It took me embarrassingly long to finish it, but I like it regardless

With permission from @[email protected], this post is created to post several fundraisers for Palestinians who are currently living in havoc-wreaken Gaza. I really hope that you can share the words, spread the messages and donate what you can for the struggling families and individuals in the territory. All the pictures included in the pose were taken directly from the corresponding gofundme pages. I added descriptions of the images for visually impaired people, but my descriptions are, in a large part, purely speculations.

I've gotten most of my information from the FB page Free Watermelon NOW. They're constantly updating the fundraisers they know, as well as the situations of Gazan people they're able to contact. You could follow them to receive updates. The page is Vietnamese, so you might need a translation tools.

Feel free to contribute to the post by commenting fundraising projects for Palestinians that you know, or you can just post them independently. Share some love, spread the messages, donate, and always remember:

MUTUAL AID IS SOLIDARITY.

Fundraiser for Abdul Karim and his family. They need money to fund the evacuation from Gaza strip and build a new life in safety and peace. The situation is getting really desperate for his family, as the war will continue to claim more people in his family if they could not receive the much needed financial aid to seek refuge in Egypt.

His fundraiser is advancing very slowly and in desperate need of more donations. Please go to the gofundme page, read his story, and share some love!

Update: His cousin, Bassam, had been captured and tortured by the IDF back in the Novemeber of last year. He was released but couldn't reunite with his family in North Gaza, as he was forced to go South. Bassam is currently taking refuge in Karim's house, while his wife and children are facing severe starvation during the ongoing famine in the north. He doesn't have a gofundme so Karim will receive donation on his behalf.

You could read more of Bassam story on this FB post by Free Watermelon NOW. The page's admin has been contacting Karim and posted Bassam's story back in July.

The picture of Abdul Karim posing in front of yellow-ish walls.

His two children

A picture of a group of people, presumably his family, walking in the refugee camp.

Fundraiser for Kholoud's family.

She's a 30-year-old divorced widow sharing a family with 2 young children, Salem and Sara. They became homeless after their house was bombed in an airstrike.

Kholoud holds a Bachelor's degree in Primary Education, so she remains hopeful about providing her children a safe and healthy environment to grow up in, despite devastating condition they're enduring in Gaza

More details on the fund's distribution, go to her gofundme page

The image of Kholoud's two children

An image of her two children next to a QR code to the link of her gofundme.

Fundraiser for Yazan

Yazan is a 16 years old Palestinian boy from Khuza'a, a southern Gazan town, and his family of 7. As the eldest son he carries the responsibility of fundraising for his family of seven. They were displaced multiple times during the course of last several months due to relentless bombing campaign of Israel.

The money will be used to fund their evacuation from Gaza strip. For more details please go to his gofundme page, and spread some love.

The fund is sponsored by Michelle Boukousohn,a community organizer based in New York city.

And follow his instagram page for more updates or just send him words of support: https://www.instagram.com/yazan_.gaza. He is a kind boy with resilient hope for a better future for himself and his sisters.

Yazan standing next to a moving vehicles with lots of stuffs on it.

Yazan amidst fellow displaced peoples' tents in Rafah

Yazan helping rebuild his family's temporary shelter, after evacuating to Al Mawasi from Rafah

Yazan standing against the background of a setting/rising sun on a settlement camp

Fundraiser for Hozifa

Hofiza is 18 years old, 25 people that he knows, including his childhood love, his uncles and their families, were matyred in the midst of the ongoing genocide. He and his family of five want to use the fund raised to cover the cost of crossing border and setting up a new life in Cairo, Egypt, before going to Turkey. You could see more details about how the fund is allocated by going to his gofundme.

Two guys, one of them is presumably Hofiza himself, cheerfully point at the wall with a piece of graffiti with the slogan "From the River to the sea, Palestine will be free", his name and his friend's (?) name, written on it, along with a Palestinian flag and two slices of watermelon

Images of devastated buildings

A photo collages with images of devastated building, selfies of people, and food.

Presumably images showing his current diet, cookie(?) and boiling beans(?)

