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hey - "thanksgiving" is coming up in a few days. cant stop anyone for celebrating even if its a painful holiday for people like me but if you want to help a disabled /medically complex afro-indigenous person who just got housed after 10 months homeless stay housed i would really, really appreciate the help. i am not being dramatic when i say that being unhoused again will likely kill me, im fighting for my life and constantly in and out of the hospital and on iv antibiotics as is. just trying to stay alive rn honestly.

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a whole bunch of gazan mutual aid projects and nonprofits. if the decision of which individual fundraiser to give to feels too daunting, or if you just want to help as many people as possible in one go, these are great initiatives to support.

care for gaza - focuses on providing food and essential supplies. donate here or here.

connecting humanity - securing internet access via donations of virtual sim cards (esims). if you can't afford a whole plan yourself, crips for esims is a communal pool that will use your donation to purchase and maintain esims

gaza soup kitchen - provides food, medical care, and classes for children. also has a gofundme

glia gaza medical support initiative - provides medical care through field clinics and tents at hospitals. donations can also be sent through their website.

ele elna elak - provides clean water, food, clothing, and shelter. they also have a gofundme

life for gaza - raising money for the gaza municipality to repair water and waste management infrastructure

taawon - partners with local civil organizations to provide food, water, medical care, shelter, and basic supplies

the sameer project - running various initiatives providing tents, medical care, and necessities. they have their own encampment project focused on sheltering families with children, sick and disabled members, or members in need of perinatal care

islamic relief worldwide's gaza emergency appeal - provides food, water, hygiene kits, medical supplies, and psychological support

baitulmaal - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, shelter, and medical supplies

gaza mutual aid fund - distributes food, hygiene products, water, and other essential supplies, including financial support. run by @/el-shab-hussein's amazing friend Mona. updates can be found on her instagram.

hygiene kits for gaza - provides hygiene supplies including menstrual products, wipes, and toothbrushes/toothpaste

anera - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, hygiene supplies, medicine, blankets and mattresses, and psychological care

palestine children's relief fund - provides supplies and support with a focus on children. also has an initiative for lebanon

dahnoun mutual aid - provides water, food, tents, baby supplies, financial support, and other necessities. updates can be found through their instagram

certainly this is not an exhaustive list, so please feel free to add on other projects or organizations that i didn't include. and as always, please take the time to donate if you can and share. it truly makes all the difference.

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OBASI ADEBOWALE, THE BIG BOSS (character is a woman and butch lesbian, she/he!!) Obasi is the current leader of the Phantoms and a stoic gorilla animan with a determination to protect the city of Haderia and the ones she loves. Birthed from a legacy of heavy-hearted pessimism, Obasi struggles to find herself whilst still attempting to hold true to her values and empathy. Her sense of self is otherwise skewed, but regardless, she remains steadfast in maintaining the criminal underground of Haderia and keeping her family safe. She has been the leader of the Phantoms for over 25 years, nearing 30 soon. This has earned her the title as the "King of Haderia". She is respected by many, but not all. Obasi could care less about this, as her goal is to ultimately maintain peace within the city. She strives to provide for those in need, including the lower class and others who have been let down by the higher government. Obasi is seen as a protector of sorts because of this, as she puts a large effort into keeping military activity to a minimum in the city and ensures that resources are distributed evenly- or at least as much as possible. There is only so much that Obasi can do, but it is wise to never doubt her determination. Aside from her work as a kingpin, Obasi is a mother. She's raised three daughters. In addition, she's a maternal figure to the younger members of her syndicate, one of which she's taken under her wing. Despite being stoic and sometimes cold, Obasi is incredibly caring to her family and friends. She tries to spend as much time as she possibly can with her loved ones, and she will always make time for them if she is able. Obasi will always put her family first in dire situations, and she wants only the best for her children as well. She encourages them to seek lives outside of the criminal underground and supports them in this. Obasi herself has also sought a career far from criminal work. From a young age she had an interest in music, and this later led her to occasionally perform at adult clubs or small events under the artist name of "Amethyst Blood".

a new and more official reference of my big gorilla gal, obasi! she's been an oc i've had for so long and one that has gone through countless changes, but now more than ever she truly feels authentic to me.

obasi is the main character of a hopefully upcoming book i've been planning to write within my "blade in the city" world! blade in the city is a cyberpunk thriller novel about anthropomorphic animals in a post-human world, following obasi and her journey to find individuality.

