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Another urgent gfm, Eman Abu Hayya’s father and two brothers need urgent medical care and must evacuate Gaza as soon as possible - please, donate and repost + share with your friends, family, and followers - time is running out. 30K out of 85K (4/23/2024)

https://gofund.me/e76af159

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Homeless Disabled/Mostly Queer Family Needs Help...In The Home Stretch Now!

PAYPAL | AMAZON WISHLIST | KOFI | GOFUNDME

VENMO: @penaltywaltz | CASHAPP: $afteriwake23 | ZELLE: DM me for email address

4/22/24 - Update/Newish Post

It's been a busy week, but I no longer have a mobile hotspot I can use at the shelter, so I'm redoing the post on the pinned post.

So last week I had the county share my County of San Diego Section 8 housing application (which I've been waiting on for 17 years) with the City of Oceanside Housing Office, which is the city I currently have a three bedroom house waiting for me if I can get on their Section 8 list. So we're still waiting to hear if they'll bump me up on the Oceanside list, but yeah. That's where housing currently stands.

What I primarily need help with is bills. I have a $500 loan and a $300 loan coming out May 2nd. I have some assorted PayPal 4 in 4 payments coming out as early as the 26th that I need to cover (totaling at least $700 to get Mr paid off or through to when I'll have money). I have a few credit cards of my mom's that need to be paid or are close to being paid off, and that's at least $350.

I'm going to set the goal at $2,000 because, fingers crossed, if I can pay these last few things off I'll have money to put towards gas, food, Lena's glasses and other essentials without having to take out loans next month at all. So any help would be much appreciated!

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got toilet paper and cat food, which I super appreciate the help with the other day. am running really low on food and am gonna need to buy more soon, though. I'd really appreciate if someone could toss me a few bucks so I can eat more than just, like. bread with condiments, or plain pasta. still waiting on my disability judgement to see if I need to appeal again.

paypal: https://www.paypal.me/seththemuse

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Oh no. I just got some bad news about my mom, Her cancer is getting bad. Not sure how long she has left. I would like to go see her while I still have a chance and make things right with her. Please help me raise the money.

25/500

Cashapp $Skywalker341

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hey guys, I could use your help with something! Sue is a Black disabled mother, migrant, and PhD student at Newcastle University who urgently needs solidarity. Newcastle University is reporting her to the Home Office in retaliation for her complaint about her abusive supervisor, in full awareness of her Stage 5 kidney disease. this is a life-and-death situation.

here's how you can help:

retweet Unis Resist Border Control's tweet about Sue's abusive situation at the University of Newcastle

sign the open letter to Newcastle University by 22 May

pass a motion with your UCU branch (template here)

donate to help Sue find a kidney donor, apply to Leave to Remain, pay solicitor fees, and cover living costs

Sue's story from the #WeAreAllSue toolkit:

In 2022, Sue Agazie, high-achieving in her field, was promised financial support for her tuition fees through scholarships and paid opportunities and enrolled into the PhD programme at Newcastle University Business School with this understanding. When Sue arrived in the UK in 2023, however, she learned that all of this financial promise was a lie; the scholarships that she had been promised never materialised. Instead, she has gone into horrific debt and is having trouble surviving.

For almost a year, Sue sought financial support for herself and her family, including grants and opportunities that would burnish the reputation of her supervisor and university as a whole. However, in that year, her supervisor not only prevented her from applying to scholarships and paid opportunities, but further controlled her research and day-to-day quality of life, with a high-level of surveillance, inappropriate supervisory practices, and escalating harassment of both her and her family.

These practices include this supervisor repeatedly preventing Sue from taking part in important professional development activities, such as research presentations, within the Business School. He also isolated her from her senior colleagues, forbidding her from attending particular activities they were facilitating, or spreading malicious rumours about them. Further, the primary supervisor repeatedly ignored Sue's pleas for support on funding applications and other opportunities that would alleviate the precarious financial situation into which she had been placed, telling her to “stop sending me links to scholarships”.

