#UAE.

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Macklemore cancels his show in Dubai to boycott the UAE in solidarity with the people of Sudan:

“At the end of the day I have to ask myself what is my intention as an artist? […] Although dismantling systemic oppression might not fully happen during my lifetime, our collective analysis is evolving. That is where it starts. When we realize our individual liberation IS Palestinian liberation. Is Sudanese liberation. Is Congolese liberation.”

He also writes:

“The last 10 months l've been learning what factors/motivators feed genocide and global systemic oppression. I keep getting led back to self interest over collective interest at the root. Capitalism is the glue that holds this ideology together. And if I take the money, while knowing it doesn't sit right with my spirit, how am I any different than the politicians l've been actively protesting against?”

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[ana-bananya]

Some Resources for Sudan

On the ground efforts to support

‼️ indicates that a fundraiser has experienced a decrease in donations or has been without donations for some time. Last progress update done on Dec 8th 2024

Sudanese American physicians association

Sudanese American Medical Association

Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

Save the Children

Sudan Solidarity Collective

Sudan diaspora networks Sudan benefit fundraiser

Darfur Women Action Group

Fight Hunger in Sudan: The Khartoum Kitchen appeal

Nas Al Sudan

Twitter thread with actions that can be taken to support Sudan

Sadeia

Help Sudan- Sudan Relief Fund

Relief and Rehabilitation for Disabilities Support (HRRDS)

Sara's (Bsonblast) link tree for Sudan

One Million Sustainable Pads Campaign (€50,629/€200,000 - VERY low on funds) ‼️

Shelter and Supplies for Sudanese Women ($13,884/$15,000)

Period Care for Sudan ($870/$10,000)‼️

Sunduq Al Sudan - support grassroots organizations in Sudan

Save El Geneina initiative

Food Baskets in Sudan

Takaful

Action Against Hunger

Mutual Aim: All Safe Hands on Deck ($28,371/$220,000 - VERY low on funds)‼️

Feed Sudanese Refugees facing hunger in Uganda ($16,406/$25,000) ‼️

Relief for Al Jazirah Refugees ($7,455/$150,00 - VERY low on funds)‼️

Support South Sudanese Evacuation from Sudan ($12,690/$100,000 - VERY low on funds)‼️

Help dialysis patients in Sudan

Sudan Emergency Appeal

Medical and sanitary supplies to support women & children ($35/$3,000 CAD - VERY low on funds)

Sudan Children's Cancer Organization

Support for refugees in Cairo ($9,685/$25,000 - VERY low on funds)‼️

Famine Relief ($10,578/$15,000)‼️

Blankets and Supplies for Kordofan ($7,688/$16,000)‼️

Sudanese families that need your support

Majority of these campaigns have been shared by members of the Sudanese community who vouch for their legitimacy. Yousif's family is the only one I am currently unaware of, but please take the time to read his gfm and go over the evidence the organizer provided of their communication.

Help house a homeless disabled Sudani in London (£4,368/£4,500)‼️

Emergency Fund for Sudanese Family ($24,271 CAD/$25,000 CAD) ‼️

Help Sajida and her family evacuate from Sudan ($37,953 CAD/$50,000 CAD) ‼️

Help Eman and her family evacuate (CHF37,325/CHF50,000) ‼️

Help Randa's family evacuate Sudan (€29,994/€35,000) ‼️

Support Sakina's Family's Journey to Safety ($10,055/$10,000)

Help Aalaa evacuate and get treatment for her mother ($38,298/$50,000)‼️

Help Abeer's Family Evacuate ($4,210/$75,000 CAD - VERY low on funds)‼️

Save Omiama's eyesight (€5,412/€14,725) ‼️

Help Abudjana rebuild after war (£3,299/£5,000) ‼️

Help a family of 13 evacuate Sudan ($4,795/$20,000 - VERY low on funds) ‼️

Help Refugee’s escape Sudan Conflict ($15,448CAD/$31,000 CAD) ‼️

Safe Passage ممر آمن- Help a mom and her kids escape war ($6,405 CAD/$7,000 CAD) ‼️

Help Medical Students in Sudan (€1,993/€350,000 - VERY low on funds) ‼️

Help Mujtaba's Family Escape the war in Sudan ($6,696/$18,527 - VERY low on funds) ‼️

Help Yumna's Family Escape War in Sudan - $5,066/$5,000 raised

Help Mehad's Family Fly to Hope ($4,274/$5,000) ‼️

Help Sudanese Families escape from war (€23,827/€50,000 - VERY low on funds)

