I visited the palestinian children’s relief fund (PCRF) website today to make a donation, and they’ve got a secondary donation pool being sent specifically to target humanitarian aid and support for long-term recovery in gaza. If you have the funds and want to donate, the PCRF is one of the recommended charities to donate to if you want to help.
other people could word things better than I did here, but I just wanted to make sure word gets out about the ability to directly financially support the people trying to help gaza right now.
In case you’re worried about where your donation money is going, charity navigator gives PCRF a 97% reliability rating (link to the page here).
(Tangent, but while pulling up that page I found a warning about a scammer claiming to be the PCRF, keep an eye out for any potential emails like the one on this page (linked here) prompting you to donate to a bitcoin wallet)
Also, in case anyone’s still on the edge about if your donations will reach Gaza, reporters like Bisan and Plestia have talked about the PCRF before. They have been working on relief efforts all this time. Your donations will be in good hands.
like for the elevated-liberal the “the houthis are not yemen” yea but u know what most yemenis (including US-affiliated opposition) are not disagreeing w the houthis on? palestine. u know what everyone in yemen agrees on? getting bombed over a blockade instituted bc of a genocide is Bad. like in effect this line of argument exactly demonstrates exactly why bombing people is such dogshit political strategy that the US loves bc they have a warmongering quota. the houthis weren’t yemen until u started bombing yemen bc u won’t get israel to stop killing children :/
much as america and europe have a “progressive except for palestine” exception the arab world operates on a “disagreement except for palestine” exception. it is the one remnant of true secular arab decoloniality left and israel has fortified every generation since 1948 with new horrors to garner support for palestinian liberation. as the saying goes, in middle-eastern culture murdering children is seen as very bad
just a reminder that BetterHelp is selling your fucking data and that they themselves have said at industry meetings that they’re a data-driven company more than a people-driven company
It feels like for a while in there that people were dropping them as a sponsor but now that the controversy has slightly dimmed there are so many ads for them again; do not give them your information, do not give them your money
I know insurance is a pain in the ass and mental health treatments cost too much out of pocket for most people. So do they, that’s why they’re making this little bait and switch operation. Helping people is, at best, a side product of their data harvesting, and at worst just a trick to lure people in.
Huge shout to my friend from an undergraduate philosophy program who started working out every single day, not for health benefits or to become conventionally attractive or whatever, but because – and this is a direct quote – he was concerned that otherwise he might “become lost in the world of signs and forget the things they signify”. I have thought about this every single time that I’ve worked out since.
