I’m without words. 💔💔💔 Heal Palestine have a video on their home page of Islam announcing the opening of their field hospital in Khan Younis in June. They also have a donate link, if you wish to donate in her blessed memory: healpalestine.org
Okay! While on a shirt a nice white outer border with a delicate grey edge looks good, I feel it doesn't belong on a mug: updated the design. www.etsy.com/listing/1795...
Living in a country that unironically took an expression meant to illustrate a physical impossibility and turning into an expectation for poor people / justification for poverty 🇺🇸
This is basically how we got Milton Friedman, how we got Ronald Reagan, and how we got the up-by-your-own-bootstraps, winner-take-all, profits-over-people economy that's leaving so many Americans (and especially women and moms) still struggling today. Let me explain... 🧵 1/
But these emotions and feelinfs are constructed by a discourse - a hegemonic one - that is literally BUILT to make them feel unsafe.
In his lecture neve gordon made a brilliant point actually around the social nature of emotions: when an israeli or zionist student complains that calling israel an apartheid state makes them feel unsafe, their feelings are obviously valid/
that order might be ‘mandatory’ but it doesn’t come with travel funds, time off work, reimbursement for lost wages, assistance for disabled people, or any guarantee of a place to evacuate *to*
time for my annual post on the matter: a big reason that many people don’t evacuate for hurricanes is because they can’t afford to. remember that when you report on people who died despite ‘mandatory’ evacuation orders.
Palestinian Sameer Project is taking care of tents, medical and cash support for forcibly displaced Palestinians in Gaza. If you have some money over this month, your donation goes a long way, esp now the rains are falling. Any amount welcome! chuffed.org/project/1132...
[Our Gofundme campaign raised £660,000 and unfortunately £40,000 of those were never released to us even though all information was provided. We need your support to build our donations back up to con...
I will bite the bullet and volunteer. My day one actions: 1. Disband the NYPD and transfer $10 billion dollars to public libraries. 2. Ban all cars in NYC. 3. Make all public transit free. 4. Increase teacher salaries by 50%. 5. Pay all sanitation workers $250,000 each. 6. Close Rikers