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The violence continues, supplies are still scarce, Israel continues its war crimes in Gaza. So the work by The Sameer Project is still very much needed. Here's a conversation from last September with one of the founders, Hala Sabbah.

youtube.com/watch?v=ICxLVeTg2Q

On this donation page, you can read more about their activities: chuffed.org/project/113222-ten Any amount is incredibly welcome!

#SaveGaza #PalestineSolidarity #RefaatAlareerCamp #MutualAid #NoCharity #NGO #SameerProject #Gaza #Solidarity #Winter @israel @palestine  #SameerProjectGaza

🥺 This is a long shot:

I'm trying to find a #NGO based in #Paris focusing on teen dating violence and/or consent (IPV).

I will be in Paris April 7th & 8th.

I want to briefly meet & share our free resources & let others know about our unique work to help adolescents. (I'm speaking at Games for Health Europe in Eindhoven & returning via Paris.)

I founded a nonprofit org in 2006.

We hope to collaborate with groups in France -- especially while France is working on issues about #consent.

🎮 We have an innovative program using prosocial video games to engage young people (11 - 23). We want to find a group in France interested in making these games available in French.

👉🏽 I've been interviewed by France24 about our innovative games about consent.

👉🏽 One of our consent games was made into a lifesize exhibit at a museum in Australia.

👉🏽 We worked with WorldVision to create a game about consent for young people in Vanuatu.

🎉 Over 20,000 folks / year learn about consent through our free games.

Please let me know if you have questions -- and please share with groups / instances who might know somebody who knows somebody.

@publichealth @sociology @stopTDV @consentgame @gamingagainstv #help #nonprofit #education #prevention #France #EU #domesticviolence

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@benda @rooftopjaxx with Mozilla I stopped going to their #openweb events about ten years ago, I could feel they were lost then, #NGO stuff is very easy to subvert, it's kinda built in to the path. What we do about this is not easy as currently grassroots #DIY tech spaces are hollowed out. We need to make this more visible, then somehow build a bridge to resources to refill these spaces. This is not a #KISS issue. And it's not improving currently.

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"Even as queer and trans Iranian asylum seekers and Afghan refugees who left Iran for Turkey do not fall under the same category according to the UNHCR’s criteria, they have something in common: they are economic refugees. Yet the UNHCR does not recognize economic marginalization as grounds for granting asylum. If it did, a large number of people in the world (including in the United States) who are affected by global capitalism’s economic violence (such as lack of access to universal health care in the United States) would be eligible for asylum."

― Sima Shakhsari in her article "What counts at violence?" in dukeupress.edu/the-cunning-of-

h/t @danahilliot

#book#quotes#NGO

“When they challenge the innocent morality of the rights regime, anthropologists join a number of political and legal theorists who have asked whether humanitarianism is the new face of colonialism. Some have pointed out the paradoxes of rights-based arguments: that they allow people to make claims, but lock them into fixed identities defined by their injuries rather than freeing them from these identities into a world of equals; or they absolve the perpetrators of past violence by making them the defenders of rights.”
― Lila Abu-Lughod, Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

#israel #palestine : #gaza / #opt / #electricity / #blockade / #ngo / #amnestyinternational

»“Israel’s decision to cut off electricity to Gaza’s main operational desalination plant is further evidence of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.

“These inhumane and unlawful actions is a clear a reminder of the control Israel has as occupying power, allowing it to turn life-critical services on and off at any given point.«

amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/

www.amnesty.org.ukIsrael/OPT: Israel's decision to cut off electricity supply in Gaza is 'further evidence of genocide against Palestinians'These inhumane and unlawful actions is a clear a reminder of the control Israel has as occupying power, allowing it to turn life-critical services on and off at any given point.

“Nearly 140 NGOs blast the Labour government over its foreign aid budget cut”

by The Canary @thecanaryuk @UKLabour

“They warn that the move will ‘destroy Labour’s legacy on international development’ and leave the ‘government’s ambition to be a reliable development partner on the global stage in tatters’”

thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/

Canary · Nearly 140 NGOs blast the Labour government over its foreign aid budget cutNGOs warn that cuts to the foreign aid budget will leave the “government's ambition to be a reliable partner on the global stage in tatters"
#Press#UK#Labour

"Es gibt nicht die eine Maßnahme, um die Demokratie zu retten und die AfD zu besiegen. Es sind tausend kleine Schritte. Wir brauchen nicht den Masterplan gegen die AfD. Wir alle können mit kleinen Sachen anfangen. Und das stimmt mich hoffnungsvoll."

Arne Semsrott im Interview mit Rebecca Kelber, @Krautreporter

Geschenkt: krautreporter.de/politik-und-m

Krautreporter„Es braucht tausend kleine Schritte, um die AfD zu besiegen“Der Aktivist Arne Semsrott hat ganz konkrete Vorschläge.
#fckafd#CDU#Politik

Wenn Markus Söder in der Weld von Kraken spricht, klingt das scheinbar besser als Ratten und Schmeißfliegen, ist aber weit schlimmer. Weil es Nazi-Vokabular ist, mit dem heute AfD, Reichsbürger & Co. Ängste vor einer jüdischen Weltverschwörung und deep state triggern #NGO #Soros

Could we agree that #worldBicycleRelief 's #bicycle is not really #solarpunk ?

worldbicyclerelief.org/a-bette

Sure, it's nice it's durable and given to people in need.

But it's not really repairable. Custom, copyrighted components designed to keep the company afloat, available only through controllable humanitarian channels.

I'd take well-standardized open source any day.

World Bicycle ReliefThe Bike | World Bicycle ReliefThe bike is what sets us apart. Built for distance and durability, our Buffalo Bicycle empowers people in rural communities to thrive.

Officially there's a cease fire, but the violence continues, supplies are still scarce and rebuilding is sabotaged by Israel. So the work by The Sameer Project is still very much needed. Here's a conversation from last September with one of the founders, Hala Sabbah.

youtube.com/watch?v=ICxLVeTg2Q

On this donation page, you can read more about their activities: chuffed.org/project/113222-ten Any amount is incredibly welcome!

#SaveGaza #PalestineSolidarity #RefaatAlareerCamp #MutualAid #NoCharity #NGO #SameerProject #Gaza #Solidarity #Winter @israel @palestine #SameerProjectGaza