Fundraising for Muhammad Al-Shaer's family.

Aside from Muhammad Al-Shaer and his sister, the lives of entire family were claimed by the war in Gaza.

His leg is injured by the war, leading to him being unable to provide for his sister and daughter, Eileen and Dima. They are in a very vulnerable situation, in which access to food, drink, and safety is not readily available. Please share some love if you can, as he'd written "Every donation, no matter the size, is a beacon of hope in this dark hour".

You can read his story on the gofundme page.

A wide picture consisting of three smaller ones. The picture on the right depicting a house in ruin, with the caption: "My old house, where I was bombed by the occupation", the picture in the middle is the Muhammad Al-Shaer picture, with the caption "My brothers were killed I was injured", the last one is the picture of his younger sister, with the caption "My younger sister Eileen (10).

His leg, covered in a cast

An image of him lying in a hospital bed.

Vietnamese translation of "Oh Rascal Children of Gaza" by Khaled Juma, by Hoài Phương, who is the admin of FB page Thơ Palestine. You could find the English version here

Thơ Palestine is the FB page with the mission of preserving Palestinian poems and translating them to Vietnamese, but you could also follow them for updates on Palestinian families and people that various FB pages are currently fundraising.

The picture is a part of a collaboration project between Free Watermelon Now, Thơ Palestine, and Steven Quốc Võ. There is a video with Quốc Võ's voice narrating the English version of the poem over the illustration. You could see it on Free Water Melon FB page.

Follow them at:

Thơ Palestine on FB

Free Watermelon Now on FB

Steven Quốc Võ on IG: @thgquoc

This is a post created to showcase the solidarity of Vietnamese artists with the Palestinians through the hashtag #VIETNAMwithHandala. The movement is still relatively obscure but is getting more and more attention from the Vietnamese art community.

#VIETNAMwithHandala is a subset of a larger movement on the Internet #withHandala. Artists around the world participate in the movement by drawing their characters standing still with their back turned towards the viewers, in the recognizable pose that Handala, a cartoon character, has in several artworks created by Paslestinian political cartoonist Naji Al-Ali. The movement has a strong presence across various social media. You can find more information about the movement by searching #with Handala, but most Vietnamese participants are active on Facebook. I believe that the earliest record of the movement in Vietnam could be traced back to this post by R-Posting.

You could also check out other Southeast Asian artists works that follow this hashtag by searching #SEAwithHandala.

So, without any further ado, here they are:

nobody is free until everybody is free. Artist: hà nguyễn

Từ sông sâu ra biển lớn, và Palestine sẽ được tự do!. Artist: Chung Tịch Bất Mị

Artist: Dulce Coco

Tis nothing much but its honest work. Artist: Đỗ Phúc

"From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free". Artist: Lan Hoàng

Artist: Mai Mỹ Bảo

Political much? Always has been

Ellie stands with Palestine. Artist: Minh Đăng

If you know any other Vietnamese artists who participate in the movement, you're more than welcome to link them in the comment section. Please follow, and participate in the movement #withHandala.

Save Tam Đảo is an Environmental Conservation Organization in Vietnam.

This is a re-post from one of Facebook posts on Save Tam Đảo page. For some reasons I could not find the link of the original post so I urge you to visit the page to read them first hand.

Here is the original post:

CÙNG XEM LẠI NHỮNG HÌNH ẢNH Ở KHU VỰC LÀM DỰ ÁN CỦA SUN GROUP

Đây là một hành trình chứng kiến những đau thương nhất của VQG Tam Đảo của chúng tôi từ cuối năm 2017.

