a really great organization that i don’t see any posts about here is HEAL palestine. it was founded by steve sosebee, who was a founding president of the PCRF before leaving in late 2023 to refocus his efforts on heal palestine to better meet the needs of palestinians impacted by the genocide. the organization provides palestinians in gaza with food, clean water, shelters, “makeshift classrooms,” and even medical evacuation for some children when it’s possible–their services are pretty wide.
you can donate here if you would like to send a tax-deductible donation to an organization. also, i don’t think any evacuations are possible right now, but if you’re in the united states and you’d like to welcome medically evacuated children in the future, i highly recommend signing up for their newsletter or following them on social media so you can stay updated in case any children evacuated by HEAL come to your area for treatment. welcoming these kids at the airport is a really moving way to provide them with moral support, entirely for free.
Please donate to the Sameer Project and Dahnoun Mutual Aid. Many NGOs and nonprofits have ceased operations in the north due to danger and lack of supplies — these are two Gazawi-led grassroots initiatives that buy food, water, clothes, and baby supplies in bulk to serve the most vulnerable people in their communities in the North at no cost.
I just wanted to share this article about Palestine’s right to revolt and why it is important that we support it. It also has sources embedded in the text that debunk misinformation about them and Hamas. I implore everyone to read it and spread this information around.
Always remember that Palestine was explicitly granted the right to armed resistance by the United Nations, against the zionist occupation. The article mentions the U.N. enshrining that right for occupied and colonized people, but the U.N. also explicitly named Palestine in the resolution, as well as Namibia and Zimbabwe who were also fighting against apartheid and illegal occupation.
Attention: Christmas gift idea that benefits Palestinians
Looking for a meaningful Christmas gift? If I Must Die, the poetry book by the late Dr. Refaat Alareer, will be published on December 10th. All proceeds will go to The Sameer Project to support Palestine if you purchase it through the Open Poetry Books website.
Go to the link below to purchase for yourself or your loved ones:
Some of the Olive trees that currently still grow and bear fruit in occupied Palestine are thousands of years old.
This olive tree is nearly 5000 years old and has witnessed more war and bloodshed than any of us. In the Garden of Gethsemane, on the Mount of Olives, at the edge of Jerusalem, trees still grow that were there when Jesus wept.
The Second Olive Tree, By Mahmoud Darwish (Translated by Marilyn Hacker)
The olive tree does not weep and does not laugh. The olive tree
Is the hillside’s modest lady. Shadow
Covers her single leg, and she will not take her leaves off in front of the storm.
Standing, she is seated, and seated, standing.
She lives as a friendly sister of eternity, neighbor of time
That helps her stock her luminous oil and
Forget the invaders’ names, except the Romans, who
Coexisted with her, and borrowed some of her branches
To weave wreaths. They did not treat her as a prisoner of war
But as a venerable grandmother, before whose calm dignity
Swords shatter. In her reticent silver-green
Color hesitates to say what it thinks, and to look at what is behind
The portrait, for the olive tree is neither green nor silver.
The olive tree is the color of peace, if peace needed
A color. No one says to the olive tree: How beautiful you are!
But: How noble and how splendid! And she,
She who teaches soldiers to lay down their rifles
And re-educates them in tenderness and humility: Go home
And light your lamps with my oil! But
These soldiers, these modern soldiers
Besiege her with bulldozers and uproot her from her lineage
Of earth. They vanquished our grandmother who foundered,
Her branches on the ground, her roots in the sky.
She did not weep or cry out. But one of her grandsons
Who witnessed the execution threw a stone
At a soldier, and he was martyred with her.
After the victorious soldiers
Had gone on their way, we buried him there, in that deep
Pit – the grandmother’s cradle. And that is why we were
Sure that he would become, in a little while, an olive
text ID: DESPERATE EMPIRES STRIVE TO CONVINCE YOU THAT YOUR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IS MERELY A BAUBLE SIGNIFYING THEIR MIGHT AND RIGHTEOUSNESS /end text ID
remix of the iconic photograph “the cock (kiss)” by wolfgang tillmans. expressing my disdain for pinkwashing as a nonsensical pretext for colonial violence.
i’m seeing this art from last year pick up some traction and that is delightful to me because i like this piece. i would love if people could circulate a version with a link to my friend mohamed’s campaign.
there is no greater way to honor my work than to help my friend and his family survive.
mohamed’s campaign has lost some traction recently and there is no more essential time to support him. everything is coming together to make it possible for his family to evacuate, but they need to survive ‘till then. all three of his children are at risk of dying from cold and poisonous bug bites. his wife is still in the hospital in and out of a coma. mohamed himself is the most exhausted that a human being can be, with wounds all over his back from the occupation bombing where he was collecting supplies for his family just like they have gotten away with for their entire illegitimate statehood. please send some money to this campaign.
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