A broad coalition of human rights organizations is calling for a Congressional investigation into Big Tech and Publishing’s overreaching control of the content, reader data, and existence of digital books. Join in and contact your representatives now!
AJ+ video on Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia as they go on a hunger strike demanding to be treated like humans and calling for international intervention
Halt the Passage of NC Bill 237 Banning Masks In Public
https://www.change.org/p/halt-the-passage-of-nc-bill-237-banning-masks-in-public
broke my thread so adding two resources from before
Several crowdfunds for #Sudan and #Palestine
https://www.gofundme.com/f/sudan-war-help-asmaas-family
https://www.gofundme.com/f/4hdktn-testing
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-thomaserena-recover-from-war
https://www.gofundme.com/f/join-the-effort-to-save-jameela-and-her-family
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-my-friend-and-hwr-family-scape-the-war-in-sud
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-my-family-flee-sudans-war
https://www.gofundme.com/f/fight-hunger-in-sudan-the-khartoum-kitchen-appeal
https://www.gofundme.com/f/hy673t-help-abudjana-rebuild-after-war
https://www.gofundme.com/f/evacuate-a-family-from-the-war
https://www.gofundme.com/f/our-home-bombarded-and-destroyed
https://www.gofundme.com/f/for-sudanhelp-support-families-in-kassab-idp-camp
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-sakinas-familys-journey-to-safety
https://www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-fund-medical-shelter-sudanese-refugees
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-aalaas-family-escape-to-safety
https://www.gofundme.com/f/37bp8k7p0o
https://www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/war_in_sudan_crisis_appeal
https://www.gofundme.com/f/sudanegypt-emergency-response
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-Nader
https://www.gofundme.com/f/helptahseenfamily
https://www.gofundme.com/f/dsfsf-bhfnbfg-dfgerg-fdgerv?member=31724625&sharetype=teams
https://www.gofundme.com/f/aidez-alaa-et-sa-petite-famille
https://www.gofundme.com/f/two-trans-women-secure-stable-housing
https://www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-help-my-relatives-evacuate-to-safety
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebuild-my-uncles-family-life-in-gaza
https://www.gofundme.com/f/azaqhd-help-my-family-evacuate-from-gaza
Follow AlMigdad Hassan for more updates about #Sudan
https://www.instagram.com/almigdadhassan0
end viral eugenics database started by frameweaver on the evening of April 28, 2023.
https://robust-currents.notion.site/ea121f33451d433b89ecd0fff44c7983
my friend made these posters that are free to download and share (read the copyright in the paragraph next to the images)
"Gold smuggling out of Africa, mainly to the United Arab Emirates, has surged over the last decade, with hundreds of tonnes of gold worth tens of billions of dollars illegally leaving the continent every year, according to a report published on Thursday."
~African gold worth tens of billions smuggled to UAE each year: report [www.scmp.com]
Sudan in Crisis: Mapping the War's Toll on People
A Visual Narrative of the Conflict and Displacement in Sudan
Tarig Ali
March 18, 2024
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/ee9c6513732344448bd6337fdadc11c6
#Sudan #KeepEyesOnSudan #EyesOnSudan #TalkAboutSudan @sudanwarmonitor
“I am reaching out to you, kind-hearted souls, to help my family escape this nightmare.”
https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-my-family-from-bombardment-a-young-boys-fight-for-mob
Support a Community Stuck In Sudan
https://www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-support-3-families-escaping-war-in-sudan
CONGRESS: Do Not Allow Our Tax Dollars To Fund Conflict In The Congo!
"Over six bloody days in June 2000, the Congolese city of Kisangani was the scene of deadly violence between the Ugandan and Rwandan armies. More than 10,000 shells exploded, killing thousands and injuring thousands more.
Since then, victims of the Six-Day War have fought for recognition and compensation. Uganda has been found guilty of war crimes by the International Court of Justice, but the victims remain uncompensated decades later.
