this world aint all cookies n cream little fella
white people when there's My Brother My Brother and Me at the function:
a list of the vetted fundraisers i got on my askbox, listed in alphabetical order
1990lela — gfm
abedallhferwana1 — gfm
abujaradfamilyfromgaz — gfm
ahmed-almeshal — gfm
aiamaher2 — gfm
ayo0osh — gfm
etafpalestine — gfm
fadoo-1992 — gfm
familyrantise2003 — gfm
hadeelali3 — gfm
haneenalbrqouni — gfm
hazem55 — gfm
kisirahaf — gfm
krispynutmaker — gfm
mahmoidjesy — gfm
mariaamismaeel1122 — gfm
marwanasla — gfm
mohammed-family — gfm
mohammedayyads-blog — gfm
msbfamily — gfm
noor-yashour — gfm
omarfamily2 — gfm
omarmohammed2018 — gfm
reallyoptimisticface — gfm
reem-reem-0 — gfm
rehabsh1 — chuffed
savehillesfamilly25 — gfm
savemohammedalkhaldi — chuffed
shareeffamily — gfm
siraj-s4 — gfm
swimmingblazenut — gfm
teenagebreadwitch — gfm
youseffamily3 — gfm
walafamily-94 — chuffed
wejdan21 — gfm
cat #28, the vampire for @brashkia
Help Eman and her young son Omar in Gaza
new @strange-aeons video was inspiring, to say the least 🐀
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(#167 on the verified fundraiser list by el-shab-hussein and nabulsi) (but we had to make a new gfm campaign cuz our old organizer stopped contacting us).
# dlxxv-vetted-donations
If the landscape actually was what people valued it to be, the global ecosystem would surely collapse. If suburbs were truly only houses, yards and trees selected by the homeowner, if pastures grew only the forages intended by the farmer, if agricultural land grew only crops, if a ditch next to an overpass was simply a ditch
If all the places we think of as "no longer wild" actually were, if the biodiversity we thought was gone actually was gone, life on Earth would not be able to sustain itself. The unintended and random plants, the wild weeds of lost and empty places, they hold us tightly, sustaining the few and meager scraps of symbiotic relationships that keep the Earth alive
The ditch beside the road is no longer a serene wetland. The wetland was bulldozed and destroyed and now it is a ditch, dirty and strewn with garbage. But because nobody looks closely, almost nobody sees...A few rushes and sedges have decided to grow here, there's a clump of stubborn and stunted cattails, and there in the weeds, a thickety willow cradling a blackbird's nest.
Easy to love the pristine wilderness in distant preserves, but will someone love this abused and ugly place? Will someone be moved to protect the wild of the roadside ditch and vacant lot as passionately as they protect the primeval forest?
Easy to see the importance of the Amazon rainforest for the very air in our lungs, but who will see the moss that grows between the bricks in the wall of their run-down apartment and realize, It is your oxygen that I breathe?
I read a paper one time suggesting that, even though the idea of monoculture is harmful through its influence on agricultural practice, monoculture does not actually exist, because in practice the weeds prevent it from becoming a reality.
I was thinking of that again, and wondering what it would be like if the weeds actually obeyed us...
Your activism should not stop at a flag in your bio. There is still a boycott list, there are protests in all parts of the world, there are literally hundreds of fundraisers you can donate to. Simply posting "free palestine" once is not enough
Support fundraisers like this one. Muhammad has been raising money for his family for ages and so far they haven't even reached half their goal!
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