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<div><strong>On Friday February 14th, M23 rebels captured and occupied Bukavu, the second-largest city in the eastern DR Congo. </strong>This follows M23’s capture of Goma, the largest city in the region just north of Bukavu. Fighting in Goma during M23’s takeover resulted in the death of over 3,000 individuals. Moreover, 70,000 emergency shelters around Goma and Minova were destroyed in the fighting, leaving 350,000 internally displaced people without protection. 
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<div>Now, the same violence has reached Bukavu, which is suffering from blocked access to aid routes and supplies. We are aiming to provide emergency financial support to our Congolese colleagues to ensure safety for those who remain in the city, and support for those who choose to evacuate. For a recent report on the situation, see these new pieces:
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<li><a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1160186%20<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/children-were-executed-by-m23-congos-bukavu-un-says-2025-02-18/" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/children-were-executed-by-m23-congos-bukavu-un-says-2025-02-18/</a>" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">this story</a>
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<li><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/children-were-executed-by-m23-congos-bukavu-un-says-2025-02-18/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">in reuters</a>
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<li><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0rqr8q5v52o" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">the BBC</a>
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<div><strong>Our Goal:</strong>
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<div>We are currently seeking $4,000 in emergency, quick release funds, with a longer-term goal of $20,000 to support as many families to evacuate as possible. 
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<div>We estimate that ground transportation costs approximately $500 per family Air evacuation, when needed, costs up to $1,500 per family
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<div>Funding will be distributed through our local partner, Research Initiative for Social Development (RISD). RISD has been identified as the organization that is best placed to operate as a local ‘fundermediary’ to identify those in need and disperse funds rapidly, due to their ongoing extensive network of peacebuilders throughout Eastern Congo and the broader country. They are a highly respected local research and peacebuilding organization and have operated in this capacity previously, primarily during USAID’s ‘Facilitating Financial Sustainability’ project. 
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<div>The donations will be disseminated by Emmanuel on behalf of RISD to the local network of peacebuilders on a needs-based model. The funding is intended to cover expenses incurred as a result of the current M23 takeover of Bukavu, which has produced a humanitarian emergency, particularly in the absence of USAID funding. RISD’s peacebuilders face two particular paths - In cases where Peacebuilders within RISD’s network decide to remain, they face a complex situation of surviving within the city during its occupation. Where peacebuilders decide to evacuate, they face expenditure related to travel. Currently there are two primary forms of expenditure associated with this campaign:
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<div><strong>Subsistence needs: </strong>This mainly involves funds to cover communication expenses (e.g. minutes and data), water, electricity, food and medicine for those remaining in Bukavu and nearby villages.
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[En español a continuación]<br /><br />This campaign gives queer folk a chance to turn an ugly negative into a shining positive, and help a lot of people along the way.<br /><br />You have probably heard of the "gay civil war" that broke out over the un-masked New Years Eve circuit party of gay men that was organized from the US but held in Mexico in direct violation of the local Covid regulations. Outrage quickly coalesced into multiple Instagram accounts, just one of which, @GaysOverCovid  has over 130,000 followers. <br /><br />What if, instead of exporting Covid, party drugs, colonial mindedness, and mutual acrimony, we sent love and respect? And what if, instead of just expressing our anger on social media,  we funded an LGBT  soup kitchen that  serves people in dire need because of the pandemic?