Even If She Left Them, They're Gonna Be Looking. I'm Telling You, They're Close.

Even if she left them, they're gonna be looking. I'm telling you, they're close.

Today is the National Day for Truth & Reconciliation here in Canada. 

Here’s a list of organizations that support Residential School Survivors and their families. If you have the means, please consider donating: 

🧡 Indian Residential School Survivors Society

“IRSSS provides essential services to Residential School Survivors, their families, and those dealing with Intergenerational traumas. These impacts affect every family and every community across B.C. and Canada. This fact is most evident in the Corrections Canada Services-the numbers of First Nations people incarcerated, Child and Family Services child apprehensions, the high number of people on social assistance, unemployment and underemployed, lower levels of education, the lowest number within an ethnic minority of “determinants of health”, the list of impacts is extremely high while the services available to effectively assist impacts of Residential Schools remain quite low.“

🧡 The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation

“The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) is a place of learning and dialogue where the truths of Residential School Survivors, families and communities are honoured and kept safe for future generations. 

The NCTR educates Canadians on the profound injustices inflicted on First Nations, Inuit and the Métis Nation by the forced removal of children to attend residential schools and the widespread abuse suffered in those schools.

We preserve the record of these human rights abuses, and promote continued research and learning on the legacy of residential schools. Our goal is to honour Survivors and to foster reconciliation and healing on the foundation of truth telling.”

🧡 Orange Shirt Society

“The Orange Shirt Society is a non-profit organization with its home in Williams Lake, BC where Orange Shirt Day began in 2013. We have both Indigenous and non-Indigenous board members. The purposes of our society are as follows:

-To support Indian Residential School Reconciliation -To create awareness of the individual, family and community inter-generational impacts of Indian Residential Schools through Orange Shirt Society activities -To create awareness of the concept of Every Child Matters”

🧡 Legacy of Hope Foundation

“We are a national Indigenous charitable organization with the mandate to educate and create awareness and understanding about the Residential School System, including the intergenerational impacts such as the removal of generations of Indigenous children from their families, including the Sixties Scoop, the post-traumatic stress disorders that many First Nations, Inuit, and Metis continue to experience, all while trying to address racism, foster empathy and understanding and inspire action to improve the situation of Indigenous Peoples today. The LHF supports the ongoing healing process of Residential School Survivors, and their families and seeks their input on projects that honour them.”

Once upon a time I posted a Miguel/Chico snippet here, and I eventually decided to finish the scene into a PWP fic. I thought it would be under 5k. I was terribly wrong. (It's 13k-ish.)

Sigh.

Fandom: Oz (TV)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Miguel Alvarez/Carmen "Chico" Guerra

Characters: Miguel Alvarez (Oz), Carmen "Chico" Guerra

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Episode Related, Explicit Language, Explicit Sexual Content, Miguel is at Peak Asshole Behavior levels, canon typical slurs

Summary:

After Chico questions Miguel's reluctance to stir up trouble in front of everyone, Miguel decides it's definitely time they had a talk about that in private. But he maybe lets too much slip. (Set in S2, before El Cid arrives.)

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Ah, yes, Oz fic - the place where there are "canon typical slurs". (Sorry, it's a harsh show full of beautiful bastards!) Okay, maybe this fic isn't my best work (why is the smut scene so long???), but I finished it! Thing was in my brain, and now it's a completed fic! Sure, it's not as nice as it was in my brain, but it exists!

reblog if you believe fanfics are as valid as books that were published and sold by authors who write as their main careers. I'm trying to prove a point

You're walking down a long, white hallway. At the end, you find a door. Something knocks.

While we continue to donate to personal evacuation funds, I think it is crucial to keep in mind that these individuals as well as millions more in Gaza are currently actively in need of basic necessities like food, water, shelter, and medical care. Keeping this in mind, and recognising that there is no way to know when the border crossing with Egypt will reopen, I think our attention should also be on raising funds for organisations currently on the ground who will have the widest impact on the lives of Palestinians who are still enduring the genocide in Gaza.

Below are some verified donation links of organisations that are currently providing assistance for the people in Gaza directly:

Food, water, and shelter

Taawon has launched a campaign to provide support in Gaza through food parcels, shopping vouchers, fresh produce, water bottles and shelter tents.

Watermelon Relief is a project initiated and implemented by a group of activists in Gaza, who work to provide aid to displaced families in Gaza through meals, support and activities.

World Food Programme (WFP) managed to provide assistance to more than 1 million people in Gaza in May by delivering food in shelters, makeshift camps and shops.

Life for Gaza is an initiative through which the Municipality of Gaza aims to provide basic necessities for the people of Gaza such as water projects, waste collection and the reconstruction of roads.

Arab Group for the Protection of Nature (APN) is working to plant farmlands in Gaza through their "Revive Gaza Farmlands" project, through which they had already started planting vegetables, fruits and leafy greens in Gaza.

Purchasing eSIMs is one of the only remaining ways to keep Gazans connected with the outside world, to get their stories out or even enable them to call for help after Israeli strikes.

The Sameer Project is a donation based aid initiative that provides tents, cash aid, diapers and formula for displaced families in Gaza.

Care For Gaza is an organisation that works to provide essential aid such as food packages and cash to deliver to displaced families in Gaza.

Palestine Children's Relief Fund, through their "Gaza Relief and Recovery" campaign, plan to provide essential medical supplies and treatments, as well as food and clean water.

Mutual Aid for the People of Gaza is a fundraiser managed by Mona in Gaza, who personally purchases and distributes basic supplies including food parcels to families in Gaza.

Help Gaza Children is another grassroots effort operating on the ground in Gaza to support families with food, water and clothing.

Medical care

Medical Aid for Palestine (MAP) provides medical supplies and supports healthcare services in Gaza.

Gaza Wound Care is a medical team in a tent in Nuseirat, providing care to children and supporting pregnant women.

Children Not Numbers is an NGO dedicated to providing medical care for the children in Gaza including delivery of medical aid and medical evacuation for children.