Now, they decide to take matters into their own hands. In the first Congolese film to be an official selection at the Cannes Film Festival, acclaimed director Dieudo Hamadi (Mama Colonel, National Diploma, Ladies in Waiting) captures their long journey down the Congo River to voice their claims in capital city of Kinshasa, seeking justice at last."
https://icarusfilms.com/if-downs
(shared via Friends of Congo newsletter)
Six-Day War: 23rd Anniversary Report
By Aïssata Diallo
This report refers to a sad date for the whole of the Democratic Republic of Congo. On June 5th, 2000, 23 years ago, the Democratic Republic of Congo faced a war that lasted six days from 5 to 10 June 2000 in the city of Kisangani.
https://congofriends.blogspot.com/2023/06/six-day-war-23rd-anniversary-report.html
From People’s CDC: TAKE ACTION BY TUES JUNE 10 - Tell CMS: Hospitals Must Report COVID Infections and Protect Patients from Hospital Acquired COVID Infections!
Use People’s CDC’s template here: https://peoplescdc.substack.com/p/tell-cms-medicaremedicaid-to-protect
JUNE 7TH, 12PM PST
Join us this Friday for an important PSA: we’ll be covering the urgent political developments of the past week and have a special conversation with Astha Sharma Pokharel of Center for Constitutional Rights about the appeal in DCIP v Biden, which charges the Biden administration with failure to prevent and complicity in the genocide in Gaza. The appeal will be heard in San Francisco federal court next Monday, June 10th.
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_brGkVHOOQUqWQpMSUgGusQ#/registration
Free Sal!
Action Toolkit to Release
Sal Khan from ICE!
Updated and Urgent
Last update: 6/5/24 (sign the petition if youre in the US)
Muhammad Salman Khan (he/they pronouns), known by their community as Sal, was unjustly detained by ICE in early May. Sal is an openly queer journalist and political refugee from Pakistan who is seeking asylum in the U.S. for their human rights activism. We are calling on our community to help us demand Sal’s release from Plymouth County Correctional Facility, and an end to all detainments by ICE!
#Trans #Transgender #HumanRights #ICE #Queer #Journalism #PoliticalRefugee
#Refugee
Demand Biden & Congress acknowledge ICC’s authority and use their leverage to end the Gaza genocide
Email Congress: HANDS OFF RAFAH!
SOMATIC (BODY-BASED)
SUPPORT GUIDE
FOR STUDENTS
ORGANIZING FOR A
FREE PALESTINE
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DymPPsbBb3IXGVNoAwBtc2shYqfgaB18/view
PLEASE SHARE AND DONATE
less than 25% funded and its been up since 2022 (last update was may 11th shared down below)
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-support-my-surgeries-living-expenses
Help support Long COVID Recovery- Surgeries
"I have no recent news concerning my surgeries as I have been treated for different respiratory conditions since my last post.
This GoFundMe was created since November 2022 and I didn’t change the goal as I realized that many people didn’t support my cause.
I want to Thank everyone once again that helped support my cause. Many things have changed and my family and I are trying to do our best to survive every medical crisis our family is facing.
My first born daughter has one of the most aggressive form of cancer including my first son that also needs immediate medical treatment and financial support.
It’s devastating for me as illnesses serve as a barrier and a set back for me and my children in the last few years.
This is another call out for support. Please share the link to anyone that can help thank you."
Two people who have been really important in knowledge/resource sharing and archive keeping
https://linktr.ee/bsonblast
https://linktr.ee/modathirzainalabdeen
please share and submit!!
via ziyadhatesRSF on birdsite:
"the ICC announces that they are calling on people to SEND THEM EVIDENCE of war crimes in Darfur ! this means that all of the RSF videos can all be submitted to them and be used in their case! i will attach evidence below for people to submit to http://otplink.icc-cpi.int en masse"
Medical Costs & Housing
https://www.gofundme.com/f/9apnu9-medical-treatment
"In March of 2020 I was attacked on my way home from work.
The man grabbed me, shook me, coughed in my face & laughed ‘You’re sick now’
I thought it was a cruel joke. I was wrong.
I had contracted Covid & I never recovered.
I have been diagnosed with ME/CFS, POTS & MCAS.
I am mostly bed bound & barely able to manage the most basic of tasks.
I have no financial support from from family or government & no supplemental insurance.
I have been unable to work since, after over 2 years my savings have been wiped out & my hope of a spontaneous recovery has dwindled.
I’ve lost my business & my autonomy."