<br /><br />Such a soup kitchen, or "comedor popular," already exists in Mexico City as a pop-up, created and staffed by LGBT volunteers working at great risk to themselves. The neighborhood they serve is heavily LGBT, but of course anyone who is hungry is served.<br /><br />They need to rent a storefront, both for accepting food donations and to facilitate better Covid safety. $6,000 will cover storefront rent for a year.<br /><br />There is no overhead here. Other than the small cut taken by GoFundMe, every penny donated goes directly to the soup kitchen.<br /><br />If only a teeny tiny fraction of those 130,000 Instagram followers gave just $1 each, more LGBT people who are hungry will get fed every day.<br /><br />Surely we can do this.<br /><br />LINKS<br /><br />Our Instagram account: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/gayscareaboutcovid/" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.instagram.com/gayscareaboutcovid/</a><br />The GaysOverCovid Instagram account with over 130,000 followers: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/gaysovercovid/" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.instagram.com/gaysovercovid/</a><br /><br />An overview of what of the whole party mess: <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/gaysovercovid-parties-pandemic?utm_source=dynamic&amp;utm_campaign=bfsharefacebook&amp;ref=mobile_share&amp;fbclid=IwAR1yZ42Ql2c3_rY26qesWuSv0A7-ykSG_6kj7bsRVRcjIwlS1-nTZxyXON4" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/gaysovercovid-parties-pandemic?utm_source=dynamic&amp;utm_campaign=bfsharefacebook&amp;ref=mobile_share&amp;fbclid=IwAR1yZ42Ql2c3_rY26qesWuSv0A7-ykSG_6kj7bsRVRcjIwlS1-nTZxyXON4</a><br /><br />Here are the Facebook pages of the organizations we are supporting:<br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/circoolo" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.facebook.com/circoolo</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/burritosnobombas/" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.facebook.com/burritosnobombas/</a><br /><br />Telemundo broadcast on Burritos No Bombas: <a href="https://www.telemundo.com/noticias/noticias-telemundo-mediodia/video/burritos-no-bombas-la-nueva-iniciativa-que-ayuda-los-mas-necesitados-en-mexico-tmvo9544517?fbclid=IwAR1C42f_sIvn4VfgNwDSd8_RYLQKkwbffLEp1QSHv3YOhI2CZWuqQ1qJvr4" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.telemundo.com/noticias/noticias-telemundo-mediodia/video/burritos-no-bombas-la-nueva-iniciativa-que-ayuda-los-mas-necesitados-en-mexico-tmvo9544517?fbclid=IwAR1C42f_sIvn4VfgNwDSd8_RYLQKkwbffLEp1QSHv3YOhI2CZWuqQ1qJvr4</a><br /><br />The proceeds from this campaign will go through the US non-profit Americas Unite, Employer Identification Number (EIN) 85-2941418. All donations are tax deductible.<br /><br />___<br /><br />Esta campaña les da a personas queer  la oportunidad de convertir algo negativo en un algo positivo y apoyar a mucha gente en el camino.<br /><br />Probablemente hayas oído hablar de la "guerra civil gay" que estalló durante una fiesta hombres homosexuales de Nochevieja en la noche del 2019, sin distancia, ni cubrebocas,  esta fiesta  se organizó en los EUA, pero se celebró en México,  violando  las regulaciones locales de Covid durante esta pandemia.<br /><br />¿Qué pasaría si, en lugar de exportar Covid, drogas para fiesta, una actitud colonial, enviamos amor y respeto? ¿Y qué pasaría si, en vez de hablar en media social,  mandamos fondos para un comedor comunitario para las  personas LGBT+ en extrema necesidad debido a la pandemia?<br /><br />Un comedor comunitario de este tipo ya existe en la Ciudad de México como una ventana emergente, creada y atendida por voluntarios LGBT+ que trabajan con gran riesgo para ellos mismos. La zona donde está este comedor está ubicada en una zona LGBT+, pero, por supuesto se atiende a cualquier persona que tenga hambre y necesitan comer. <br /><br />En este momento se están uniendo otras organizaciones LGBT+ en la ciudad de México para buscar un espacio en la zona, tanto para el almacenamiento de alimentos en el lugar como para facilitar una mejor seguridad ante el Covid. Es posible rentar un espacio para cubrir nuestras necesidades durante un año por solo US$6000.<br /><br />La cuenta de instagram @GaysOverCovid, que es solo una de las muchas que tienen la intención de criticar la fiesta, ahora tiene 130.000 seguidores. Si una pequeña fracción de esas personas donan un dólar cada una, podemos pagar el alquiler del comedor comunitario durante todo un año.<br /><br />Seguro que podemos lograrlo. <br /><br />No hay gastos generales aquí. Aparte del recorte tomado por GoFundMe, cada centavo donado va directamente al comedor de beneficencia.