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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 7d

🚨SOS 🚨SOS 🚨SOS 🚨

Israeli illegal interception of the #GlobalSumudFlotilla Alma is happening right now.

Pressure your government for the protection of people and to break the seige
globalsumudflotilla.org/contact-offi...

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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 7d

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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 8d

What I suspect is that the governments in question are betting on Israel blinking first but that they're willing to follow through if Israel calls their bluff, they wouldn't have deployed the warships otherwise.'

globalsumudflotilla.org/contact-offi...

Official Contacts - By Country - Global Movement to Gaza

globalsumudflotilla.org

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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 8d

3) Israel attacks and the warships fight them, and you effectively have war between NATO countries and Israel

I think you'll agree that whatever happens, it's consequential no matter what.

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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 8d

2) Israel attacks and the warships of all 3 nations let it happen, which will create a major public opinion disaster

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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 8d

"I'm not sure what's going to happen but as far as I can see there are 3 options:

1) Israel doesn't attack, the flotilla reaches Gaza, which means the blockade is breached and which is a major precedent

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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 8d

"We have no illusions about the political calculations & limitations behind their (Spanish & Italian navy) presence but the fact is that they came because of enormous public pressure in Italy & Spain.

Israeli genocide & militarism MUST be stopped. The chain of command begins & ends with the people"

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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 8d

"Disrupt, pressure your representatives, and use this flotilla as a lever to end the genocide."

Email your rep using this quick and easy automated form here: globalsumudflotilla.org/contact-offi...

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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 8d

Strangely I came across this again today! From his book on how Thatcher exploited discontent with Labour's record in office & with aspects of the welfare state to devise a potent authoritarian, populist ideology.'

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Yasmin G @anilsghost.bsky.social · 8d

Meeting Stuart Hall, I love these tributes, "Stuart Hall was a welcome reminder of the possibility of academia’s better self, the one where we remember to be kind and welcoming and to nurture new ideas and people" @writersofcolour.bsky.social mediadiversified.org/2014/02/14/m...

Meeting Stuart Hall

We have come together as black feminists to commemorate Stuart Hall who died on 10 February, 2014. ~ Sara Ahmed, Gargi Bhattacharyya, Yasmin Gunaratnam,Vera Jocelyn, Patricia Noxolo, Pratibha Parma…

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 10d

This could do with your attention. Thank you

Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 10d

🚨 #Gaza40 campaign call out to academics: Please sign this open letter addressed to the Prime Minister, Home Secretary, Foreign secretary and Education secretary to ensure students from Gaza can safely take up their places at UK universities
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 10d

They have 7 key demands #Gaza40
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 10d

🚨 #Gaza40 campaign call out to academics: Please sign this open letter addressed to the Prime Minister, Home Secretary, Foreign secretary and Education secretary to ensure students from Gaza can safely take up their places at UK universities
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 11d

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
— Omar El Akkad

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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 13d

🚨 Urgent! www.instagram.com/p/DPBXMDYCN7...
Email link below.

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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 13d

The great people @newscord.org have made it easy for you, wherever you are: newscord.org/action/gsf-f...

#GlobalSumudFlotilla

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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 13d

Links here with ways to donate or also in our bio
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

Venmo here: account.venmo.com/u/Maher-Ali

PayPal here: www.paypal.com/paypalme/mah...

Thank you 🙏🏿
(Paypal option, pls make sure to add a message saying "North" Venmo option, pls make sure to add a message saying "North")

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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 14d

or the Translating Falasteen x The Sameer Project North campaign that supplies life sustaining water and food, their work is essential.

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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 14d

Their impact is incalculable, whether that be the South campaign that provides food, tents, and medical care, The Refaat Alareer Camp which homes vulnerable medical cases and gives them special care,

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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 14d

The Sameer Project was founded by four Palestinians in the diaspora. Sameer Abu-Salim is the name of the father of one of the founders who died in Gaza in January due to a lack of access to medical treatment.

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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 14d

They need to supply daily food & water for those who remain.

Though borders are closed, there is some aid still available in Gaza to purchase albeit at high prices & high commission costs to withdraw cash because of supply & demand. But with your help they can still operate & still have an impact.

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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 14d

Translating Falasteen x The Sameer Project is one of the only initiatives left serving the North. But this does not come without extreme risk for their team. They are putting their lives on the line to support their community with the basic necessities for survival.

Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 14d

Nearly half a million people remain in the North of Gaza. Whether because they refuse to leave their land or because they are unable to find costly transport South, thousands and thousands of families still need food, still need water, still need help as they are being bombed without mercy.

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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 14d

🚨 Israel has bombed the food distribution site of the Sameer Project which has been supplying food to people in Northern Gaza🚨

As food packages were being organized for a distribution, the occupation bombed a residential building, levelling the area around where The Sameer Project team was working.

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