Vốn là những người thích leo núi chúng tôi có những hành trình chinh phục ba đỉnh Tam Đảo, được ngắm những biển mây, cây cối xanh mướt, chúng tôi thuộc hết những đoạn đường mòn bắt đầu từ nhà sàn có tên là nhà hàng Thiên Đường. Tôi còn nhớ như in lần ngủ qua đêm ở ngay khu Tam Đảo 2, khi đó chỉ có hai anh em, ngủ qua đêm ở đây đúng là một trải nghiệm có một không hai, nửa đêm trời rất lạnh chỉ có tiếng gió rừng, tuy nhiên xung quanh lại rất sáng như hàng trăm ngọn nến, anh Phương (người bản địa) đi cùng tôi nói rằng đó là phản quang từ lá khô, đến khoảng 2h sáng thì biển mây từ phía Thái Nguyên tràn sang, lướt qua chỗ chúng tôi, trông như tiên cảnh.

Sáng sớm, ánh nắng chiếu lên thảm rêu xanh phủ khắp cánh rừng từ ngọn cây cho đến những tảng đá tạo thành một khung cảnh vô cùng kỳ diệu…

Và còn nhiều lần khác, chúng tôi đi bằng nhiều con đường khác nhau để lên khu Tam Đảo 2, sau đó mới chinh phục ba đỉnh, cho đến ngày Sun Group cho làm cánh cổng cấm người qua lại.

Những hành trình ấy khiến chúng tôi yêu Tam Đảo thêm rất nhiều, hình ảnh về rừng cây nguyên sinh, những chú lợn rừng, gà gô hay thỏ mà chúng tôi thi thoảng vẫn bắt gặp. Nhưng rồi dần dần về sau hình ảnh đọng lại trong tâm trí chúng tôi là hàng loạt cây gỗ bị chặt hạ, con đường mòn chúng tôi hay đi bị máy xúc, máy ủi san phẳng, những hố cáp treo được đánh dấu khắp cánh rừng.

Xin được khẳng định lại rằng, khu vực Tam Đảo 2 là khu rừng đẹp và quý giá nhất của Vườn Quốc gia Tam Đảo, là một tiên cảnh của hạ giới, nó xứng đáng được bảo vệ cho tất cả mọi người và thế hệ sau, chứ không phải quây lại để dành cho một số người tham lam giàu có. [Xem bài viết này tồn tại được bao lâu nhé, mọi người có thể lưu lại trước khi bài bị biến mất hoặc page bị bay màu]

A brief article by Tommy Lawson discussing how an anarchist's understanding of nationalism must be nuanced in the context of imperialism, and how simplistic devotion to the rejection of nationalist ideal of oppressed people would weaken the global resistance against reactionary forces.

The urban area project in area 10B by Do Gia Capital Co., Ltd. is pouring land directly, without embankments, into the sea area in the buffer zone of the World Natural Heritage of Ha Long Bay - special protection zone no. 2 in Ha Long Bay.

On the morning of November 6, talking to Nguoi Lao Dong Newspaper, the leader of the Ha Long Bay Management Board said that the unit had sent a document to the Quang Ninh Department of Natural Resources and Environment, the Quang Ninh Department of Culture and Sports and the Cam Pha City People's Committee to organize a coordinated inspection into the Urban area project in Area 10B in Quang Hanh Ward, Cam Pha City.

A series of limestone mountains were surrounded to make "rockeries"

According to people's feedback, recently, local people discovered that on the Ha Long - Cam Pha coastal route, the section passing through Ha Phong - Cam Pha ward, a series of "tiger pouncing" trucks appeared following each other, carrying soil and stones for leveling for the Urban Area Project in Area 10B (Urban Area 10B) showed signs of overload without a single tarpaulin covering, causing dust and dirt to be scattered all over the road surface.

To implement the 10B Urban Area project within the boundaries of Quang Hanh ward, Cam Pha City, the investor, Do Gia Capital Co., Ltd. (address in Cam Pha City) poured soil to create a road more than 1 km long. from the coastline of Ha Long - Cam Pha to the sea. Notably, many rocky mountains are surrounded to form "rockeries", and the soil and rocks are leveled, making the sea water turbid and discolored.

The leader of the Ha Long Bay Management Board further informed through environmental monitoring work along the coast of Ha Long Bay (September 19) that the urban area project in area 10B by Do Gia Capital Co., Ltd. is pouring land directly into the sea area of the buffer zone of the World Natural Heritage of Ha Long Bay, protection zone 2 of the Ha Long Bay Special National Monument without any embankment.

