Every company that is contributing to the occupation and the genocide of Palestinians should be boycotted. And doing so should not be illegal. It’s madness that it’s illegal in the US to refuse To do business with Israeli companies. I’m talking about the ones that fit the criteria of my last sentence.
I also know many companies contribute to shittiness happening. It’s one of those when you know better, you do better things for me. Find out a company is operating in the West Bank illegally? Don’t support them. Find out a company uses child labor for Pennies in India? Don’t support them. Shouldn’t be illegal.
Are you talking about the new bill that passed the House?
The genocide in Palestine is also an American problem. Our tax money funds it. We have Palestinian-American citizens. They are re-writing laws in America to say that criticizing Israel is antisemitic. I don’t see how you could possibly think this has nothing to do with us?
i literally got smacked down for saying the protests should be directed at those who are in a relevant position of power - our possible next president, Congress, state legislators making those laws you mention. That's what started this. Me suggesting those same students could hop a subway to downtown if they wanted to impact those with greater power over American foreign policy.
They ARE protesting the right people. Most of the universities in the US are in some way shape or form tied to weapons manufacturing, defense, etc. So college students protesting where their tuition money goes, or what type of money is being accepted into the university system, is entirely appropriate. That's why the core message of these protests is divestment.
Shit like this drives me crazy. You are criticizing something without knowing their why, and you would actually probably support them if it wasn't being tied to this particular cause.
You're marrying into the family and whatever participation the FI has with their family. If your FI is close, then that's your family. If your FI is distant, then you have less of a relationship with them.
I think the "you're marrying your FI and putting them above everything" is a fine and lofty goal, but that rarely happens.
Is Kent state so distant that we don't know about it? Or, more probably, did Florida ban teaching about kent?
Firing on students hasn't historically worked well for the feds
Wait…did I miss someone calling in feds/national guard this week?
I don’t know if they’re still teaching about Kent State. I remember writing a research paper about it in APUSH (in 1997!). I’ll have to ask my students. We have deliberately not been wearing our military uniforms on campus this week because we don’t want anyone to mistakenly think that someone called in the national guard.
Several universities have been criticized by Congress people for not calling the national guard.
also, you don’t seem very informed on what has or has not been happening in NYC
True. Stepping out.
Locally, I'm seeing actions that only affect people who don't have relevant power. Asking for divestment from organizations that are barred by state law from divesting feels like that.
Did you feel this way with the BLM protests happening in other parts of the country than the events that sparked them? Because I'm guessing that's a resounding, "No."
His team set up a campaign stop last week with about 100 supporters at a construction site after Trump complained that there weren't sufficient crowds outside the courthouse to support him
I want to see some of the Gaza protestors showing up at the courthouse. This jack ass could be making US foreign policy for four years. Let him know how you feel rather than shutting down finals study groups of equally inconsequential classmates.
Interesting! This was hotly contested in a conversation last night. Families divided, lines drawn.
Huh. It seems pretty straightforward to me since dogs have historically been used to hunt other animals and sometimes humans, but humans rarely hunt dogs.
I mean, the South is full of good people. there's a lot of corruption that keeps these politicians in power.
It's not a question of good or bad, it's understanding why *waves arms* is happening. We have plenty of threads here where people are keep on keeping on their daily bad earth habits, but the South is underwater. There's a disconnect somewhere that doesn't follow party lines.
I don’t want him to say anything that could lead to harm for the jurors or anyone else, but I really hope he says just enough to get himself jailed for awhile.
He should continue to go after Cohen, as long as Cohen can keep his mouth shut. Win/win for everyone.
My question when reading about communities directly impacted is always, "Do they know that climate change caused this? Do they care?"
More than half of them do? You could probably split that by D-R voter percentages. Keep in mind all the blue cities in the southern states are the majority of the population.
It's a complicated issue, with a lot of denial based on high stakes. Even if people believe in climate change it's hard to contemplate losing their home, having their house become uninsurable and lose all value or having to move from somewhere they've always lived and have a good job / support system. There's also other factors to blame. You can think the storms are caused by climate change, but that the flooding is more frequent because of major development downstream or because the city didn't finish their mitigation project fast enough, and it will get better when that is done.
I think it's similar to other political issues, where people deny or oppose it until it happens to them. Like people in Houston who flooded 2-5 times in 3 years when they previously only flooded once a decade, and once a decade wasn't enough to convince people to leave the area. They are somewhat used to it, adapt and keep on. Gov't keeps raising the floodplain and in some areas new houses are half a story above the existing houses, they put car lifts in garage, electrical up high, raise old houses, etc. I think a lot of people won't consider moving to states anymore due to climate change.
I think the bold is the meat of it. People can believe in climate change, but still not clue in that the ocean rising is the source of the flooding. That it doesn't matter if the storms aren't extreme, they're still going to flood and it's going to continue to get worse.
Or the people who are buying the houses in the new development in one of the articles. Even the people who believe in climate change probably aren't expecting a rising ocean to impact them so far inland.
We're moving offices tomorrow to the suite across the hall. It's a smaller space, and will cost the company less money. It's a move that's needed to happen for a while since there's only 4 of us that are here with any regularity. Only 2 of us are in the office all day. So the 12 current offices are empty most of the time.
Anyway, I just checked with the building manager that we'll have keys for tomorrow and I think she forgot all about us moving. She responded that she needs to get the locksmith out to the office today. For a short distance/same building move, the entire thing has been exceedingly weird.
Does anyone else do office work that involves a lot of paper? I hate wearing long sleeves because, I swear, every time I move my arms, I'm swatting papers everywhere. It always seems to catch. Am I the only one with this weird issue??
This has never happened to me, and I work with a LOT of paper.
The banker that opened the account that was used to pay Daniels is testifying today. So far he's saying that the bank was told it the money was for a real estate transaction. Had they known the true purpose the account probably would have been delayed or not approved.
We were hit by an EF2 last year and are still recovering. The path went through our neighborhood. It is forever changed. We’re forever changed and still dealing with the fear, repairs, and “making things right”. My heart goes out to the many, many people and communities experiencing this.
One of the scarier aspects of this, beyond loss of life and loss of property, is how long until we’re uninsurable on the plains?
I'm wondering what part of the country isn't going to be uninsurable at this point. For us it's hail. Any time there's a storm there's a chance of softball sized hail.