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@refaatlibrary
A traveling volunteer-run liberation library in Atlanta created in honor of martyred Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer. Check refaatlibrary.com calendar for pop-ups! β¬οΈπππ (Back-up for X)
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Support the Refaat Alareer Mobile Libraryβs @refaatlibrary.bsky.social to provide essential resources and political education for Palestinians under siege. Stand in solidarity: www.refaatlibrary.com/gaza-funds #gapol #atlanta
Happy holidays only to those who never tired of demanding a ceasefire and justice for Hind and all and freedom for us and all.
Want your Gaza donation to go twice as far? For our FINAL fundraising campaign of 2024, we're matching $1500 for The Sameer Project.
1. Send $ to refaatlibraryatl on Venmo
2. DM payment proof+address here or on X/IG for ltd edition π΅πΈ art designed exclusively for the library
We can all do more.
Also on SUNDAY, Dec. 15th, join @refaatlibrary.bsky.social
organizers for a workshop on how to start your own mobile library! You'll receive practical advice on gathering volunteers to collaborating with bookstores and publishers, holding events and more: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/how...
Please spend time with the new collected edition of Alareerβs writing IF I MUST DIE, curated by his former student Yousef Aljamal. It paints a rich portrait of a beloved man and teacher gone far too soonβwhose legacy will live on despite Israelβs attempt to silence it. orbooks.com/catalog/if-i...
ATLANTA: Please join us Sunday 12/15 in Decatur for an afternoon commemorating one year since the martyrdom of Gazaβs Storyteller, educator, activist, & beloved friend to many, #RefaatAlareer. We'll have the library of course & will be fundraising for GZ.
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Just got some new literature from the @refaatlibrary.bsky.social today!
ATLANTA: Please join us Sunday 12/15 in Decatur for an afternoon commemorating one year since the martyrdom of Gazaβs Storyteller, educator, activist, & beloved friend to many, #RefaatAlareer. We'll have the library of course & will be fundraising for GZ.
Reading some works by Refaat, likely from Light in Gaza & support the Municipality of Gaza so that they may continue the work they do while under threat
gaza-city.ensany.com/campaign/673...
A tribute poster for Refaat Alareer, showing a man with a beard in a suit holding a crate of strawberries. Text honors him as a storyteller and poet from Gaza who was assassinated by Israel on Dec. 6, 2023. Red poppy flowers decorate the border, as do strawberries in honor of Gaza City, where Alareer was born.
Today, Dec. 6, marks one year since our library's namesake β Gaza's Storyteller β the Palestinian academic and poet Dr. Refaat Alareer, was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza. How will you honor his legacy?
12 books Atlantaβs Refaat Mobile Library volunteers are reading for #ReadPalestineWeek π΅πΈ
Also on Dec. 15, dear friends and organizers from the amazing @refaatlibrary.bsky.social will be leading a workshop to teach people how to start their own mobile liberation libraries. Sign up here: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/hif...
Atlanta's @refaatlibrary.bsky.social shows us how to support Palestinian liberation locally, in our communities. You can join its wonderful creators and learn more while supporting the Sameer Project by signing up with @workshops4gaza.bsky.social.
www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/hif...
π¨ Hey Bluesky fam, I still need $75 for a $100 match campaign for The Sameer Project to get urgent tents, cash aid and medical assistance to Gaza β esp now as itβs been raining. DM me a receipt screenshot or Venmo Fiza-Pirani by midnight EST and Iβll match up to $100. chuffed.org/project/1132...
Want to start a mobile liberation library in your town to make Palestinian literature more accessible but don't know where to start? Come take our virtual workshop on 12/15!! Ticket sales benefit Sameer Projectβs Refaat Alareer Camp! @workshops4gaza.bsky.social www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/hif...
The great Lena Khalaf Tuffaha @lenakt.bsky.social just won the National Book Award for Poetry, for Something about Living. You can get it @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social, where all proceeds go to HEAL Palestine, providing essential aid, healthcare, educational resources to Palestinian youth: t.ly/Sqvw2
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A flier for The Library is Open
If you've ever wanted to take a class with me, now might be the time to learn how to READ, honey! I've partnered with @workshops4gaza.bsky.social to teach "The Library is Open: Understanding Media Ethics" to raise $ for food, water & education in North Gaza www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/how...
Flier for Crisis Creates us: Fir at the crossroads of Art and Activism, Nov 19th 7 to 9, on Zoom, Daniel Jose Older
I just signed up to take "CRISIS CREATES US: FIRE AT THE CROSSROADS OF ART AND ACTIVISM" tmrw night with THE
@djolder.bsky.social. I am so stoked for this @workshops4gaza.bsky.social!!! www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/cri...
Reddish orange background with white text workshops for Gaza cascading down the square
We are a group of autonomous writers, artists, educators and translators coming together to offer online courses and workshops to raise money for people in Gaza π₯π₯π₯
We hope to see many more mobile libraries popping up around the world! In this workshop, weβll discuss went into this project, our challenges and more! Register for the 12/15 @workshops4gaza.bsky.social How to Start Your Own Mobile Liberation Library here: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/hif...
Register here: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/hif...
All proceeds will go the Sameer Project's Refaat Alareer Camp, which you can read more about and donate to here: tinyurl.com/sameerproject-central
The primary purpose is to promote and increase access to political education towards the liberation of Palestinians from Zionist occupation in this lifetime and to respond to the urgent needs of Palestinians most immediately affected by the genocidal siege on Gaza since 10/7.
The @refaatlibrary.bsky.social is a traveling, volunteer-run liberation library and mutual aid project based on Muscogee land, otherwise known as Atlanta, GA.
Participants will receive practical advice on how to start and sustain a liberation library, from gathering volunteers to collaborating with bookstores and publishers, holding events and more <3
We're so happy to be hosting this workshop with our friends at @refaatlibrary.bsky.social on December 15, 7-9pm EST, where they'll teach people how to start their own mobile liberation library! Proceeds to the @sameerproject / sign up here: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/hif...