This behaviour would culminate in the primary supervisor verbally abusing Sue a number of times, and maligning Sue’s husband, alleging that he has been too lazy to financially support her. These inappropriate supervisory practices belie Newcastle University’s commitment to gender equality under the Athena SWAN Charter, for which it holds a Silver award, and for which the Business School holds a Bronze award.

An environment of terror and retaliation

This environment of surveillance, harassment, and terror has grossly impacted the health of Sue as well as that of her spouse and children. In particular, her kidney condition escalated to stage 5 kidney disease, a severe and terminal illness that causes disablement and time-sensitive, highly-delicate medical needs, during this ordeal. The National Kidney Foundation in the United States indicates that “stress and uncontrolled reactions to stress” can “lead to kidney damage.” These compounding issues have also understandably affected Sue's studies, although she has bravely persisted in her research, meeting important deadlines.

Sue raised these issues using relevant avenues of informal complaint, including her supervisory teams and student support services; there are multiple complaints that have been raised in this department. However, she did not receive sufficient support. Further, her severe health issues were not treated with the urgency and importance that they deserved. In October and November 2023, Sue's supervisor accused her of allegedly plagiarising his work in what Sue sees as a malicious act of retaliation and victimisation over her informal complaint, and an attempt to sabotage her reputation not just at Newcastle University, but to prestigious global networks. Following all of this mistreatment, Sue filed a formal complaint against her supervisor in February 2024.

Newcastle University is closing ranks

The university came back to Sue on 5 March 2024 with its response, alleging that she had fabricated the complaint against her supervisor in retaliation for his accusations of research misconduct against her, painting this vulnerable, disabled African student as a malicious liar. The supervisor even denies the relevance of her terminal illness and implicates her young child's behaviour in his response, while maintaining that her terminal illness "has nothing to do with her studies or work pressure here". Sue maintains: “During the time that I was supervised by the primary PhD supervisor, he neither kept in regular communication about my disability nor did he signpost me to relevant services within and outside of Newcastle University that could help me. It is dangerous for the primary supervisor to maintain that my disability would not have affected my studies. His comments show a gross level of disability discrimination that does not befit the reputation that Newcastle University seeks to cultivate as an inclusive place.”

Now, the university is claiming that Sue is not "engaging" sufficiently with the programme, and is threatening to report her to the Home Office, despite a written promise in January 2024 that her status would be unaffected due to the ongoing complaint process, and full knowledge of her terminal stage 5 kidney failure. Adding more insult to injury, Newcastle University Accommodation Service has been hounding Sue for rent arrears, even though they know she is critically ill and in a complaint with the university, surviving with the support of Food & Solidarity. Sue has pleaded with the university’s Accommodation Service for a rent freeze, indicating her urgent health complications and her complaint underway with the university. In all correspondences, the Accommodation Service has ignored Sue’s pleas for clemency. There is real fear that the Accommodation Service will evict Sue, her husband and their child. This will, no doubt, cause real precarity to Sue’s already fragile health condition.

We are appalled that the Newcastle University Business School is utilising obvious misogynoirist tropes to close ranks around a disabled Black migrant student who has been treated horribly, and weaponising her precarious migrant status against her as she attempts to seek justice. We are also aware that Sue is not the only student in this situation and that there have been other complaints in this department. It is a stark illustration of the pernicious institutional racism at Russell Group universities that a disabled Black migrant woman with caring responsibilities has been treated this way not only by a supervisor, but by the institution, as well as the abject way these universities instrumentalise migrant students from the Global South as sources of income that they can afterwards dispose of.

Sue maintains that this ordeal has not diminished her resolve to complete her PhD studies at Newcastle University Business School. She says, “I want to finish my PhD research. But for that to happen, Newcastle University must provide the necessary support for a disabled student in a non-abusive environment. I hope that the university listens to me and we can come to a resolution on this matter soon.”

