#protest demands

[alwaysbewoke]

Imagine how many people JUST LIKE HER are in ICU, TRAUMA, BIRTH AND DELIVERY, NICU, STEP-DOWN UNITS, PYSCH WARDS, ELDERLY CARE, OBGYN, CARDIOLOGY, POST OP CARE, etc…

[ibtisams]

I think a very important thing for people who say they feel helpless right now to do is to take the time to do their research on Palestine and its history and how we even got to this point. I will always recommend reading decolonizepalestine.com it has so much information and debunks so many of the myths people believe surrounding Palestine and Israel. Being able to get informed and help spread Palestinian’s voices and history is an easy and free way to keep the conversation going and get people to take this genocide seriously.

[queen-mabs-revenge]

for ted lasso fans who aren't football fans, the akufo league subplot was pretty directly inspired by the april 2021 announcement of a proposed european super league founded by 12 of the richest clubs in europe competing in a closed group against each other plus 8 other teams tba.

the enterprise was cancelled very quickly after its announcement, but the differences between how that played out in ted lasso and the story as it played out in real life are.....hmmmm interesting choices to say the least.

the esl wasn't proposed by a cartoonishly villainous ghanaian billionaire. it was launched by a c-suite of white european and united states billionaire businessmen/team owners. - real madrid president florentino pérez spearheaded the proposal and claimed CEO position with andrea agnelli (owner of juventus), joel glazer (owner of man u), john henry (owner of liverpool), and stan kroenke (owner of arsenal) making up the rest of the proposed executive board. -these five are worth $2.3B, $13.5B (agnelli family), $4.8 (glazer family), $4B, and $12.9B, for a total of 37.5 billion dollars.

the esl proposal was formally announced on 18 april 2021 and by 21 april all 6 epl founding clubs had publicly announced their planned withdrawal from the league. this wasn't because of a rich white lady giving a heartwarming speech to a room of other rich people, it was because of a mass movement of working class fans denouncing the move as the capitalist greed and exploitation that it was, with some calling for fan ownership of clubs entirely:

i get using real events as inspiration and adapting them to fit a narrative purpose within the story, but i think it's worth it to know what the story line was based on, especially considering the specific racial and class changes that were made reframing the villains and heroes of this particular story.

[rogueddie]

Unfriendly reminder that quite a few members of the stranger things cast and crew have been openly supportive of Israel and the murder of thousands of innocent people. A few pr statements to try and appease fans for no reason other than making more money does not change anything!

Do not support stranger things! Cancel your netflix subscription! Do not stream season five! Do not buy official merch!

DO NOT SUPPORT ZIONISM AND THE ONGOING GENOCIDE! FREE PALESTINE!

[autismserenity]

Welp. Just had the most horrifying realization.

What determines whether people want to punch Nazis or not isn’t the fact that they're Nazis.

People only want to punch Nazis when they disagree with them.

[vyorei]

FUCK YES, MORE USian SOLIDARITY

BASED NORTH CAROLINA✊🇵🇸

BASED PENNSYLVANIA ✊🇵🇸

[ember-knights]

What the hell is 20 trucks supposed to do for 2 million displaced people under constant bombing? Is that all the world can manage? 20??!? It like giving a man dying of thirst a drop of water and asking him to be grateful for your generosity. It is sick. It is fucking sick what they are doing. Those 20 trucks purpose is to placate the media and us and do nothing for the Palestinians.

They even forbade oxygen tanks from going to hospitals and didn’t allow any food. ..

[triviallytrue]

Okay so I've been looking into the Columbia protests and I've been having a hard time finding how Columbia is supporting Israel via sources that aren't the students protesting. While the fact that they are protestors doesn't make them unreliable, the fact that these students have said certain things to muddy the waters makes me a little less inclined to absolutely trust them. To be clear, I am absolutely pro palestine, I do not support Israel, and I'm not implying that these students are lying about what they're protesting, I just don't specifically what they're protesting in regards to Columbia's involvement. I just want to know if you have any outside sources saying what Columbia is doing with regards to Israel since you seem so invested in these protests?

The referendum, first proposed by Columbia University Apartheid Divest on March 3, asked whether the University should divest financially from Israel, cancel the Tel Aviv Global Center, and end Columbia’s dual degree program with Tel Aviv University.

[pilloclock]

Palestine updates part 2 🇵🇸

[evildilf2]

As much as I want to engage with ideas in good faith I can’t comprehend why someone would argue “what’s happening in Gaza is bad but it’s not genocide/apartheid” or “Zionism means different things to some people so it’s wrong to condemn it as a whole” or “stop saying from the river to the sea” that isn’t just to take away language from Palestinians to express their opposition to oppression- to the death toll and displacement and all of the horrific cruel things Palestinians have been targeted with. When I try to understand people who are sympathetic to Israel (but maintain they are critical of the “corrupt government officials”) all I see is tone policing a group of people who are seldom given a voice by those in power. & while there are people who point out that there is a tendency for the left to tokenize certain Jewish activist groups that are critical of Israel, I see the same people tokenize “good” Palestinian protesters in a way that is extremely disturbing to me all things considered.

[lem0nademouth]

if your activism consists of protesting outside a cancer treatment center and disrupting a memorial for victims of a mass shooting i’m not inclined to believe you care about your cause so much as you care about getting attention and harassing whoever you deem immoral

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

I can't believe we're liveblogging a genocide right now.

[rhube]

'I hate how everything's political now!'

It always was, white man.