She/her. Architect by day and avid fangirl by night. Mostly multifandom, with interest in anime, scifi and fantasy stuff. Following Dracula Daily, be warned of spoilers. Arrested for shipping crimes.
i hope that the discussion about student protests does not get reduced to "privileged rich kids faffing around at an ivy league school." setting aside that tenuous claim, over the last week, protests have erupted over the entire country. a few days ago, riot police beat, pepper-sprayed, and arrested NYU faculty shielding students; protests started at the university of southern california when the admin cancelled the valedictorian's speech; encampments appeared at the university of southern carolina, UT dallas, the university of maryland, the university of new mexico, IUPUI, virginia tech, the university of virginia, the university of illinois, the university of north carolina — chapel hill, the university of pittsburgh, uc berkeley, the university of michigan — ann arbor, MIT, emerson, tufts, the university of rochester, rice, swarthmore, the new school, vanderbilt university, with students arrested; students protested or walked out at miami university, northwestern, temple, the 5 claremont colleges: pomona, pitzer, scripps, harvey mudd, and claremont mckenna, stanford, washington university in st louis, students were arrested at ohio state, students were confronted by riot police at cal poly humboldt, after which they occupied campus, students were arrested at the university of minnesota — twin cities, after which faculty walked out; and yes, there are protests at the other ivies, most notably yale, with students facing mass arests after encampments, but there is also an encampment at brown, protests appeared at cornell, princeton faculty issued a statement of solidarity while students are preparing an encampment, and harvard banned the undergraduate palestine solidarity committee. there are thousands of students who are protesting for palestine across the entire country, facing harassment, arrest, and suspension in return
Gaza Online is calling for direct upload of eSim QR codes from Nomad, Holafly (Israel and Egypt), Airalo, Sparks, and Numero. A detailed guide of how to purchase eSims and get QR codes for all of these apps (and desktop sites) can be found here.
For Rana Alsawalhi’s family, they’ve lost several members of their family already and need to evacuate Gaza immediately - this is urgent, please share and donate - and send to your friends, followers, and family! €20,500 out of €73,5000 (4/22/2024)
In the ruins of what had been Nasser hospital, the biggest in southern Gaza, Reuters saw emergency workers in white hazmat suits digging corpses out of the ground with hand tools and a digger truck. The emergency services said 73 more bodies had been found at the site in the past day, raising the number found over the week to 283.
Gaza authorities say the bodies recovered so far are from just one of at least three mass graves they have found at the site.
"We expect to find another 200 bodies at the same mass grave in the coming two days before we will begin working at the two other cemeteries," Ismail Al-Thawabta, director of the Hamas-run government media office, told Reuters.
He accused Israel of carrying out "executions" at the hospital and covering up the crimes by burying bodies with a bulldozer. Israel strongly denies having carried out executions.
Meet Ezzideen and his family, who are caught in the midst of crisis in Gaza. Ezzideen, a newly graduated doctor, along with his sister Abeer, a talented translator who lost her job due to the conflict, and Hassan, a responsible accountant at risk of losing a crucial international work opportunity, are all urgently needing to evacuate. Their father, a retired employee from the Ministry of Information, and their supportive mother have nurtured this family through various challenges, now facing their most dire situation yet. Your share and donation not only contribute to their immediate safety but also support their hope for a brighter future. Please help us spread the word and contribute to their journey to safety. Share to help!
I'm very grateful that strangers are able to come together and support each other but I'm also incredibly mad at how the world has failed the people of Gaza, made them choose between leaving their homes and living in safety, and making them pay so much money to cross the border. I'll never forget how every institution that should have protected them did nothing and exploited them for money
Neither will I. There is not 1 institution, not 1 establishment, not 1 agency, NONE. There are none that have done right by the people of Ghazzah. At all. I will never forget it. The fucking cunts at the Egyptian border are fucking multi-millionaires by now. And for those who know how low our currencies in the region are compared to the American dollar (which is what is being demanded in egregious amounts) you know that these agents taking this money are filthy filthy dogs.
I heard in a song once that hell is roasting heaven slowly from below, but I don't think that's true. I think the earth sea and the vault of the heavens form a sort of bain-marie. Hell is slowly tempering heaven like baking chocolate.
Dispatches from the Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University
https://crimethinc.com/Columbia2024
In this in-depth report, participants offer a blow-by-blow account of the events at Columbia, appraising the tactics that the demonstrators have employed and the challenges that they face.