This Juneteenth as we celebrate and reflect on the progress we've made and look to what we can do to improve equal rights for black folks I want to bring attention to an issue far too closet to my heart- environmental racism.
I had a friend who died, far too young. It's been many years so newer tumblr users won't know him. His name was james and he was a popular tumblr user when he was alive @kumagawa . I idolized him like an older brother, and still do. He lived in Flint, Michigan. He was around 27 when he died. He was a healthy man, other than the fact he lived with dirty water in Flint, Michigan.
I'll never fucking forgive the US government for killing my friend, my brother. Why did James die? Because Flint, Michigan is 56% Black. Because it would be expensive to fix the lead pipes that gave my friend lead poisoning and killed him.
As of April 24,2024 the city of Flint, Michigan still hasn't replaced all the lead pipes that are poisoning the people living there.
https://www.aclumich.org/en/press-releases/residents-still-waiting-city-flint-replace-all-lead-pipes-10-year-anniversary-water
If you can help, give money to Mari Copeny's go fund me.
Mari Copeny, better known as Little miss Flint, is now 16 years old and over the past few years has raised nearly a million dollars for her community.
She has a website to links for other ways to support the community
Please reblog this post if you can't give any money... It would mean the world to me if I could use my friend's memory to help promote environmental racism and the issues still facing his community today.
Continue✨ Keep going✨
I'm sorry if my English is bad, it's not my first language!
Having different kind of animals with different kind of personalities really makes you appreciate every kind of love manifestation*-*
I've been out of my home for almost two days and one second after putting my foot inside my lovely, little cutie pie of a dog came running to me and spent ten minutes literally ON me, licking and light biting until she tired herself out.
The loveliest of the storms.
Two seconds after she finished it's the turn of my lovely potato of a cat (one of the three). She's much more discreet, and she limits to sit on my lap and purr SO loud, with her intense, emotionless stare. Not that she needs many expressions to demand cuddles.
Point is, they express love in different ways, but none of this ways is better than the other. All of their behaviours show the love and affection they have for me, and I can receive and notice it because I know how they show it.
I think it's the same for people. Every person show love differently, an example can be neurodivergent people that show love differently from neurotypical people. But if we are receptive to all kind of love manifestations we could see it in places we never thought before!
(I am excluding the types of toxic "love")
I dreamt I was making pancakes tonight*-* after a couple of frenetic and busy dreams, this came as a very pleasant surprise this morning, I love pancakes*-*
making a list of all of the fundraisers of people who have reached out to me directly on here in order to have them all in one place. all of them have either been vetted by other users or i verified them personally by checking their other social media accounts (like twitter or instagram) to confirm. everyone here definitely needs support, a lot of their family members are injured or in need of medical care that is not available in gaza. i am also linking their tumblr accounts so that you can follow them to keep up with their campaigns.
Ezzideen Shehab - his tumblr was banned but his close friend and campaign runner is @boshradaoud - €18,227/32,500
Haya Orouq - @haya-orouq19 - $46,998/55,000 (USD)
Nesma Ahmed - @nesmaah - $16,212/45,000 (USD)
Hala - @hlabarka22 - $4,738/50,000 (CAD)
Sahar El Tibi - @eltibisahar - €4,046/30,000
Haneen Atya Altalla - @haneenatya - $25,646/70,000 (AUD)
Sujood Odeh - @sujoododeh - £22,089/50,000
Fatma Bassem - @fatmabassem - $16,483/40,000 (USD)
Donia Tanani - @doniatanani - €71,697/100,000
Nozha Emad - (Donia's sister) - €1,964/18,000
Said Tanani - (Donia's brother) - €33,177/50,000
Abdullah - @amhdes90 - $4,086/47,000 (USD)
Amal Abushaban - @amalabushaban - €6,834/50,000
Mahmoud ElTibi - @mahmoodeltibi - €5,170/60,000
Heba Maqadma - @hebaalmaqadma - €41,439/60,000
Fadi Sharif - @fadisharif - $16,886/62,500 (USD)
Mohammed Bardaweel - @mohbardaweel - €295/37,000
Ahmed N. Abubaker - @ahmednabubaker - €11,823/85,000
Alaa Al Khateeb - @alaaalkhateeb - £4,115/16,000
Ahmad Shaban - @ahmadshaban - £231/150,000
(and while I'm at it here is the YouTube link to the video also. ive been trying to save/access it in the wayback machine to link that instead for archiving purposes but I'm having difficulties so I'll try and add it later but if anyone else is able to add it sooner it's appreciated)
First post trying again at doing something regularly. PEOPLE, may I introduce you in what I will hopefully develope as a strain of disconnected, mostly illogical and uselessly philosophical Thoughts!