Need a better breakdown? Tiktok attached below that explains Zoom's new Terms of Service:

What about folks who have therapy via Zoom? Court hearings? The list goes on. If you've got any Zoom alternatives, or maybe preference for one of the ones we listed with why, reblog please!

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Email your university about FERPA compliance if you or your peers take online classes also

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a little more information regarding the maui wildfires:

hotels are still operating. hotels are still operating. they are not the ones offering shelters or housing or food. even bowling alleys are offering shelter, but hotels have the audacity to build on burial sites but not open their doors to local families who have lost everything.

donate to maui united way, the maui food bank, mutual aid, and maui humane society

Hey if you work for a major company that you fucking hate, but they also have a Diversity, Inclusion, Culture Department… check if they offer donation matching.

Your $10 donation can turn into $20

Your $50 donation can turn into $100

I completely forgot until an org put it at the bottom.

My Previous Post Stalled and I'm struggling for supplies, And was denied government assistance

I'm Trop, I'm your local mentally ill bi trans woman and after leaving my previous job back in March due to transphobic hostile work environment I'm still out of work and need help

I'm $15,000 in debt due to a variety of medical bills and bank loans. I'm struggling greatly to afford basic supplies and groceries, let alone rent ($940) and HRT ($300)

Cashapp: $TropScream

Venmo: redloop

Paypal: tropscream

Please any & everything helps as I continue to job hunt and try to secure consistent income. Even just sharing this can!!!

Where you can donate to help Maui, Hawaii

this article has places listed that you can donate to, but i’ll also put direct links to some of these places in this post:

Maui United Way

Maui Strong Fund

Maui Food Bank

Maui Humane Society

my family is based in Oahu, but i consider all the islands my home even though i physically haven’t stepped foot on them before. seeing all the homes and history and memories being lost in this hurts.

if you are unable to donate, don’t feel guilty—doing things like spreading the word and making people aware of the situation helps as well. thank you for whatever you can do! mahalo

UPDATE: removed Maui Mutual Aid Fund for now because upon further research using the charity checking sites provided by this gov site, it doesn’t appear in results unlike the others listed. so i advise caution for now if you decide to donate there! they may still be legitimate, but i want to exercise caution.

^They're currently taking donations for Maui mutual aid

There’s a Senate inquiry into the worsening rental crisis!

Thanks to the Greens you can now write a submission to a committee inquiry into how the rental crisis is affecting you and your community, provide evidence, and shape the reports that’ll be given to the National Cabinet in September and November to suggest how they can address the rental crisis.

This is super important! The information that YOU give to this inquiry will inform both the state and federal government about just how dire the situation is and help it understand how it needs to do more to fix the rental crisis in Australia.

So share - and don’t forget to click here to submit BY 28 JULY!!!

GOOD NEWS! The deadline for submission has been extended to 1st of September!

SO YOU CAN STILL TELL THE COMMITTEE HOW RENTING SUCKS AND PRESSURE THE GOVERNMENT TO IMPROVE RENTERS’ RIGHTS AND HELP WITH HOUSING!

BAD NEWS - Landlords are currently making up a THIRD of submissions! Which means we need to make sure RENTERS are the ones who are heard!

So submit! It’s quick and simple. Click on the above links and write about your experiences!

On a border between two States Someone has written, “Fuck your nationalism. We are all Earthlings.”

And on the Mexican border, Someone has ripped through a fence Of reinforced chicken wire With bolt cutters, And erected a hammock By suspending it Between two of the fence’s Concrete pillars.

After swinging gently back and forth, From Texas to Mexico and then From Mexico back to Texas, They doze off; contemptuous Of the security guards Patrolling this artificial demarcation  – For, once upon a time, Texas was Mexico And Texas didn’t exist.

When Eugene Debs was imprisoned For conscientious objection in World War One He said, on September 11th 1915, “I have no country to fight for My country is the earth I’m a citizen of the world.”

– Heathcote Williams, “No Borders”

The Borderlands/La Frontera, Gloria Anzaldua

This is a memorial from Roussay on Orkney to James Leonard, an early tennant organiser. He was ultimately evicted from his land by the infamous landlord Frederick William Traill-Burroughs. Following his eviction, three of his children died of diphtheria. But his work in organising the tennants and giving evidence to the Scottish government ultimately got more protections for the crofters and may have helped prevent other clearances on Orkney.

Despite this he failed to win protection in time for the crofters of Roussay, and the island's population has gone from over 1000 at the time of the clearances to less than 100 today.

James Leonard's words still ring true today: "I am prepared to speak the truth and will not be cowed by landlordism" and "We are under the despotism and terror of the landlord and we want that removed ; even though I should fail in this battle, I will fight it out."

Today, James Leonard's farm stands derelict, and the land he rented unfarmed. Meanwhile, Burrough's grand house was gutted by a fire in the 1980s and also currently stands empty.

Wisconsin Republicans: “Hey, let’s allow 14 year olds to work in bars, what can possibly go wrong?”

They're just trying to protect the kids!

Solidarity Summer is well and truly ramping up. AS IT FUCKING SHOULD.

And another one! 📢

Barnes and Noble booksellers are working on forming a union as well! 

https://www.reddit.com/r/union/comments/rwczci/barnes_noble_workers_want_union/

Their flagship store and New York has unionized along with 3-4 other stores! This is happening! People are tired of being seen as dollar signs and being made to work just to get to work more, to survive instead of thrive. Keep it UP. 

Help a disabled woman avoid homelessness!!