RE this post about the call to submit evidence to the ICC evidence of war crimes in Darfur
Here is an example of something you can put in the file (you can make it anonymous) and the wording is potentially triggering for the videos and those are for murder and abuse--> i am waiting to see if there is anything more relevant but right now thats what ive submitted:
https://cryptpad.fr/file/#/2/file/tchJxHL4Yr5BaGvihob7LUB8/
Here are the videos used in the example (they are extremely triggering for murder and abuse)"
https://cryptpad.fr/drive/#/2/drive/view/yCvadXV5fEYGQHCdAZdTv3ZYZR8rCvggWE+73HpbmbI/p/
Make sure to have your VPN off, it won't go through otherwise
"For the West, Sudan’s civil war is still flying under the radar. But considering the war broke out in full view and the humanitarian crisis is well documented, the inaction cannot be traced to ignorance of the situation there. The failure to address the crisis, or at least its exacerbating factors, ultimately amounts to a choice."
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/daily-review-sudan-civil-war-2/
tumblr post by flower-tea-fairies that reads:
You should be furious that people trying to escape genocide in Gaza, Sudan, Congo all need raise an absurd amount of money just to survive
You should be furious at how these people went through atrocity after atrocity and still need raise tens of thousands of dollars to get away
You should be furious at this insidious thing that completely encapsulates how capitalism feeds off of blood
theyre less than $500 away!!
Safe Passage ممر آمن- Help a mom and her kids escape war!
COVID Action Map
Mapping COVID action groups worldwide. Groups are not pinned to exact addresses. On Instagram and Twitter as @covidactionmap.
BLACK TRANS WOMEN DUE JUNE 30:
Qualified artists must be self-identified Black trans women working in visual art and based in the United States.
The Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists is an annual $10,000 grant awarded to provide critical support to Black trans women whose work has often been under-recognized in the visual art field.
https://www.queer-art.org/illuminations-grant
#BlackTransWomen #TransWomen #VisualArt #Fellowship #IlluminationsGrant
#Grant
via Inclusive TOday (formerly Open Your Wallet):
We have a Black Trans Women who wants to remain anonymous due to feeling ashamed. She needs $334 to cover her rent and has already received an eviction notice. She’s been struggling with job discrimination but is trying to get back on her feet. This is urgent. WE NEED TO RAISE HER $334 TODAY.
V: @inclusivetoday
C: $ItsOYW
PPL: dm us
“We do not get used to it, my father, unless something dies in us, and imagine the extent of what died in us until we become accustomed to everything around us.”
~Mamdouh Adwan
Help Lamin's Family Afford Food, Clean Water, & Education
After their father died, the family has been facing severe poverty. Lamin was unable to complete his education after losing his dad, but he hopes to provide a better future for his younger siblings. As their mother grows older, she is becoming more dependent on Lamin and his siblings for support.
"But if the plight of adults with long COVID remains poorly understood, the millions of children who have it worldwide are practically invisible, their suffering — and the formative years they're losing to this disease — obscured by the myths that COVID is "harmless" for kids and the pandemic is "over".
Helping Ahmed's Family: Escaping War to a New Life
https://www.gofundme.com/f/Helping-Ahmed-Family-Escaping-War-New-Life
Save Noor Hassan and her family
https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-noor-hassan-and-her-family
American Indian and Alaska Natives in Tribal Areas Have Among Lowest Rates of High-Speed Internet Access
"Closing the gap is important given the internet’s growing role in daily personal and professional tasks, such as virtual instruction and health visits, banking, sharing culture and stories, and connecting with family and friends."
Tell State Department Staffers: Quit Genocide
Demand that US State Department officials and staff resign in protest against the President’s active role in the genocide in Gaza.
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-state-department-staffers-quit-genocide
Save my family from Bombardment: A young Boy's fight for Mob
https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-my-family-from-bombardment-a-young-boys-fight-for-mob
"My name is Asala, and I am writing to you from a place of safety, but my heart is still with my family who are enduring unimaginable suffering in Sudan. My 18-year-old brother had his life shattered when he was hit in the spinal cord by shrapnel during a bombardment in our civilian neighborhood. The severe injuries required emergency neurosurgery, which saved his life, but his journey toward recovery is far from over. He still has shrapnel lodged under his lungs, awaiting another critical surgery. Without further medical treatment, he may never walk again and could face a lifetime of paralysis.
I am reaching out to you, kind-hearted souls, to help my family escape this nightmare. Your generous donations will go directly to:
#Sudan #KeepEyesOnSudan #EyesOnSudan #TalkAboutSudan #MutualAid #Disability #BlackMastodon @mutualaid
For Sudan:Help us support families impacted by war
https://www.gofundme.com/f/for-sudan-help-us-feed-families-in-omdurman
"This fundraiser supports a number of important humanitarian initiatives on the ground in Sudan, helping to alleviate the suffering of ordinary civilians amidst conflict."