Dumping soil directly into the waters of Ha Long Bay without environmental protection measures will pollute the water environment, affecting the ecosystems of natural heritage areas - special national monuments in Ha Long Bay.

This violates regulations on environmental protection and heritage protection according to the Law on Environmental Protection, the Law on Cultural Heritage, and the project's environmental impact assessment report approved by the People's Committee of Quang Ninh province.

The project encroaches on Ha Long Bay for a kilometer from the Ha Long - Cam Pha sea boundary

Confronting with the incident, the Ha Long Bay Management Board requested the Quang Ninh Department of Natural Resources and Environment, the Quang Ninh Department of Culture and Sports, and the Cam Pha City People's Committee to inspect and request construction units to comply with the law on environmental and heritage protection. At the same time, there must be solutions to prevent substances that pollute the environment and ecology of Ha Long Bay.

Quang Ninh Department of Construction also requested Do Gia Capital Co., Ltd. to comply with the design documents and construction permits that had been evaluated and licensed. They are required to have appropriate construction measures to ensure water circulation in the areas of sea mangroves on both sides of route No. 1. The company must take actions to minimize the impact on the overall landscape and environment of the World Natural Heritage Ha Long Bay

It is recommended that the People's Committee of Cam Pha City perform the state management function on construction order for the 10B urban area project: Inspect and supervise the construction process to ensure compliance with design documents, construction permits that have been appraised and licensed, and environmental impact assessment reports approved by the People's Committee of Quang Ninh province; promptly take measures to prevent and handle violations of construction order and activities that affect the environment and landscape of the world natural heritage of Ha Long Bay.

According to the project's environmental impact assessment approval, the People's Committee of Quang Ninh province stated: "The total project area is about 31.8 hectares, of which 3.88 hectares is in the buffer zone, area 2 of the World Natural Heritage of Ha Long Bay. The scale of project items includes: 451 villas and adjacent houses; rough construction and finishing of the exterior of 52 villas. There are also commercial and service projects. , including 7-story hotels. The population is estimated to be roughly 2,524 people."

Ha Long Bay Management Board affirmed that the location of the 10B Urban Area project is located in the buffer zone of Ha Long Bay.

This land has a starting price of 1,145.3 billion VND and Do Gia Capital Co., Ltd. won the auction for the right to use the land with an auction value of 1,192 billion VND (46 billion VND higher than the starting price).

It is known that Do Gia Capital Company Limited was established on November 18, 2021 with a charter capital of 200 billion VND, led by Mr. T.H.T. be a director. However, by December 30, 2021 (the time the People's Committee of Quang Ninh province recognized the winning results of the land use rights auction), this business was only "42 days old" and had eliminated 8 serious opponents to win the auction for a land with a value of trillions dong.

Through research, it is known that in the past few years, UNESCO has repeatedly warned that Ha Long Bay Heritage is under a lot of pressure from tourism activities, shipping and especially rapid urbanization in several areas of Quang Ninh, causing the bay environment to be affected.

Là người dân Việt Nam, chúng ta rất hiểu nỗi đau dưới của chủ nghĩa thực dân khi mà tổ tiên của ta hứng chịu sự áp bức, dày xéo và bóc lột được ngụy tạo dưới những mỹ từ của sự văn minh và khai sáng. Chúng ta biết chúng đã sử dụng những lý do gì để hợp lý hóa sự hiện diện của chúng trên lãnh thổ ta, sự đốn rừng đốt ruộng để xây các cơ ngơi xa hoa cho người Pháp, và sự xóa bỏ ngôn ngữ, văn hóa và di sản của người Việt.

