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HP (hewlett packard) is on the BDS boycott list so if you give a absolutely no buying of Ferrari merch if you care about holding zionists accountable for the genocide in Gaza. (you shouldn’t be anyway because they’re also sponsored by Puma which is also a BDS target).

That’s the bare minimum, but another simple thing you can do is comment POLITELY on Ferrari (and other teams sponsored by Puma) social media that you will not be purchasing any merchandise due to them taking money from a company implicit in an ongoing genocide. If teams see they could be losing revenue due to being associated with certain companies they may not renew contracts or take said sponsors onboard.

i hate being on my corny shit but sometimes mass movements and protest movements can be very beautiful. they bring out the worst and best in humanity. during the arab spring, when people were camped out in tents in tahrir square, there were so many beautiful moments that it convinced a whole nation to believe in a better future. i find it difficult to talk about now but it was the collective sense of community—the feeling of being responsible for everyone, for living on principle instead of self-preservation for once in your life. many people risked their lives for other people during the protests. people died for strangers who were no longer strangers. sometimes it was also small things: funny signs, doctors volunteering medical aid, people giving out food and water, muslims protecting churches, christians protecting muslims while they're praying. things like that. and i've seen a lot of people and countries have protest movements since then and i think everyone feels the same way, when you're within a mass movement, there is a sense of hope and determination that is so much stronger than fear. everyone falls in love with their country, everyone falls in love with their people, suddenly a country you hate is a country you're willing to die for

these kind of protest movements were easy to call beautiful and easy to call powerful bc they were so obviously against a tyrannical force. and yes while the regimes did call the protestors everything from spoiled kids to infiltrators to traitors, the world usually saw it for what it was. and the protestors had a sense of pride about it. the eyes of the world are on us, we matter, we're making a difference

truthfully i think the campus protest movement has escalated so suddenly and is so maligned that nobody is taking a moment to call it what it is. it is very brave and it is very beautiful. in some ways i find it more touching than protest movements for your own country and your own future, because while the protests for palestine are also about what it means to be a citizen of a nation complicit in genocide, many of these protestors are just there because they care about palestinians. some of them are there against their better interests; risking their academic careers, their personal safety, their future. in the case of anti-zionist jews many are risking their communities and their familial relationships. i just saw a video of a USC student in the middle of a literal police riot where her classmates are being brutalized by cops being asked if she's scared and she said "no, i think the children in gaza are more scared than i am." on a human level, this is so moving. it's truly the best and bravest of america there, and it's so sad to me that some people can't see that.

last week speaking out for palestine was risky, but this week it has taken personal and physical bravery to show up, and people (mainly young people of color) have absolutely shown up. this is no small thing. it really isn't. its a historic thing. and i promise you if you think i'm exaggerating by comparing US campus protests to arab spring protests—a lot of arab spring students are on US campuses right now and they see the parallels too. the response to the protests has been american in the way america was in the 60s and 70s, but it is starting to take the shape of a broader and much more global crackdown, where militarized police brutality is the norm. this is familiar to everyone in sudan, in egypt, in palestine. university campuses and students go from safe havens to targets for punishment overnight. things are changing very rapidly right now; a lot of the things said about college campuses last week don't apply as of today.

there is a sense that these protests are full of spoiled and innocent kids and that is transparently not true. these are people (including grad students, faculty, etc) who have also experienced upheaval across the world and in their own communities. the fact that they're receiving the same treatment on university campuses now as protestors did in ferguson, as people have on their streets, means that while US colleges are profit-oriented neoliberal institutions and their administrators are fascists, their student bodies are on the forefront of history once again.

Everybody loves a small J2 story, right? :)

I got this USA map to collect my autographs and Jared immediately signed on Texas. Later, I got Jensen's autograph and after signing it, he added two dots for San Antonio and Dallas. (Jared's and Jensen's birthplaces). He had such a cute grin on his face after that. :3

university: hey if you want to take the bus to our event be at this location at 6:30 am!!!

i am here. where is this bus.

this is insane lmao it's been 40 minutes and no one knows where the bus is and no one knows how to contact the driver? i almost set out in my own car but now my colleague is saying to wait, she's trying to get a hold of the driver and let me know what the situation is

update. i have to drive 😐

Harvard University students have now set up their own encampment in solidarity with Palestine, demanding that the school also divests from Israel’s war on Gaza.

Source.

Follow Harvard’s Palestine Solidarity Committee for more updates.

university: hey if you want to take the bus to our event be at this location at 6:30 am!!!

i am here. where is this bus.

this is insane lmao it's been 40 minutes and no one knows where the bus is and no one knows how to contact the driver? i almost set out in my own car but now my colleague is saying to wait, she's trying to get a hold of the driver and let me know what the situation is

im noticing that for a lot of americans “free palestine” has been an ideological motto and symbol rather than them actually believing in their heart that freedom is attainable and necessary

palestinians deserve the right to be able to travel freely in our homeland. to even visit our homeland. for us to have citizenship and rights to our own country. to grow our plants. practice our religions. live without fear that our children can be kidnapped by israeli forces on their violent whims. to not have our life savings poured into building a home for our families that are torn down without real warning by israeli bulldozers. to no longer be refugees. like this is real life. this is real.

we don’t want to be reduced to a never ending slogan. we want to put down our need for resistance. to rest & to live.

200 days into the genocide of Gaza. Here are some numbers:

Meanwhile Seb was having a picnic I just-

there is something seriously wrong with the people on this website because what the FUCK. what the everliving FUCK. maybe YOU don't give a fuck about an ongoing genocide, anon, maybe YOU value a goddamn corporation in a motherfucking sport more than real human lives, but the rest of us don't, and the rest of us get angry when stuff like this happens, and the rest of us will always hold the sports teams we like to higher standards of accountability instead of having our tongues lodged deeply up their holes. goddamn.