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savethegrishaverse · 5 months

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General Kirigan was able to stop Mal's letters from reaching Alina, but Netflix cannot stop ours! Please remember to send your letters to the following address:

📷 Sunset Bronson Studios

5800 W. Sunset Boulevard

Los Angeles, CA 90028

Attn: Bela Bajaria, Jinny Howe or Cole Galvin.

If you have more questions feel free to check out our discord and we are happy to answer them!

#grishaverse #shadow and bone #six of crows #netflix #netflix shadow and bone #sab #soc and ck #soc #six of crows fandom #kazzle dazzle #the grisha series #save the grishaverse #saveshadowandbone #save shadow and bone #six of crows spin off #six of crows spinoff #letter protest #letters to netflix #letters

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odinsblog · 11 days

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“The great enemy of justice are those moderates who feign outrage at societal injustice, but whose outrage conveniently disappears when real change threatens their status. These moderates are more comfortable leaving unchallenged the assumed moral authority of certain institutions, traditions and practices that are the purveyors of injustice rather than confronting their own role in maintaining these institutions. The hard truth is that the comfort of the status quo is always preferable to pursuing the demands of justice.”

—MLKjr

Despite what moderates (centrists, neoliberals, etc.)—who are more devoted to order than justice—might be saying, there should be no doubt that Martin Luther King, Jr. would be on the side of the student protesters who are standing up for Palestine 🇵🇸

#politics #palestine #columbia university #student protests #israel #gaza #🇵🇸#mlk #rafah #letter from a birmingham jail #mlkjr #mlk jr #paternalism #white moderates #centrists #campus protests #neoliberalism

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shiplessoceans · 11 months

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I fucking love Edward Teach, just scheming his little scheme to get Stede to take him in his arms and embrace him.

Giggling like a schoolgirl as he gets impaled with a sword because 'Omg Steeeede! Your arms are around me how did that happen teehee!'

He was one step away from twirling his hair and asking Stede to prom.

That giddy little bitch how I adore him.

#this post was brought to you by exhaustion and the letter F #i will become more unhinged by the day ubtil we have a release date mark my words #this is the form my protest takes #shhhh let it happen #ofmd #ofmd season 2 #our flag means death #stede bonnet #gentlebeard #edward teach

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just-late-roman-republic-things · 28 days

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Incidentally, I do think the Augustan principate would qualify as authoritarian, due to its erosion of free elections, constitutional limits, and political pluralism. It also counts as a military dictatorship and autocracy. But I would not call it totalitarian, because it lacked the technology and infrastructure needed to control people's lives extensively, nor fascist, because it predated modern values like liberalism and egalitarianism, values which fascism defines itself in opposition to. Similar logic applies to Caesar and his dictatorship-for-life.

#there *were* actually protests and demonstrations throughout augustus' reign. he couldn't stop them #and in one of his letters he advises tiberius to accept public criticism is normal and inevitable #but IMO the impossibility of dismissing the princeps without a coup still qualifies this as authoritarian #octavian #fascism #authoritarianism #jlrrt speaks #julius caesar

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werewolfetone · 3 months

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Obsessed with the belfast charitable society making declarations of nonsectarianism and dedication to offering their services to people of all communities without discrimination specifically to guilt rich catholics into giving them money

#nonsectarianism is when u send letters going and why haven't YOU donated more 🤨🎤 to both catholics AND protestants #reading #irish history #jory.txt

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momobani · 3 months

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P1HARMONY FIRST WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it's kind of insane of you think about it, i'm beyond proud 🥹

they've worked so hard over the past 3 years and seeing them grow and evolve and just keep getting better is a privilege.

i really hoped this would be the year of piwon and personally i got to see them live and then the album came out and now they got a first win, idk i think we're doing alright 😌

anyways, i'll be sobbing if you need me <333

bonus: look at these photos family portraits

#i tossed and turned all night thinking about it ngl #i've been wanting to write them some letters after the concert but i'm still busy but now i have even more to say haha #do y'all remember tiny piwon in their film? cuz i do #piwon #p1harmony #tagging this one so everyone can see the photos #also the timing is kinda funny apparently fnc announced a new group lol wtf and there was an sf9 protest truck around today #it's only fun if it's chaotic i guess 😮‍💨

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spiderhungry · 12 days

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someone: "I just don't like the protestors' tone. They're very loud. I think occupying a building is bad optics. Blocking traffic is illegal. I wish the protests weren't so disruptive!"

me: sighs

me: opens indesign

me: loads template

me: pastes the entirety of the Letter from Birmingham into the template

me: adds paragraph and character styles

me: exports to PDF

me: prints out PDF

me: cuts paper down to the correct size and sets manuscript aside

me: digs through collection of custom papers and selects a pretty one

me: measures the manuscript

me: cuts thick cardstock for front cover and back cover

me: dabs bookbinding glue on cardstock and pastes on pretty custom paper

me: sets it aside to dry

me: once it's dry, assembles covers and manuscript and clips them together tightly

me: drills five holes into the edge of the book

me: sews the book together using stab binding with a needle and waxed binding thread

me: ties off the end of the thread

me: carefully adds creases to the covers so that they open neatly

me: takes the book to my car

me: drives to airport

me: gets on an airplane

me: takes a taxi to the person's house

me: knocks on their door

someone: opens the door

me: hands them the lovingly bound book

me: "I beg of you, read this."

