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— Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

hey fellow Europeans (EU), just a friendly and mildly concerned reminder that in less than a month, the European elections are taking place. it's an election with a historically low turnout, but one that is just as important as any other, if not more. the composition of the EU parliament determines the political direction of the EU, and has an impact on all 27 countries through directives and regulations that get voted.

we cannot let far right extremist parties get an even bigger stronghold there than they already do. sadly, there are very significant threats of exactly that happening from many countries.

so please, if you are an EU citizen living in the EU and are of voting age, check the modalities to vote in your country of residence, and make sure to make your voice heard.

In fact many of the more far right political parties want to attempt to DISBAND the EU from inside the parliament.

Please vote if you can!

hey fellow Europeans (EU), just a friendly and mildly concerned reminder that in less than a month, the European elections are taking place. it's an election with a historically low turnout, but one that is just as important as any other, if not more. the composition of the EU parliament determines the political direction of the EU, and has an impact on all 27 countries through directives and regulations that get voted.

we cannot let far right extremist parties get an even bigger stronghold there than they already do. sadly, there are very significant threats of exactly that happening from many countries.

so please, if you are an EU citizen living in the EU and are of voting age, check the modalities to vote in your country of residence, and make sure to make your voice heard.

Lolo the only survivor after the bombing of her house. All we are left with is my niece. I cannot bear losing her after I lost my brother. Please, we suffered from bombing, hunger, and displacement. Help me get out of the war zone to safety. You are our only hope for survival. Please donate or share the link.

They need less than 400 USD to reach 25,000 USD! Please, give what you can!

wayyyyyy too many of yall are forgetting that forced relocation is a form of ethnic cleansing

Kerem Shalom Crossing and the Rafah border have been closed since May 6th. Very little aid was allowed into the Gaza Strip before that, far less than what the 2.3 million residents need to survive the genocidal blockade but now there's nothing coming into the Gaza Strip.

I need people to understand how dangerous the situation is. The people of Gaza were facing acute hunger and thirst problems before the Rafah invasion and things have gotten so much worse.

These settlers and the soldiers helping them are putting hundreds of thousands of civilians on the brink of death.

In Yemen the death count stagnated at 15,000 until the war ended and the people were able to count their dead. Today, it's commonly accepted that over 300,000 Yemenis have been killed by war and famine. We will see a similar situation in Gaza after a ceasefire.

there is something horrifically grim to it, but illustrations for gaza and palestinians tend to catch more mass attention that actual photos of people. this made me feel incredibly helpless for a long while, seeing both how people would rather look at a neat drawing of red black green and white than look a human in the eyes, and how online platforms would rather push a viral drawing while suppressing those begging for help at the same time.

a way to cope with this feeling has been taking advantage of it to directly guide people to helping palestinians.

if art gets better traction, then there’s an incredible amount of good that can be done by creating art that immediately links to fundraisers. creating art of the many images of those who are asking for help.

within hours of posting my drawing, there has been jumps in the thousands for bashar from gaza’s fundraiser. it’s a small effort in the grand scheme of things. it’s not a fix it. but it’s something good. please take care of each other and do what you can. i think this could help a lot of people if a lot of people did it.

here is bashar. i’ve drawn him, spoken to him, and known him now for a few months. any shares help, any art helps. draw who you see, draw what you see. thanks all

$41,551 AUD raised of $65,000 goal raised as of May 15. please donate what you can and share

Palestinians fleeing by sea:

the reason i shared my great-grandmother's story on here a few months ago is not for sympathy or anything, its to illustrate to you just how deeply, deeply anti-Palestinian the idea of zionism is.

i remember my grandmother, the one who watched her mother die in her home, she called us with a plain tone of voice, and she said "she asked to be buried in [her village] but of course the the zionists wouldn't let that happen." the thing that will not leave my head was the way my grandmother said it, the way it just seemed so natural and so obvious to her. my grandmother is *not* a quiet woman, she yells everything she ever says, whether happy or sad but this she said softly. like she was resigned to this, she expected this.

this woman was exiled once from her village, then again from Palestine, then again and again and again and eventually forced to live in poverty in a refugee camp, she knows the 'israeli' state more intimately than anyone i know, she knows what it will and won't allow in its genocidal apparatus and to her it was obvious that they would not respect her mother's body or last wishes. she knew that.

and i always go back to it when i see discussions on here or on twitter or in academia, like you guys (the moderates, the apologists) have never ever spoken to a nakba survivor or a naksa survivor. you don't know just how deeply its affected our families.

so when we ask you to completely reject zionism, when we demand it from allies, we aren't saying this to be stubborn or nonsensical, we're saying it because we know where zionism will lead us. we've been through the "we just want peace" and the "we need to just talk it out" phases already, how can you not think we've been through those phases after 75 years. we've had our meet and greets and our appeals and now we're at literally the worst stage of genocide against our people and you're still insisting on "talking it out" or some variation of it.

the truth of the matter is that we don't have patience for zionism anymore because look where it got us. look where we're at. even soft zionists, you need to stamp those people out from pretending they've got good points, or that you need to build community with them or whatever. we are literally at the worst part of Palestinian history ever, we need to stop pretending there are grey zones to this. Zionist apologists and the like are creating ambiguity that literally gets our families killed under the guise of "complication". I'm sick and tired of watching these same discussions over and over again about how "Israel is a result of antisemitism" when it very much is not. I'm sick of seeing people who know NOTHING about colonization push their own agendas and provide cover for zionists to do whatever they want. Just stop talking about things you don't understand because I promise you, you're directly contributing to the violence you claim to abhor.

454 Sudanese killed in 1 city in 5 days. Thanks to an ally of the U.S. settler colony.

Instead of putting pressure for 1 issue for the U.S., turn it into a pincer attack. Target their allyship with UAE and target their financing of the zionist occupation. This cannot continue.

This was made to be a fun joke blog ot whatever but for the love of God donate anything you can spread information talk about it in your families call your reps!!! 5 calls palestine is a website that gives you a call script please email your reps about a free Palestine North Gaza is starving and millions are trapped in Rafah. Please keep protesting keep boycotting in everything you do

You can donate to the unrwa!! Or the PCRF, Go to their website! There's also ways to send e-sims, look at my recent reblogs!

If you can't donate at all that's OK, no need to justify or tell anyone that you can't. You can go to the BDS website as well to boycott Israeli goods, which costs no money :)

If you can attend protests too, go!

Though to anyone who says "I can't do this or that," just do what you can! Everything counts! Do as much as you can!

Here's a master guide too! Educate yourself as much as possible too!

Just keep talking about Palestine. Keep reblogging and sharing about it as much as you can on all socials no matter the followers.

Go follow:

Yousra El Bagir, Bsonblast, Modathir Zain Alabdeen, Yasmine Al-Magied, Sudan Updates, Sudanese Diaspora Network World, Nas Al Sudan, I Am Sudani, Sudanese American Physicians Association.

The links are all there. Please follow and educate yourself about Sudan. Partake in their fundraisers. The presence of Sudanese activists is much bigger on IG and on Twitter than on Tumblr. Educate yourself there and start partaking in the movement. It needed to gain more momentum 13 months ago.