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ONLY $5,000 USD UNTIL ESCAPE

This family's fund only requires $5,000 USD to get them to $20,000 which is what they'll need to evacuate Gaza. $5,000 is definitely an achieve-able amount. Please donate if you can, and if you can't, share!

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Congo: The Genocide that implicates us all

Heavy fighting erupted in 2023 between the Congolese Army and several armed groups, most notably the M23 militia, escalating an already disastrous situation. Thousands have been killed, and hundreds of thousands have been displaced. At present, there are 7.1 million displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Violence of this scale is not without precedent, with the conflict in Eastern DRC leading to an approximate 6 million deaths since 1996.

In November 2023, an unidentified man in the capital Kinshasa set himself on fire while holding a sign reading “Stop the Genocide in Congo.” Another man, Cedrick Nianza, did the same in 2011 while shouting Congo na nga, Congo na nga (my Congo, my Congo).

Violence and conflict inflicted on the people in the Congo is not new. Over a century ago, one of the worst atrocities in recorded history occurred with King Leopold II’s genocide of 10 million African people to control the rubber trade during his colonial rule over Congo from 1885 to 1908.

The modern conflict includes ethnically motivated killings, which have been a frequent reality in Congo since the spillover from the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi people occurring in their neighbor country Rwanda. Thirty years later, the M23 claims to defend the Tutsi from further acts of genocide.

Along with the ethnic divisions, the modern conflicts are fueled by a diverse constellation of internal, regional, and international actors with the essential factor driving the violence being control over resources.

Almost all new technology, especially what is described as ‘green tech,’ requires materials such as lithium, cobalt, copper, and tin. The Eastern regions of the DRC are rich in these materials – as well as in diamonds and petroleum – and are thus subject to fierce contestations by local militias, backed by foreign governments (such as Rwanda in the case of the M23 militia), and international capital. Those that mine for these materials experience horrible conditions, with many accounts of slave labor and child labor. These same minerals are bought by international companies and create technologies such as smart phones, laptops, electric vehicles, solar panels, ear pods, speakers – basically anything with a battery.

Many activists are calling for a boycott of new tech and insist that the transition to green technology – a phrase used to indicate a switch to more ecological forms of energy production – cannot be built with the blood of Congolese men, women, and children.

This is the third in a series visualizing genocides across the globe created by Hisham Rifai and Ayman Makarem. See the first two specials, Resisting Starvation in Gaza and ‘Zaghrouda’ in the Midst of the Sudan War below.

The artistic duo has also created the Revolution in Every Country comic series on revolutionary movement events and ideas in the SWANA (South West Asia and North Africa) region.

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has anybody seen my pet piece of paper. his name is walter he is very fragile but very adventurous. i should never have left the window open in my tenth story apartment

#fucking don’t i’ll cry

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LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO

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now why would you comment this Anjana Vasan?

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verso books has made books on palestine, mass protests, and student rebellions free to download on their website

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Another thing is that when this aggression started, we were so worried about winter and how displaced people in tents will survive it. Earlier this week the temperature in Gaza hit 38 degrees (100 Fahrenheit) and we are now wondering how will displaced people survive the heat in those tents.

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it's so funny how graffiti is like a non issue that effortlessly reveals peoples' reactionary tendencies.

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#i feel like there’s sort of two mains so i’m either a burglar or the woeful king of a wandering people seeking to reclaim his homeland from #a dragon so pretty cool either way

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If you're having trouble keeping up with what's going on in Palestine because of US news coverage of university protests, here are some articles you can read and a video you can watch:

While CNN & all the other mainstream media try to paint the university protests as "pro terrorism" (which they're not, they're literally anti-war protests.) Palestinians are being slaughtered by the minute.

Please don't stop speaking about Palestine.

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“we need to teach media literacy in schools” guys was i really the only person paying attention in english class bffr

#prev

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Its weird for me to think that dolphins existed at the same time as queens and knights and shit like that. I feel like dolphins were invented in the 80s by crystal shops to sell porcelain statues to divorced women

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not to be on my old bullshit again but i'm so terrified of the future.... to give u a quick summary, on the 6th of april my boyfriend started suffocating me and later depraved me of liberty because he wanted to make me his wh0re so he doesn't have to work, saying my only way to escape would be jumping off the balcony at the third floor and breaking bones while doing it. this situation lasted only a while and i managed to escape, but because of the trauma i had to resign from my new job after a week of training because i can't think straight. i am looking for a less demanding job, but it's borderline impossible to get any in my town + i've been unemployed since the beginning of january and i'm not eligible for any sort of benefits. i'm waiting for a spot at an outpatient psych clinic to deal with what happened so i can eventually go back to that job (the boss said i can do it when i feel better) but it will be weeks and i have time until the 5th of may to move out and start my life from scratch again as it's probably the day my ex(?) boyfriend leaves the hospital. also i'm so scared of being homeless and slipping back into selective mutism, i don't want it, especially now that i have to be stronger than ever before and idk what to do without any money so if u can help me in any way i would be very very grateful 🩶🪽

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ps. polaczki mam mnóstwo ubrań i biustonoszy (nówki sztuki nieśmigane) do sprzedania, których nie noszę i muszę się pozbyć żeby ułatwić sobie przeprowadzkę 🥴

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and is your shame helpful? is it inspiring goodness and change? or is it keeping you frozen in time unable to move on and be everything you have expanded to be?

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Even Biden supporters want this motherfucker gone like what are we doing here?