red or blue patches on his uniform— you try to think that maybe he has children who may grow up to be quite different from him. Or you may find something amusing about him: laughter dissolves anger. Or you may feel sincerely sorry for him: no matter how grim your situation, would you swap places with him? Of course not! You see…? But if you can spark no spot of humanity in him, no matter how hard you try, remind yourself that cockroaches are exterminated without hatred, rather with a feeling of revulsion. And "they"— armed, well fed, and belligerent— are like vermin in our big house, and sooner or later we shall get rid of them and live in cleanliness. Is it not pathetic that they have designs on our immortal souls?

i've seen many of you on my dash reblog fundraisers and campaigns from palestinians, especially those that have been vetted and verified. it's a massive help for those families. but today i want to talk about the person behind the verification: mohammed ayesh @moxayesh who has done the legwork to make sure these campaigns are legit.

with everyone's help, we've managed to raise around £400 for mohammed and £170 for yaser!! let's keep the momentum going and try to get them to their goals!