<br /><br />LINKS<br /><br />Nuestra Instagram account: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/gayscareaboutcovid/"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/gayscareaboutcovid/" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.instagram.com/gayscareaboutcovid/</a></a><br />El "GaysOverCovid" account: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/gaysovercovid/"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/gaysovercovid/" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.instagram.com/gaysovercovid/</a></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:1.0625rem;">Noticias: <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/gaysovercovid-parties-pandemic?utm_source=dynamic&amp;utm_campaign=bfsharefacebook&amp;ref=mobile_share&amp;fbclid=IwAR1yZ42Ql2c3_rY26qesWuSv0A7-ykSG_6kj7bsRVRcjIwlS1-nTZxyXON4" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/gaysovercovid-parties-pandemic?utm_source=dynamic&amp;utm_campaign=bfsharefacebook&amp;ref=mobile_share&amp;fbclid=IwAR1yZ42Ql2c3_rY26qesWuSv0A7-ykSG_6kj7bsRVRcjIwlS1-nTZxyXON4</a></span><br /><br />Nosotros en Facebook:<br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/circoolo" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.facebook.com/circoolo</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/burritosnobombas/" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.facebook.com/burritosnobombas/</a><br /><br />Telemundo hablando de Burritos No Bombas: <a href="https://www.telemundo.com/noticias/noticias-telemundo-mediodia/video/burritos-no-bombas-la-nueva-iniciativa-que-ayuda-los-mas-necesitados-en-mexico-tmvo9544517?fbclid=IwAR1C42f_sIvn4VfgNwDSd8_RYLQKkwbffLEp1QSHv3YOhI2CZWuqQ1qJvr4" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.telemundo.com/noticias/noticias-telemundo-mediodia/video/burritos-no-bombas-la-nueva-iniciativa-que-ayuda-los-mas-necesitados-en-mexico-tmvo9544517?fbclid=IwAR1C42f_sIvn4VfgNwDSd8_RYLQKkwbffLEp1QSHv3YOhI2CZWuqQ1qJvr4</a><br /><br />Los ingresos de esta campaña irán a través de Americas Unite, una organización sin fines de lucro de EE. 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<p>Support us in running District Commons, a small 501c3 local non profit based out of San Francisco supporting communities and commons across the world. 
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<p>We are a small team of 3 with an amazing community of volunteers- helping to run a lot of projects and programming for our community. <strong>At our size, your donation makes a large impact and right now are 100% <a href="https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organizations/charitable-contribution-deductions" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">tax deductible</a> </strong> Projects supported by District Commons include: <br /><br /><strong><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/13qKU-p0lxWv9OP16Uau_QlLr7Pttu_PD/view" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alternative Justices</a> </strong>: Providing mediation and support circles in intentional communities.
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<p><strong><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BnM0dQfsEgeW12f0w0E01zLVP8V-EMD9/view" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Second Life</a> </strong>: Providing housing, support circles and communities for formally incarcerated individuals including two community houses and weekly programming.
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<p><br /><strong>Some impact highlights from 2020:</strong> <br />- Created two intentional community houses by and for formerly incarcerated folks in San Francisco. <br />- Held weekly support circles and expanded them to include the in prison population. <br />- Supported over 50 groups of people through sexual assault and domestic violence situations. <br />- Held weekly lectures, transformation pods, and created resources for the broader community. <br /><br /><strong>The impact you'll help us have in 2021:</strong> <br />- We are gearing up to launch a third second life house. <br />- Help us expand our work to support the unhoused and returning ICE detainees. <br />- Support us in expanding our ability to mediate alternative justice cases, and in creating content on learnings for our greater community. <br />- Help us expand our programming to include more resources for harm prevention in our community. <br />- Support our small staff in staying employed through District Commons so we don't lose critical institutional knowledge or capacity. <br /><br /><strong>Donations and deeper support<br /></strong>
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<div>The Navajo Nation COVID-19 Response Donation Fund was established to help the Navajo Nation respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the Navajo Nation’s only official COVID-19 fundraising and donation effort.
