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randomnoteforfuturereference · 6 months

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Nothing like the Pakistani gov expelling Afghan refugees en masse back to a despotic country in the wake of a devastating earthquake and on the eve of an upcoming winter. All because of attacks on Pakistan from groups linked to said despotic regime that had been at the very least tacitly supported by the Pakistani gov.

Oh.. and a potential update to this (which has been coming as there are tensions between Iran and Afghanistan):

If you're wondering how to help Afghans, and discouraged by the fact that it'd be near impossible to convince these countries otherwise, International Rescue Foundation is probably the most practical source.

Otherwise, if you're American and in a blue/swing district, pressure your rep to push for the Afghan Adjustment Act and similar measures to help refugees get here and be supported. And even if you're in an area where appeals will fall on deaf ears due to racism/nativism/Islamophobia, there are refugee orgs nearby you can get involved with.

If you're not American, there are probably equivalent things that could be done.

#and to be clear the US isn’t innocent in this considering that we could have easily taken them in #Pakistan #Afghanistan #refugees #iran

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esmemarion · 6 months

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I've been really angry and drained from the state of the world at the moment, so I felt the need to draw something that spelt out my desire for peace. Spread awareness for all of this.

#repost due to using the wrong afghanistan flag #my art #cease fire now #ceasefire now #free palestine #congo genocide #armenian genocide #war in ukraine #free sudan #tigray genocide #free syria #rohingya genocide #uyghur genocide #free afghanistan

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sgtgrunt0331-3 · 8 months

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Sgt. Nicole Gee, a maintenance technician with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, cradles an Afghan infant during the evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 24, 2021.

The 23 year-old wrote "I love me job" on her Instagram caption, as her unit was tasked with processing thousands of Afghan and American evacuees through the airport gates.

Just two days later, on August 26, 2021, Sgt. Gee and 12 of her fellow service members were killed in a suicide bombing at the airport.

Fair winds and following seas to Sgt. Gee and those who gave their lives to help protect and save others. Your sacrifice was not in vain and you will never be forgotten. Semper Fi. 🇺🇸

#usmc #us marines #afghanistan #kabul #airport #nicole gee #sgt nicole gee #rest in peace #never forgotten #military

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cyphyree · 1 month

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FREE RICE - Official UN World Food Program free nonprofit game that Feeds those in Need!! https://freerice.com/

What does it do?

You play simple trivia games in-browser, and for every correct answer you will help raise "rice" (meaning money to go into emergency relief such as rice and other foods) to help feed those most in need.

Freerice officially works with the United Nations World Food Program (see: https://unric.org/en/freerice/ ), which serves, as of writing:

State of Palestine

Afghanistan

Ethiopia

Ukraine

Yemen

See more listed here: https://www.wfp.org/emergencies, as linked from Freerice

How does it work?

Private sponsors now match the rice grains earned in the game. Every question you answer correctly earns 10 grains of rice, triggering a financial payment to WFP. The donations generated through Freerice help support WFP's work in emergencies around the world. (source: https://freerice.com/frequently-asked-questions )

100% of all funds generated via Freerice go to the World Food Programme. Freerice does not earn or keep any money it raises.(source: https://freerice.com/about-us)

Important Notes!

If nothing shows up when you hit "PLAY GAME," try enabling cookies to reveal the site shown above

Making an account is OPTIONAL, not having one does not lessen your impact

Can be used towards virtual community service (download a certificate to fill out yourself)

Freerice has no time limit and perfect for using in conjunction with arab.org, a single click website for various good causes

#my school teacher introduced this to our class almost a decade ago. anyone who finished work early would play this #he used it as pre-lesson warm ups too #i know it doesn't target just one specific emergency but it all goes into a pot that then serves the places of greatest need #free palestine #free gaza #palestine #congo #afghanistan #yemen #ukraine #ethiopia #somalia #nigeria #kenya #haiti #myanmar #sudan #sahel #syria

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reasonsforhope · 1 year

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“America likes to tell a certain story about itself: It’s a safe haven, a place of refuge for the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. It’s a story that history shows hasn’t always been true. But thankfully, it just got easier for Americans to take matters into their own hands and turn that aspiration into a reality.

The Biden administration on January 19 launched the Welcome Corps, a new program that will allow groups of Americans to directly sponsor refugees to resettle in their communities.

Whereas recent programs have focused on bringing over people from specific places — Afghanistan, Ukraine, Venezuela — this program makes it possible for private citizens to resettle people from any place in the world, so long as they are refugees as defined by the US Refugee Act.

Under the Welcome Corps program, you and a few of your friends can pool together funds to provide an immigration pathway that allows vulnerable people who may not otherwise be able to immigrate the ability to rebuild their lives in the US. Forming a private sponsor group involves bringing together at least five adults in your area and collectively raising $2,275 for each person you want to resettle in your community. With that money, sponsors commit to helping them through the first three months there, which can include securing and furnishing housing, stocking the pantry with food, supporting job hunts, and registering kids for school.

It’s a powerful way to improve life for the newcomers, granting them protection from persecution or violence in their country of origin, plus the chance to access health care, education, and socioeconomic opportunities. It can also improve life for everyone who’ll be in the newcomers’ orbit, including you and your neighbors. Research suggests welcoming refugees will likely benefit your community as a whole, for example by opening new businesses that revitalize neighborhoods. In Canada, a similar private sponsorship program has proven immensely popular and successful over the past decade.

But you might be thinking: Why should it fall to private citizens to fork over the cash, time, and energy to resettle refugees? Shouldn’t that be the government’s job?

