East Nusa Tenggara's earthquake death toll reached 100 and displacement hit 180,327 by August 24. The same week, police arrested 72 people over deliberate arson in Kalimantan, a government meal program sickened its 40,759th person, and a bank froze a protest coordinator's account. Relief funds for the earthquake and fires, plus this week's mutual aid requests, below.
Ten Palestinians died in Gaza City and Nuseirat on August 19, including Gaza's police chief, hours after Jared Kushner threatened the US would back Israel to "finish the job." UN experts count over 1,200 Palestinians dead since the October 2025 ceasefire, armed in part by a $3 billion US weapons package. This week's requests need what that money didn't go to: rent, food, medicine.
Military vehicles near Monas, fences around Jakarta's malls, officials insisting it's all Independence Day rehearsal and not a crackdown in waiting. A disabled Indonesian Muslim woman writing from Jakarta traces the fencing back to dwifungsi ABRI, the US-backed Cold War doctrine still shaping how Indonesia disciplines its own people, and connects it to the same logic running Gaza's occupation and Washington's deals with Tehran. The people named in this week's requests need that support regardless.
Jakarta fenced two malls, then took the fences down days later without explanation. Five of the country's top security officials denied any unrest and threatened charges for saying otherwise. A woman in West Java is already under arrest. That same government moved fast enough to make a dictator a national hero within a year of taking office. It has never moved that fast for anyone's rent, anywhere. Below is this week's mutual aid roundup.
Trump and Netanyahu spent a Washington photo op arguing over who is israel's "number one friend." The same week, israeli jets destroyed a mosque and displacement tents in Gaza City, killing one Palestinian and wounding a dozen more, under a ceasefire both men call a diplomatic win. The people living under that same imperial weight are named and reachable in this week's list below. Give directly.
Khamenei is dead; the war and the regime are not. Nine nights of US strikes, a resistance movement forced to build legitimacy under foreign bombs, empire acted by design and with precision. None of it feeds anyone this week. Below sits the mutual aid roundup. Redistribute what can be spared, share and boost every request far and wide instead, since amplification asks nothing but a moment.
Sixty-five percent of Gaza is now inside what the UN calls access-restricted areas, expanded steadily since the so-called ceasefire took effect in October. The killing hasn’t stopped, it’s only been rezoned. Below: this week’s Mutual Aid Requests Roundup, the Palestinian…
Sixty-five percent of Gaza is now inside what the UN calls access-restricted areas, expanded steadily since the so-called ceasefire took effect in October. The killing hasn't stopped, it's only been rezoned. Below: this week's Mutual Aid Requests Roundup, the Palestinian Campaign Spotlight, and the Gaza Verified Archive. Open them. Give directly where you can. Share what you can't fund.
