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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 8h

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Institute of Barbarian Books poster
From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free
October 7, 2023
Solidarity with all Palestinian resistance

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 8h

"8 October 2025 – The Freedom Flotilla Coalition... / Thousand Madleens to #Gaza... confirm... Gaza Sunbirds, Alaa Al-Najajr, Anas Al-Sharif, have been attacked and illegally intercepted by the #Israeli military at 04:34 at 120 nautical miles (220km) from Gaza."

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Israeli Military Attacks Flotilla in International Waters - Freedom Flotilla

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Hay Sha Wiÿa, FFC Press Officer WhatsApp: +1 210-834-8155 [email protected] [email protected] Media available for use with credit on the drive Update n...

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 9h

If anyone would like to teach a workshop to raise money for José, please get in touch! We’d be happy to have you! <[email protected]> or fill out a proposal form in our link in bio 🔗

TomeTaker97 @tometaker97.bsky.social · 15h

Support 2020 Uprising Prisoner Jose Felan! After many long years of sacrifice and struggle behind bars, José is being released into a halfway house on December 3, 2025, but he needs community support to get back on his feet.
givesendgo.com/freejosenow?...

Support 2020 Uprising Prisoner Jose Felan!

José Felan is a political prisoner who was kidnapped and captured during the 2020 George Floyd uprising in Minnesota. After many long years of sacrifice and ...

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 9h

please give

TomeTaker97 @tometaker97.bsky.social · 15h

Support 2020 Uprising Prisoner Jose Felan! After many long years of sacrifice and struggle behind bars, José is being released into a halfway house on December 3, 2025, but he needs community support to get back on his feet.
givesendgo.com/freejosenow?...

Support 2020 Uprising Prisoner Jose Felan!

José Felan is a political prisoner who was kidnapped and captured during the 2020 George Floyd uprising in Minnesota. After many long years of sacrifice and ...

givesendgo.com

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 10h

This workshop supports Thamra, a Palestinian initiative established in 2024 with deep roots in the land and communities of Gaza. The project addresses food insecurity and promotes resilience through sustainable agricultural practices and community-driven efforts.

www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...

All proceeds from this workshop will go to Thamra, a Palestinian initiative established in Gaza in 2024 addressing food insecurity by promoting resilience through sustainable agricultural practices and community driven efforts. @thamra.org

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 10h

Check out their other posters here, including a new one that they released today.

www.barbarianbooks.institute

Institute of Barbarian Books

www.barbarianbooks.institute

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 10h

Re the Institute of Barbarian Books, we've fundraised w/ them to support Sameer. You've probably seen the poster, "I will no longer be complicit with genocide," which honors Rachel Corrie and Aaron Bushnell as examples of people who paid with their lives for this decision.

"I will no longer be complicit with genocide," Rest in Power Rachel Corrie and Aaron Bushnell

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 10h

Finally, he will discuss the relationship between Barbarian Farms and the Institute of Barbarian Books, which is an independent print shop, small publisher, and library that has played an important role in building pro-Palestinian, anti-zionist community in Hiroshima, Japan.

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 10h

In addition to walking participants through an easy to implement method of no-till farming that he has been experimenting with, he will reflect on the short visit that he made to Om Sleiman farm in Bil’in, Palestine and how it has shaped his views on farm sovereignty struggles in Japan.

In addition to walking participants through an easy to implement method of no-till farming that he has been experimenting with for the last few years, he will reflect on the short visit that he made to Om Sleiman farm in Bil’in, Palestine and how it has shaped his views on farm sovereignty struggles in Japan.

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 10h

In this online workshop, Will from Barbarian Farm and the Institute of Barbarian Books will talk about the meaning (and challenges) of small-scale farming to the cultivation of spaces for radical politics in rural Japan.

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 10h

Join us on November 5, 17:00 Pacific for a very special workshop, "Intro to easy no-till barbarian garden" with Will of Barbarian Farms and the Institute of Barbarian Books.

(special thanks to them for the original artwork for this workshop)

www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/int...

workshops for gaza
intro to easy
no-till barbarian garden
grow your own food with cardboard and compost
Wed Nov 5, 1700/Thursday Nov. 6 10am JST

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 10h

whatever you can give is meaningful

Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 10h

From Sameer Project on x: “All eyes on Gaza is not enough. Gaza needs donations and material support. Donate and share our mass displacement campaign so we can complete building camps for wounded children and support other vulnerable camps”

chuffed.org/project/1491...

Screenshot from x:
“All eyes on Gaza is not enough. Gaza needs donations and material support. Donate and share our mass displacement campaign so we can complete building camps for wounded children and support other vulnerable camps”

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 10h

From Sameer Project on x: “All eyes on Gaza is not enough. Gaza needs donations and material support. Donate and share our mass displacement campaign so we can complete building camps for wounded children and support other vulnerable camps”

chuffed.org/project/1491...