Help ThomaSerena recover from war (€2,430/€5,000 - VERY low on funds) ‼️

Help Asjad and her Family Escape War in Sudan ($31,076/$33,000)

Emergency aid for Ahmeds family to escape warzone in Sudan (£9,244 /£20,000 - VERY low on funds) ‼️

Help Rama's Family Flee Sudan’s War (£3,033/£10,000 - VERY low on funds) ‼️

Help Isra Continue her Education in Egypt ($3,669/$9,100 AUD - VERY low on funds) ‼️

Help Madarik and Tibyan continue their education ($11,844/$18,000 AUD)‼️

Support financial aid for Gezira medical students in Sudan (£1,352/£2,000) ‼️

Asala's family - evacuation and medical treatment ($5,313/$30,000 - VERY low on funds) ‼️

Help a Sudanese family flee war and afford medical funds (€3,341/€13,000 - VERY low on funds) ‼️

Help Salma's family evacuate (£3,760/£6,000) ‼️

Help Mohammad Esa reunite his family (£1,969/£3,700 - VERY low on funds) ‼️

Help two medical students evacuate Sudan with their family ($1,104/$45,000 - VERY low on funds) ‼️

Help Nour Rebuild Her Life and Career (£2,692/£7,000 - VERY low on funds) ‼️

Help a displaced family escape Sudan Genocide (£14,857/£30,000 - VERY low on funds) ‼️

Support Muhammad's Artistic Journey Amid Sudan's Turmoil ($3,494/$25,000 - VERY low on funds) ‼️

Support Alaa, her husband, and their children (£4,651/£5,000) ‼️

Help Yousif and his family evacuate ($235/$15,000 - VERY low on funds) ‼️*not officially vetted as far as I'm aware, but the organizer provided proof of her communications with Yousif you can find posted in the updates of the gfm. please go over the information for yourself

Hope for Mona & siblings to survive the Sudan war ($36,790/$45,000)‼️

Help An Artist Stuck in Sudanese War zone ($3,691/$15,000)‼️

Support Al Afya's Road to Recovery ($4,149/$60,000)‼️

Aid Marafi in Escaping War and Finding Hope ($155/$5,000)‼️

Evacuation from Khartoum to Cairo ($286/$15,500)‼️

Help Abdulrahman Reunite with his Family ($2,800/$5,000)‼️

Awab's Family ($2,380/$10,000)‼️

Zubeyda Adam and family (£1,929/£5,000)‼️

Help Hala evacuate and pursue her education (€9,245/33,000)‼️

Ahmed's family ($1,740/$5,000)‼️

Raghad's family ($19,244/$25,000 CAD)‼️

Help Roua and her children evacuate (€5,585/10,000)‼️

Habboba's family ($10,101/$11,000)

Accounts to follow

bsonblast (on twitter, insta, and tiktok)

Sudan.updates (insta)

Red_maat (insta)

tartola0123 (insta)

Sudan.updates (insta)

baobaboperation (insta)

Sdn.world (insta and twitter)

modathirzainalabdeen (insta and tiktok)

Londonforsudan (Twitter and insta. If you are in the London area, they also organize and post about protests you can attend)

If you feel uneducated about Sudan and are unsure where to start researching, @/red_maat' has put together a tool kit you can reference. The @/baobaboperation also has a brief starting guide.

Contact your government officials

Canada (scroll to find "CANADA email MP, Foreign Affairs and Development")

United States

UK

Sign and share the Hands Off Sudan petition to call on global leaders and agencies to hold the UAE accountable and protect Sudanese civilians

[acepumpkinpatrick]

Hello everyone, I wanna highlight this Sudanese family's campaign.

It is only 5k! and they're half way there but haven't gotten any new donations in 4 days! So please Donate & share, let's help this lovely family out 🫶

For more information and Sudanese fund campaigns to support, kindly check this list

Update:

As of Aug. 30th the goal has been extended to $7k. I would like to remind everyone that this campaign feeds 20 ppl and it has been up for 4 months now and the situation has only gotten worse in Sudan, what with the current destructive floodings and heavy rain.

I ask of you to please continue sharing and donating, while I will focus on other Sudanese campaigns 🙏 thank you all.

Sorry for the tags ♡

@magnus-rhymes-with-swagness @appsa @blackfilmmakers @decolonize-the-everything @lesbianmaxevans @parab0mb @goodguydotmp3

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Glazed bricks depicting a Persian archer, dating back to around 510 BCE, from the city of Susa in the Achaemenid Empire. This glazed brick bas-relief style was perfected in Babylon, and even the Foundation Charter of the Susa palace states that the baked bricks at the palace were the work of the Babylonians. Louvre Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE.  

