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Shiyam Galyon
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U.S. born and based writer. Will probably just be lurking on this platform.
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Full acceptance speeches of Basel and Yuval:
March 3, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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If you told me in 2015 that the "pro-peace" activist Tulsi Gabbard who accepted donations from arms dealers would be the 2025 Director of National Intelligence in the Trump administration, I would not have blinked an eye. She's never stood for anything but herself.

www.huffpost.com/entry/tulsi-...
February 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Big big exhale.
February 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Scientists and journalists need to figure out right quick how to explain to the average person how a massive change in research indirects will impact the medical care they and their children get (eg at the local children’s hospital), the education their children will get, the price of tuition, etc.
February 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Happening now - a crowd of several dozen community members are gathering on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City to express solidarity with immigrants and denounce ICE and police activity on campus:
February 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Y’all.

….. Rashida’s public service is a huge source of encouragement and inspiration to me personally.
February 7, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I’ve been mainly posting instagram and facebook, but coming here because it’s less about images. Feel sick seeing images from Saydnaya.
December 10, 2024 at 12:48 AM
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The prisons and the people bewildered upon their release some after decades are beyond devastating. Mabrook to the Syrians. We wish you solace in your reunions and returns. Inshallah the day will come for the Sudanese too.
December 8, 2024 at 12:26 PM
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⭐️ Next Wed, 11/29 in Washington, DC: Join TIMEP for another MENA Social Night at Exiles! This quarter's event will support the Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF).

Reserve your spot here to join us for food, drinks, solidarity, & community: eventbrite.com/e/mena-socia...
November 20, 2023 at 10:50 PM
Seems like Bidens last thing in office will be pushing for Ukraine while simultaneously abandoning Palestine and Lebanon, something that will grow the dogpile of abandonment receipts by the Dems to Arabs and Muslims.
November 17, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Deactivated my twitter, and in 30 days it will be deleted. Now to change 88 of my compromised passwords and to tell everyone that actually. You know what. Maybe T.G. isn't such a bad politician after all ☹️
November 17, 2024 at 12:55 AM
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On the eve of the election I wrote about who is and who is not protected under the iron dome of American belonging. I am grateful for the grace of the Muslim and Arab-American voters who shared their feelings with me. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/02/o...
Opinion | Whatever Happens Next, Trump Has Already Won a Tragic Victory
This election has shown that Arab American and Muslim American lives are considered to be expendable.
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2024 at 11:53 AM
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This is some more incredible work by @propublica.org focusing on the dire consequences of a Trump win. This is the information voters are craving, not the latest poll results. Be sure to read & share. This stuff is important. It's also really good journalism.
www.propublica.org/article/dona...
November 2, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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This video is Part One of our four-part series "Voices from White Mesa."

On Oct. 12, members of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe held their annual spiritual walk opposing the White Mesa Uranium Mill in Southern Utah.

Watch here: vimeo.com/1023001432
Voices from White Mesa, Part 1
On Oct. 12, members of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe held their annual spiritual walk opposing the White Mesa Uranium Mill in Southern Utah. The mill, which processes…
vimeo.com
October 31, 2024 at 12:52 AM
Paws and give to my college professor fundraising to rescue her family from a genocide funded by our taxes: www.gofundme.com/f/help-rescu...
April 15, 2024 at 3:43 AM
10 years ago I took Arabic in college with Dr Rolla Alaydi. Today she’s asked me to help her save her cousin. We are super close to our first goal of $5K that will allow Heba to leave Gaza and enter Egypt. Please donate: www.gofundme.com/f/help-heba-...
Help Heba Rebuild Life After Surviving Genocide, organized by Rolla Salem Ali Alaydi
My name is Heba Slaisel, and I am a laboratory technician wh… Rolla Salem Ali Alaydi needs your support for Help Heba Rebuild Life After Surviving Genocide
www.gofundme.com
March 19, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Who should I know about that’s like-minded in NYC and in the comedy/improv world? @jbakernyc.bsky.social any ideas? I wanna take classes because my child-self never got to audition for All That
February 11, 2024 at 11:42 PM
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Who: Writers, anywhere in the world
What: Field Notes
Deadline: December 22nd
Pay: $1/word

Themes: Care is the Antidote to Violence, Surviving Supremacy, and democracy TBD.

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December 20, 2023 at 8:39 PM
Who: Writers, anywhere in the world
What: Field Notes
Deadline: December 22nd
Pay: $1/word

Themes: Care is the Antidote to Violence, Surviving Supremacy, and democracy TBD.

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December 18, 2023 at 4:21 PM
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Heavy Israeli bombardments struck both north and south Gaza, killing more civilians and once again bringing hospitals into the crossfire on Monday as the conflict entered its 45th day with few signs of letup or a cease-fire.
Another Gaza hospital caught in fighting, as storms deepen civilian misery
Strikes against Gaza’s Indonesian hospital in the north and residential neighborhoods in the south have left an increasingly miserable population with few places to hide.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2023 at 5:31 PM
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Revisiting the Smash EDO Campaign

crimethinc.com/SmashEDO

In response to the genocide in Gaza, some activists have set out to target weapons manufacturers like Elbit Systems and Raytheon.

In this text, we explore the lessons of a campaign that set out to shut down an arms factory in Brighton.

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November 18, 2023 at 12:32 AM
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“We are fully aware that your photo series has nothing to do with the current political situation... but in order to avoid conflicts, we do not currently want to present Muslim life without a corresponding counterpoint… for example, showing Jewish life in Berlin"

www.exberliner.com/art/cancelle...
The cancelled photographs of Raphaël Malik - Exberliner
Berlin photographer Raphaël Malik's pictures of Muslim life got his upcoming show in Mitte cancelled. He doesn't understand why.
www.exberliner.com
November 16, 2023 at 4:37 PM
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"Perhaps it is time for us—those of us who do not play the game of states—to stop sharing in, contesting or soliciting from the international colonial discourse, to stop affirming its rights and claims, its terms and forms." 💯💯
www.madamasr.com/en/2023/10/1...
To say and think a life beyond what settler colonialism has made
The Earth is closing on Palestinians in Gaza. As I write these lines, Israel continues to bomb more than two million Palestinians, refugees and the descendants of refugees confined to the besieged Gaz...
www.madamasr.com
October 15, 2023 at 10:24 PM
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Important to push back against this racist campaign arablit.org/2023/10/16/a...
An Open Letter in Support of Adania Shibli’s ‘Minor Detail’ and Palestinian Literary Voices
These recent, terrible days have seen — in several European countries — a closing-off and shutting down of cultural events that bring forward Palestinian art, voices, and stories. There…
arablit.org
October 16, 2023 at 4:34 PM