#Sudan #KeepEyesOnSudan #EyesOnSudan #TalkAboutSudan #MutualAid #BlackMastodon
For Sudan:Help support families in Kalma IDP camp
https://www.gofundme.com/f/for-sudanhelp-support-families-in-kassab-idp-camp
#Sudan #KeepEyesOnSudan #EyesOnSudan #TalkAboutSudan #MutualAid #Disability #BlackMastodon
@mutualaid
A Black disabled queer woman is again facing homeΙessness. Her apartment is infested, her lεase is ending, and she needs to affοrd new rent on top of 15k+ hουsing debt & lawsυit w past landΙοrd.
0/1500
Nοte: Mia
CA/PP miiiiaaaa0
V Adrianne-Charles-1
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-black-disabled-woman-secure-housing
DUE JULY 5
https://tcg.imiscloud.com/Web/Web/Our-Work/Funds-for-the-Dolls/Funds-for-Dolls-Overview.aspx
Funds for the Dolls is intentionally created by TCG and led by trans women of color (TWOC) leaders in the performing arts who understand the complex issues facing TWOC performing and theatre artists. In this self-funded pilot round with $50,000, TCG aims to support these trailblazers, and uplift their joy, artistry, audacity and tenacity.
We are specifically committed to investing in TWOC performing or theatre artists who are looking to develop their artistry further and have a commitment to their craft. Those who use or have used survival sex work and other forms of hustle are encouraged to apply.
#TransWomen #BlackTransWomen #TransWomenOfColor
#TWOC #BIPOC #TGNC #GNC #PerformingArts #Theatre #Grant #Grants
DUE JULY 15: Emerging Critics Program
https://anaphoraarts.com/emerging-critics-program
The Emerging Critics Program will be held virtually on October 7 - 11, 2024. Although the program runs for five days, the work of engaging with program participants will be sustained for at least six months. This means interested participants can continue to use Anaphora’s support to sustain their singular pathways into the field.
The program costs $1,200 to attend; several partial fellowships will be available depending on funding availability. Applications must be submitted by the priority deadline to be eligible for fellowships. Anaphora Fellows and returning alumni will have the opportunity to attend the program at a discounted rate.
Help Palestinian Ally with Dental Costs after Zionist Attack
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-palestinian-ally-with-dental-costs-after-zionist-attack
Coming Out to Your Kids as Trans: A Guide for Parents
A guide for trans parents on how to talk to their kids about their gender identity and transition, fostering understanding and love.
https://www.folxhealth.com/library/coming-out-to-your-kids-as-trans-a-guide-for-parents
Working Guys: A Transmasculine Sex Worker Anthology
This project successfully funded on May 31, but you can still Late Pledge for available rewards.
Read about the experiences of transgender men and transmasculine people in sex work, in their own words.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxjackparker/working-guys-a-transmasculine-sex-worker-anthology
DUE JULY 31 Visionary Fellowship
Investing in disabled filmmakers with the funding, mentorship, and community they need to create short films and leverage them into their first features.
Template to Write Against the NYC Mask Ban
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YuE5SzGsQI1XcQsoJLp1eoc4aLb5ojxpCipb-7muXTo/edit
Safer Air Safer Schools is an advocacy group based in Massachusetts that fights for cleaner air in schools.
https://www.saferairsaferschools.com/resources/how-can-i-help
Environmental pollutants, allergens and respiratory pathogens all impact the health and learning of our children and their teachers.
We believe in the power of information. When folks understand how to achieve optimal health, it unlocks their potential. We want community members to have the knowledge and the tools needed to support this effort. When we work together, we can elevate the minds and health of the next generation of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and beyond.
Expand Affordable Internet Access
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/expand-affordable-internet-access-2
Help my Great-uncle Kamal and His Family in Sudan
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-my-greatuncle-kamal-and-his-family-in-sudan
Fight Hunger in Sudan: The Khartoum Kitchen appeal
HELP TINU
Asking again for help with the cost of surviving chemo & Long COVID.
2+ years after #COVID19, still sick, 5th type of chemo.
https://account.venmo.com/u/TinuWrites