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🇵🇸 Free Palestine- A guide for getting involved (Somewhat USA-focused)! 🇵🇸
This post is going to get very long, so I'm trying my best to break it up into manageable sections! Some parts of this post are applicable to people outside America, but at this time, I'm only knowledgeable enough about the movement in America to make a post about it!
Find Out About Local Organizations To Get Involved With
The best place to start is to find out what's already happening locally! If you live in a large/larger town/city, chances are something's already happening nearby!
For Americans: Look here to find out about the closest PSL (Party for Socialism and Liberation) chapter to where you live! They are involved in direct activism all across the US!
Find out if there's a PYM (Palestinian Youth Movement) chapter near you! They are extremely active
For college students in the US: Find out if there's an SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine) chapter on your campus! If there isn't, try founding your own! Look at their website here to learn more!
Also for college students in the US: Find out if there's a YDSA (Young Democratic Socialists of America) chapter on your campus!
Participate in BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions)
Find out how to get involved here
Hold Local News Outlets Accountable
Find out about the local news outlets in your area
Keep up-to-date with their publications
If it's a digital source, search it for any and all publications related to Palestine and Israel- if this search yields results, are the articles supportive of Palestine and its supporters?
If you encounter an article/multiple articles that lean towards or outright try to justify Israel's actions or spread propaganda, then you can do a few things-
1) If the article is digital, make a public comment correcting any misinformation in the article. Try to keep your comment straight to the point and factual.
2) Find out who wrote the article and reach out to them personally to discuss said article and the issues you have with it. Share your point of view and discuss misinformation and harmful language contained within the article.
3) Find out the editor of the article, and write a 'letter to the editor'. Such letters may have a word limit varying between different news outlets, so keep your letter brief yet powerful and deconstruct your issues with the article
4) Reach out to the owner of said publication and ask if you can try your hand at writing an opinion piece for them. Sometimes, it can take awhile to get one of your opinion pieces accepted, but if it's something you're passionate about, keep trying!
If a particular news outlet has a repeated pattern of dehumanizing and villifying the Palestinian freedom cause in their publications, try getting in touch with local activist groups! They can help- from organizing letter campaigns to actual protests outside the news headquarters!
Urge Your Town/City to Pass A Ceasefire Resolution-
First, check and see if there's already an organized movement in your town or city to pass a ceasefire resolution (via pressuring your local town/city council)- NOTE: If you live in a very small town, the chances are smaller that there is already an organized movement- but that doesn't mean you can't help to start one
If there is already a movement, find out when the public comment sessions for your town's/city's council are, and find out how you can sign up to speak- if you do so, you can also try and connect with the organizers of your local movement for advice on writing a statement in support of a ceasefire resolution
An addendum to the previous point: if you sign up to speak, find out if you can also provide a visual presentation for your statement- these are often especially powerful
If there isn't an organized movement yet, that doesn't at all mean that one can't be started. I recommend reaching out to the nearest town/city you know of that has an organized movement for a ceasefire resolution
Send emails and letters, and call, to all your town/city council members to consistently urge them to pass a ceasefire resolution
Pressure Your Representatives to Vote against Aid to Israel-
This is not US-specific- if you have representatives of your local area on the national level, you can pressure them through calls, emails, letters, setting up meetings, and direct action, to not sign off on aid proposals for Israel
Setting up meetings is particularly impactful- you have a chance to speak with them or their reps one-on-one with your point of view
Call/email EVERY DAY! Pressure only works if it is consistent, and ask your friends and family members to join you in contacting them to build even more pressure
Donate To-
These fundraisers to help various families leave Gaza
Your local/closest Palestinian Children's Relief Fund's chapter
1 or more of the Global Rahmah Foundation's projects for Gaza
ANERA
HEAL Palestine
Local drives for the World Food Pantry and other local fundraisers are also super important!
This is not an all-inclusive list of ways to support Palestine, it's just intended to be a guide for getting involved for people who want to get involved but aren't sure where to start. Please suggest or correct anything for this post, and please spread it around! @fairuzfan @palipunk @tamarrud @el-shab-hussein @apollos-olives @metalheadsforblacklivesmatter @bfpnola
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global strikes against genocide
twt thread for more details
links for resources
links to donate
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(taken from @/sarahofmagdalene on instagram.)
A NOTE TO THOSE WHO MAY BE PARTICIPATING IN PRO PALESTINE ACTIONS IN VANCOUVER.
Please, even if you don’t live in Vancouver, reblog to spread awareness. The canadian media isn’t covering the protests, let alone the hostility protesters face, so we can only rely on each other to get news like this around!