...It’s a fair point: This is the government’s job. That’s why the advocacy groups that pushed for the Welcome Corps program insisted that any refugees who come to the US via private sponsorship should be in addition to the number of traditional, government-assisted resettlement cases.

The State Department has signaled that it agrees. This means that by sponsoring a refugee, you can play a role in allowing the US to take in more refugees overall. It really is additive.

And unlike prior programs for Afghans or Ukrainians, which were temporary, ad hoc responses to crises, the Welcome Corps is intended to be a permanent fixture. The hope is that it’ll complement the traditional resettlement process, which has been struggling for years.”

-via Vox, 1/27/23

#refugees #asylum #us politics #immigration #migration is a human right #refugee #afghanistan #ukraine #welcome corps #refugee sponsorship #united states #human rights #immigration reform #immigrant rights #good news #hope #this has SO MUCH potential to make a difference #to let us help people rather than just watch the government be awful and racist #it's huge

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tomi4i · 1 month

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Pro at playing victim.

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republicansaredomesticterrorists · 2 months

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#republican assholes #traitor trump #crooked donald #Taliban #Trump and the Taliban #Afghanistan Putin’s bounties on US soldiers #traitor #republican values #maga morons #resist #republicans lie about everything

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mysharona1987 · 7 months

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He really is just the worst.

#military #us military #trump #donald trump #mike pence #afghanistan

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communistkenobi · 5 months

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does anyone have reading recommendations that clarify the difference between liberalism and fascism? I’m having trouble distinguishing what is just like normal levels of imperial/colonial violence conducted by a liberal state and what pushes it over the edge into a fascist state. Is fascism simply mature liberalism? Is it liberalism in crisis? Can we only make historical, reactive judgements about what is fascist, which is to say, can we only know if fascism occurred after it has come and gone? I take the general point that calling all liberal states fascist can let them off the hook for types of violence considered normal or “just doing business,” invisibilising the daily violences they conduct as part of the regular maintenance of a liberal capitalist state. People are calling the US fascist for its direct participation in and funding of the genocide in Palestine - a diagnosis I don't disagree with, but if that’s the case, where do you draw the distinction between the US being merely a liberal state with aggressive global imperial ambitions and the US being a fully fascist state? Perhaps more bluntly, what’s the difference between a liberal drone strike and a fascist one? I’m struggling to understand the value of the fascist label, because everything it describes (ultranationalism, a theory of racial and cultural degeneracy/decline, paranoia about an imminent external threat expressed as violence against internal populations deemed to have insufficient loyalty to the country, a turn towards a mythologised tradition of the past, imperial expansion, genocidal projects against minority populations, etc etc) just seems to me like a description of United States in general lol

#if we call all liberal states fascist we risk exceptionalising liberalism <- point I am sympathetic to #but if that’s the case then like what does the fascist label get us? What does it ‘do’ as analytical tool? How does it help us understand #the world today and the history of the world?#was the iraq war fascist? If so are we meant to understand that the US stopped being fascist for a couple years #and is now fascist again? Despite the continued occupation & violence & sanctions in Iraq Libya Yemen Afghanistan etc during that time ?#are all the coups it did in Latin America fascist or just normal liberal behaviour? Was the Korean War fascist? The Vietnam war?#what about the Cold War? What about the genocide of indigenous people in North America? What about chattel slavery?#I guess I’m just at like a point in my knowledge of history that none of the governments or movements or actuons called fascist #seem even remotely different from just like regular imperial and colonial violence #and so like my current inclination is that either all of this is liberal or all of this is fascist #and that doesn’t feel satisfactory lol

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redvelvetwishtree · 6 months

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#they're still trying to use hamas and antisemitism as excuses and it isn't working anymore #they try to sprinkle these words everywhere thinking it will shut people up from criticizing Israel for some reason #idk how they convinced everyone about the Iraq and Afghanistan war #monsters #palestine #israel #free palestine #gaza #gaza strip #middle east #free gaza

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diioonysus · 2 years

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beauty around the world: pt 1

#so ive decided to use all the photos i have saved into my pinterest album of all the countries and use them for a huge big series #beauty #photography #vintage photography #theyre from all different time periods just so everybody knows #bolivia #libya #syria #lithuania #algeria #bosnia herzegovina #oman #ghana #saudi arabia #afghanistan #around the world #history #women in history

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kaapstadgirly · 4 months

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refugeesintl

As well as the emergency in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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sgtgrunt0331-3 · 1 month

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Gunnery Sgt. Troy W. Gans, platoon sergeant for Combined Anti-Armor Team 1, Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, walks through a dry irrigation canal on February 14, 2010, during a patrol with Marines of Charlie Company, 1/3.

During the patrol, Marines made their first contact with village elders in the Five Points area before engaging with Taliban fighters.

(Photo courtesy of USMC)

#usmc #us marines #infantry #grunts #afghanistan #marjah #military

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maidahsjewels · 5 months

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Dm me if interested

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anarchotahdigism · 2 months

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The Persian New Year begins at the end of this month and I hope that liberation comes for people this year.

May all Iranian peoples be free, may we see the death of the Perseosupremacist theofascist Iranian regime, may the pursuit of liberation drag all the bloodthirsty power-worshippers to deep cold soil and insodoing bring life and love to everyone everywhere. May all peoples be free. Jin, jiyan, azadi.

#free palestine #from the river to the sea #none of us are free until all of us are free #jin jiyan azadi #free sudan #free west papua #free iran #free turtle island #death to all states #nowruz #free kurdistan #free afghanistan #free iraq #Iran #Iranian culture #Iranian diaspora #anarchotahdigism

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tygerland · 5 months

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Restrepo (2010; documentary by Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington.)

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