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Foragers (2022, Jumana Manna 🇵🇸)

Palestine is the home for several wild, edible plants. Za’atar and akkoub are popular herbs in Palestinian culture and cuisine. In 1977, however, Ariel Sharon declared za’atar a ‘protected plant’, rendering its foraging, possession or trade a criminal offense. Akkoub suffered a similar fate when it was labelled protected in 2005. Those who pick za’atar and akkoub subsequently became lawbreakers and in many cases were indicted and convicted. Despite this, several Palestinians, especially the elderly, are willing to defy these laws.

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Henry Roy. Two students, Dakar, Senegal, 2016

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trembling on my way to building muscle

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6-year-old Joan Al-Habil is has been repeatedly hospitalized due to severe gastrointestinal problems and overwhelming fatigue. This poor girl has been to multiple facilities and seen multiple doctors, undergone extensive testing (as extensive as is possible in Gaza's collapsed medical system), even having to endure an unsedated endoscopy.

She has now been diagnosed with severe gastritis due to starvation and hazardous living conditions. Remember, she and her family are living on the streets, which are cold and wet due to winter rain. Homelessness, stress, exposure to the elements, her previous injury when the lOF firebombed her tent, and malnutrition all conspire to sap little Joan of her strength.

Her condition is so serious that she even had to undergo surgery. Gastritis very rarely requires surgery to treat, so this is an indication of how dire her condition is. The surgery was successful to a degree, but she is going to need ongoing treatment to manage her symptoms.

The treatments are administered weekly and cost $500 USD (just under €500 EUR). Her family has no income and cannot afford this. If Joan goes more than a few days without treatment, her symptoms worsen rapidly, and she sometimes has to be hospitalized. It is vital that we help her family procure her treatments so that her condition does not worsen!

You can help Joan get her surgery and treatment by

reblogging this post

copy-pasting this link (https:// gofund.me/85a1b400) in your own Tumblr posts and all across your social media accounts to share her family’s story

boosting posts from her parents @mahafamily1 and @ahmed-family-1

donating to her family’s GFM campaign below

Current: €22,271 EUR

New temporary goal: €22,771 EUR

Need to raise: about €500 EUR ($500 USD)

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Emergency!!

Bashaer’s @bshaeromars-blog father Abdullah has been diagnosed with liver hypertrophy! He has 3 large, growing masses on his liver that need to be removed IMMEDIATELY! His condition is advanced, and he urgently needs an operation to keep it from getting worse! He is already very very sick!

The operation costs $4,000 USD. Please share his household’s GFM and donate if you can!! He does not have much time left, and surgery is his only hope for survival!!

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HA HA SO i really fucking hoped i wouldn’t have to do this but the day that i got my job, my partner was unjustly fired from her job. so now instead having two incomes, we’re left with not enough, and get slightly more behind every month trying to play catch up. im so sorry, but we’re asking for your help again.

my partner doesn’t drive and it is taking literally every available spoon to work full time again so we just don’t have the capacity to do second jobs (i’ve barely had time to use tumblr 😭). if you can help us from going into the red, we should be able to keep up with everything going forward, even with only one income.

hoping to raise $300, to cover a couple of bills without dipping into rent savings, and keep us (and our cat!) fed. please please consider helping us. we just need to get through the next couple of months.

cash/venmo: torkz428

pypl: torkz

$0/300

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Yemen did a million man march and were bombed by the USA-UK at the same time. And when the smoke rose in the air they cheered. More than once you will hear Yemenis say they are happy to be bombed because it is one less bomb for Gaza.

Have you really the privilege of crying in your bed of hopelessness when you share the same earth with the people of Yemen? If you are looking for hope it’s all around you.

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again and again and again and again

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this fool thinks inner discipline will save him 🫵😂

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getting a lot of work done this morning, nothing like existential worries to make your to-do list appealing

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I want to remind you that there is no ceasefire in Sudan!

Despite the US putting a sanction on Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti, who is the general leading the RSF (a paramilitary backed by the UAE), and Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the general for the Sudanese Armed Forced that is backed by Sudan's High Council, the genocide is still ongoing!

We need to do our part: Boycott, protest, and donate!

Please consider extending a helping hand to Eman Abdelrahman, @emiiii980, (#213)! She has been fundraising since January of last year to rebuild her home since the RSF has bombed it. But donations have slowed down significantly. Her fundraiser would stagnate often! In fact, as I write this, it has taken 6 days for her to receive 1 donation! So let's pick up the pace. How about we help her raise the short-term goal of 39K ASAP! 38,689 CHF has been raised. There is 311 CHF ($342 USD) left to go!

You can match me! I have given 5 CHF ($5.50 USD), but you're more than welcome to give more! And make sure to pay attention to the currency exchange. $10 USD = 9 CHF!

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maybe I should just get a job instead of entertaining a phd but im so tired from doing those applications that I don't want to do more lol

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please consider sharing shaimas gfm btw , its easier for them to move to egypt now that we have ceasefire . you can donate here and read her families story . this is still time sensitive due to the injury their youngest has been faced with and all they ask for is your time and attention ! thank u ! and please do share this on any other platforms you have .

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it's all so depressing but I took a deep breath under the warmth of blankets

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I wonder if I'll ever put my body back together or if some of the damage is already done

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With the ceasefire in Gaza coming into force on 19 January the Humanitarian Operations Coordination Center (HOCC) issued a statement that the Yemini Armed Forces would be lifting a “ban” on all except wholly Israeli-owned and flagged vessels from transiting the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden region.

According to the HOCC this would see it would be ceasing to target vessels heading Israeli ports, vessels owned by the individuals or companies in the US and UK, or sailing under their flags, and vessels partially owned by Israeli individuals or entities, and vessels managed or operated by Israeli individuals or companies.

In the case of wholly Israeli-owned or flagged ships it said, “These vessels will remain prohibited from transiting the Red Sea, Bab-el-Mandeb, the Gulf of Aden, the Arabian Sea, and the Indian Ocean at present. Sanctions on them will be stopped upon the full implementation of all phases of the agreement.”

However, it warned that aggression by UK or US forces against Houthi held territory in Yemen could see the reinstating of sanctions, which would make US and UK vessels the subject to potential attack in the region.

20 Jan 25

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This is moreover complicated by the fact that the [South African] apartheid state did not acknowledge itself as engaged in a war. The apartheid state in the late 1970s saw itself as engaged in a ‘total onslaught’, preferring to refer to its ‘enemy’ as terrorists rather than declaring an outright war. According to Cock and Nathan, the choice for the apartheid state to define the conflict as unrest or terrorism as opposed to war implied that liberation movement fighters were denied the prisoner of war status granted by the Geneva Protocols to those engaged in war against colonial powers.

— Women combatants and the liberation movements in South Africa (2015) by Siphokazi Magadla

its refreshing to see this so plainly laid out in writing. a terrorist is just someone the state has decided has no rights