Herbal Mutual Aid for Resilience and Sumud

These funds will facilitate herbal medicine support for diasporic communities whose homelands are directly being targeted by Zionist violence and others facing genocidal imperial violence globally.

I am a Lebanese medicine maker who is feeling these transgressions deeply, and hope this act of care and connection will be of service to our communities in action right now. As my own capacity to perform "business as usual" has halted during this time, these handmade medicines are an out of pocket cost and a pure labor of love from the land to the bottle. Your mutual aid contributions are deeply appreciated to help sustain this effort of herbal care for my community and will expand the amount I am able to offer for free so that those who need them most may receive them.

If you are from directly impacted communities and need a remedy, please fill out this form. Allies will also be able to receive medicine via purchase on my souk marketplace here when they become available (still being made - stay tuned).

Thank you for your support.

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The land is our loveline, our life, our reason and our strength, our ancestors and our future, our power and our redemption. I am crafting herbal remedies with the intention to bring us closer to it for reinforcement, steadfastness, guidance, revival, and strength through this profound threshold of loss and possibility. I believe deepening our partnership with the land (via our plantcestors, in this case) can help us show up with greater integrity for the liberation of our communities, while lending us what healing is possible amidst the violence at hand so that we may respond more creatively and effectively to meet the needs of this urgent time. As our sister Hala Alyan says, "We owe Gaza our endurance". The plants can help us with that too.

This remedy is crafted from medicines collected with deep love and intention directly from ancestral homelands in the Levant, with some native flora which have called me from my diasporic California home.

May this love be a lifeline towards our endurance, re-membrance, collective power, and care for the land and each other. May it reveal new pathways towards our sovereignty, and fortify our active stewardship of freedom in unison.

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[Additional funds raised beyond the goal will go towards supporting other mutual aid efforts to support affected communities or produce a second batch of medicine.]