Straw-cleaner - Smiling Through It All

Shelley Duvall died????? :(

In Gaza, Filmmakers Asked Children: What Is Your Dream? (2021)

Reminder that you should not boycott anything unless the unions call for it.

You can support the strike and still watch the Barbie movie, FNAF movie, Oppenheimer, and basically any other movie or tv show that comes out this year.

Also, not only can you watch these, you should watch any movie you want that comes out. Companies have admitted to waiting out the strike to let them starve.

Show Hollywood that they need the WGA. Show Hollywood that the efforts of WGA are indispensable.

Also, if you do want to help the WGA continue striking, you can donate to them and help them stay housed and fed.

kitchen equipment: a guide

Help a Black single mom keep her car

I’m an organizer with KC Tenants, Kansas City’s tenant union. One of the leaders on our Hotline team needs help by 10/19 to keep her car. If she loses her car, she won’t have a safe or affordable way to get to work, or reliable transportation for her kids.

Dani called our Hotline when she was in a homeless shelter herself, and she is deeply invested in building power with her community, having spent hundreds of hours calling other renters experiencing housing crises, connecting them with resources and inviting them into our union. She’s an incredible person and a vital member of our team.

We’re almost 25% of the way to the $2100 needed, please donate and/or share — even $5 is huge. 💛

gofundme.com

Help Dani keep her car, organized by Magda Werkmeister

Dani is a KC Tenants leader who needs community support so she can continue organizing with … Magda Werkmeister needs your support for Help

For more information and to support the WGA please:

Follow their official social media on all platforms and only trust statements from the union itself, and articles they promote (be wary of other articles).

Read up on the issues being fought for (there are articles supported by the union in their linktree)

Be vocal in your support and inform others in your communities.

Stop using ChatGPT and other AI tools, even for fun.

‘I wish for death’ - Twelve-year-old Alma says. She fled bombing and shelling twice before the third place they sheltered was bombed, She was rescued from the rubble only to find out both her parents and all four of her siblings had been killed. She found her 18-month-old brother in an unimaginable state. Her little brother was beheaded from the rubble after the IOF massacred them.

Source: BBC

The disabled community fucking NEEDS to rally for Palestine. Israel is creating millions more of us. They are permanently disabling people, robbing them of their ability, their agency, and giving no support. Disabled Palestinians are dying not just from violence but from neglect due to lack of resources, which is violence itself. We have to support these people, people who haven't even been able to come to terms with the fact that their limbs are missing, they're severely traumatized, they can't move without pain, they've been so focused on just surviving. There cannot be a single Palestinian left without physical and/or mental trauma. And there are absolutely no resources being given to them, they're being actively withheld.

Please give anything you can offer. Money, coping mechanisms, resources, information, emotional support, e-sims, you could probably even donate any disability aids you don't use anymore to refugees in your home country. I know a lot of us are unable to protest right now. Sharing information is also extremely important. There ARE things we can do. Protesting is only one aspect of activism. Sending emails, making phone calls, directly supporting Palestinians in one of the ways I said above.

Just like covid is a mass disabling event, a genocide is a mass disabling event. Please do not forget this and remember, you CAN make a difference.

(BTW this is not one of those "you should care about them because they're like us!" things, everyone should care about Palestinians because they're human beings. The point of this post is to discuss what we as disabled people can do to support people who are suddenly disabled without help. Becoming disabled is not easy even with support and healthcare.)

hope is a skill