Bởi những lý do đó, chúng ta không thể giữ vị trí trung lập trong cuộc xung đột Israel - Palestine. Dẫu biết rằng hoàn cảnh của chúng ta, dù là trong quá khứ hay hiện tại, có nhiều điểm khác biệt với Palestine, nhưng chúng ta cùng chia sẻ trải nghiệm của chủ nghĩa thực dân và công sức diệt chủng dưới bàn tay của những kẻ nhân danh Chúa trời để thỏa sức thực hiện những hành vi vô nhân đạo Nếu ta đứng về phía Israel và các đồng minh, chúng ta đứng về phía thực dân, đứng về phía những kẻ đã trực tiếp hủy hoại bao nhiêu mạng người của tổ tiên ta trong quá khứ thuộc địa, của bố mẹ ta, của anh chị em của ta trong chủ nghĩa tư bản toàn cầu hiện tại. Vị trí trung lập, "quan ngại", cũng là tiếp tay cho sự áp bức nhân dân Palestine, bởi lẽ những kẻ côn đồ không có mong muốn gì hơn ngoài việc chúng ta chỉ im lặng khi tiếp tục hành xác những mảnh đời yếu thế.

Bởi vậy, chúng ta chỉ còn một vị trí cuối cùng: Đoàn kết với nhân dân Palestine. Ủng hộ quyền tự quyết và dành độc lập của họ một cách tuyệt đối và vô điều kiện.Hơn bất kỳ một ai khác, chúng ta đều hiểu tầm quan trọng của sự đoàn kết của nhân dân trên thế giới để chấm dứt chiến tranh tại Việt Nam, với những cuộc biểu tình và những phong trào bất tuân dân sự phản chiến.

Ở trong bài đăng này, mình muốn phổ biến một vài nguồn để các bạn có thể hỗ trợ nhân dân Palestine.Dưới đây là trang mà các bạn có thể xem để hiểu biết thêm về cuộc xung đột hiện tại giữa Israel và Palestine:

https://decolonizepalestine.com/

Để thể hiện sự đoàn kết với nhân dân Palestine với sự ảnh hưởng chính trị nhỏ bé của đa số mọi người chúng ta, các bạn có thể tham gia vào phong trào Boycott, Disinvestment and Sanctions (Tẩy chay, Bỏ Đầu tư và Trừng phạt kinh tế).

Thông tin về phong trào này có thể được tìm thấy ở Wikipedia, nhưng về căn bản, và mình nghĩ là phương pháp có tính thực tiễn cao nhất đối với chúng ta là tẩy chay tiêu dùng các nhãn hàng được coi là có nhúng tay vào sự tiến triển của công cuộc diệt chủng của nhân dân Palestine bằng cách/và hợp tác với nhà nước Israel. Một vài nhãn hàng có thể kể tới là Puma, HP, cùng với một loạt những nhãn hàng đồ ăn nhanh như McDonald hay Starbucks.
Ngoài ra, các bạn cũng có thể ký vào đơn kiến nghị ngừng bắn ở Dải Gaza

https://sign.moveon.org/.../do-everything-you-can-to-stop...

Quyên góp cho Quỹ cứu trợ trẻ em Palestine PCRF và Bác sĩ không biên giới (Doctors without borders)

https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/general

https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/.../psearch...

Và các cách khác nữa, như được liệt kê ở trang:

https://ceasefiretoday.com/

Từ sông ra biển, nhân dân Palestine sẽ dành tự do!

This is a short article featuring an interview with a very talented Vietnamese artist, Nachi. She is known for drawing comics that spans various topics, such as astrology, supernatural, science fiction, slice of life. A significant portion of her comics is both informative and educational without being overly didactic. Notably, her art is also very beautiful :")

For those interested in exploring Nachi's works furhter, I recommend checking out her FB Page: Sideworld - Thế giới bên cạnh

If you don't want to use Facebook, you could read one of her comics here: Sun and Earth. This belongs to her ongoing series about astrology. She recently released the third chapter of the series about proton, which is very entertaining and delightful.

If you wish to support Nachi and enjoy her works at your leisure, her newest comic anthology is available for purchasehere

This is a Vietnamese translation of an article titled: "Why the communists call for ‘Intifada until victory!'".

The credit for the translation goes to VietNam Young Marxists.

Solidarity with Palestinian!

