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ChuffedKeep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving CircleWe are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that their campaigns are extremely stagnant and wanted to find a way to direct steady help to them. We distribute your contributions equally every week for sustainable support.

Ok, finally. For Devi, a comrade of mine, and their family, who is very dear to me. Right now, the big push is for $400 to get their FSA (an account that they can use for medical costs in the so-called United States) out of the negative. It was garnished by a health provider for unpaid bills, which is really fucked, of course. They need it so they can pick up prescriptions that have copays (which is most of the family's prescriptions, unfortunately). We've got $40/400 so far.

This is a direct aid online crowdfunding blitz for vetted families from Gaza. This group of individuals does a good job of financial transparency, and all funds raised this weekend are split evenly between the families for food, water, medical care, and basic necessities. There are also two Gaza-based projects that funds will also be sent to, including a medical and mental health project by a young medical student, Ezz Lulu, who survived the multiple massacres at various hospitals in the North of Gaza.

And most importantly, may we see an end to all settler-colonial occupying forces, and literally all states, corporate entities, and hierarchies soon. Because I fucking hate crowdfunding, and also recognize it's necessary right now.

Share, if you feel compelled, and thanks.

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this is going to pay most of my bills for the July cycle but I need to start pushing really hard to get #MutualAid for August! and expenses for moving which we didn't know was going to happen and we need to buy things like lights and maybe a kitchen island. as an aside I have no clue how it is now halfway through 2025.

my spouse @inoru_no_hoshi and I are both disabled Jewish and Jewish-ish queers trying to survive in suburban Los Angeles, with our cat Zoey, and we need help with basically everything while I'm in school and they're doing job readiness (and not ready yet).

we're in the beginning of moving that's what we really needed but that's a hasty process with a lot of unforeseen expenses that we already don't have money for, so anything and everything helps us! this move is the first step towards getting at least partially out of an abusive situation.

currently we're at 0/1000 that we need, this gets us solved for this month and August and means we can buy needed items for moving like plastic bins to put things into.

payment methods below:

CashApp: cash.app/$ceahettan (a bunch of muppets)
Venmo: venmo.com/californiummm (dror lieb)

ask for PayPal/Zelle.

#Crowdfund #Crowdfunding #DirectAid #DirectGiving #Disabled #DisabledCrowdfund #FinancialAid #Generosity #GiveTzesakah #HelpFolksLive #HelpFolksLive2025 #Mazeldon #MutualAidNeed #MutualAidNeeded #MutualAidNow #MutualAidRequest #Queer #QueerCrowdfund #Trans #Transmasc #TransNonbinary #TransCrowdfund #Tzedakah
as always thank you. we appreciate everyone, including people who just boost it or point their well-to-do friends about it.

our cat Zoey thanks you too.

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URGENT: Help raise emergency funds for seven Sudanese anarchists. The RSF is approaching their city and they need $315 each to evacuate to safety. 🖤

We’re aiming to raise $2,500 to cover their evacuation and basic fees. Every dollar counts. Please contribute if you can, and share widely.

💸 CashApp: $jtsholar (Note: “S”)
🌍 Or donate via OpenCollective.com/support-sudanese-comrades

Solidarity is life-saving. Let’s get them to safety. ✊🏿❤️

URGENT: Help us raise emergency funds for 7 Sudanese anarchists — friends, family, comrades. The RSF is approaching their city and they need $315 each to evacuate to safety. 🖤

We’re aiming to raise $2,500 to cover their evacuation and basic fees. Every dollar counts. Please contribute if you can, and share widely.

💸 CashApp: $jtsholar (Note: “S”)
🌍 Or donate via OpenCollective.com/support-sudanese-comrades

Solidarity is life-saving. Let’s get them to safety. ✊🏿❤️

This message is from an immigration attorney, Renée, that I know personally. She has been working pro bono or pay what you can for all of the families she's been helping for the last year plus.

Despite working for free, she still works her ass off to help families avoid detention and deportation, and absolutely goes above and beyond as a rule.

Please consider donating or sharing if it is within your capacity. This particular client is Venezuelan, in removal proceedings (they agreed to have this shared), and are in need of funds for an expert witness to hopefully prevent said removal.

#DirectAid #MutualAid #Immigration #FuckICE @mutualaid #CommunityCare

My friend Ahmad is having a hard time getting support recently, and he needs continual help so his family can get food. They're also saving up to get his mom out as soon as the crossings open so she can get medical treatment for her eyes. Anything helps. #directaid gofund.me/69f962fc

gofundme.comDonate to Gaza Emergency Appeal Help My Family, organized by Ahmad MadhounHello everyone, I am Ahmed Nabil Al-Madhoun, 25 years old, studying for a Bachelor’… Ahmad Madhoun needs your support for Gaza Emergency Appeal Help My Family

Re: The tornado path in #StLouis Missouri so-called USA. #STL is a very racially segregated city, due to the history of chattel slavery during and post-Indigenous genocide and westward expansion of the settler state. These neighborhoods that the tornado hit are mostly Black and very materially neglected and deprived by the systems that exist. The area is largely out of internet access now, as well.

Learn a bit more: web.archive.org/web/2025041014

Or a lot more: libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=1

All that to say. These communities are in a lot of need right now. People are missing, hurt, and without shelter and food. Here are some opportunities for #directaid:

gofundme.com/f/help-rubys-fami

stlmutualaid.org/givereceive

Missouri Humanities · Redlined: Observations on Black Migration in St. Louis    Redlined: Observations on Black Migration in St. Louis     by Jasmine Ford      In James Baldwin’s essay, “Notes of a Native Son,” he reveals that his father was among the first generation […]

Hate to beg again but I already knew the soles of my shoes were starting to wear flat and today I see the fabric is starting to separate from the sole entirely. I need replacements before these completely fall apart.

$Wifewolf

I'm a disabled, unemployed trans woman who has to walk a *lot* to get around. Access to good shoes keeps my joint pain down and given the paces they get put through, Boots Theory means trying to go cheap never works out for me.

Thank you. 💜