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As the new year begins, I sit inside our cold tent and ask myself:

Do I even have the right to dream?

I dreamed of welcoming this year in a home that protects us, not in a fragile tent that shakes with every wind and lets the cold creep into our nights.

I dreamed that my children could sleep without fear, and wake up to the smell of bread — not the sound of bombing.

My wish was simple.

A small home. A safe roof. Warmth that feels like the homes we lost.

I wished I could vaccinate my children, protect their health, and shield them from illness the same way I try to shield them from war.

But the reality is heavier than my strength, and the war has taken away our choices and our time.

In this new year, I am not asking for the impossible.

I am asking for a kind hand, a compassionate heart, and help that can restore a piece of our humanity.

Maybe my wishes will come true.

Maybe my children will grow up remembering that someone stood by them in their darkest days.

We are still dreaming, despite everything.

And we still believe that kindness has not disappeared.🙏

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Iran: An Uprising Besieged from Within and Without

https://crimethinc.com/Iran2026

Starting on December 28, 2025, a new wave of protest broke out across Iran, triggered by economic distress and escalating to call for the toppling of the government. This is at least the fifth such movement in a decade, drawing on previous waves of labor unrest and feminist resistance. Yet within this uprising, the grassroots movement contends with reactionary monarchists, largely based outside Iran, who seek to win the backing of the United States and Israel to seize power.

The stakes are high. We owe it to grassroots movements in Iran to learn about them and support them, both because they are confronting a desperate situation and to ensure that a puppet regime serving the United States and Israel cannot come to power.

Here, we present three perspectives on the uprising from Iran and the surrounding region.

Trevor Brown

All we wish for is that my grandmother can live, that we can feel warmth like the rest of the world, and that my child can grow up with food, baby milk, and diapers.

🫂My friends, thank you for standing by me over the past year and a half.❤️

🔴But my grandmother needs you — her treatment is expensive, and we have no income to cover all of this.💔🙏

🔴Due to the lack of support, we are forced to reduce our meals to just one a day, which may not be nutritious—only to ease our hunger, so we can provide whatever food and medicine we can for my grandmother and my child. 💔😢😢😢

🙏Help me protect them — your support means everything to us and helps keep a family of 10 people alive.🙏🙏🙏💔

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Even with a so-called “ceasefire,” nothing has really stopped. The explosions, the drones, the fear — the violations never ended. And our suffering definitely didn’t.

Your support is the only reason many of us manage to keep going.

Your donation 🙏🙏 — no matter how small — can mean medicine, food, warmth, and a little bit of dignity in a life that’s been stripped of everything.

Please, stand with us. Don’t let this struggle fade from the world’s attention.

We still desperately need you to get back on our feet.

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I cannot forgive those who see this plea and choose to walk away. I write these words with a broken heart, crying for my mother.

She is suffering in silence, growing weaker with every passing day. Malnutrition and the lack of medication are draining her strength, and now she urgently needs a life-saving surgery — her last hope — while I stand helpless, watching her fade.

All I ask for is to see my mother alive, to see her healthy again. Please help us provide the medicine and the surgery she desperately needs, before it’s too late.

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My name is Motasem from Gaza 🇵🇸🍉,

a father to a small child who asks nothing from this world except the most basic needs for his family—milk for my baby and safety.🥺

Today, I am unemployed, living a harsh reality after our homes were destroyed and we were stripped of the simplest necessities of life.

My child urgently needs baby milk and diapers, and I am unable to provide them amid extreme prices, siege, and destruction.

Gaza can no longer endure this suffering, and its children are paying the heaviest price.

Any support, no matter how small, can make a real difference in the life of an innocent child.

From a heart weighed down with pain, I reach out my hand to you… hoping that compassion can still find its way to us.

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