If you're in the United States, take today to go grocery shopping because we're about to have some billionaires fucking with the supply chain.
This account is primarily for sharing videos and photos from regular people living in Gaza, but in this post I want to highlight what it is like for someone who has been able to leave.
Maram Alshurafa is a dental student from Palestine. In December, her family was able to send her to safety in Canada.
Despite being somewhere physically safer than Gaza, she is experiencing a new hardship feeling isolated and afraid for her family in Palestine.
Maram is on Instagram @ maram_alshurafa. She is raising funds to help the rest of her family escape. You can help by donating here.
stop making jokes. comedy peaked with phineas and ferb.
In light of Oscar Isaac casted for Moon Knight here's my fave ooc panels of this bastard
call me ignorant but i genuinely don’t understand why sports have to be split up by gender.
Israel is intentionally starving Palestinians and should be held accountable for war crimes – and genocide, according to the UN’s leading expert on the right to food. Hunger and severe malnutrition are widespread in the Gaza Strip, where about 2.2 million Palestinians are facing severe shortages resulting from Israel destroying food supplies and severely restricting the flow of food, medicines and other humanitarian supplies. Aid trucks and Palestinians waiting for humanitarian relief have come under Israeli fire.
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[Headline, photos, and caption published by: ABC Pilbara. 16 October 2020.]
The traditional owners of Juukan Gorge have spoken of the “absolute hell” and “desperation” they went through in trying to stop their 46,000-year-old sacred site being destroyed by Rio Tinto in May [2020] and their ongoing “devastation” that the blast went ahead. The Puutu Kunti Kuurama and Pinikura peoples said Rio gave them misleading information while they were trying to negotiate a halt to the blast, and in some cases gave them no information at all about what they were doing onsite. […] “Myself, my family, our elders and our ancestors are in mourning at the desecration of our sacred site,” PKKP traditional owner [BH] told a federal parliamentary inquiry into the incident.“The disaster has now left a gaping hole in our ability to pass on our heritage to our children and grandchildren.” […] Rio Tinto kept loading explosives around the gorge, even after they had promised to delay the blast, and even as they were engaging in negotiations with the PKKP’s heritage team. […] [PKKP] also has concerns about the safety of the highly significant cultural materials salvaged from the caves, including a 4,000-year-old belt of plaited human hair […]. “The objects are being held in a sea container that goes from 7C to 60C on a daily basis. We are really worried about their condition,” Builth said. “We don’t have access [to them] because all of these items are stored on Rio Tinto property.” […] “We will recover what we can from the rubble of Juukan Gorge,” [BH] said. “We will do what we can to keep that anchor to our ancestors and as reminder of how fragile heritage is, at the hands of those who do not care about it as we do.” It is the first time the PKKP have spoken publicly. Because of a “gag clause” in their agreement with Rio Tinto, they had to seek permission from the company to speak to the inquiry without repercussion.
[Headline and text published by: Lorena Allam. “‘Devastated’ Indigenous owners say Rio Tinto misled them …” The Guardian. 12 October 2020.]
The mining giant Rio Tinto still holds 1,780 approvals to destroy Aboriginal sacred sites in the Pilbara, senior executives have told a parliamentary inquiry into the company’s destruction of a 46,000-year-old sacred site at Juukan Gorge in May [2020].
The 1,780 approvals remain valid while Western Australia’s outdated Aboriginal heritage laws are being reviewed, which means the company can legally destroy the sites. […]
Rio’s global chief, [JJ], its iron ore boss, [CS], and its corporate affairs boss, [SN], gave evidence to the Australian inquiry for a second time on Friday under very different circumstances from their first appearance in August.
All three are stepping down over the company’s handling of the destruction of a 46,000-year-old rock shelter at Juukan Gorge, deemed to be of the highest archaeological significance in Australia – an example of industry conduct the WA Labor senator Pat Dodson labelled “incremental genocide”.
[JJ] said none of them had been aware of the site’s “extreme archaeological and cultural significance” until after it was destroyed, although “they should have been”. But he said others in the company had known since 2005. […] [CS] said Rio hadn’t told the Puutu Kunti Kuurama and Pinikura peoples about its blast plans because “we believed we had consent”.
The WA Greens senator Rachel Siewert said she found it “mind-boggling” that the company could “just write off 46,000-year-old Aboriginal heritage like that, just write it off. Just unbelievable.” Niven, responsible for Indigenous community relations since 2017, admitted that she had never once visited the site and had visited “maybe three or four” of Rio’s other Pilbara sites. She also revealed that the only meeting she had sought or held with the PKKP was after they had made a submission to the inquiry in late September.
[Headline and text published by: Lorena Allam. “Rio Tinto still has 1,780 approvals …” The Guardian. 16 October 2020.]
character concept: the best trick archer in the world, the trick to which is that he’s actually not an archer at all, he’s a speedster and he can’t aim for shit, every time he takes a shot he actually just grabs the arrow, runs over to what he wants to stick, then runs back before anyone can see him move