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<div>The Navajo Nation is no longer accepting donations via this platform. Please visit the <a href="https://securepayment.link/navajonsn/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">secure online portal</a> (securepayment.link/navajonsn) to make a monetary donation. For inquiries related to in-kind (non-monetary) contributions, please contact the Navajo Nation Health Command Center Hotline:  (928)  871  7014
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<div>For official information related to COVID-19 on the Navajo Nation, please see: <a href="https://www.ndoh.navajo-nsn.gov/COVID-19" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="https://www.ndoh.navajo-nsn.gov/COVID-19" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.ndoh.navajo-nsn.gov/COVID-19</a></a> 
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<br />Please help us grow Success Stories’ feminist and transformational work inside prisons with a small donation!<br /><br />Success Stories is a five-year old program founded, developed and run by young men incarcerated in California. It was featured in the CNN documentary, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2018/04/18/the-feminist-on-cellblock-y-doc-orig.cnn">The Feminist on Cellblock Y</a> .  We are excited to announce that we have been partially funded to  expand into 3 new California prisons in June 2019.  We get daily requests to bring the program to prisons, jails, juvenile halls, schools, domestic violence prevention classes and youth programs across the country. <br /><br />The program helps people, who experience higher risk of recidivism, prioritize the loved ones and goals most important to them through 12 sessions, each centering around a different topic such as patriarchy, love, long-term thinking and responsibility. Part of the curriculum uses a feminist framework based on work by the well-known author and theorist, bell hooks. <br /><br />Success Stories participants earn time off of their sentences in California, a credit fought for and won by incarcerated people.  <br /><br />Please donate to support this expansion today! Each dollar you donate will go to the organization and be allocated specifically for the salary of the coaches. Each coach is formerly incarcerated and will be going into the new facilities to build self-sustaining programs in each one. They will train currently incarcerated facilitators and facilitates the sessions alongside them.<br /><br />The funds are currently going to and being managed by the Executive Director who will deliver all funds via check to the organizations bank account pending establishment of an EIN. The organization is currently under a fiscal sponsor. <br /><br />In solidarity, <br /><br />Richard, Co-founder <br />Chantal, Executive Director

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<strong style="font-size:1.0625rem;">ALL FUNDS RAISED OVER OUR STATED GOAL will pay for work being done on our behalf by Safer DIY Spaces to pave the way for an affordable housing developer to purchase the building and secure the long-term stability of the Vulcan community.<br /><br />The historic Vulcan Lofts in Oakland, CA are up for sale and nearly 200 working-class Bay Area artists are at risk of losing our homes</strong><span style="font-size:1.0625rem;">. </span><br />In order to save the Vulcan, we’ve founded a tenant’s union, hired several attorneys, and petitioned the City of Oakland to put the building under rent control. Our hearing with the rent board is coming up very soon and we need to raise $50k in the next month to cover legal costs. Please support us by donating to our cause and sharing our crowdfunding campaign with your network. We love you.<br /><br /><strong>The Vulcan Lofts have been an integral part of the Oakland arts community for over 30 years.</strong> Housed within a former steel foundry, the Vulcan is a central residential hub for nearly 200 low-income, working class artists and their communities. Full of visual artists, musicians, circus performers, and creatives of all stripes, the work produced at the Vulcan enriches the cultural fabric of the Bay Area and beyond on a daily basis, creating works of joy and beauty in the most rapidly gentrifying corner of America.<br /><br /><strong>Now, the oldest, largest, and most visible live-work community in Oakland is under threat.</strong><br /><br />In late 2018, the Vulcan was put up for sale for $16M by its current owner. Following the tragedy of the Ghost Ship fire, the city of Oakland has increased its oversight on live-work spaces, putting new pressures on landlords and increasing the requirements involved when these buildings change hands. As a result, the new owner will have to spend millions of dollars on upgrades and repairs to the building.<br /><br />If the building is sold to a commercial developer, this expense will be passed on to its residents in the form of a staggering rent increase, putting its nearly 200 low-income artist residents at risk of mass displacement amidst California’s housing crisis.<br /><br />In an effort to save their home, the Vulcan’s residents have undertaken an unprecedented organizing effort to found the Vulcan Tenants Union (VTU) and secured legal representation to petition the city to place the building under rent control. But the current owner claims the building is not subject to rent control, although the place was used for residential purposes prior to laws allowing landlords to claim an exemption to rent control regulations. <br /><br /><strong>The VTU is fighting to officially put the building under rent control in order to avoid mass displacement, prevent the owner’s latest attempt to increase our rent, and stabilize a historic bastion of Oakland’s cultural heritage.</strong> A successful verdict may also open the door for an affordable housing developer to purchase the building, ensuring its long-term status as affordable artist housing. As the first major case of its kind following the Ghost Ship tragedy, the Vulcan will be a seminal case for other live/work spaces, creating a ripple effect that could affect hundreds of similar spaces in the city of Oakland and beyond.<br /><br /><strong>We are in the process of rewriting live/work history. In their fight for rent control, the VTU has enlisted the help of tenant’s rights attorneys, community organizers, and activists.