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mogai-sunflowers · 1 month
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hey y'all! i'm going to start posting my own terms again, but i can't take requests still. i really only have time here and there to log on, today i have nothing to do so i thought it would be fun to do some coining again. much love to y'all <3
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a little late but happy BHM to everyone, much love and peace to you all <3
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frankly, the people whose kneejerk reaction to bisan asking for a global strike form the 21st-28th is to say that it takes years to organize a general strike are really unhelpful! no one is saying otherwise, but palestine will be a smoking crater if we all wait for years to do anything - bisan is asking us to do something now. Like are we only supposed to do something if we can do it perfectly??? At some point it’s a valid critique about the work that goes into social movement, and at another point I feel like some people are just trying to absolve themselves from not putting any effort into observing a week of economic inaction.
like idk! I get it, okay! People have bills to pay that don’t magically go away for a strike, we don’t have nearly enough social infrastructure in place to support people to fully stop going to work for a week. But fuck, dude! Stop immediately responding in such a defeatist way! Cut out unnecessary purchases! Try to shop local! Put more effort into promoting Palestinian voices online! Attend a protest, call a local rep, do something!
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Say hello to Amir, a disabled Palestinian boy who's been struggling with his health while living in the Al-Nazuuh center. He just got his walker yesterday! January 20th 2024, he's very excited to be walking again.
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We find light in the dark, as Palestinians.
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the venn diagram of zios who say “if you really want to decolonize than why don’t you say decolonize the US” and zios who say that “Land Back is a cry for white genocide” is a circle btw.
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tell me you've never actually set foot in a "pro-palestine space" without telling me: - "the pro-palestine movement has an antisemitism problem" - "it's like a fandom" / "it's a trend" / "it's not strategic" - "why does no one say decolonize the US"
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zionists posting "oh its sooo interesting that u guys only want to dismantle 'colonizer states' when theyre jewish. what about YOUR colonizer states..." as if thats a gotcha. good news! i don't think the united states should exist either dumbass
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BISAN HAS CALLED FOR A GLOBAL STRIKE
January 21-28th
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Day 101 matters as much as Day 1. Keep speaking up. Don’t stop talking about Palestine. I won’t stop. Stay with me.🇵🇸
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me, moral ocd haver: wheee! the joys of life! *licks swirly lollipop*
The Guilt: we're gonna fucking Get you bro 😂😭😭🤣🤣🤣
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Eye on Palestine wrote a letter of gratitude to South Africa. It reads:
A letter of gratitude to South Africa
The team of Eye on Palestine wants to express gratitude and pride in South Africa's historical move of charging Israel with the crime of genocide in the International Court of Justice. Our audience has always made us feel that intersectional solidarity is the key, and today South Africa embodied this solidarity and made the world a witness to it; a nation that survived Apartheid is saving another nation that is being torn by it.
Many Palestinian activists started to lose hope in covering the daily atrocities committed by the Israeli Occupation since real actions were never taken. Today, South Africa has broken this cycle of despair. We will continue spreading the word, covering the crimes against humanity, and to keep pushing for concrete actions. We demand the world to keep an eye on this case. To conclude, Nelson Mandela once said, "Freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians".
With love,
Eve on Palestine
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I don’t even care who fucking wins the presidency this year look at this
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Hello! rly appreciating your posts, in particular the ones about GLAM... it made me curious if you or your followers happen to have any resources/literature to recommend on 2 areas of interest?:
1. Relating salvage anthropology to modern day ideas of trauma porn
2. Palestinian-led museums/archives/oral history projects/other collections or exhibitions of note. (Or if not literature, any names involved besides the few I know of like POHA/the nakba archive/the arab resource center for popular arts; the palestine museum; librarians & archivists with Palestine; activestills; forever our land; and art for gaza)
Anyway, again, thanks for all the time/work you’re putting into analysis and info dissemination <3
hello, thanks for sending this in. sooo i have like. no idea about the first one haha but i have so many for the second one.
The Institute for Palestine Studies has a bunch of scholarly articles and anaylsis about Palestine
Librarians and Archivists for Palestine is not completely Palestinian led but it's one that I'm a part of and really like, even though you already mention it.
The Palestine Museum Digital Archive is an AMAZING resource led by Palestinians in Palestine. I recommend scrolling through their intifada posters, downloading them, printing them, and hanging them around town.
The Palestinian Oral History Archive project in case people were wondering what POHA is.
The Museum of the Palestinian People in DC is really great and has a lot of digitized features.
The Palestine Museum US has a lot of books as well, based on Turtle Island.
The Arab American National Museum is not Palestinian led but I can vouch that they're a great group.
The Met has a lot of Palestinian clothing BUT.... warning in that it is very colonial in its arrangement and description and we dont super know how people got the material they have. If you want to look at the content feel free, though. Will say that Wafa Ghnaim, one of the leading experts on Tatreez in Turtle Island is working on recataloguing the Palestinian collection.
Visualizing Palestine is an infographic organization that might interest you.
The Nakba Archive for people wanting to check it out.
The Library of Congress is. Honestly it's pretty racist but it does have content if you wanna look at it.
Tirazain is a tatreez pattern library that's really cool.
There might be more that I'm forgetting but here are some just from me sitting here thinking for the past few minutes. If anyone else has any recommendations, feel free to add.
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