swingswingbaby

[swingswingbaby]

A sidenote: I am aware of the fact that other international students have been faced with the same financial situation and by no means do I wish to diminish the problem. I am outraged by the fact that top-shelf education is available only to the rich, which does nothing but encourages the widening economic disparities in the world. But the issue of EU, EEA and Swiss students is different in that we’ve been deprived of what was to be the fruit of sometimes lifelong hard work without further notice. We were due to start the application process in just 2 months and some have already been preparing to sit required entry exams for MONTHS. I will continue fighting for this cause and after graduating, along with becoming the human rights adovcate I aspire to be, I will also fight for reforming the funcntioning of education systems worldwide. Enough is enough. 

EU, EEA and Swiss students’ Tuition Fees

On the 23rd of June Michelle Donelan, Minister of State for Universities of the UK, has announced that prospective EU students will no longer be eligible for financial support and home fees at English universities. The application process for students starting college in year 2021-2022 will start in a few months. Many of us have planned studying in the United Kingdom for a couple years and are now faced with very little time to deal with the sudden change. The fees rising and the lack of access to student loans makes studying in the UK no longer accessible for many individuals. This issue concerns our plans for the future and may take away our chance to obtain the type of education we desire. Moreover, in the current pandemic, the economic situation of many families has worsened, which further disables many young people’s aspirations to study abroad, specifically in the United Kingdom. We call upon to maintain the current fees and financial support for students applying to British universities for the year 2021/22. Please sign this petition to encourage the British parliament to reconsider their decision.

I also drafted a mail templete you may send to Michelle Donelan -  the Minister of State for Universities at the Department of Education 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14QOmlkKrJBWH-Ktjck_ZMjPWj-zczGv9/view?usp=sharing

Please do not disregard this message. It takes just a few clicks but may make a great change!!! 

#uk brexit education university college europe politics

[swingswingbaby]

EU, EEA and Swiss students’ Tuition Fees

On the 23rd of June Michelle Donelan, Minister of State for Universities of the UK, has announced that prospective EU students will no longer be eligible for financial support and home fees at English universities. The application process for students starting college in year 2021-2022 will start in a few months. Many of us have planned studying in the United Kingdom for a couple years and are now faced with very little time to deal with the sudden change. The fees rising and the lack of access to student loans makes studying in the UK no longer accessible for many individuals. This issue concerns our plans for the future and may take away our chance to obtain the type of education we desire. Moreover, in the current pandemic, the economic situation of many families has worsened, which further disables many young people's aspirations to study abroad, specifically in the United Kingdom. We call upon to maintain the current fees and financial support for students applying to British universities for the year 2021/22. Please sign this petition to encourage the British parliament to reconsider their decision.

I also drafted a mail templete you may send to Michelle Donelan -  the Minister of State for Universities at the Department of Education 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14QOmlkKrJBWH-Ktjck_ZMjPWj-zczGv9/view?usp=sharing

Please do not disregard this message. It takes just a few clicks but may make a great change!!! 

#uk #brexit #university #college #politics #protest #britain #britons

[swingswingbaby]

Please reblog this.

[swingswingbaby]

This is why it’s important to SAY HER NAME OUTLOUD!!! Black women are dying and deserve justice too.

HER NAME IS BREONNA TAYLOR AND SHE WAS MURDERED!!! LETS GET INTO IT!!!

[swingswingbaby]

“People’s lives are not commodities…. You cannot ask the question ‘How much will you pay to live?’ Because the answer is everything. The answer is you will pay $10. You will pay $1000. You will go into debt. You will do anything to live.” - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

[swingswingbaby]

I want to get my life together but I also just want to nap. 

[swingswingbaby]

A rigged political system

We on the left didn’t lose this election. We lost our last illusions. The system is rigged – as it always has been – to benefit those in power. It will never willingly allow a real socialist, or any politician deeply committed to the health of our societies and to the planet, to take that power away from the corporate class. That, after all, is the very definition of power. That is what the corporate media is there to achieve.

Nonetheless, we have the future on our side, dark as it may be. The planet isn’t going to heal itself with Johnson, Donald Trump and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro in charge. It’s going to get a lot sicker, a lot quicker. Our economy isn’t going to become more productive, or more stable, after Brexit. Britain’s economic fate is going to be tied even more tightly to the United States’, as resources run out and environmental and climate catastrophes mount. The contradictions between endless growth and a planet with finite resources will become even starker, the crashes of 2008 more familiar.

The corporate party Johnson’s victory has unleashed is going to lead, sooner or later, to a truly terrifying hangover.

The likelihood is that the Blairites will exploit this defeat to drag Labour back to being a party of neoliberal capital. We will once again be offered a “choice” between the blue and the red Tory parties. If they succeed, Labour’s mass membership will desert the party, and it will become once again an irrelevance, a hollow shell of a workers’ party, as empty ideologically and spiritually as it was until Corbyn sought to reinvent it.

