Hi dusting this off again, because I was denied asylum.
ALTI'm going to try to get a lawyer but I definitely don't know if I'll be able to get one, as many were resistant to helping me before
Either way I need. So much help. Originally I was asking for 5k, but I'm going to raise that because they situation is looking so much worse. You can go to the campaign or you can support me directly.
Even if If I'm denied again I cannot go back home, there's no home to go back to and my country wants me dead only slightly more than my relatives I think. Anything that isn't used to relocate will be used to start over.
I know yall hate reading these so tldr I need as much help as possible to avoid death. I've seen people get thousands for gender affirming surgery, so I'm hoping that means you want to see this trans person survive
Kofi campaign | paypal | venmo | cashapp
Im being deported, any funds are going towards restarting now
losing my mind at this
like. something not soooo fun was happening in brazil in the late 60s
I can't… Christ. I'm just going to say this: when you're a Brazilian kid learning about tropicália, when you first come into contact with the art, and you listen to the music and learn the history behind it all - all your world is grief and rage. The Brazilian art of that time are well disguised screams of agony, and when you live here and you know the history, you can feel it under your skin. The "fun" and "nonsensical" aspects were a shield against censorship, and they became so strongly related to the military repression and violence of the time that they're almost synonymous with grief for loved ones, lost to the dictatorship without closure. The art wasn't fun because artists' lives were, but because they couldn't survive it being anything else. That's what tropicália was; being forced to grieve with a smile on your face.
Moreover, members of Tropicalia who were not arrested or tortured, voluntarily escaped into exile in order to get away from the strict and repressing authorities. Many continuously went back and forth between different countries and cities. Some were never able to settle down. People like Caetano, Gil, and Torquato Neto, spent time in places like London, New York, or Paris.[14] Some, but not all, were allowed to return to Brazil after years had passed. Others, still could only stay for short periods of time.
Fun time to be an artist in Brazil :)
Hi dusting this off again, because I was denied asylum.
ALTI'm going to try to get a lawyer but I definitely don't know if I'll be able to get one, as many were resistant to helping me before
Either way I need. So much help. Originally I was asking for 5k, but I'm going to raise that because they situation is looking so much worse. You can go to the campaign or you can support me directly.
Even if If I'm denied again I cannot go back home, there's no home to go back to and my country wants me dead only slightly more than my relatives I think. Anything that isn't used to relocate will be used to start over.
I know yall hate reading these so tldr I need as much help as possible to avoid death. I've seen people get thousands for gender affirming surgery, so I'm hoping that means you want to see this trans person survive
Kofi campaign | paypal | venmo | cashapp
Im being deported, any funds are going towards restarting now
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Hi dusting this off again, because I was denied asylum.
[ID from alt: a still from carrotblanca of bugs bunny looking tired in a white suit, drinking carrot juice like it's whiskey /End ID.]
I'm going to try to get a lawyer but I definitely don't know if I'll be able to get one, as many were resistant to helping me before
Either way I need. So much help. Originally I was asking for 5k, but I'm going to raise that because they situation is looking so much worse. You can go to the campaign or you can support me directly.
Even if If I'm denied again I cannot go back home, there's no home to go back to and my country wants me dead only slightly more than my relatives I think. Anything that isn't used to relocate will be used to start over.
I know yall hate reading these so tldr I need as much help as possible to avoid death. I've seen people get thousands for gender affirming surgery, so I'm hoping that means you want to see this trans person survive
Kofi campaign | paypal | venmo | cashapp
Im being deported, any funds are going towards restarting now
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Hi dusting this off again, because I was denied asylum.
ALTI'm going to try to get a lawyer but I definitely don't know if I'll be able to get one, as many were resistant to helping me before
Either way I need. So much help. Originally I was asking for 5k, but I'm going to raise that because they situation is looking so much worse. You can go to the campaign or you can support me directly.
Even if If I'm denied again I cannot go back home, there's no home to go back to and my country wants me dead only slightly more than my relatives I think. Anything that isn't used to relocate will be used to start over.
I know yall hate reading these so tldr I need as much help as possible to avoid death. I've seen people get thousands for gender affirming surgery, so I'm hoping that means you want to see this trans person survive
Kofi campaign | paypal | venmo | cashapp
Im being deported, any funds are going towards restarting now
![Unfortunately we've seen a significant drop off in donations. If donations don't pick up soon we will be forced to close some of our kitchens. We really don't want to have to do that given that so many people have come to depend on these kitchens to survive. So if you are able to help, please click on the link in the reply. Thank you [image description: below the text are images of Sudanese people sitting two long lines on the side of a road by a building to be served food at an aid kitchen]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/2df271e7392d57a2d465cb4d6712448f/d1c43ae9ff11e145-ab/s500x750/d82d96c6af723659b6f0781304b830aa37210ae4.jpg)
A Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) attack on a busy market in western Darfur on Monday resulted in a "horrific massacre", a war monitor said on Wednesday.
