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Rafah-Egypt Border Sit-In Announcement by wizardbisan
(Twitter post)
 

[Infographic in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish. 

English portion says:

"Members of the French Parliament announced their going to Rafah-Egypt February 3-6.

Free people of the world travel with them to Rafah

Hold a sit-in there

Break the siege on Gaza

#BreakThe Siege"

French portion says:

"membres du Parlement français ont annoncé

leur départ pour Rafah, en Égypt

du 3 au 6 février

Peuples libres du monde

voyagez avec eux à Rafah

organisez un sit-in

et brisez le siège de Gaza"

Spanish portion says:

"Los miembros del Parlamento Francés anunciaron su viaje a Rafah-Egipto de Febrero 3-6

Los Pueblos libres del mundo 

Viajaron con ellos a Rafah

Hagaran una sentada allí

Romperan el asedio a Gaza"

]

Unfortunately I am not familiar enough with Arabic script, which requires the ability to identify multiple different cursive appearances of the same character, to transcribe that portion.

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I think there's a kind of totalizing thinking where a lot of people, whether they are really into activism or think it's kind of pointless, end up drawing this false equivalency of activism = protests.

And while I believe protests are a necessary part of activism, they are far from the entirety of it, and in fact protests in the absence of the other necessary components of activism are not sufficient to bring about change.

Activism is made up of many components: conceptualizing what you want, understanding the obstacles to get there, raising awareness of the problem, gaining support for your cause, direct action to obtain the result you desire, helping to organize other people to work toward the solution, mutual aid, and more.  A person doesn't have to have the set of skills and abilities that makes someone good at protesting to help advance their cause.  Whatever a person's skills, they are something that can help that cause.  And if a person has no skills?  Well, that's okay, too.  You can't be faulted for what you can't do.

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For those who have been keeping track of current events, you may have heard of the protests that started in Minneapolis and are going on in multiple US cities at this time.  This post isn't oriented towards giving details about that, but rather just to give donation links. This is mostly copy/pasted from a Tumblr thread I will link to at the end of this post.  Here's some information on places to donate to to help protestors and help with rebuilding initiatives:

  • BLACK VISIONS MN: an organization that is led by Black, Queer and Trans people. Donate if you can.
  • northstar health collective, organized healthcare professionals working with anti-authoritarian groups
  • reclaim the block, a collective that aims to redistribute funding away from police and towards more community-oriented projects in minneapolis
  • minnehaha food shelf & calvary church food shelf are both centered in the south minneapolis area where the riots started. the grocery stores in the area have been decimated, so food shelves and food insecurity charities need a lot of love right now.
  • northside funders group is a philanthropic group in the twin cities that’s using all its funds right now for helping local businesses
  • migizi is a native american media/history nonprofit whose office was destroyed in the riots
  • we love lake street is devoting funds specifically towards rebuilding the lake street area in south minneapolis
  • the healing justice foundation is a national nonprofit that’s specifically focusing on mental health resources for bipoc right now
  • ctul is a nonprofit focused on low-wage workers and workers rights in minnesota
  • mpd 150 is focused on policing and specifically trying to reroute the conversation from “we need to change police procedures” to “the police need structural reform”
  • the spiral collective is providing funds for supplies, medic kits, and other things that protesters will need on the ground
  • unicorn riot is a media collective that has had people on the ground filming every night in minneapolis

last but not least some more bail funds

Here's the original Tumblr thread I got this information from: 

https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard/blog/waveridden/619517091597418496

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