**URGENT: PLEASE READ/SIGNAL BOOST**

Tuesday, August 1st: Hello everyone, I’m Gemma, a bi, mentally ill, and disabled woman in desperate need of help, as I'm struggling to pay off my rent which was due yesterday, and I am £147 short!!!

As most of you are already aware from my previous posts, I have been struggling financially these past few years due to Covid-19 and my welfare benefit (Universal Credit) being under continuous reviews, which is due to my worsening mental/physical health and the UK’s controversial changes to how benefits are assessed and assigned. After a lengthy health assessment, I have been declared unfit for work. However, I am still waiting for the outcome of my Adult Disability application, which I applied for back on January 15th!!

To be quite honest, these past few months have been absolute hell for me, and with no other income, I've been relying on the kindness of others to get by. However, due to late bills, fees, and rent to be paid, it's been difficult, and my debt just keeps building up. My most urgent need is that I am short on paying my rent by £147!! If I can cover that, I can manage the rest of my bills later.

If anyone could spare any amount to help me, even if it’s just £1/$1/€1, it would save my life, and sharing definitely helps just as much. Thank you so much for all your help!! ❤

£61.21/£162!!

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Please Help A Mostly Queer Homeless Family Out This Pride Month?

So we have gotten our overdrafts covered! All without overdraft fees (double yay)! So that's one less thing to worry about. I have a loan repayment coming out again tomorrow, now that I have money in my account, and I'm waiting on the other loan to go through since the website says there's a payment pending.

But we need help with three things still:

1 - Gas & laundry money. We have to go to Fallbrook again this week (probably on the 8th, since my mom and I will have mail to pick up that day) to pull all the laundry out of our upstairs storage unit, wash it, and put it back in, along with spraying the front of it with Lysol air freshener and butting in a charcoal deodorizer, because it smells like cat urine and we'll get kicked out if we don't take care of it soon. We don't have the money of strength to move two units out, so we're going to do what we can to minimize the odor. But I need $40 for gas (it's cheapest at the 7-11 in Bonsall, since I can save 11 cents a gallon) and $20 for laundry to cover an extra wash and a dry that will get it all dry.

2 - A hotel room for my mom's 50th high school reunion/a manicure for my mother. I know it seems frivolous, but my mom graduated from a high school in the area and this is the first reunion after one of the big celebratory people in her class has died, plus it's the 50th, which is a pretty big milestone. We need a hotel for three days to keep the cats out of the car and to have a place to shower/get ready/leave the kidlet for the actual reunion (there's also an all-class picnic which is during the day that the kidlet is invited to, but we don't want the cats in the sun all day). We need it for the 24th through the 26th. We want to try and stay at the Motel 6 on Pio Pico Drive, as the room is all tile and the TV accommodates my son's X-Box, which will keep him entertained while we're gone. I'd also like to get my mom a manicure because her nails keep breaking from still being brittle after chemo, and she deserves a treat. We're looking at $400 for all of this.

3 - Anything off our Amazon wish list. We just ordered new medicine storage bags for me and my mom, as ours have been ruined by the cats/time, and we're going to add food to the list as we have storage space in the car for it, but I'm getting signs I'm going to start my menstrual cycle soon, and I could really use the portable heating pad. And anything else already on the list would be a huge help. The list is here.

HELP ME KEEP MY HOME

I’ve been incredibly stressed and debating whether to do this. Because my attempts have not been successful in a long time, here goes nothing. My last post failed, and my rent payment was returned. My landlord has asked since my lease renewal is next month. He is keeping the rent the same, and I have an eviction on my record, so I’d like to stay. To pay July’s rent in advance as some sort of good faith, and he will renew my lease for at minimum a year (I desperately need some stability in housing, so I’d like to stay). My rent is $1200, and with the return rent and some bills due, I will be short by about $600. My landlord wants the total by the 20th. I really need some housing stability, and after being homeless last year, I can’t emotionally or physically deal with that again. Please consider helping if you can. P*ypal: paypal.me/acecoolant C*sh App: $acefluid03 0/600

Nothing yet PLEASE BOOST IF YOU SEE THIS!

My anxiety is on a thousand right now

5/600

595 left!!

PLEASE KEEP BOOSTING

$595 left PLS BOOST IF YOU SEE THIS

5/600 PLS HELP IF YOU CAN

6/15 update:

Still at 5/600.

PLEASE HELP AND CONTINUE TO BOOST!!!

Still at 5/600

We are 5 days away from this goal needing to be hit and I’ve hit 1% of this goal

Non-binary latino needs your help getting their life together tw s/ attempt 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇻🇪

Hi everyone I'm sorry for doing this again I've been spending all this time healing and it's been a bumpy ride, if you don't know my story feel free to message me, the short version of the story is that i suffered from a benzo withdrawal at the beginning of this year and i try to attempt towards my own life, I'm still going to therapy and we've been trying new meds because I've been very depressed, my doctor and therapist still tell me I am not able to work even tho I'm looking for one because i need financial stability

this money will go towards rent, paying therapy, food and house bills

if there’s anything you want to know please don’t hesitate to send me a message and we can converse

p*yp*l

k*fi

0$/350$

(please don't tag has don*ti*ns! also i can't receive personal payments because I'm from Latin America and that option is not available for us)

hey so i haven’t receive any new don since maybe more than two weeks ago, it be really helpful if everyone shares this as the end of the month is coming and bills are starting to get due

any reblog or small contribution helps!

thank you and love you