The #ConnectingGaza campaign supplies E-Sims to people on the ground in Gaza, allowing them to circumvent internet disruption/blackout during the siege and continue connecting with the wider internet. A digital SIM card (called an e-SIMs) works the same as a physical SIM Card, providing data and SMS for a phone number. E-Sims are one of few resources that can be directly accessed without blockage by people on the ground in Gaza.
Artists will be offering art in exchange of the value of the donated e-SIMs. Visit https://cartoonist.coop/esims4gaza to learn more.
Saw this gofundme on twitter and have not seen anyone post it on here too, it's for a family trying to escape the war in Sudan, please help if you can
If gofundme doesn't work, paypal is @hajokest
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Every outfit was a life, a story, a child who wanted nothing from the world but to play. Look how long this video is even at high-speed. It would take the average person 45 minutes to an hour to walk this 3.2 mile line.
Thank you to @palestinesolidarity.cc and @monterey_palestine_solidarity and @thepeoplepalestine for setting up this tribute and for @modern_mowgli for capturing it.
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via @wizard_bisan1
21 January 2024
Hi everyone, it’s Bisan from Gaza, I am still alive Alhamdullah.. it’s been 107 days of genocide, 15 weeks, 2568 hours of killing us, taking over our homes and lands in Gaza Strip, and forcing us to choose between leaving or death.. and sometimes we can’t even choose.. the Israeli air strikes simply kill us without any warnings. Now, we are without any connection, neither the internet nor the cellular, we can’t reach each other’s inside Gaza, we don’t know if our families and friends are alive or not, wounded or not.. still in their places or not! We take hours of walking and searching to reach someone, while moving became very risky! We can’t reach to you as well! The footage, information and news from Gaza are not reaching you as before because the Israeli army intentionally destroyers the signal towers and the servers, even using the E-SIM requires being in a high place which is very risky!. I borrowed this vest to upload this post! I am not scared of death, but of being displaced, scared of losing my family or friends, scared of being wounded and can’t have my treatment because the health system is collapsed in Gaza, and to die in pain! I am not scared of the destruction.. I lost my work place.. my home and my family work place and source of income, I am terrified of being killed by an occupier, and to be forgotten, one oppressed Bisan of a whole occupied people. The strongest governments and weapons manufacturers are supporting this genocide against my people, and you are our only hope! STRIKE globally and call for a ceasefire! Strike, protest, stop the economic movements and make pressure on your countries to stand against this and stop it, if ISRAhell don’t find the financial and weapons support, or governments to hide their crimes they will be forced to stop the genocide! Go to the streets, protest and Globally strike for a week, (21-28) January! YALLA Brave and free people of the world, CEASEFIRE NOW!
I think about them, all the time, at all hours of the day.
Every time I'm sheltered from rain, every time I get to hold my brother in my arms, safe, alive.
I pray, but I'm so enraged and disappointed and helpless and distraught and I love each and every soul so, so much.
I wish I could grieve them all like they deserve.
I wish none of this would have happened.
I know you do too. So cry for them, and don't. stop. fighting.
Protect Palestianan children. Ceasefire now
[Wet’suwet’en land defenders are heading to the colonial courts for multiple trials starting this summer for civil and criminal cases — both in defence of our right to protect our territory from the unlawful trespass and property damage caused by TC Energy’s project Coastal GasLink, and to pursue a civil suit against the RCMP, Coastal GasLink, and Forsythe Security for waging a daily campaign of intimidation and harassment against Wet’suwet’en people and supporters.
The same colonial judiciary that recognized Wet’suwet’en sovereignty in 1997 is now attempting to criminalise land defenders rightfully protecting our sovereign land and water from an illegal fracked gas pipeline. Help support Gidimt’en Checkpoint land defenders in the colonial court of so-called British Columbia — chip in to the legal fund now to help Wet’suwet’en people continue to stand up for our rights and authority over our own territory and keep us out of jail!
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Criminal Proceedings:
Alleged criminal contempt charges (breach of the injunction) - 8 people facing these charges, each will have to go to trial
Abuse of process trial, will commence with criminal trials
Upcoming court for arrests (alleged obstruction) in August 2022 and March 2023
Civil Proceedings:
Harassment, intimidation and collusion against the RCMP/Department of Justice, CGL and Forsythe Security
In 2020, and 2021 people across the Turtle Island blocked railways and shut down Canada in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en people resisting the construction of the Coastal GasLink fracked gas pipeline that never received Free, Prior and Informed Consent of Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs.
The global media attention and outrage that followed galvanized widespread support for the Wet’suwet’en, from the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to celebrities in Los Angeles issuing statements in solidarity.
The backlash forced the governments of BC and Canada to sign what was hailed as a “landmark” agreement to formally recognize the rights and title of Wet’suwet’en people. They set a timeline of 12 months to complete this work. But the governments of so-called British Columbia and Canada have not followed through on their commitments with Wet’suwet’en leaders to this date, more than three years later.
The UN has issued two additional rebukes to these colonial governments, not only for their failure to consult, but for the use of force and violence on Wet’suwet’en peoples by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the special “Community-Industry Response Group” (now rebranded to the Community Response Unit after intense backlash).
Now, Wet’suwet’en land defenders are being charged as criminals for defending our land and water within their rights as a sovereign nation, as recognized by the Supreme Court of Canada in 2007. On top of this, Wet’suwet’en people continue to suffer police intimidation, harassment, and surveillance. Despite the civil suit against the RCMP, CRU (previously CIRG) and security company Forsythe for colluding to harass Wet’suwet’en people and supporters, police are still using intimidation tactics including nonstop surveillance of camp, going to Sleydo’’s house and peering in the windows, pulling vehicles over and disrupting daily activities like collecting drinking water and firewood.
"The fact that Canada has a special task force — C-IRG — to assure industry free access to our lands and to criminalize us for exercising our rights to our thousands of year old governance system indicates to the world that Canada and B.C. maintain an abusive relationship toward Indigenous people," said Sleydo' (Molly Wickham), spokesperson for Gidim'ten Checkpoint of the Wet'suwet'en.
“The Wet’suwet’en people, under the governance of their Hereditary Chiefs, are standing in the way of the largest fracking project in Canadian history. Our medicines, our berries, our food, the animals, our water, our culture, our homes are all here since time immemorial. We will never abandon our children to live in a world with no clean water. We uphold our ancestral responsibilities. There will be no pipelines on Wet'suwet'en territory.”
Stand in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en people as we head to the colonial courts starting this summer to assert our sovereign right to protect our lands under the governance of Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs, and to hold the colonial state-sanctioned police accountable for tactics of intimidation and harassment. Donate to the Wet’suwet’en legal fund now.]
me and the mutuals