Photo by Babylon Chronicle

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[worldtalks]

Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai, UAE // Brown architecture, exotic sights

[aronarchy]

[transcripts of the videos (which have been merged in the above upload in the order they were shared in the tweet):

1:

… The amount of risk that journalists in Sudan go through every day just to get information out of Sudan and to other countries is just incredible. The last couple of months, we’ve seen Halima Idris Salim run over by RSF soldiers; we’ve seen journalists being assassinated in their own homes; we’ve seen, just a couple of days ago, Abdelaziz Mahmoud Arja being kidnapped by the RSF for reporting on their genocide against the Masalit tribe. And through all this, we see no solidarity or willingness to protect journalists in Sudan, just radio silence.

And above this as well, we see even MPs trying to defend the UAE like Nadhim Zahawi did two weeks ago, going above and beyond to defend the UAE and the complicity in genocide, and implying that allegations against the UAE supporting the RSF is “Iranian aggression.” And Nadhim Zahawi who used his powers as an MP to pass legislation to recognize the Anfal genocide against the Kurds in Iraq is now going out of his way to defend a complicit party in genocide in Sudan right now. And we might wonder why he goes to such lengths. He was actually a middleman between RedBird IMI and the Barclay family for the potential purchase of the Telegraph by the UAE which just fell…

2:

…, which has been proven by the RSF’s own propaganda videos, that Nimr vehicles have been used by the RSF. MBBA designs anti-aircraft and anti-tank turrets for these Nimr vehicles. These same vehicles with these same turrets are being used against Sudanese, against Africans, in the west in Darfur, being used to kill us, being used to massacre us, and this must be addressed and must be opposed.

3:

… Committees and the emergency rooms on the ground right now, who—to avoid their responsibilities, the Western powers have said that they are “political actors” and will not help them as such, even though we have seen that the UN ran out of Sudan in the first five days of the war. 97% of aid that has been given to Sudanese peoples through the emergency rooms and through the Resistance Committees, and denying, simply closing their eyes and thinking that these are “political actors” is a complete lie. As well as this, the UK must stop caving in to the UAE and not, as it has done, postponed deliberations against the UAE in the United Nations.

Coming back to the media, there is—on both sides of the belligerents, we see lies being propagated by the Kezan and by the RSF. We see channels like…

4:

… was one of the last people to meet with Hemedti just weeks before the war started. And right after the UK went to the UN to try to have the Sudanese complaint against the UAE be heard, RedBird IMI dropped their bid. And Nadhim Zahawi, I guess, had some sort of tantrum about him not being able to enjoy the fruits of the blood of our people. So, we see MPs, more than just Nadhim Zahawi—there’s David Cameron, for example, who led initiatives for the UAE to buy up property here in the UK, which includes this Telegraph bid that I just mentioned—there are many MPs compromised by Emirati interests. We must combat this.

/end transcripts]

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[markscherz]

Mr Frog guy, what is the different between a frog & a toad?

This is probably the second most common question I receive, after "what's your favourite frog".

There is no difference, because this is a false dichotomy. It is not a comparison of equal categories. Toads are one of the ~55 frog families. Toads unequivocally are frogs.

If you want to know the difference between toads and some other family or clade of frogs, you would either have to be more specific, or identify features that are unique to toads—synapomorphies of Bufonidae. These are the differences between toads and all other frogs.

Synapomorphies of Bufonidae include the parotoid glands (but not present in all toads), some funky muscular arrangements, a weird bone in the skull, and the Bidder's organ, which is basically a backup ovary in male toads that allows them to become reproductively active females if their testes are damaged or removed surgically.

[acepumpkinpatrick]

BRO

This woman is literally facing homelessness, and she hasn't gotten ANY donations in 24 DAYS!!!

Literally less than 1k from her goal!

PLEASE share and donate

Sorry for the tags ♡

@el-shab-hussein @nabulsi @magnus-rhymes-with-swagness @feluka @irhabiya @blackfilmmakers @sudaneseb @sudanese @flouryhedgehog @marigoldcanaries @cluelessbot @mazzikah @raisedbyheathens @tryna-sleep @cruzwalters @decolonize-the-everything @akamanto0 @dykesbat @beserkerjewel @ghostofanonpast @c-u-c-koo-4-40k @xinakwans @chilewithcarnage @hollytanaka @opencommunion @khanger @labutansa

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