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Đây là bản dịch Tiếng Việt của một bài báo với tựa đề: "Why the communists call for ‘Intifada until victory!'".

Bản dịch thuộc về VietNam Young Marxists.

Đoàn kết với nhân dân Palestine!

This is a translated Korean article belonging to a 4-part seires written by Saebom Kim that goes in depth into Samsung's environmental and labor violations in Vietnam.

The article was translated by VietNam Young Marxists.

A very interesting video from "What is politics" aims to explain why most communist revolutions happened in third-world countries, including Vietnam, and how the goal of such revolutions was actually rapid industrialization in the face of hardships imposed by imperialist powers, not communism as we commonly think.

Một video thú vị từ kênh Youtube "What is politics" với nội dung tập trung vào câu hỏi: Tại sao hầu hết các cuộc cánh mạng cộng sản trên thế giới diễn ra tập trung ở các quốc gia thuộc thế giới thứ ba, đồng thời lập luận để chứng minh luận điểm rằng mục đích chính của những cuộc cách mạng đó là đẩy nhanh sự nghiệp công nghiệp hóa trước những thách thức chính trị từ những thế lực đế quốc, chứ không phải là tiến tới chủ nghĩa cộng sản như ta thường nghĩ.

I wonder how long would it take for low income Vietnamese citizens in urban areas to have to live in micro apartments like people in Hong Kong. But as it turns out, we've already arrived that point.

(Down with the landlỏd)

Good song and good band :")

A Tale of the Valiant Fight of Local People in Huong Tra District, Hue City Against Sand Pirates.

Writing in English is not my strong suit, but I will try my best to summarize the article for people unfamiliar with Vietnamese. However, I strongly suggest you to read the article yourselves with the assistance of translation tool. The author has a very compelling jounalistic language which makes reading it is such a treat.

In the context of sand pirates becoming increasingly aggressive in their exploitation of sand in many rivers, which leads to the accelerated erosion of lands around them, people living around the Bồ River began to push back since it started to affect their livelihood and swathes of lands have collapsed. The seemingly innocuous sand extraction from Tuan Hai Company, whose activity is permitted by the local authority, had turned their lives upside down.

Initially, they appealed to the local authority to do something about the problem but there was no change, so they took matters into their own hands and began establishing a team to actively supervise any unusual activities on the river. Once they noticed a boat that sucked the sand outside the legally defined zone, they pursued the boat, forced it to go with them and handed the people inside to the local police force. However, there had been at least 10 sightings of illegal sand extraction activities since the establishment of the supervising team, all of them were handed to the local authority to take care of but nothing changed. They decided to take a more proactive approach when things got too far.

They began constructing bamboo spikes to prevent sand extraction boats from entering. People from other villages where impact of sand extraction could be felt also joined in the endeavor by providing money and manpower. It was a collective effort from the start to the finish, from purchasing blocks of rocks, cutting the bamboos, to securing the bamboo spikes on the river. Men, women, children, and the elderly all participated in the activity. The local authority tried to intervene multiple times by saying that the people were violating the water traffic law and demanding them to have a meeting to lessen the heat, but the villagers refused to budge.

"If we are wrong then you are more than welcome to arrest us. People are ready to be jailed," they said when confronted by the local authority.

The fight did not stop on the river, they also kept track of illegal activities on the bank. One night they noticed trucks full of sands and handed them to the local authority, but this time they insisted on supervising the process of handling the case themselves.

After 14 days, in response to the heated fight on the Bồ River, the Ministry of Resources Environment opened an investigation (with the supervision of the villagers) and discovered evidence of Tuan Hai Company having been involved in illegal sand extraction. The amount of sand extracted by the company was found to be several times larger than the amount permitted in the licensing record. The company was fined 1.6 billion VND by the People's Committee and had to take measures to recover the land to its initial state.

The fight against sand pirates did not stop there. Villagers living in the downstream of the Bồ River also had to participate in a similar fight by deploying the same tactics, but on a much larger scale. In May of 2020, they constructed an entire bamboo bridge to prevent sand extracting boats from entering.