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most of us have a choice about how often we visit our families, but that is a luxury not granted to the families of those trapped in gaza, which has become an open-air prison under constant bombardment for more than a year. instead, separated from their loved ones and unable to hold them close, their only option is to turn to strangers online and convince them that the suffering is bad enough for people to help.

pictured are malak and amir, the young children of ahmed and iman. ahmed has been trying to raise money for his family from egypt to reunite with his family. he has been separated from them for almost a year, and can only see his children through photos.

please, please share this post to help ahmed's brother in law, mohammed, get surgery on his arm, which was injured in the war. the funds will also help the family afford to continue to live in gaza, and eventually escape the conflict and see ahmed again.

even $5, $10 will make a difference. skip buying a coffee today and send that money to a family who is trying desperately to stay together.

Palestine will be free, and until that day comes it is the obligation of those of us who are lucky enough to be outside of Gaza to give our love, support, and donations to those being terrorized by the occupation.

@mohammedatallaah

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just overheard my wife spelling something on the phone and i shit you not saying the words “E as in Eeyore” i am on my hands and knees wailing screaming crying pleading and begging people to learn the NATO phonetic alphabet

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Please donate to and boost Issam and Sahar’s fundraiser. They’re an extremely young couple that has ensured more hardships than most people can ever imagine. This fundraiser is one of their very few sources of income right now

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for every post i see about arc/ne and lol, I'm going to drop these articles in the comments

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hi friends. i know we're all really struggling right now but the end of the month is rapidly approaching and i need help 🥲 i recently got housed again after 10 months unhoused. i am still housing unstable due to lack of finances (cant work due to severe, life-threatening chronic illness). being unhoused again would likely kill me and nearly killed me before so i really need and would appreciate any support you can give. 🫶🏽

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how many opportunities do we get to make the labors of this world something filled with the love necessary to feel like every action is ours? it's few that get to do all things with love, in that i hope we always get the push we need to go back to it.

i ask that you consider the efforts of nader ( @abdalsalam1990 ) in trying to help his family as well as the conditions, put yourself in his shoes if you can but most importantly: i beg that you donate and share as soon as you see this anything you can do is enough but do it please

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My rooms and my laptop before the war when I'm studying

After war when all things are destroyed my house and my laptop 💔

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(north seattle) immediate emergency housing for trans woman

hi i hastily made this post last night and i must emphasize the urgency. the above screenshot is a message from about half an hour ago.

the posts my girlfriend @gnost-stories made in various facebook housing groups haven't been helping and without mincing words, roommates want her out immediately. it's absolutely a horrible time to have this emergency and i am terrified about her ending up on the streets.

URGENTLY seeking a room in north seattle, close to public transit strongly preferred. budget is $850 before utilities. financial situation is unpredictable until the end of january, so a room without need for deposit, last month's rent, etc would be ideal. she does have stable employment so this will not be an issue for long.

if you have an open room or know someone in the area who does, please message @gnost-stories directly.

CA: $LydiaMorrigan

VM: @BardicLydia

PPAL: AnarchKingLydia

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tl;dr current living situation has been throwing me back in the Trauma Zone (tm) for months and i need to move out

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answering a couple questions i got on this post since i realized ppl genuinely wanna know:

tl;dr:

israel lets very, very little aid get into gaza. even the UN can't get in as much as they want to. funding individual families, gazan led initiatives, and mutual aid collectives operating out of gaza ensures gazans can provide for themselves and pay for the extremely expensive aid that is available.

with all the civil infrastructure destroyed by israel, the situation on the ground has devolved into unrestricted capitalism, driving up the price of aid (that should be free!). this makes it more urgent for people to have funding for daily survival.

the post linked above has examples of how donating to individual families can help a lot. if you want to help more than one family at a time, there are many gazan-led initiatives focusing on rebuilding their infrastructure and distributing aid fairly that are worth donating to instead of large charities that already get the majority of donations.

as i mentioned in the last post: @/careforgaza on twitter is a nonprofit started by gazans, it's been endorsed by multiple palestinian journalists.