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Lauren Eggert-Crowe @laureneggertcrowe.bsky.social · 17h

Listening to this episode now and it's so useful in thinking about ways to be "working against the genocide in all aspects of your life" as @reallandsend.bsky.social says.

Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 1d

More on this soon, but join @deathpanel.bsky.social Patreon for early access to the podcast we recorded with them recently 💕

Support Sameer Project by getting Beatrice and Artie's Health Communism from our curated online bookstore (which we discuss in the episode).
www.patreon.com/posts/worksh...

Workshops for Gaza (10/06/25) | The Death Panel

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 21h

As we have been saying for months, stop sending funds to the orgs & institutions that continue to double down on their allegiance to the death machines of Zionism and empire. Send funds to support life in Gaza instead! open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...

[W4G] Life Funds for Gaza

Scholars, writers, educators & artists -- stop sending funds to the orgs & institutions that continue to double down on their allegiance to the death machines of Zionism and empire. Send funds...

open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 21h

but also because it legitimates the business-as-usual mentality that has led most academics to continue researching and teaching in the very institutions that are producing the bombs killing Palestinians every day."

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 21h

We call on scholars to boycott this conference not only because of its egregious complicity in the settler colonialism and Indigenous dispossession it purports to gather scholars to discuss,

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 21h

This is in stark contrast to last year’s conference, when AAAS proudly boasted of its status as the first academic organization to pass a BDS resolution, and called on the field of Asian American Studies to return to Edward Said’s Orientalism as its foundational text.

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 21h

"...In addition to contributing to Indigenous dispossession locally...the 2026 AAAS conference also appears to provide a distraction...from colonial genocides occurring elsewhere, most notably in Palestine: shockingly, the call for this year’s papers does not mention the word “Palestine”...

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 21h

A new piece by us up on Substack: "Against Colonial Conferencing," where we reflect on the akademic conference circuit as an integral part of the global tourism industry, as well as the destruction of Native Hawaiian and Palestinian lands and knowledge.

open.substack.com/pub/workshop...

Against Colonial Conferencing: A w4g screed against the phenomenon of academic conferences in general

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October 07, 2025

If you are thinking of visiting my homeland, please don’t. We don’t want or need any more tourists, and we certainly don’t like them. If you want to help our cause, pass this message on to your friends. Thank you.

“Lovely Hula Lands” by Haunani Kay-Trask

Recently, the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) announced that it will be convening its 2026 annual conference in Honolulu, Hawai‘i.

The call for proposals describes Hawai‘i as a “space, place, and time through which to collectively reflect on, respond to, and reckon with settler colonial and U.S. imperial desires and designs that continue to shape everyday life and futures.” So far, neither the participants nor the conveners appear to see a contradiction between the theme of the conference and its very material and environmental impact, in which hundreds of primarily North American scholars and their families will flock to a place that is actively under U.S. colonial military occupation.

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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 23h

We are back with our next reading! Please join us on 2 November, 7 pm GMT on Zoom. More infos about the fundraisers we are reading for & tickets in the link & in our bio. #WeKeepTelling
buytickets.at/sdhepress/18...
@workshops4gaza.bsky.social @divyampersaud.com

Title: “We Keep Telling: a reading series for Gaza.” Text: “Online on Zoom. 2 November, 7pm GMT, tinyurl.com/wekeeptelling.” In the background is a painting of a dancing Palestinian woman in a white, short-sleeved thobe with red tatreez and a keffiyeh tied around her waist. Her long black hair is swirling around her and covering her face. A dove stands on one of her outstretched hands, and another dove dances around her other hand. In the lower left, the painting is signed “Marah.”

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 1d

surely we can get this done!!!

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

The despair isn’t ours. So act in hope. One link, six families and a camp, current needs that YOU can help with:

- food
- 3 tents
- medicine
- warm items

That isn’t immaterial. 20 hours left—0/500

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 their...

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 1d

if you have the means, please buy the book here

purchases of "W4G"-tagged books on @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social sends the proceeds (or more, if you select more!) to The Sameer Project through the @workshops4gaza.bsky.social fundraiser.

[W4G] Adler-Bolton, Beatrice & Artie Vierkant: Health Communism

Verso, paperback Publication Date: July 29, 2025 Publisher Marketing:A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast "Death Panel" In this fiery, theoretical t...

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 1d

hello, my reading group for Workshops4Gaza is starting a new book: "Health Communism" by @avierkant.bsky.social and @reallandsend.bsky.social

please buy the book ASAP (or get it *some other way*, and try to support Palestinians however you can)

Reading Group (Thought Soup) - Health Communism

Hi everyone, welcome to a new book. For the next few weeks, we're going to be reading Health Communism by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant. Support...

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 1d

open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/...

[W4G] Adler-Bolton, Beatrice & Artie Vierkant: Health Communism

Verso, paperback Publication Date: July 29, 2025 Publisher Marketing:A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast "Death Panel" In this fiery, theoretical t...

open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com

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