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spreadsheet of families in Gaza you can help today
donate to:
Buy an e-sim
Help diabetics in Gaza
The PCRF
Anera
UNRWA
Taawon
Help Gaza Children
Sudan Tarada Initiative
Help a Sudanese family escape conflict
Darfur Women Action
Ramadan for Sudan
Period products in Sudan
Sudan Emergency Appeal
dont ever give credit to people for "giving" women rights. dont thank them for returning what shouldn't have been taken in the first place.
A thread of Fundraiser of Congo and Sudan
Gfm to support Congolese non profits like focus Congo and Friends of the Congo
Help @/Godlessdyke's family escape Genocide
Another Gfm that supports friends of the Congo to help Congolese people and Children!
Help Leon, a Congolese refugee and his family
Help 4 Sudanese families
Support Rasheed's family journey to safety
Help Hiba's family
Support Isra's education in Egypt
Support for Sudanese Refugees in Cairo
PLEASE talk about Congo, Haiti, and Sudan, with the same fervor you give Palestine. PLEASE care about black struggle and suffering.
The ongoing financial colonial violence in Congo has claimed more lives in the last three decades than any conflict since WWII. The device you’re using right now contains minerals that likely came from Congo, at a horrible human cost.
If you’ve not heard about this issue, if you don’t know the word “coltan,” if you’ve not heard about the forced labor of children, if you’ve not heard about the sexual violence, if you’ve not heard about how the UK’s deportation scheme with Rwanda is implicated in worsening the violence, if no one is attempting to radicalize you about this genocide that you, as a consumer-user of tech are directly complicit in, ask yourself why.
[The accounts to follow are on Instagram. Artwork is by Bypeoni on Instagram.]
I know this maybe a heavy topic to reflect on but our comfort is not worth more than their safety. So please keep aware and help!
Shilatembo, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Traditional dancers perform as the remains of the slain Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba arrive in Shilatembo, where the leader was killed in 1961. The family of Lumumba buried his only known remains – a tooth – in the capital, Kinshasa, this week
Photograph: Guerchom Ndebo/AFP/Getty Images
I’m really glad that Aaron’s self-immolation for Palestine is getting attention, but on November 8th there was also a Congolese man who did the same thing for the genocide happening in the DRC. From what I read in the article above, his fate and identity are unknown but I think his story should be getting equal amount of traction and I haven’t really seen anyone talking about it on Tumblr specifically yet.
Eid Mubarak to all those celebrating, may we witness the liberation of palestine, sudan, congo and other oppressed nations before next Eid inshallah ❤️❤️❤️
blocking certain celebrities is important at the moment. here is why !! some celebrities are refusing to speak up about Palestine, they could use their platform and their voice to speak up, but as you can see, they don’t. it’s also important to block people who are going to put out very toxic or negative ideas, such as Joe Rogan, Alex Jones, etc. this is why it’s important to actually commit to blocking, and not just commenting on the big platform’s posts, “please speak up about Palestine!” because their algorithm is getting boosted from this, they now have more views, yet they’re STILL not speaking up about Palestine. blocking them can show that they’re not gonna keep getting that kind of attention if they’re not giving attention to the right things. another reason why it’s important is because some people are grifting on this matter, and continue to do so, that are not currently supporting this matter. no matter what, blocking people is important because they’ve had a long. time. to understand that there is at least some importance to this situation. they could act super hateful now, and in a couple months when you’ve ‘forgotten’ they talk about something COMPLETELY else. and you could agree, and then like that video or post, but forgetting that they don’t actually believe in consistent things and they’re most likely just attempting to make money off of your attention for that topic. lastly, if you end up seeing ads for things that you do not wanna support, but you can’t really block advertisements, that is a GREAT time for you to close the app out and take a break because the more time you close the app on advertisements, the more time the app is seeing that you don’t like these ads and you don’t wanna see them. now, here’s a list of some of the celebrities you can block. this block can be on either any platform or all platforms, whatever means that you have blocked them.
- Jojo Siwa
- Rihanna
- Hailey & Justin Bieber
- Taylor Swift ( yes, Taylor Swift. )
- Katy Perry
- @hayleyybaylee
- Drake
- Kanye West
- The Kardashians ( Kris Jenner, Kendall Jenner, Kylie Jenner, Kim Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian )
- Selena Gomez
- Lizzo
- Ariana Grande
- Nicki Minaj
- Beyoncé
- JLO
- The Rock / Dwayne Johnson
These are some of the celebrities that have chosen to not use their platform to speak up about Palestine. If you can, share this post and other posts about Palestine, boost this post and other posts about Palestine, donate to families in need, attend protests, anything you can do to support Palestine. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
a quick edit : lizzo has made a post about a gofundme, so i don’t know if that means that she is speaking up about it but i’m going to think that means she is? if i’m incorrect please let me know.
from the river to the sea 🇵🇸
LINK For your daily clicks
Donate (if you can) and interact with Care for Gaza on Twitter as they can monetize the interactions and provide more aid
Donate esims (if you can)
Link for resources to aid Congo
Link for Sudan
Hundreds of people are also sharing their/their families gofundmes everywhere, even if you cannot donate, please share what you do come across!!
what's going on in the congo since there's also a genocide happening over there as well:
to sum it up, people in the congo are literally being worked as slaves to mine for this material called coltan, which is very valuable as its used for things like phones, laptops, just electronics in general. Congo is the number 1 producer for this material and the places behind this genocide is America, Britain, France, and Israel, wow what an absolute shocker. The worst places probably to ever exist benefit from a genocide. These places are funding Rwanda and Uganda military groups, to go into the Congo and kill MILLIONS of people. This has also been going on for YEARS. Many women have been SA'd and men are forced to work in INHUMAN conditions, resulting in their death and the colonizers are absolutely benefitting from this. 6 MILLION people have been killed and half of them are literally kids. Many of the Congolese people have also been displaced.
