Lauralyn (Laura)

Not here to fit into your boxes. Here to make a difference. Tech × Media × Intersectional Feminism. Writing a memoir on 🏡 & belonging (now on hold).

[Kyoko W.P. @kyokoTHEpoet]

Some people know how to sit beside temporary pain.
Bandages. Bad weeks. Clean recoveries.

But chronic illness changes the language.
The longer you stay sick, the more comfort gets replaced with advice, fixes, and quiet distance.

[MSF International @MSF]

This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza. 

All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers.
We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir Al Balah.

Our thoughts are with Omar’s family and colleagues at this tragic time. Omar, 42 years old, is the fourteenth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.
https://t.co/C7Qglwa4DJ

[Censored Humans @CensoredHumans]

🇹🇷🇵🇸More than 45 Turkish civilian ships are heading directly toward Gaza.

This comes as a response to Israel intercepting the Global Sumud Flotilla convoy.

[Lauralyn (Laura) @justlauralyn]

"Always decide who your enemies are for yourself, and never let your enemies choose your enemies for you." — Assata Shakur

[K.Diallo ☭ @nyeusi_waasi]

"I wasn’t against communism, but i can’t say i was for it either. At first, i viewed it suspiciously, as some kind of white man’s concoction, until i read works by African revolutionaries and studied the African liberation movements. Revolutionaries in Africa understood that the question of African liberation was not just a question of race, that even if they managed to get rid of the white colonialists, if they didn’t rid themselves of the capitalistic economic structure, the white colonialists would simply be replaced by Black neocolonialists. There was not a single liberation movement in Africa that was not fighting for socialism.

The whole thing boiled down to a simple equation: anything that has any kind of value is made, mined, grown, produced, and processed by working people. So why shouldn’t working people collectively own that wealth? Why shouldn’t working people own and control their own resources? Capitalism meant that rich businessmen owned the wealth, while socialism meant that the people who made the wealth owned it.

I got into heated arguments with sisters or brothers who claimed that the oppression of Black people was only a question of race. I argued that there were Black oppressors as well as white ones. That’s why you’ve got Blacks who support Nixon or Reagan or other conservatives. Black folks with money have always tended to support candidates who they believed would protect their financial interests. As far as i was concerned, it didn’t take too much brains to figure out that Black people are oppressed because of class as well as race, because we are poor and because we are Black. …

[Earlier in my life] When someone asked me what communism was, i opened my mouth to answer, then realized i didn’t have the faintest idea. My image of a communist came from a cartoon. It was a spy with a black trench coat and a black hat pulled down over his face, slinking around corners …
I never forgot that day. We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is… It’s got to be one of the most basic principles of living: always decide who your enemies are for yourself, and never let your enemies choose your enemies for you."

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

#UNGA states recognising Palestine while adding new conditions (demilitarise, censor schoolbooks, vet candidates) show little grasp of three basic facts: colonialism is over; self-determination is unconditional; doing this amid genocide suggests contempt for human dignity.

[Greg Stoker @gregjstoker]

The Global Sumud Flotilla is being targeted by as of yet non-lethal psychological attacks with include drones and the hijacking of our VHF radios.

They’re playing ABBA. Probably in line with their weird obsession with Greta.

We will not be deterred.

[Fearless @UnitedByIK]

They launched fire at bread and medicine, and still dare call it “defense” what defense is this, that trembles before a girl with sails and solidarity? This is not war, it is piracy with a flag; not courage, but cowardice in uniform.

Explosions against aid, drones against conscience, jamming against truth every act a confession that the beast fears exposure more than resistance.Terrorism wears a suit, cowardice waves a banner, and genocide hides behind the word “security.”

But no matter how many times they strike, they cannot sink an idea and the flotilla carries more than boxes of food, it carries the indictment of an empire of murderers who starve children and then pretend to be civilized.

Beasts remain beasts: they bomb the witness, they shoot the shepherd, they starve the flock yet history records only their shame, never their glory.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

❗️ALERT❗️@gbsumudflotilla has been attacked 7 times in a short span! Boats hit with sound bombs, explosive flares, and sprayed with suspected chemicals. Radios jammed, calls for help blocked. Immediate international attention AND PROTECTION required!
Hands off the Flotilla!

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

a Zionist fanatic at the Oxford Union angrily asks George Galloway if he is racist because of his opposition to the genocidal Israeli death-cult, and is applauded by the audience. Here's Galloway's response that gets the audience to applaud him by the end:

[🧋Milk Tea Alliance Thailand พันธมิตรชานม - MTAT @MilkTeaTHA]

Verified Fundraisers for Earthquake’s Victims in Myanmar
ช่องทางการระดมทุนเพื่อช่วยเหลือเหยื่อจากเหตุการณ์แผ่นดินไหวในเมียนมา

1) 🚨 Urgent Help Needed for Earthquake Victims in Myanmar
https://t.co/4vKH3OH97e

2) https://t.co/fS5KGVCw9s

3) https://t.co/lam5urSiAL

#แผ่นดินไหว

[Asia Floor Wage Alliance @asia_floorwage]

March 27, 2024—Resistance Day—garment workers & trade unions from South & South East Asia rose together, united in a show of solidarity with the people of Myanmar.

Read: https://t.co/e6FnEIyJPb

Watch: https://t.co/3SzR173mzV

@CATUCambodia @tamil_labour @dabindu @BanglaWorkers

[Asia Floor Wage Alliance @asia_floorwage]

In 2024, AFWA trade union leaders from across South & South East Asia released a joint statement in solidarity with the people of Myanmar.

