Em Yam

Seeking hope.
Valuing truth and compassion.

[Em Yam @EmYam20]

Israel has been bombing Gaza for a year. A whole year.

Biden, a democrat, was president the entire time.

Harris, a democrat, was vice president the whole time.

Trump, a republican has not been president since 2020.

The sun has seen Gaza’s ruin from every angle.

A year.

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

In 1526, the king of Kongo wrote to the king of Portugal and begged him to stop the slave trade.
The letters still exist. You can read them.

King Afonso I — Nzinga Mbemba.

He was not a victim of ignorance about Europe. He was literate in Portuguese, Catholic, and had welcomed Portuguese traders as partners. Then he watched what the trade actually did.

He writes that merchants are seizing people every day — nobles, family members, free subjects — and that his country is being emptied. He asks for teachers and doctors instead of ships. He asks, plainly, for it to stop.

Portugal's king replied with a letter pointing out how profitable Kongo's trade was and how little else it had to offer.

The trade continued for another three hundred years and helped destroy the kingdom.

An African head of state put his objection in writing in 1526, in the language of the people doing it, and was told the arithmetic did not work in his favour.

"They didn't know" has never been available as an excuse. The correspondence is in the archives.

[Em Yam @EmYam20]

@markcrathbun @aaronjmate Actually GI project goes beyond the river…

[Em Yam @EmYam20]

@oliveegirl By funds I mean Sameer or Heal Pal.

[Em Yam @EmYam20]

@oliveegirl I know hardy anyone here irl. I’ve given to individual funds anyway, but it feels odd whereas funds are verifiable.

[shayma @roundthefurr]

i just want to reiterate; do NOT donate to organizations who aren’t transparent on where their funding goes.

i am saying this as a gazan who knows what it’s like on the ground. many people do in fact make personal profit off these organizations, and gazans have to constantly run ragged from & to these organizations to get any sort of help.

so, if you are able to, please donate to verified fundraisers. you can find hundreds on @palestineasdiqa @ll4gaza_ofcl @gazafunds. you can also donate to @sameerproject to help the community as a whole!

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

excited to see Bush's paintings of Nicolas Maduro, Abdullah Ocalan, Marwan Barghouti, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier, Chelsea Manning, the Palestine Action defendants, the anti-ICE protesters, and everyone he threw in Guantanamo

[Em Yam @EmYam20]

@facetedcarapace Blue fingerlings are very bright when you steam them, @facetedcarapace .

[Itamar Greenberg | איתמר גרינברג @itamar_green]

Netanyahu just anounced he will pass a law to revoke the citizenship of Israelis that will say the truth about the Israeli army.

I want to say this very clearly: Israel is committing a genocide against the Palestinian people. Every person taking part in that system is a war criminal.

We won't be silenced, we will keep resisting with all of our power against the Israeli horrors.

Netanyahu's place is in Hague, it is humanity's duty to make it happen as soon as possible, and to stop the apartheid state.

It is our responsibility, and it will happen.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

"After the Oct. 7 attacks, an outside organization, Accuracy in Media [sic], published photographs and names of student group members that were accessible only to people with Columbia passwords.

The students were publicly shamed on a truck circling campus with their faces under the words “Columbia’s Leading Antisemites.”

When students met with Dean Yarhi-Milo to ask that she investigate who leaked the photographs, she initially dismissed their concerns."

Dean Yarhi-Milo, pictured below, played her part in helping Israel genocide Palestinians by enabling its supporters to dox students. Make her famous for her supporting the holocaust of the 21st century.

[luisa salvado @luisasalvado2]

@culturaliteral1 Hace 50 años, la madre del tipejo ese, también llevaba un trapo en la cabeza para entrar a la Iglesia

[Em Yam @EmYam20]

🧐
Strong Agree.

[🤠 @heavensbvnny]

unpopular opinion: i think if you graduate from a university, you should get a lifetime card to their library.

[Em Yam @EmYam20]

@OmarHamadD Stop! You’re gonna make me look forward to her next film: 1%

[Niz @NizMhani]

Another BBC headline... another correction.

I should start charging you, @BBC @BBCWorld @BBCNews

[𝕳𝖊𝖎𝖉𝖎 @heidi_belikov]

La muerte de Gloria Steinem no convierte sus contradicciones en virtudes, ni me obliga a venerarla.

Steinem colaboró con una organización financiada por la CIA durante la Guerra Fría y defendió posteriormente aquella colaboración.

El feminismo blanco y liberal la convirtió en un ícono mientras marginaba la lucha de las mujeres trabajadoras y subordinaba la emancipación a los límites del capitalismo.

No vamos a venerar a una mujer que ayudó a despolitizar y desclasificar el feminismo.

Vamos a condenar su complicidad con el anticomunismo y el imperialismo.

[Em Yam @EmYam20]

@edwardrmgraham Hasidic Jews in general, yes! Antizionist.
Lubavitch mvmnt is v Zionist and looks down on other Jews, let alone non-Jews.
True of the movement, though obvs individuals vary!!!

[Russell @ATLCWorker]

Where’s Mitch McConnell

[Em Yam @EmYam20]

@farman4x 96

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

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