What If I Get Free?
Campaigns
Here, I throw in blog posts about campaigns I’m running, planning, taking part of – online or on the ground.
We’re Trending #Flotilla Today!
May 29th
Friends, it is once again time to use social media to get a message across to the world. A flotilla of boats carrying human rights activists is right now on its way to Gaza via international waters in order to break the Israeli siege and deliver aid to the people. Will they succeed in their mission? Will they make history? What can we do to support them?
Let’s trend #flotilla on twitter all day tomorrow, Sunday, May 30, by tweeting news, thoughts, and links about the Freedom Flotilla’s trajectory to Gaza. Once we trend it, millions of people will see the term More >
The Racism in Me #24seven
Apr 26th
Labor Day is coming up, 3eed Al 3ommal, on May 1st, and we are recognizing on this day the illegal, outrageous, and unethical working conditions of migrant work in Lebanon – and across the Arab world. The campaign initiated by @simby is called Twenty-Four-Seven and it highlights the fact that domestic migrant workers in Lebanon work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Yes, they do. Can you imagine working with your boss 24/7? It is called slavery.
So this week, I, along with many friends, will be blogging and tweeting to raise awareness about migrant work. I thought I would start with More >
Twog for Migrant Rights this Labor Day
Mar 30th
I thought “Tweet and Blog” was too long, so I made it Twog Ok, so Simba Russeau and her fellow activists on migrant rights are organizing some events in Lebanon to raise awareness in the lead up to Labor Day. Migrants from South Asia, South-East Asia, and Africa come to Lebanon to work and often find themselves toiling under inhuman conditions without the possibility of an exit. It is, without a doubt, modern day slavery. And although there is more and more talk around it in the region, we have done little on the ground to fight the oppressive system.
And so, More >
Call to Action: Berkeley Divestment Bill Facing Veto
Mar 24th
I received this letter from a friend today:
Last week the UC Berkeley Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC) Student Senate voted overwhelmingly, 16-4, to pass a divestment bill that targets two US companies, General Electric and United Technologies, which supply military equipment to the Israeli army that were used in operations in the Gaza Strip that have been investigated and classified as possible war crimes by the UN Human Rights Commission Goldstone Report, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International among others.
This historic development at UCB in the international struggle for Palestinian human rights is in danger of being reversed after the More >
Shorty Awards Finale!
Feb 2nd
The Shorty Awards finale is here! We’ve got until 7pm (Beirut time) on Friday, February 5 to vote for Ali Abunimah al molakkab bi @avinunu on twitter. I don’t need to go into the details of why this is important, but to recap: it raises awareness, it fights back the slander (and since last week Ali has been getting TONS of online slander by zionist propagandists), it brings activists for Palestine together, it gives us hope that small actions on our part can fight the seemingly all-powerful zionist machine. And all it takes is really a couple of minutes.
Ali is leading More >
Tweeting for Palestine Again
Jan 29th
This is going to be a quick post because I need to get dressed & go to work, but I wanted to give a summary of our spur-of-the-moment campaign yesterday:
I saw a tweet by @RedPlebiscite mentioning how pissed off he was that a zionist was leading the Shorty Awards list in politics. Of course I had heard of the Shorty Awards but didn’t really care much for them. But then when I saw the zionist nomination page accusing the #Gaza activists of being murderers and terrorists (again), I figured we shouldn’t shut up about anything – especially the allegations made online – not even More >
النسوية والذئب
Dec 29th
خرجت النسويّة يوماً إلى الغابة العملاقة التي هي المجتمع العربي وإذا بها تلتقي بذئب الإعلام العربي اللئيم.
سأل الذئب بإبتسامة عريضة الأنياب: “إلى أين تذهبين يا نسويّة؟”
جاوبت النسويّة: “أذهب إلى جدتي! أحمل لها سلةً مليئةً بأفكارٍ جديدة رائعة، أفكار ثورة وعدالة ومساواة حقيقية لنساء غابتنا. زرعتها وسقيتها بقراءاتٍ و نقاشات ورأيتها تزهر فقطفتها وصنعت منها المربى والدبس والحلوى. آخذها إلى جدتي لترى ماذا صنعت بحديقتها الصغيرة التي وصّتني بها!”
قال ذئب الإعلام العربي اللئيم: “أعطني السلة، عزيزتي نسوية! آخذها وأحسّنها وأجمّلها وأوصِلها إلى الشعب العربي!”
جاوبت النسويّة: “كلا، السلة كاملةٌ مثلما هي، لا أريد بيعها لأحد. هل توصلها إلى الشعب العربي كما More >
How We Trended #Gaza on Twitter
Dec 27th
I made some edits (in red) on December 28.
We did it! We trended #Gaza on twitter on the day that commemorated the start of the brutal 22-day Israeli war and siege on Gaza. It was an incredible day. #Gaza trended into the Top 10 for a good 9 hours at least (at the time of writing this post). Wow. So a quick recap of how it went:
- By Sunday morning, we had 74 people signed up to tweet for Gaza between 5pm and 9pm.
- I got online around noon and saw that Gaza had already risen to 0.4% Many tweeps were already More >
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