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I am making a post on behalf of Ibrahim and his family of 28 who are trying to escape genocide in Gaza.

This campaign has been vetted

Ibrahim has said: "We are living through a very hard time in Gaza. We don’t have basic needs, and danger is everywhere. Prices have gone up, making it hard to survive. Our family of 28, mostly children, had hoped to raise money to leave Gaza, but now, our only goal is to feed our kids until the borders open. We have lowered our target to $30,000 CAD. Please, help us by sharing and supporting our campaign—our children need your help. We are reaching out with hope—please don’t leave us alone."

Please help Ibrahim and his family survive!

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*sobs*

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it's been years and it's still genuinely crazy to me that the first two seasons of stranger things had this throughline where all the bad things that were happening in hawkins were directly caused by the us government and that they were excusing the awful things they were doing to their own citizens (children!) through cold war/red scare reactionism. and then in season three there was a secret russian base under the town mall.

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Wall have ears. They also love gossip and having your attention 🫶✨

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Guys please boost Nada’s fundraiser. They are barely at 1k & no one is actively boosting them. Their house has been fully totaled by Israeli bombings & this GFM is their only way to get donations for basic necessities

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Howdy folks, the Senate will be considering the first ever resolution blocking arms to Israel. This is huge and historic; it would block government contracting and about $20 billion in arms and support. This is an uphill battle, PLEASE urge your senators to support S.J.Res114-115. This is maybe the most important piece of legislation relating to Palestine that we have ever gotten and we must seize this opportunity.

This doc has information on the resolutions and their process, as well as sample messages and a phone script you can use. Please, use this moment to hear witness for your neighbors.

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We may not be able to convey the truth of the genocide in the days to come.

I hope everyone who sees this will share it as widely as possible.

Please share and donate🫂🙏

Verified by: @gaza-evacuation-funds

Thank you for your support🫂❤️

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15?? More like 5.

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Please have heart and do not skip!

Donations urgently needed.

Nader and his family are nearly reaching half of their goal, and we need as much help as possible!

This fundraiser is vetted by @gazavetters, number four on the spreadsheet here

They're not asking for much, just €10 should suffice!

By donating, you are not only helping Nader, but you are saving him and his family.

We have managed to raise €12000 since the beginning of our campaign, and as with any other Palestinian who are fighting for their lives against the oppressors, I do not wish for Nader and his family to succumb to the murderous regime. Please, together we can raise enough so that they can afford for basic necessities as well as for them to be able to escape through the border crossing, once it opens.

We have already dealt with Zionists who attempted to compromise the campaign due to their own vendetta against the Ghazzans, and thanks to you all, we've successfully fough back and won, proving the veracity of this campaign. Please, do not back down. We need everything we can muster to help Nader and his family.

It's only gonna get harder now that UNRWA has been banned in the Settler state. Let's fight this battle together!

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Most of us will never know the agony of being a parent that does everything to provide for their child, only to keep coming up empty. Of the immense suffering and self-loathing that comes with being responsible for this little life, and feeling like you're failing: to keep them safe, warm, sheltered, fed. Of holding your child, your toddler, your newborn, watching them slowly waste away from that relentless, gnawing hunger you can't stop (one that you feel yourself). Watching as they howl in pain, and the hollowness that comes when your child becomes too weak even to do that. All the while being totally helpless to stop it because it's not up to you.

Most of us will only see the aftermath of such a thing: a parent carrying the far-too-light shroud of their child, pictured under a headline that details how starvation has taken hold of some given population. Distant and removed from us.

Except that it isn't. There are so many desperate parents who've run out of options, for whom this isn't some abstraction, who are asking—begging—us for our help. Just so they'll be able to buy some of the shit canned food left from the last aid delivery, and a couple loaves of bread to feed their children with. Extortionately pricey because of scarcity, but it's enough to keep their children in a state of "acute malnutrition" rather than "catastrophic hunger", so they'll pay anything for it.

Attacks on NGOs & prevention of aid into Gaza puts every single person there at risk of a slow death due to starvation. Especially children, like Samah's newborn baby boy, her little 2 year-old girl, and their big sister (who's only 9). But we can help. What's pocket money for us, is an invaluable lifeline to parents like Samah. At a time when so many seem to have decided to live in an alternate universe in which deliberate starvation and mass slaughter of civilians is acceptable, we have to do what we can to oppose it. Not to push it away, to ignore it, to decide it's been going on so long we don't care or that it's hopeless so give up, but to grit our teeth, dig our heels in, and say "no, seriously, what the fuck are we doing here?"

tldr: donate to Samah so she can buy food for her kids so they don't starve to death. please. and thank you. :)

(vetted by association by @/bilal-salah0 (relatives), & Bilal was vetted here, #132)

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mohammed's campaign is currently very low on funds. the campaign appears on this list of verified fundraisers and the donations are protected.

his family needs funds daily basic necessities (such as food, clothes and beddings) as well as evacuation. please consider donating or at the very least sharing so it can reach more people

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jesus christ this was my favourite show

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one of my favorite quotes in any season, any episode of the umbrella academy is in s2e2 when elliot held up a huge shotgun and screamed “are you or are you not an enemy of the people” and five just nonchalantly said “really depends on the people”

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Crossposted from BlueSky!

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Big fan of the idea of an antagonist going like "I will kill/hurt the people [protagonist] loves so the grief will be too great for them to keep fighting" and it's like. congratulations you just took away the one reason the protagonist still performed any kind of decency. enjoy the massacre or something