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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 22h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21h

It's almost that time of year again in the Northeast... Time to put together some warm kits: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - it's a great family activity and you can get others involved too. Last year, I adapted the activity to focus on public libraries but they can be donated anywhere.

#Warm4Holidays2024

#Warm4Holidays Public Library Edition For a few years on Twitter, I used the #Warm4Holidays hashtag to organize crafters to join a New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day challenge. Crafters were invited t...

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It's Reem 🇵🇸🍉 @reeeeeeem.bsky.social · 3d

I’m Reem, from Gaza. The war may be over, but we still live in the middle of its ashes. I was a college student. I was studying, dreaming and planning a life of hope but I lost everything in my home. My family’s livelihood has been erased💔😭
The rest of the text in the comments!!!

gofund.me/de96cb50

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It's Reem 🇵🇸🍉 @reeeeeeem.bsky.social · 3d

My future stands on the edge, and everything I was building collapsed in one moment.Everything I loved under the rubble:My books, my laptop, my papers, even my dream are buried.We live without a door, without a roof, and without income💔😔

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It's Reem 🇵🇸🍉 @reeeeeeem.bsky.social · 3d

I sleep on the cold of the earth, and I wake up to hunger for nothing else.And after all this,I'm not just a student...
I am a girl who tries to keep herself and her family on her dream, on her dignity.But I can't alone😫

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It's Reem 🇵🇸🍉 @reeeeeeem.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not asking for anything big... But an opportunity to return to complete, learn and live.Help me, support me, don't leave me alone. If you can't donate, participate. My word can reach a compassionate heart🙏🏻‼️💔

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It's Sakher 🍉 @sakher23.bsky.social · 1d

If you can’t donate, just share my story. Every share means the world to me.
I dream of living a normal life again — with my family, with safety, with dignity.
I dream of studying, traveling, and being free.
Please help me rebuild my life, step by step.

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Sakher and Reem 🍉🇵🇸 @sakher-gaza.bsky.social · 2d

They say the war is over... but the pain inside me hasn’t ended.
The bombs may have stopped falling, but the struggle is far from over.
I'm Sakher — a young man who lost everything in this war.
My home… gone. My memories, my work, my future all destroyed
More talk in the comments

gofund.me/f116bf44

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Sakher and Reem 🍉🇵🇸 @sakher-gaza.bsky.social · 2d

The war may be "over" on the news,
but the hunger didn’t end. The fear didn’t end.
My suffering didn’t end
I’m not asking for much…
just a chance to live, to stand back up, to feel human again
Please don’t turn away
Please don’t forget me
Your support is the only thing keeping hope alive in my heart

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∞ ever @everafterengine.bsky.social · 2d

Please help Khaled and his sister resume their educations and chase the dreams they’ve held on to during these brutal two years.

@mommunism.bsky.social 💚

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Khaled Ayman @eligeuno.bsky.social · 1d

It’s time to start planning our journey to continue chasing our dreams and finally see life beyond survival. My family and I deserve a chance to live, not just endure. ✊🏻

We’ve lost a lot, but hope keeps us going. Every step forward is part of our healing.

Support: gofund.me/591c2ff8

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Doaa Madhoun @doaa66.bsky.social · 3d

I'm Duaa from Gaza. The war is over. I had a beautiful home, a wonderful life, and healthy children😞. Everything is destroyed. We're homeless. We've even lost our livelihood. Donate. I want to save my children from this devastation and live a better life.😞😞💔

More in the comments.
gofund.me/7fc0e346

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, it’s exhausting that people think Gazans should only ask for help to survive to eat, to stay alive but not to dream, to study, or to rebuild their lives. Wanting education, safety, and a future isn’t greed. It’s being human.

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 19h

Help me rebuild out family life with education and new house and evacuation from gaza

chuffed.org/project/1389...

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 20h

Artwork, sharing OFFLINE, sharing online, anything anything anything

You dont even have to email. I made you:

- printable flyers
- two graphics for socials
- a QR code to stick on things
- a printable zine
- a digital zine
- a one-click email template

linktr.ee/hopegivingcircle

Hope Giving Circle | Linktree

This giving circle sustains 6 families in Gaza and a mutual aid team serving a displacement camp of 15 more with food, water, shelter, medicine, and more.

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 1d

3 hours left ⚠️ This goal is incredibly small. Our full costing for rebuilding needs for all six families is far more than we have ever raised. So we chip away at it for a bit of food and shelter. This is still life and death.

Kids & a pregnant mom & disabled people need you. 857/879

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

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Akram Basil Abdulwahed @akramabdelwahed.bsky.social · 23h

My sisters are crying and need you to help us to back to Gaza!

Could you help us to return back?

chuffed.org/project/help...

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 1d

Osama Abu Rabee:

“Director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex:

•The health situation in the Gaza Strip is completely collapsed, esp after the occupation destroyed the hospitals in Gaza City.

•We’ve contacted intl orgs and informed them of our needs, but have not received anything since the war stopped.”

Screenshot of Osama Abu Rabee’s x post:
Director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex:

•The health situation in the Gaza Strip is completely collapsed, especially after the occupation destroyed the hospitals in Gaza City.

•We have contacted international organizations and informed them of our needs, but we have not received anything since the war stopped.

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 1d

good progress. Just 790 to go!!

Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 1d

We really really need all hands on deck to get Tarek’s mitigation letter to the judge with 10,000 signatures by Monday. Please circulate offline and here, and sign!

www.change.org/p/free-tarek...

Sign the Petition

FREE TAREK BAZROUK NOW! NO MORE JAIL TIME! SIGN HIS MITIGATION LETTER!

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 2d

With another fragile ceasefire hanging over us, we need to be working MORE not LESS to support Palestinians on the ground. Thread of upcoming workshops, 100% of proceeds go to Palestinians in Gaza 🧵

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 2d

The Sameer Project’s donations are down 45% today but their work is unfortunately far from over. Give to the South campaign, which supplies 200,000 liters of water a day: chuffed.org/project/1132...

South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water

**With Famine on the rise, we will significantly lower tent purchases and focus on food (rice and bread) and water over the next couple of weeks**

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Azza. Before this Azza worked in a kindergarten and her husband owned a small coffee shop. They lost their home in the first two weeks of the war. They are trying to survive with their children Nisreen, 16, Layan, 14 and Ibrahim, 11.

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ahmedwaj120.bsky.social @ahmedwaj120.bsky.social · 2d

A ceasefire has been announced, but unfortunately our homes are destroyed, and our lives will remain in the streets, along with my children.
Link support 🙏
www.gofundme.com/f/from-a-hom...

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Joy @joyfromghazza.blacksky.app · 1d

Hi!
Am Joy, a Palestinian poet & writer from #Gaza. All my accs on BlueSky were banned, so I have joined BlackSky,& I hope it’ll be a wonderful experience.
My campaign is verified by @mommunism.bsky.social lunched it to start my life anew after being faced #genocide

www.chuffed.org/project/evac...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Alaa and her daughters have lived to see a ceasefire, but they are still in dire need of assistance. They have only managed to navigate displacement, genocidal violence, and her daughter's deteriorating health with the help of donations. Let's help them continue to endure.

Your help are an investment in rebuild a woman and an architect

My name is Alaa, and I hold a Master’s degree in Architecture.

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