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TL;DR: To Resist is to Love (TRITL) is a mutual aid collective that partners with local organizations to connect, inspire, and motivate community members in order to form stronger, more dependent networks of care and support. TRITL is predicated on the three foundations of mutual aid: activism, education, and of course, aid. 

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Why does To Resist is to Love care about Gaza, Sudan, and the DRC, and why should I?

To Resist is to Love believes in a world in which no person should face the depravating conditions that the Sudanese, Congolese, and Palestinian people are forced to bear witness and live every single day. Beyond that, they do so at the benefit of upholding the cultural, technological, and political hegemony of the Western world.

In Gaza, Palestinians face the threat of cultural extermination and genocide as Israel continues its 76 year-long campaign to not only erase but obliterate indigenous Palestinians from their homeland. For nearly two years, millions of people have watched in horror as Israel murders journalists, children, and generations of Palestinians under the guise of ‘war’ as Western governments and institutions manufacture consent for their deaths through racialized and Islamophobic rhetoric. Though the most ‘visible’ cause of the three campaigns against human suffering, Palestine continues to suffer as Israel continues its seige and war crimes against some of the most disenfranchised people in human history.

In what the United Nations has called ‘the world’s largest humanitarian crisis,’ over 12 million Sudanese people have fled their homes after the nation’s army, The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), and a warring paramilitary force, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), began to clash in April 2023. Since then, widespread violence against individuals and communities, including killings, mass displacement, detention, enforced disappearance, and sexual violence, has occured according to an independent study conducted by the UN. Though United States representatives have condemned both parties and called for an end to the genocide against Sudanese ethnic communities, its continued alliance with the United Arab Emirates, which funnels weapons and funding to the RSF, has shown its apathy and complicity to the crimes being committed against civilians in Sudan.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC; the Congo), nearly 28 million people face acute food insecurity since armed clashes disrupt food supplies, humanitarian assistance, and access to livestock and livelihoods. Amid the worst escalation of violence in the country in more than a decade, more than 800,000 people were forced into displacement camps without access to adequate shelter, sanitation, or healthcare after the M23 armed groups captured Goma, the regional hub of the Eastern DRC.  According to the United Nations, “M23 has been complicit in and responsible for committing serious violations of international law involving the targeting of women and children in situations of armed conflict in the DRC including killing and maiming, sexual violence, abduction, and forced displacement.” Beyond the violence inflicted by M23 militants, nearly half a million Congolese people were living in modern slavery in 2021. Forced labor and sex slavery are widespread in mining regions critical to producing cars, phones, medical devices, and household goods. Ores like tin, tungsten, and tantalum, used to make Western life possible, are mined by villagers rounded up by militia at gunpoint and forced to work.

Can I support the campaigns directly instead?

Yes! If you want to ensure that 100% of your donation goes directly to the campaigns themselves, please consider donating directly via the linked Chuffed and Gofundme. A small percentage of the proceeds from Prints for Profits are kept to pay for the prints, postage, and necessary taxes. 

Prints for Peace benefits the following campaigns:

Healing Sudan: Medical Aid and Hope Led by Mohanned

Dahnoun Mutual Aid

URGENT Support Needed in Goma, DR Congo

How can I get involved with TRITL’s Prints for Peace campaign?

Are you an artist interested in having your art featured in our Peace for Peace campaign? Submit your work to our form here and a volunteer with be in touch with you shortly. 

Is my purchase tax-exempt or considered a charitable donation?

Unfortunately, To Resist is to Love is not a registered 501c(3) entity; therefore, any purchases made through our website or our campaigns are not tax-exempt and/or considered a charitable donation.