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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 1d

A ceasefire is (sadly) not the equivalent of peace. It also does not make food, tents, warmth magically appear. You are needed. Please help.

Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 1d

Please share. The needs haven’t ceased, so neither do we. We MUST resist the convenience of complacency.

Six families desperately need food and shelter—it’s still a famine and their homes are gone. We’re matching £250 to help today.

16 hours left 🚨 61/1000

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 1d

Let´s reach at least 600 by the end of the week! A (fragile) ceasefire does not mean that people suddenly have everything at their disposal. Tents, food, water, everything is still needed. This is the one thing we can do, provide tangible help. It´s a vetted campaign.
chuffed.org/project/mawa...

Help displaced families in Mawasi

Make a great change for the better: help relieve the suffering of displaced families in Mawasi, Gaza, who are facing hunger, thirst, and heat.

chuffed.org

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Annick Yerem @missyerem.bsky.social · 1d

Come and join us! It will be a wonderful evening. You are welcome to join, even if you can´t donate right now. This is also about sharing space and listening.

Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 4d

Join us on 2nd November at 7 pm GMT. #WeKeepTelling
We are raising funds for wonderful people & projects in Gaza while celebrating Palestinian poetry. Now, more than ever, we keep telling, sharing, giving. Please do what you can- and join us!
buytickets.at/sdhepress/18...

Title: “We Keep Telling: a reading series for Gaza.” Text: “Online on Zoom. 2 November, 7pm GMT, tinyurl.com/wekeeptelling.” In the background is a painting of a dancing Palestinian woman in a white, short-sleeved thobe with red tatreez and a keffiyeh tied around her waist. Her long black hair is swirling around her and covering her face. A dove stands on one of her outstretched hands, and another dove dances around her other hand. In the lower left, the painting is signed “Marah.”

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 4d

Great article by our friend Sarah
Clancy, who was kidnapped by apartheid Israel in international waters trying to get aid into Gaza. Our governments' complicity in the genocide of Palestinians compels us to act in all the different ways we can. #FreePalestine
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Sarah Clancy: Flotillas show that ordinary people must be the antidote to toxic world powers

After arrest, imprisonment, and deportation from Israel, Sarah Clancy, an Irish Gaza flotilla participant, reflects on solidarity, conscience, and the power of ordinary people

www.irishexaminer.com

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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 4d

Join us on 2nd November at 7 pm GMT. #WeKeepTelling
We are raising funds for wonderful people & projects in Gaza while celebrating Palestinian poetry. Now, more than ever, we keep telling, sharing, giving. Please do what you can- and join us!
buytickets.at/sdhepress/18...

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Annick Yerem @missyerem.bsky.social · 19d

Sunday, 5th October, 7 pm BST. Do join us!

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Mslexia @mslexia.bsky.social · 21d

Our 2025 Poetry Competition is ✨ OPEN FOR ENTRIES ✨

Prizes: 1st: £2,000; 2nd: £500; 3rd: £250; Unpublished Poet Prize: £250
Judge: Liz Berry
Entry Fee: £10
Closes: 8 December 2025

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Poetry #PoetryCommunity

Women's Poetry Competition 2025 - Poetry (Single Poem) - Competitions : Mslexia, a magazine for women's writing and women who write.

mslexia.co.uk

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 21d

Please donate or share

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 21d

Please donate or share

Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 21d

13 hours left 🚨 please share!

We’ve been able to help SIX FAMILIES flee from siege & bombardment in Gaza City—only because of YOU. But we’re losing momentum, while time runs out for the remaining two families.

Don’t break the bank. We chip away and share to reach those who can give. 195/1000 😥

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

chuffed.org

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 21d

13 hours left 🚨 please share!

We’ve been able to help SIX FAMILIES flee from siege & bombardment in Gaza City—only because of YOU. But we’re losing momentum, while time runs out for the remaining two families.