the sameer project is a collective organized by diaspora palestinians offering emergency shelter to gazans.

ele elna elak is a project aiming to bring water, food, shelter, etc. to gazans and has been promoted by bisan owda.

and the municipality of gaza itself is fundraising to rebuild water infrastructure.

all of these organizations are active inside gaza right now and are being run by gazans. if anyone knows of other gazan-led mutual aid projects, nonprofits or charities feel free to link them in the notes! hope this helped!

long answers under the cut!

if you wanna donate to a charity that's absolutely fine, but the thing is most charities (and even the UN!) are unable to make it into gaza in the first place, leaving aid rotting at the egyptian side of the border or subject to israeli settler attacks

not to mention, charities and nonprofits also maintain a paternalistic colonial relationship with the indigenous people they are trying to help, determining what aid they need for them instead of returning power to them and letting them make their own choices

i'm not here to say that one option is better than the other, just that they achieve different things and are equally legitimate. there's an attitude among people who question the legitimacy of these gofundme campaigns that somehow the people promoting them are telling them not to donate to charities. nobody is stopping you from donating to charities. we are just asking that you do not dehumanize the very real gazans in your inbox just because their method of asking for aid is more direct and risky.

unfortunately that's exactly what has happened. because israel destroyed all of gaza's more formalized infrastructure, it seems that organized crime and rampant inflation has taken its place. aid is supposed to be free, but in order to save for evacuation or the cost of living, people have started selling them at an inflated price. and aid that is truly free attracts intense, large crowds that are dangerous to navigate.

this was posted on abc a few days ago

it's pure, unrestrained capitalism. i've had multiple palestinians describe this situation to me confidence. that's why everything's so expensive now. why people have to rent out tiny plots of land for their tents to sit on, why my friend @siraj2024 still has to buy tarps to cover the broken windows of the overpriced bombed out apartment he rented, and why a bag of flour can cost a thousand bucks in the north.

even before israel closed and then bombed the rafah crossing, the egyptian hala travel agency was only allowing people to cross the border if they paid a hefty $5000 USD per adult / $2500 USD per child bribe. it denies doing this, but the hundreds of stories from palestinians say otherwise.

with regard to the economy, here in america we saw something similar happen in the wake of hurricane helene and milton. the podcaster margaret killjoy describes how she saw dual economies rise after asheville was fully cut off from the rest of the country - some people offered each other supplies for free in a sort of mutual aid honor system, and some people required payment when they lent supplies because they themselves needed to buy stuff for their families. these dual economies exist in gaza too. and this means they all still need money to survive.

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Fahed (@/fahed-2) & Reem (@/reem-reem-0) Shehab have been campaigning like crazy for their family since early May. They've survived a year of bombing, shelling and shooting, displacement after displacement. Now, they're faced with winter, and with it the threats of environmental disaster and severe starvation that loom over all Palestinians in Gaza. If this wasn't enough: they recently ran into issues with their campaign that was nearly completed (read more). A new campaign has opened to raise emergency funds for basic necessities while the previous organizer deals with the issue, but is currently very low on funds. On top of this, they've faced multiple shadowbans on here, impacting their ability to campaign (including earlier this week. Twice).

Despite their indescribable exhaustion, grief and terror, they've persisted, risking their lives daily just for reliable internet connection, because their family of 13—a baby girl who's just 5 months to her 14 year old cousin to their 60 year old grandmother—are totally reliant on these funds, on them, to survive and evacuate.

For right now, the priority is to raise ~$5,500 (CAD) as soon as possible. These funds will go mainly to:

Buying food: the kids are severely malnourished (25kg of flour can be anywhere from $250-$500 right now)

Buying baby products: Yahya (2yo) & his baby cousin (5mo), are in desperate need of milk

Reinforcing the tent for winter/warmer clothes

Please share and donate (vetted here & by the ButterflyEffect Project, #764)

Currently: $1,323 / $5,500 (CAD)

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Soso, rescued a child from the clutches of war.

She did not complete her first year before she carried the burdens of war. My little daughter, who has known life only through tears, hunger and displacement, needs you. Donate or spread her story, because every good deed plants hope in our hearts.

Vetted by @gazavetters , my number verified on the list is ( #184 ) and the butterfly project (#1117).

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