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We share Lila’s frontline account from Gaza and the mutual aid network she helps lead for children and orphans, weaving her poetry with hard facts about blockade, targeted healthcare, and the human cost of deliberate deprivation. We explain how to get funds and attention to people on the ground and how to build people power where you live.

• bonus context for Lila’s interview and work
• mutual aid logistics under bombardment and blackout
• how funds reach Gaza through trusted routes
• starvation as state policy and targeted healthcare
• One Health impacts of war on soil, animals, and people
• culture, propaganda, and language that normalize harm
• policing tactics abroad reflected in domestic policy
• Lila’s poetry as testimony and memory
• practical ways to donate, follow, and organize

Donate to direct action mutual aid campaigns. You can donate directly to Lila; follow Humans to Be and Lila’s handles in the show notes. Support Gaza Soup Kitchen, medical missions like Doctors Without Borders, and AWAG. Most importantly: do everything you can to hold our governance and our leaders accountable. Build people power. Use your voice because your voice matters.

Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
https://uppbeat.io/t/hartzmann/no-time-to-die
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Artwork and logo design by Misty Rae.


Special thanks to Joanna Roux for editing help.
Special thanks to the listeners and all the wonderful people who helped listen to and provide feedback on the episode's prerelease.


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Matt@unitedstatesofPTSD.com