Read: https://t.co/e6FnEIyJPb

Watch: https://t.co/w4eBfN1kGv

@CATUCambodia @tamil_labour @dabindu @BanglaWorkers

[Lauralyn (Laura) @justlauralyn]

Over 1,000 garment workers are demanding @Nike give them the recognition and pay they deserve. We stand with them. #SeeUsNike.
@global_labor
@johnwrogers
@peterblairhenry
@michelleapeluso

[Asia Floor Wage Alliance @asia_floorwage]

Over 1,000 garment workers are demanding
@Nike
give them the recognition and pay they deserve. We stand with them. #SeeUsNike.
@global_labor
@johnwrogers
@peterblairhenry
@michelleapeluso

[Muna AbuSulayman منى @abusulayman]

To all friends

In light of the current events in Palestine, a large number of filmmakers have made their films about Palestine available online for free.

In this post, we share with you links to films you can view and share to get our message out to the world:

• A collection of documentaries published by Al Jazeera Documentary:
https://t.co/dlwb6Rf77I
https://t.co/XaqRKmNnhE
https://t.co/nXaMQf8mOJ

• "Keeper of Memory" documentary:
https://t.co/Izb5iQc1Rg

• "Empty Seat" documentary:
https://t.co/g5qQ76dFsL

• "Resistance Pilot" documentary:
https://t.co/r7gHsZgbh7

• "Jenin" documentary:
https://t.co/w7MHEtT1rx

• "The Olive Tree" documentary:
https://t.co/UGc281sB8g

• "Scenes from the Occupation in Gaza" documentary 1973:
https://t.co/FJhBrXqV6G

• Documentary "Gaza Fights For Freedom":
https://t.co/FP9plLDRnH

• Documentary "Arna's Children":
https://t.co/nMARn6hK3x

• Short Film "Strawberry":
https://t.co/3vDtJfBl9S

• Short Film "The Place":
https://t.co/4YnMgKjDxM

• Documentary "The Mayor":
https://t.co/OrZ5t0o418

• Documentary "The Creation and the Nakba 1948":
https://t.co/dopya7lonp

• Documentary "Occupation" 101":
https://t.co/aMOLKoRJ8L

• "The Shadow of Absence" Documentary:
https://t.co/lpJDZiLCyW

• "The Don't Exist" Documentary:
https://t.co/8amenIgDUt

• "As The Poet Said" Documentary:
https://t.co/1V5UrOWuxW

• "Five Broken Cameras" Documentary:
https://t.co/z9spDWinbx

• "Paradise Now" Feature Film:
https://t.co/tfVXiCC0PI

• "Abnadam" Short Film:
https://t.co/EFj1zuGtVV

• "Wedding of Galilee":
https://t.co/wcWMYkN3Ix

• The feature film "Keffiyeh":
https://t.co/kPco6N7nCv

• The documentary film "Slingshot Hip Hop":
https://t.co/B3hX8o80nk

• The documentary film "Tall al-Zaatar":
https://t.co/SwvFHGJMrV

• The documentary film "Tall al-Zaatar - The Secrets of the Battle":
https://t.co/SwvFHGJMrV

• The documentary film "In the Grip of the Resistance":
https://t.co/dGZaXBVkqK

• The documentary film "Swings":
https://t.co/pW6DpGxU3x

• The documentary film "Naji al-Ali: An Artist with Vision:
https://t.co/mztq6n0A5C

• "The Upper Gate" Documentary:
https://t.co/nwHl803u1B

• "In Search of Palestine" Documentary:
https://t.co/36ADmq3yuj

• "Salt of this Sea" Feature Film:
https://t.co/4agkw8suWK

• "Speak, Bird" Documentary:
https://t.co/6iA9FDYvIQ

• "The Palestinian Exodus" Series:
https://t.co/TzKlaXXloB

• "I Am Jerusalem" Series:
https://t.co/jvyieEoCrs

[Asia Floor Wage Alliance @asia_floorwage]

If the Knights can afford to waste $1B and buy their way into “philanthropy,” they should push Nike's board to pay the workers who made them rich.

Their wealth and philanthropy are built on invisibilised labour. It’s time the Knights see them and take accountability.

[Asia Floor Wage Alliance @asia_floorwage]

7 days left.

Over 1,000 garment workers like Ratna Tigga are risking everything by showing their faces.

We need 1,000 people to share them with Nike.

Be one of them and pledge now: https://t.co/Ygp3Efpah9

#YouCantWinSoWin #NikeCantWinWeWill #FightTheHeist @global_labor

[Asia Floor Wage Alliance @asia_floorwage]

Nike has billions for everything—except its own workers.

If Nike can make its top shareholders billionaires, they can pay their workers.

Nike’s wealth is built on invisibilised labour. It’s time Nike sees them and pays up.

[Asia Floor Wage Alliance @asia_floorwage]

📢Accelerating Gender Equality: Beijing+30 & ILO C190
Women’s labour—paid & unpaid—remains undervalued. This high-level convening will bridge labour and gender justice to advance real change.

[Asia Floor Wage Alliance @asia_floorwage]

📢Join us for a vital discussion on Women’s Collective Power, 30 years after Beijing. Featuring Anannya Bhattacharjee, International Coordinator at AFWA.
📅 March 13 | ⏰ 9:30 AM-12 PM
📍 Ford Foundation, NYC

[Asia Floor Wage Alliance @asia_floorwage]

In Bengaluru, India, women garment workers took their fight from shop floors to the streets. Their powerful performances exposed gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH) in the garment industry. 🧵👇