Don’t break the bank. We chip away and share to reach those who can give. 195/1000 😥

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

chuffed.org

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 21d

Italy was on strike in solidarity with Palestinians last Monday.
Hundreds of thousands demonstrated blocking roads, ports & railway stations. In Rome, many drivers found themselves stuck in traffic — & were happy about it, saluting demonstrators & condemning Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 22d

Obada has two small kids, he’s not good at marketing and now his internet it terrible so I rarely hear from him

www.gofundme.com/f/nrak2-help...

I don't know what to do.
I am completely helpless.
There have been no donations for a long time.
At the end of the month, my family and I will have to leave our home because I cannot pay the rent.
I don't know where to go.
9:07 AM

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 21d

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 21d

Two young sisters, Samah and Jana Hamed Al-Hams, were killed this afternoon when their home in the Al-Sabra neighborhood in southern Gaza City was targeted by an Israeli airstrike.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 21d

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 21d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Sabreen. Sabreen worked in advertising before the war and her husband Iyad was a designer. They lost their jobs and their home. They have three children Zaher, 9, Amal, 7 and Mustafa, 3. Mustafa has a seizure disorder this is getting worse.

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🫜🌷🌶️ Caitlin Spice 🌶️🌷🫜 @catespice.bsky.social · 21d

Makes me smile every time I go to this place for a swim - there’s still quite a few of these around Wellington!

A sticker that says “Trans Women Are Women” on a wooden strut

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 21d

Please share: 14 hours left!

These families are still with us—don’t take that for granted. Their tomorrow is unwritten. Death is not inevitable. We must invest all hope in their lives

Help them escape the invasion of Gaza City. Anything helps. 87/1000

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

chuffed.org

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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 21d

buytickets.at/sdhepress/18...
Please join us on 5th October at 7 pm BST! We are reading to raise funds for displaced families in Mawasi. Tickets are free, donations are encouraged and needed. If you can´t donate right now, you are welcome to join! Please share the links❤️
chuffed.org/project/mawa...

On the left is a watercolor painting of two sunbirds, one male and one female, perched on a branch together. The male sunbird is brightly colored in turquoise, blue, purple, green, and brown and facing to the right, with dark orange paint behind him. The female sunbird is subtly colored in dark browns, tans, and grays and faces left, with dark turquoise paint behind her. The text reads “Help displaced families in Mawasi: displaced families are pouring into Mawasi with empty hands and empty stomachs. With your help, we can continue to feed them, comfort their children, and remind them they are not forgotten.” At the bottom is the link https://chuffed.org/project/mawasi-families

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Annick Yerem @missyerem.bsky.social · 22d

Please help if you can!

Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 23d

We are unable to get support to one of the families we are trying to help evacuate. They need someone - ideally a big account - advocating for them with their individual link

If you think this could be you, please email [email protected]. You don’t need to be in touch with them, & I’ll help

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 23d

It’s three kids & their dad. They aren’t part of the giving circle but they’re dear, dear friends of the folks in the giving circle.

They need evacuation—about £2,500—but they only get about £50/week.

Learn more & give: linktr.ee/ahmadskids

Help Ahmad's kids! | Linktree

Help Ahmad and his 3 kids in Gaza, and their brother battling brain cancer in Egypt! They need food, shelter, & cancer treatment.

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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 22d

If you have any questions about the transparency of this campaign and others, please just ask The amount that you see was raised over the last 24 months for 11 people and paid out on a regular basis. This is NOT the amount that Mahmoud has at his disposal right now!

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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 22d

Video descr: Annick, a white woman with dark curls, wearing a yellow T-shirt and a colorful kuffiyah, is speaking directly to the camera. Talking points are: there are many ways to vet fundraisers. The amount you see raised is the money raised over almost 24 months, often for large families.

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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 22d

Please watch this. There are still too many misconceptions floating around about personal fundraisers and that is one reason a lot of people aren´t receiving the tangible help that is needed right now. As my friend says: "Gaza is not a charity". These campaigns are to meet basic needs.

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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 24d

255/500 by tonight! Thank you so much to @janeburn.bsky.social for this beautiful painting of two Palestinian sunbirds. And to you, reading this: you can help. Please, please do.

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