If a company branded itself with Pride colors in the past but stopped this year? Stop shopping there during June. Their "support" was never more than a way to get our dollars during Pride Month as it was, but their decision to abandon the LGBTQ community when things got a little spicy for them underscores their cynicism and cowardice.
"hey if you live in the usa i am on my knees begging you to go to benefits.gov and take their quiz to see if you qualify for literally any government benefits at all. the income requirements for some stuff (i.e. SNAP) are actually not quite as low as one might think! the quiz is really straightforward and only took me around 5 minutes to complete. i do recommend a computer over a phone but it works ok on mobile too. it will share so many great resources for you and will show you things even if you only technically meet one eligibility requirement" https://www.tumblr.com/ethanrayne/751773862899974144
"I realized this year that Muslims do not matter to #Columbia . And while that remains true, I cannot let myself be a diversity token for this service."
"During meetings with Religious Life staff leading up to Baccalaureate, I was told not to mention Palestine, nor name any specific regions of the world where my community was suffering. I was told there will be many communities in the room, and that it was just too sensitive to talk about."
"I am left with the understanding that to be Muslim at Columbia is to face extreme censorship of your language to appease an audience that doesn’t represent nor respect you. To be Muslim at Columbia is to be racially profiled and doxxed, beg for administrative resources and support, and still receive none. To be Muslim at Columbia is to face Islamophobia on campus—to be spat on and called “terrorists”—
and receive no University acknowledgment or recognition. Instead, our experiences are interrogated, as administrators try to poke holes in our narratives, questioning whether they even happened, while others get seats at the table with the University President and the governor of New York, dedicated to making sure they feel seen, heard, and valued."
"To be Muslim at #Columbia is to have your community and peers be suspended, arrested, and brutalized by the New York Police Department for peacefully protesting the genocide of those who widely look and practice like us, and still being made out to be the aggressors."
"It is to watch the University condone the arrest of female Muslim hijabi students who then had their hijabs ripped off by NYPD officers, in the name of the University’s “safety and order.”"
"To be Muslim at Columbia is being told to stop ruining “the senior experience” for those who have the privilege of turning a blind eye to injustice, while we repeatedly put ourselves on the line for justice, every day."
"Tens of thousands are protesting and demanding the release of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza and early elections across Israel, as the IDF expands combat operations in the Gaza Strip, and ahead of Israel's upcoming Memorial Day on Monday."
"Netanyahu is sacrificing the country and sending our families to their death for political reasons," they said in a statement.
Over two thousand people, led by veterans of the Yom Kippur War, are holding a protest-memorial ceremony near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's private residence in Caesarea, attended by bereaved families.
Yael Alon, who lost her father in the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and her son on October 8 in Kfar Azza, said at the protest that Netanyahu is responsible for the October 7 disaster. "You smugly and arrogantly ignored all the warnings... and you dare to think you are still the leader this country deserves at a time like this," she said.