With permission from @[email protected], this post is created to post several fundraisers for Palestinians who are currently living in havoc-wreaken Gaza. I really hope that you can share the words, spread the messages and donate what you can for the struggling families and individuals in the territory. All the pictures included in the pose were taken directly from the corresponding gofundme pages. I added descriptions of the images for visually impaired people, but my descriptions are, in a large part, purely speculations.
I've gotten most of my information from the FB page Free Watermelon NOW. They're constantly updating the fundraisers they know, as well as the situations of Gazan people they're able to contact. You could follow them to receive updates. The page is Vietnamese, so you might need a translation tools.
Feel free to contribute to the post by commenting fundraising projects for Palestinians that you know, or you can just post them independently. Share some love, spread the messages, donate, and always remember:
MUTUAL AID IS SOLIDARITY.
Fundraiser for Abdul Karim and his family. They need money to fund the evacuation from Gaza strip and build a new life in safety and peace. The situation is getting really desperate for his family, as the war will continue to claim more people in his family if they could not receive the much needed financial aid to seek refuge in Egypt.
His fundraiser is advancing very slowly and in desperate need of more donations. Please go to the gofundme page, read his story, and share some love!
Update: His cousin, Bassam, had been captured and tortured by the IDF back in the Novemeber of last year. He was released but couldn't reunite with his family in North Gaza, as he was forced to go South. Bassam is currently taking refuge in Karim's house, while his wife and children are facing severe starvation during the ongoing famine in the north. He doesn't have a gofundme so Karim will receive donation on his behalf.
You could read more of Bassam story on this FB post by Free Watermelon NOW. The page's admin has been contacting Karim and posted Bassam's story back in July.
The picture of Abdul Karim posing in front of yellow-ish walls.
His two children
A picture of a group of people, presumably his family, walking in the refugee camp.
Fundraiser for Kholoud's family.
She's a 30-year-old divorced widow sharing a family with 2 young children, Salem and Sara. They became homeless after their house was bombed in an airstrike.
Kholoud holds a Bachelor's degree in Primary Education, so she remains hopeful about providing her children a safe and healthy environment to grow up in, despite devastating condition they're enduring in Gaza
More details on the fund's distribution, go to her gofundme page
The image of Kholoud's two children
An image of her two children next to a QR code to the link of her gofundme.
Yazan is a 16 years old Palestinian boy from Khuza'a, a southern Gazan town, and his family of 7. As the eldest son he carries the responsibility of fundraising for his family of seven. They were displaced multiple times during the course of last several months due to relentless bombing campaign of Israel.
The money will be used to fund their evacuation from Gaza strip. For more details please go to his gofundme page, and spread some love.
The fund is sponsored by Michelle Boukousohn,a community organizer based in New York city.
And follow his instagram page for more updates or just send him words of support: https://www.instagram.com/yazan_.gaza. He is a kind boy with resilient hope for a better future for himself and his sisters.
Yazan standing next to a moving vehicles with lots of stuffs on it.
Yazan amidst fellow displaced peoples' tents in Rafah
Yazan helping rebuild his family's temporary shelter, after evacuating to Al Mawasi from Rafah
Yazan standing against the background of a setting/rising sun on a settlement camp
Hofiza is 18 years old, 25 people that he knows, including his childhood love, his uncles and their families, were matyred in the midst of the ongoing genocide. He and his family of five want to use the fund raised to cover the cost of crossing border and setting up a new life in Cairo, Egypt, before going to Turkey. You could see more details about how the fund is allocated by going to his gofundme.
Two guys, one of them is presumably Hofiza himself, cheerfully point at the wall with a piece of graffiti with the slogan "From the River to the sea, Palestine will be free", his name and his friend's (?) name, written on it, along with a Palestinian flag and two slices of watermelon
Images of devastated buildings
A photo collages with images of devastated building, selfies of people, and food.
Presumably images showing his current diet, cookie(?) and boiling beans(?)
Fundraising for Muhammad Al-Shaer's family.
Aside from Muhammad Al-Shaer and his sister, the lives of entire family were claimed by the war in Gaza.
His leg is injured by the war, leading to him being unable to provide for his sister and daughter, Eileen and Dima. They are in a very vulnerable situation, in which access to food, drink, and safety is not readily available. Please share some love if you can, as he'd written "Every donation, no matter the size, is a beacon of hope in this dark hour".
You can read his story on the gofundme page.
A wide picture consisting of three smaller ones. The picture on the right depicting a house in ruin, with the caption: "My old house, where I was bombed by the occupation", the picture in the middle is the Muhammad Al-Shaer picture, with the caption "My brothers were killed I was injured", the last one is the picture of his younger sister, with the caption "My younger sister Eileen (10).
His leg, covered in a cast
An image of him lying in a hospital bed.
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Yeah I seriously do not understand the hatred for very anarchism 101 takes happening in our instance recently. From what I observed, most people just care about clean energy technology and lifestyle without trying to engage in radical discussion about politics. The extent of their political concerns ends at very surface level environmental related issues.
Other social justice problems receive very little attention, just look at every post that is not strictly about environment and you'll see my point. It's such a HUGE shame since every single social justice issue: feminism, racism, state oppression, capitalism, and even environmental exploitation are heavily interconnected, to the point that it's hard to meaningfully solve one thing without extending the critical critiques to/shedding light on other problems.
Meanwhiles more explicitly radical, subversive political sentiments are collectively sneered at, like what the hell? How could you achieve the degrowth ethos inherent in solarpunk movement without discussing alternative mode of production, or stopping giving legitimacy to state-enforced institutions, or abolishing every single hierachy possible? Goddamn watching the reactions to very basic anarchistic notions makes my blood boil. I'm so tired of seeing the replication of lemmy.world politics in this supposedly anarchist instance.