The military's shelling of the Tur'rah market, located 80km north of el-Fasher, left hundreds dead, according to Emergency Lawyers, a group of lawyers who monitor the war in Sudan. While an official death toll has yet to be confirmed, Sudanese aid groups reported that at least 54 people were killed in the attack.
Darfur Victims Support (DVS), a local group that supports victims of the conflict, cited eyewitnesses who reported that some 126 civilians were killed in the attack, with many bodies "burnt beyond recognition".
The group noted that the market serves as a commercial hub for the surrounding areas and that it would have been thronging with people at the time of the attack, at approximately 2pm.
DVS condemned the strike as "deliberate and systematic," reporting that approximately 10 barrel bombs were dropped on the market. It further cited one witness who said that white phosphorous was used in the attack. Images shared by the group appeared to show charred bodies scattered among the smouldering ruins of the market stalls.
Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan arrived by plane in Sudan’s capital Khartoum after his troops recaptured the airport on Wednesday from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
Reuters reported on Wednesday that RSF forces had mostly withdrawn from the capital, with the army deploying throughout several neighbourhoods, in what is one of the most significant developments of the two-year war between the army and the RSF.
Last Friday, Sudan’s army took full control of the country’s presidential palace in Khartoum, two years after it was seized by the paramilitary RSF. Today, Al Jazeera aired footage showing Burhan inside the presidential palace where he declared, “Khartoum is free”.
After closing in on the building on the Blue Nile in recent days, the army-aligned government announced its capture on Friday. “Today the flag is raised, the palace is back and the journey continues until victory is complete,” Khaled al-Aiser, Sudan’s information minister, wrote on X when the palace was captured.
The streets of Khartoum erupted in celebration on Tuesday after the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) declared the city free from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia.
Following intense street battles, the SAF officially announced its control over Khartoum, sparking jubilant scenes among those who remained in the city. Mohamed Obaid, 40, from Nile East - a former RSF stronghold - described the terror of survival under occupation. “I stayed indoors for days without food, too afraid to step outside,” he recounted to Middle East Eye. “I don’t even want to remember those days.
You could die at any moment for no reason. “If you managed to reach a Starlink shop to exchange money, you’d find RSF fighters running the place, seizing 30 percent of your cash for no reason.
They controlled all supplies and sold them at outrageous prices.” Emad Hassan, who fled to Cairo when the conflict erupted, told MEE: “I never thought I’d use this key again,” waving the key to his long-abandoned home in Khartoum. Hassan compared his experience to that of Palestinian refugees, forced from their homes but never giving up the hope of return.
“They still carry the keys to their houses wherever they go. We Sudanese love our land. We will return. The RSF expelled us in the most humiliating way, but we will come back.”
Despite the jubilant scenes, for many displaced Sudanese, the situation remains too volatile to risk returning home.
Once a symbol of beauty at the confluence of the White and Blue Nile, the capital now bears the scars of war - widespread destruction, streets littered with debris, and homes filled with tragic stories.
Dead bodies of civilians and soldiers alike serve as grim reminders of the suffering endured.
✍️ MEE / Mohammed Amin
"You think you're informed just because you read a bunch of grainy PDFs?"
Yeah man. Reading scholarly works on a topic informs you on that topic. That's how this works.
Rare photos for the Palestinian journalist, artist, novelist, and short story writer Ghassan Kanafani.
nina simone performs “i wish i knew how it would feel to be free” at the montreux jazz festival, 1976, switzerland
There are at least 370 bird species to see in the West Bank, a wide array despite the small space, ranging from the eagle owl, among the largest owls in the world, to the Palestine sunbird, a nectar-eating songbird whose males have glossy blue and green feathers that shimmer in the sun.
But amid a fraught political climate, Khalilieh says opportunities for Palestinian birders are fewer than those for Israelis. [...] In places like the Wadi Qana Nature Reserve, a beautiful expanse of natural caves and springs in the West Bank, both Khalilieh and Quttainh said they love to bird watch but feel they have to tread carefully as Palestinians so as not to raise suspicions about what they are doing or veer into the settlements by accident.