We must head to the streets – to reclaim the public space, to reinvent and rediscover it. Society didn’t cease to exist. It wasn’t snuffed out by Thatcher. We just forgot what it looked like, that we are human, not machines. We forgot that we are all part of society, that we are precisely what it is.

Now is the time to put away childish things, and take the future back into our hands. [x]

[swingswingbaby]

Jeremy Corbyn: “I was in Parliament when Section 28 went through - I campaigned against it and spoke against it in the debate… Those of us who backed LGBT rights in the 1980s were denounced as ‘loony left’… As Labour leader and a future Prime Minister I would be committed to standing up for LGBT communities, both at home and abroad. It’s a basic issue of principle: everyone has the right be treated equally and with respect.”

This General Election is critical. Please Vote Labour and Get the Tories Out on Thursday December 12th!

Make sure to register to vote now - it takes 5 minutes:

LINK: https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote

How to register to vote if you are homeless:

LINK: https://t.co/SPF3d6i0aJ?amp=1

You can sign up here to campaign for Labour at the general election:

LINK: https://t.co/q3inz6WfMX?amp=1

[swingswingbaby]

kissing… holding hands…. eating strawberries ….. that’s the life

[swingswingbaby]

Hydra, Greece

[swingswingbaby]

I would make one little correction to this post. Instead of “take notes America” I would say “take notes world”. We need more organizations like that so hopefully their wise voice will be heard.

In the Netherlands, abortion is legal. There is however one pro life organization called Stichting Schreeuw Om Leven. But instead of harrassing women who are on their way to the abortion clinic and make them feel miserable, they offer them HELP.

If a woman wants to get an abortion because she is financially unable to give birth to and raise a baby, the organization will pay for everything she needs during the pregnancy and after, until she’s financially stable to raise the baby on her own.

This organization won’t stop women from going to the abortion clinic, but would rather hve a healthy conversation with them. Ask them if they can help her with anything in order for them to keep the baby. They also hand out contraception in the streets for those who can’t afford it.

Women don’t get abortions just because they want to. There are reasons why. This organization doesn’t fight abortion, it fights the reasons why women get abortions. Take notes America.

[swingswingbaby]

What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.

Buddha (via om--namah-shivaya)

[swingswingbaby]

☽ Cleansing Routine

For the witch overwhelmed with life.

Clean your room; focus on each individual section, dust and purge

Clean your eating habits; try to stick to plant-based meals and don’t eat anything processed or junk food

Delete old texts and clean your phone out

Clean up social media

Clean your sheets, shower, and wash your clothes

Throw out or consolidate old bottles of lotion, perfume, etc.

Clean out your herb supply, throw out moldy or old potions and spell jars

If you have a carpet, pour a mix of herbs onto it and vacuum them up

Take a shower or bath and use an enchanted scrub to get rid of dead skin and cleanse yourself

Take out the garbage and freshen it up

Light a few candles and change out your pillowcases

Move furniture around, move plants and items to bring new energies in

If your altar is messy, clean and organize it; cleanse or charge your crystals and throw out old candles

Make new playlists and delete old ones you no longer listen to

Be as kind as you can not only to others, but to yourself

Donate old books or materials, old clothes, etc.

Wash your shoes

Take a few sips of (edible!) moonwater

Draw sigils inspired by your name and cleansing and burn them

Learn something new, and teach something new

Trim your nails and moisturize your skin

Clean pieces of jewelry you wear often

Throw out or reuse old pill bottles; put crystals in them, paint them, use them as spell jars

Renew good relationships and remove yourself from old ones

Write down things that bother you on a piece of paper and burn it. Just burn things.

Delete unnecessary contacts

Drink plenty of water and ingest a lot of plants; cleanse your internal system

[swingswingbaby]

self-care instruction manual

forgive yourself : it’s okay if you didn’t wake up early, go for a run, or finish that assignment. you’re only human

start slow : don’t set your expectations too high when you’re just starting off

keep learning : getting to where you want to be is a process. don’t expect perfection overnight

be kind to yourself : you’ll make mistakes along the way, but don’t let that stop you

[swingswingbaby]

[swingswingbaby]

i want to lie in a field of grass and dandelions and watch all of my problems fade away into an empty sky

[swingswingbaby]

Could you…

Bare living 120+ hours without internet?

Bare to watch your neighbors, friends, family and childrens lifeless bodies be thrown into a river?

Bare to watch the women and young girls around you be raped?

Bare to watch the person next to you get beaten to death?

Could you bare to think that this could all happen right in front of you?

Sudan IS suffering!

Why is the world being quiet!?

The world wasn’t quiet when Notre Dame caught fire, but now that hundreds of black, African muslims are suffering, the whole world can just turn a blind eye?!

HOW DARE YOU!

How dare the world think so little of Sudan!

How dare the world not bring awareness to this massacre!

Do the lives of human beings honestly mean nothing to the world?!

Are the Kardashians more important than the crisis in Sudan?

Speak up you guys!