</strong> DIY Safer Spaces, a local organization which arose after Ghost Ship to protect the city’s live-work residents from eviction and displacement, has generously offered a stipend to support the case. Now, the money has run out.<br /><br />An urgent situation has become an emergency. We need help if we are to save our homes, our community, and our way of life.<br /><br /><strong>In order to properly pay for the legal and paralegal fees, private investigators, inspectors, and costs of service of subpoenas, witness fees and other cost related to our rent control case, the Vulcan needs to raise $50k by March 22nd.</strong> This figure also includes funds to reduce the burden for an affordable housing developer to manage the paperwork and inspections necessary to formally evaluate the purchase of the building. <br /><br />This isn’t just about the Vulcan - this is about the folding of numerous artist residences and DIY spaces in Oakland, in the Bay Area, and across the nation. If we win this case, we set an example for other live/work spaces, arming them with the legal strategy they need to ensure safe and habitable conditions while continuing to not just live, but thrive. We are asking our community at large for their support to help us save the vibrant Vulcan community that contributes so much to the cultural fabric of this city. With the support of many, we are ready to fight against the displacement of its low-income and vulnerable tenants. <br /><br /><strong>HOW MUCH MONEY NEEDS TO BE RAISED? </strong>$50,000<br /><br /><strong>WHAT DOES THE MONEY GO TOWARDS?</strong> This $50,000 pays for the two lawyers, two paralegals, and a licensed private investigator. The scope of the work includes case preparation, briefs, subpoenas, witnesses preparation for hearing, research, investigator costs and, likely lengthy hearing procedures.<br /><br /><strong>Thanks to our nonprofit partnership with ProArts, your donation to our Save The Vulcan crowdfunding campaign is also completely tax-deductible! <br /><br /></strong>

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<img class="not-resizeable" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/35404616_1545318542380358_r.jpeg" alt="" width="100%" />￼<br /><br />Amanda Digioia is a <a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/people/politics-and-sociology-research-students-folder/amanda-digioia" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">University College London </a>student living with cancer after being diagnosed with stage I gray zone lymphoma - which a rare hybrid of hodgkins lymphoma. Amanda needs your support. She is determined to get her PhD while undergoing treatment, and aims to continue teaching her students while abroad at UCL during her chemotherapy.<br /><br />That's right, Amanda is studying abroad with cancer alone in a foreign country on Christmas.<br /><br />Let's talk about who she is. First and foremost, Amanda is not the type of person who would want a sad story. One came for her anyway.<br /><br />She is a fiercely independent, sharp and determined woman, who has always been the type who keeps focused while the world spins around her.<br /><br />Now she is 3,500 miles (5,500km) away from home fighting for her life while trying to achieve her academic dream of earning her PhD as an international student. <br /><br />Cancer has taken her ability to work. It's taken her mobility. It's drained the mind and body, and makes things difficult even with a present and engaged support network. But with the Atlantic ocean between Amanda and her family and friends back in New Haven, Connecticut - that support network is almost nonexistant at a crucial time, when it comes to meeting her everyday needs. Her parents would love to be with Amanda, but her grandfather is also sick and they are unable to leave the country due to his ailing health.<br /><br />Apart from her fellow UCL students and faculty, Amanda is essentially alone for the holiday season.<br /><br />Amanda's determined not to let cancer steal away from her the impact she hopes to make in the lives of others. She is one of those people who believes in the power of education to change lives. As long as she is able, Amanda will keep striving toward achieving her goal. However, she can't go it alone.<br /><br />Your donations will be going to help Amanda with daily expenses and transportation to and from the hospital and University College London. Being a broke academic is difficult without the obstacle of essentially being banned from public transportation due to immune deficiency. <br /><br />All of a sudden: London with no tube. London with no bus. London while too weak the hail a cab. The reality becomes a nightmare with teh harsh weather winter months and holiday season. Every dollar or pound raised for Amanda will go to making her everyday seem more manageable. Unable to work on top of her university duties, she is worried about losing her small North London apartment. The many small steps and tight spaces is not ideal for someone with cancer. Even thought she is generally limited to descending the steps only once or twice a day, it's better than not having a place to live at all.<br /><br />Amanda is not the type of person who looks for a handout. Cancer has a way of forcing necessity over all else. If you're reading this and have the means to donate, please consider making a donation toward providing necessities like cab fare, groceries, or living expenses for Amanda this holiday season.<br /><br />Courage has always seemed to define her. As Amanda wears her bright red, LFC, Shankly bomber jacket, wrapped around her lanky frame in North London, she's not so worried. During times like these, the visceral lyrics of You'll Never Walk Alone become more grounding. Amanda understands this no time to shy from darkness. She shelters her flame of hope with her head held high. She is reminded that this is one of those times to cherish a good cliche. Like many other supporters, she's been lifted by Liverpool FC's famous words in great times of need.<br /><br />Amanda has shown immense gratitude already, and she is deeply grateful for anyone who finds it in their hearts to think of her this holiday season. Thank you so much from her friends and family for your support. The world needs more people like Amanda. Thank you for helping us ensure that she's still in it.