A spokesperson for the Israeli Civil Administration, the governing body for the West Bank, said Israelis and Palestinians have the same right to access nature reserves and national parks, which they said were open to all people. They also denied that military zones or nature reserves were in any way connected to political plans to expand and sustain Israeli settlements.
But nature reserves in the West Bank’s Area C, which constitutes 61 percent of the region’s territory, are “part of a patchwork of corridors of controlled areas that Palestinians can’t use,” according to Adam Aloni, a researcher with B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization.
Baby Ayla and her family were in their tent today when the IOF suddenly appeared and began firing on the tents. The family barely escaped with their lives, a bullet having narrowly missed baby Ayla’s head!
They had to leave their tent and most of their possessions, which are now under IOF control and are irrecoverable.
They are currently on the street, with no tent, no blankets, no food, and no clothes other than what they were wearing when they had to flee for their lives. They are literally just sitting in the dirt under the night sky.
Ayla’s mother Bashaer @bshaeromars-blog is trying to get Ayla to sleep, but Ayla is too cold and uncomfortable. The low temperature in Gaza tonight is just 47 F or 8 C. They are starving, freezing, and totally without resources. They DESPERATELY need funds for a tent, food, and other basic necessities!! The tent alone is $3000
Currently: $40,469
New temporary goal: $43,469 USD
Please send anything you can so baby Ayla and her family can survive the night!!
NO SUPPORT IN A WHOLE WEEK!!!
Bashaer and Ayla returned to their home in north Gaza, but as you can see, it was rendered uninhabitable by the IOF:
They are still living on the street, still without shelter, and still in desperate need of your support for food, medical care, and repairing their home to the point where it is livable again.
We are setting a low temporary goal to try to restart donations. Please help a young widow and her baby rebuild their lives❤️🩹
Current: $45,755 USD
New temporary goal: $46,000 USD
Need to raise: $245 USD
Temporary goal met!! Thank you🩷
Sadly, Bashaer and Ayla’s situation has not improved. They remain living on the street, vulnerable to weather, disease, starvation, and ongoing IOF attacks which continue despite truce agreements. We need to get them off the street and under a functional roof ASAP!
Current: $46,313 usd
New temporary goal: $47,000 usd
Need to raise: $687 usd
Annoyed at both US and Canadian liberals acting like Canada is an oppressed Global South country that is under the boot of US imperialism and full of progressive revolutionaries when it's actually one of the wealthiest countries in the world and an enthusiastic ally of the US in its imperialism most of the time, and when it isn't, it has its own imperialist and colonialist projects, especially mining, both in the Global South and on stolen Indigenous land within so called Canada - don't even get me started on how reactionary Canadian settlers are either, and it's not just the white ones born here bc a lot of non-white diaspora and immigrants are just as nationalistic and hate both Indigenous peoples and the Global South, even if their families are originally from the latter.
I saw a Reddit thread from someone in Europe going, "Wow, Canada, I always thought you were just a smaller America, but you've really proven yourself to be a democratic power who protects the liberties of your people. The world's eyes are watching you and we're all really impressed."
Followed by Canadians being like, "thank you uwu i hate when people compare us to Americans and it's so nice to be recognized for our contributions to civil liberties"
It was the smuggest smugfest for a country that only just barely kinda-apologized for the hundreds of thousands First Nations children they slaughtered and dumped into mass graves outside of the residential schools they abducted and sent those children to, and on the heels of suing to say, "No, we don't have to provide clean water to reserves, we only do that as a favour"
Embarrassing.
I. HAVE. A. SUGGESTION!!!
Save my orphan children
I am Inas, a mother of two young children: Muhammad, 7 years old, and Hala, 5 years old. They should have been living their childhood like all children—safe and warm in the embrace of their father. But the war has stolen that dream from us😭😭😭
Six months ago, my husband Anas, a kind-hearted man who endured a life of poverty, was killed by a random shell while on his way to work as a taxi driver. Since that tragic day, I’ve been left to carry the unbearable weight of life alone.
I held a diploma in international secretarial studies and was about to start a job to help support my family. But the war shattered not only our home but also my hopes and dreams. We’ve been displaced six times and now live in a tent that offers no shelter from the bitter cold or the ever-looming fear.
My young children face relentless hunger that weakens their fragile bodies and a cold that knows no mercy for their small hearts. Each day, their cries for warmth and food grow louder, and each day, I feel more helpless to provide them with even the basics of life💔😭😭
I appeal to your humanity, to your compassion. We need your help to survive, to find a safe shelter, and to feed my children. Your generosity could be the reason Muhammad and Hala continue to live and find hope amidst this darkness🥹
Please, help me keep the light of these innocent children from being extinguished by this cruel world
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