Please speak out about and raise your voice
Hymns/prayers for the Dead
I’ve never really considered reading/ writing hymns for the dead because I guess I never “needed” them, but with the tragic events going on the world right now, multiple gen-c-des and atrocities, I’ve felt moved to write these. Like I said in my last prayer post, keep speaking up, b0yc0tting, and keep praying! You can technically apply these prayers with any dead, but I had the m@rtyrs of Su-dan, Con- go, Ethiopia, and Pale - stine (breaking them up on purpose) in mind, as well as anyone else who have lost their lives due to the terrible events going on in this world and from their oppression. Also, sorry for any spelling or grammar errors.
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We call to Hermes Kαταιβάτης (he who leads souls down to the underworld), guider of souls. Immortal guide, lover of humankind, you take special care of us when we leave this earth, and your involvement shows the Gods’ love of humankind, as there is a God with us every step of the way, even after our deaths. Gracious God, during these times we ask for your grace, and for you to take extra care of the souls that find their way past the river Styx. Everyday now, thousands of people die from acts of cruelty from oppressors emboldened by hubris. We ask you to treat these souls with added care, especially those of children, taken from life too early, while you escort them to the dread queen's home or wherever their final resting place may lie. Charm them with your wand and bless their heavy eyelids, bringing them a peaceful end for their final rest. Oh Lord, guider of mortals, grant a sacred end to those who lived the best they could.
(Greek pronunciation: Kah-teh-vah-tiis(ees))
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To the Savior of the dead and the noble queen herself, we call to you! Dread Persephone and shadowy Hades, though you may not take every soul into your wide walls, you watch over the dead nonetheless, those who wander your fields of flowers. We thank you for your mercy towards our souls, notably of the most restless ones. We ask that they can find joy in the afterlife, especially those who were robbed of it. Not only do you take in these souls, Lovely Persephone, you exact justice on their behalf, with your kindly attendants, or daughters in some ways, the Erinyes, especially during these harrowing times. All we ask is for justice and a peaceful afterlife for the many martyred people of all the atrocities going on. We thank you, Hades and fair-tressed Persephone!
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“Fear the prayers of the oppressed.” I heard that today and I thought it fit. The Gods are with us and the oppressed during these times 🤲 They hear every prayer and they are outraged as we are. Keep up every action and don’t forget about our fellow humans suffering and don’t stop fighting!! No act of oppression goes past them and they hear everything. It’s been almost a year for Su-Dan, almost 6 months, 160+ days for Pale - stine, and years for Con-go. The Gods count each day and count each person who say and do nothing. I just want add some of my favorite excerpts that get me through these hard times and reminds me that the Gods care (which we already knew, but yknow).
“The gods are not blind to men with blood upon their hands. In the end the black (kelainai) Erinyes bring to obscurity that one who has prospered in unrighteousness and wear down his fortunes by reverse.” - Aeschylus, “Agamemnon”
“Hear, Tisiphone, Allekte, noble Megaira, revered goddesses whose Bacchic cries resound. Nocturnal and clandestine, you live deep down in the dank cave by the sacred water of the Styx. Men's unholy designs do incur your anger; rabid and arrogant, you howl over Necessity's dictates, clothed in animal skins, you cause the deep pains of retribution.” - (First part of) Orphic hymn 69
“Hear me and be gracious, 0 renowned Eumenides, O pure daughters of the great Chthonic Zeus and of lovely Persephone, fair-tressed maiden. Over the lives of impious mortals you keep a careful eye, in charge of Necessity, you punish the unjust.”
(First part of) Orphic hymn 70
“For whoever knows the right and is ready to speak it, far-seeing Zeus gives him prosperity…” - Hesiod “Work and days”
“You princes, mark well this punishment you also; for the deathless gods are near among men and mark all those who oppress their fellows with crooked judgements, and reck not the anger of the gods. For upon the bounteous earth Zeus has thrice ten thousand spirits, watchers of mortal men, and these keep watch on judgements and deeds of wrong as they roam, clothed in mist, all over the earth. And there is virgin Justice, the daughter of Zeus, who is honoured and reverenced among the gods who dwell on Olympus, and whenever anyone hurts her with lying slander, she sits beside her father, Zeus the son of Cronos, and tells him of men's wicked heart, until the people pay for the mad folly of their princes who, evilly minded, pervert judgement and give sentence crookedly.” - Hesiod “Works and Days”