[Image ID: A tweet by More Perfect Union, @/MorePerfectUS, reading: Tens of thousands of garment workers in Bangladesh who make products for brands like Zara, H&M and GAP are on strike.
Their minimum wage is $75 a month, and they’re demanding it rise to $208. The bosses are only offering $90.
i hate you “influencers”, i hate you tiktok, i hate you “content creators”, i hate you “unalive” and “s€x” and “dr/ügs”, i hate you instagram, i hate you consumerism, i hate you family friendly, i hate you puritans, i hate you facebook, i hate you family vloggers, i hate you violating other people’s privacy, i hate you modern day social media
remember how i said israel has to expressly permit any entry or exit even through egypt’s border with gaza? and that this has always been the case and why gaza is considered an ‘open air prison?’
israel is now not allowing irish or brazilian citizens in gaza waiting at the border because their countries called for a ceasefire. it is effectively holding them hostage in gaza as it bombs them. insofar it has bombed the rafah border with egypt five times, and bombed injured evacuees in ambulances en route to the border too.
rogue state, terrorist country, accountable to no one and immune to consequences. israel continues to make a mockery of international law.
Yes GLADLY because I absolutely hate how often pro-Israel ppl use pinkwashing(please read that link if you don’t know what pinkwashing is and how Israel has constantly used it as part of its global image agenda) to justify genocide and war crimes. I’ll let you guys read that article because it does more justice to explaining this than I can.
First, it’s really dumb to expect colonized nations to develop socially. Palestine was occupied by the British and then by the Israelis. Now here’s something most people actually gloss over: anti-sodomy laws and anti-homosexuality laws were put into place in Gaza by the British Mandate Criminal Code Ordinance, No. 74 of 1936. Which still remains in effect to this day.
Same-sex acts were actually decriminalized in Jordanian-controlled West Bank in the early 1950s and are still upheld to this day.
Palestine itself has no legislation either for or against homosexuality.
What we SHOULD talk about is how imperialist states (mostly the US and UK) have notoriously supported and propped up Right-Wing regimes in the Islamic world to combat communist ideology. The US, UK, SB, IL have all backed right wing movements like the Muslim Brotherhood (which then became Hamas) just to thwart leftist movements like the PLO who are pro-communist elements of the Islamic world.
Maybe stop colonizing and bombing these countries so they can socially develop. I’m begging you to read Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs so you stop making stupid arguments like this.
Also idk why people have to keep saying this, but just because a country doesn’t have legislation to protect the LGBTQ community, doesn’t mean they deserve to be genocided. JFC
Also so funny how it’s mostly Americans asking why a country with questionable politics should live. Should the United States be severely bombed and have half of its population displaced because 417 anti-LGBT bills have been introduced this year alone?
Can we talk about how anti-LGBT Americans are? Everyone just seems to be glossing over that fact.
it goes against so much of what i stand for to share “palestinians are humans, they have hobbies, they have pets, they laugh and cry” kind of posts because i’ve spent so much of my life and career completely rejecting the notion that we should humanize ourselves, that we should ever be defensive, that we should entertain this racism at all
but it breaks my heart when i have to share them from people in gaza, who are using their five minutes of internet connection, their 25% of battery charge collected from a macguyvered car battery, emotionally exhausted, thirsty and hungry, sleeping in schools that have turned into refugee shelters and still making the time to say “please, i am human too, i am still alive, please fight for me” in english to appeal to the only people who have the power to help
i shared a tweet from a jjk artist in gaza i follow about a bts photocard being found in the middle of the rubble. even the love of anime and kpop and sports is no longer just a hobby, but an appeal to humanity. what was once a source of joy is now proof of life.
the worst part is that you won’t find this content in arabic. palestinians don’t post like this in arabic. but when they translate themselves, they recognize that they must humanize themselves first. it’s an unspoken understanding of dehumanization, one that has dictated a whole region’s understanding of the value of human life. in arabic they speak with dignity, with anger, with sorrow. in english, they appeal for their existence.
i share these posts not just because we have to reach everyone we can, because im being asked to and i will not refuse. but i also share them because they’re evidence of how deep the racism has run. at what dehumanization leads to. of war crime after war crime. this too i will not forget.
After activists in Oakland blocked a US military ship that will deliver weapons to Israel to (and making one of the ship’s worker walk off), the ship has changed its route to Tacoma, WA.
If you live near or in Tacoma, then please head to the port on Sunday before 2:30 pm then please join the mobilization and help cut the supply chain of arms export to Israel.
[Text transcription: BLOCK THE BOAT. Urgent update: we have received information that the boat in Oakland is currently on its way to Tacoma. We are going to show up and block the boat!
Where: 1123 Port of Tacoma Rd. Tacoma, WA 98421.
When: Sunday, 11/5 (November 5th), 2:30 PM.
Parking is extremely limited near the area; please plan to arrive on time, carpool as much as possible and prepare for the possibility of having to walk some distance.” End transcript]
every politician who claims israel has a right to ‘defend itself’, every celebrity who reposts israel-sympathetic statements, every hand-wringing liberal who refuses to take a stance because 'it’s just too complex’, every zionist who fearmongers about this turning into a second holocaust, every western journalist who insists on asking their palestinian guests “but do you condemn hamas?” — in fact any person who wants to comment on the situation at all should be forced to read this article in full before they’re allowed to voice their opinion.
at the end of the article, there is a 338-page list of the names of the palestinians who have been killed by israeli forces from october 7th-25th. the first six pages are for the age '0’.