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[Image description: A purple square graphic. The title is “researching your research” subtitled “a virtual teach-in on demilitarizing your department for earth, planetary, and space scientists.”

In the middle is a purple bubble with text “Facilitators from: the Palestine Space Institute (PSI), Demilitarise Education (dED), and UCSC astro workers. In a second purple bubble is a QR code labeled “scan for more info and registration” with the link rb.gy/liakmx.

In the bottom left reads “When: March 28 18:00 to 20:00 UTC. Register by: March 27 8:00 UTC.” In the lower right is the Abolish Planets logo, which is a black circle with bold italic font that says “abolish planets” in all caps. End ID]

All disciplines welcome, whether you’re an undergrad student working on divestment or a research professional in any field involved in organizing. Broad focus on both US and UK.

More info and registration here.

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CONTEXT: the gaza freedom flotilla coalition aims to bring emergency aid (food, medical supplies, etc) to a starving and besieged gaza. activists and journalists from all over the world (including diaspora palestinians like dylan) will be participating, and they know the risk — in 2010 turkish activists attempting a similar mission had their flagship raided by israeli forces, who murdered 10 activists aboard (9 died on site and another died later from critical injuries).

#Palestine #Gaza #action

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Oh no. I just got some bad news about my mom, Her cancer is getting bad. Not sure how long she has left. I would like to go see her while I still have a chance and make things right with her. Please help me raise the money.

0/500

Cashapp $Skywalker341

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got toilet paper and cat food, which I super appreciate the help with the other day. am running really low on food and am gonna need to buy more soon, though. I'd really appreciate if someone could toss me a few bucks so I can eat more than just, like. bread with condiments, or plain pasta. still waiting on my disability judgement to see if I need to appeal again.

paypal: https://www.paypal.me/seththemuse

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Urgent my rent was due on the 18th. I owe 350. Please help I don't want to get evicted.

Rent 25/350

Cashapp $Skywalker341

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✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿Black Lives Matters✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

Hey guys, I still need help with rent I can’t afford to get evicted due to rising my sister. Also needing help with my phone bill it’s the only phone we have. Any small donations help.

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Gaza Online is calling for direct upload of eSim QR codes from Nomad, Holafly (Israel and Egypt), Airalo, Sparks, and Numero. A detailed guide of how to purchase eSims and get QR codes for all of these apps (and desktop sites) can be found here.

See which eSims are needed here

Upload a QR code here

Donate funds instead

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if you're in canada, please take a moment to sign and share this petition calling for the investigation of registered canadian charities that give funding to illegal israeli settlement projects or to the israeli military.

this is an official petition in the house of commons and is endorsed by a member of parliament. it’s open for signatures until august 8, 2024.

#action #Palestine

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got toilet paper and cat food, which I super appreciate the help with the other day. am running really low on food and am gonna need to buy more soon, though. I'd really appreciate if someone could toss me a few bucks so I can eat more than just, like. bread with condiments, or plain pasta. still waiting on my disability judgement to see if I need to appeal again.

paypal: https://www.paypal.me/seththemuse

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OUT OF FOOD

0/80

PLEASE HELP I AM COMPLETELY OUT OF FOOD.

PAYPAL

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Car Help

Hello!

Sorry, I’ve been MIA.

I was in a car accident a few weeks ago and have been using a loaner car given to me through my insurance. I need to get my car back this weekend, but the deductible is outrageous. I haven’t had any success closing stuff out in a long time, but I’m about $200 short on this. So, if anyone can help, I’d appreciate it.

0/200

P*ypal: paypal.me/acecoolant

C*sh App: $acefluid03

30/200

$170 left!!!

Nothing since Friday. If anyone can help me out with this I’d appreciate it.

Nothing has come in two days, even a few buck help me close this out. Please help and boost this if you can.

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In need of help, rent is due on the 18th. I'm 350 dollars short. Please someone help me 😭

Cashapp $Skywalker341

0/350