Amanda Digioia's Feck Cancer Fund

<strong>As a long time activist, I couldn't stand to do nothing during this ongoing immigration crisis. Every dollar donated here goes directly to asylum seekers to cover their basic needs. </strong><br /><br />They walked thousands of miles, they presented themselves legally to one of the most terrifying immigration processes that exists. We’ve called ICE to demand their release from horrific detention centers and then we’ve took them into our homes. <strong>Now we need your financial support to keep their cases going through the long and arduous asylum court process.</strong><br /><br />A small group of bay area activists started this fundraiser to help support asylum seekers who are currently living with and being supported by us in the Bay Area.  T<strong>he need for these financial resources is urgent and ongoing.</strong> <br /><br />Donations help cover costs of everyday items, clothes, medicine, lawyers and application fees. <strong>For example, did you know it costs about $400 to apply for a work permit as an asylum seeker? And asylum seekers must wait over 180 days before they are legally allowed to work if that permit is approved. </strong><strong> </strong>Your financial support goes a long way to helping these courageous individuals thrive.<br /><br />Any amount of financial support you are able to donate is gratefully received.

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UPDATE: OMG, this is an incredible amount of support in such a short time and Zarinah is sooooo grateful. New estimate is $6480, lawyer estimates were 5k~6k +1k application fee + GoFundMe Fees. GoFundMe takes a whopping 8%. <br /><br />No one profits obviously and any excess will be used as emergency pool for follow on lawyer fees after intial application!<br /><br />------<br /><br />Zarinah is a life force to all that meet her.  She pushes people to think differently, to be their best selves and to not only question society but to take action to change it. <br /><br />Zarinah is a leading neuroscientist, contributing her brain to study brains. In her "off" time she runs Embassy Salons, the Red Vic lectures, Haight St Commons, the John Muir school project, Second Life / the Embassy Transformative Justice project. <br /><br />Sadly due to circumstances with this new admistration, she doesn't have a visa to stay in the states starting in August. Now is the time to help a woman who has likely influenced your life, be it a small conversation or a mighty mediation.  <br /><br />Let's raise money for lawyer fees to enable Zarinah to control her future vs. have someone else control it.  There is an "Outstanding Citizen"  visa which the lawyer thinks  has a high likelihood of success.  We need at least $5k now to secure this application in time to avoid Z leaving the country. <br /><br />If you can't donate money right now, that's OK. Just give Zarinah a hug and your support.   If you can donate money, thank you in advance. It will be greatly appreciated and valued.<br /><br />Additional update: GoFundMe is requiring me to add details about the organizer.  Me. So...I'm Kristen. A soul sister of Zarinah's, love her soooo much.  We have known each other for about 5 years and we live a few blocks away from each other in San Francisco. I'm spearheading this effort - because like all of us - I really really really want to keep her in the country.  All money raised goes to lawyer fees. Any excess (if there is!) will be used for Visa purposes (application fee). I will be withdrawing the funds personally and venmoing all of them to Zarinah immediately.

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