#spiderhungry posts #the letter from birmingham #protests #student protests #free gaza #free palestine #bookbinding #white moderates

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savethegrishaverse · 5 months

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Don't forget the impact of sending physical mail to Netflix!

As our campaign to #SaveShadowAndBone and #SixOfCrowsSpinoff surges forward, we continue to encourage everyone to send physical mail to Netflix! The impact of a tangible, heartfelt message arriving on their desks daily is immeasurable. It turns our passion into a visual reminder of the dedicated community rallying for our beloved Grishaverse.

Why physical mail matters:

Tangible Presence: Emails can get filtered out and lost in the digital shuffle, but a physical letter stands out and must be sorted by hand. It's a tangible representation of our fandom.

Visual Impact: Picture Netflix receiving a steady flow of letters, postcards, and unique creations like origami crows. The visual impact is hard to ignore!

Daily Call to Action: Each piece of mail is not just a letter; it's a daily call to action, a persistent plea to save our show!

And don't worry, we've got you covered if you're international: Fans outside the U.S. have used Postable.com to send customized postcards and cards for less than the price of a cup of coffee. This company is located in the U.S., and the cost covers any custom printing as well as the fee to send mail within the U.S. (no matter where the sender is located). We love smart solutions!

How to send mail to Netflix

Send a letter or postcard to one (or all!) of the following addresses to join the dozens of items being mailed off to Netflix every day!

Mailing Address #1:

Sunset Bronson Studios

ATTN: __________

5800 W. Sunset Boulevard

Los Angeles, CA 90028

Choose one of the names below for ATTN:

Bela Bajaria: Chief Content Officer

Cole Galvin: Director of Original Series

Jinny Howe: VP, Original Series

Mailing Address #2:

1341 Vine St

Los Angeles, CA 90028

Mailing Address #3:

1350 Ivar Ave

Los Angeles, CA 90028

Don’t forget to add “USA” to the end of each address if you are sending mail from abroad!

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ivygorgon · 24 days

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AN OPEN LETTER to THE PRESIDENT & U.S. CONGRESS

Ceasefire, free the hostages, & ONLY CONDITIONAL AID for the Israeli government!

920 so far! Help us get to 1,000 signers!

I’m writing to demand the U.S. not send more military aid to the Israeli government until it stops starving and indiscriminately killing Gazan civilians. It’s time for a ceasefire and for the hostages to be freed—both Hamas’s leadership and Netayahu must be pushed to agree to this. More bombs will accomplish nothing. If the U.S. does insist on sending funding or weaponry to the Israeli government it must come with stringent, non-negotiable, and enforceable conditions. Blank checks are not an option. Thanks.

▶ Created on April 16 by Jess Craven · 919 signers in the past 7 days

📱 Text SIGN PVWGIX to 50409

🤯 Liked it? Text FOLLOW JESSCRAVEN101 to 50409

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sugas6thtooth · 6 months

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Her @ on TikTok is graci.e111 if you would like to check out some of the resources mentioned in this video.

You can help. You can be the change you seek to see. Don't give up nor forget the people of Palestine.

Free Palestine today tomorrow and forever more🇵🇸🍉❤️!

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 4 years

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"WHITE MICE CARRIED CONVICT'S MESSAGES," Daily British Whig (Kingston, Ontario). October 21, 1920. Page 2. --- Penitentiary Inmates Have a Complete System of Telegraphy. ---- In view of the combined efforts of the convicts at the penitentiary to create a disturbance by yelling and hooting in the cells, citizens have been wondering how they carried out a system to bring it all about.

It is claimed that the convicts in the "pen" have a complete system of tapping or telegraphy, by which they communicate with each other, and it is carried on with great success, in spite of the efforts of the prison authorities to put a stop to it. Sometimes the tapping is carried out on the walls, or their tin drinking cups, but it is known for a fact that convicts have communicated with each other in this way, and that many a scheme has been carried out as a result.

It is stated that some few years ago, several of the convicts had white mice as their pets and that the mice were used to carry messages to and fro among the convicts. This may appear as a fairy story, but it is vouched for, by people in a position to know. Needless to say there are no white mice in the penitentiary to-day.

#kingston penitentiary #kingston ontario #prison strike #prisoner protest #prison agitator #trafficking in prison #smuggling contraband #smuggling letters #causes of prison riots #1920 kp rcmp investigation #crime and punishment in canada #history of crime and punishment in canada #prison grapevine

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 10 days

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House Republicans launch multiple investigations into college protests

Four GOP committee chairs are probing pro-Palestinian campus activism.

New GOP move: discredit and defund the nation's major research universities and move funds to private, religious schools like Liberty University and Hillsdale, the new GOP models for higher education.

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

May 2, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

MAY 03, 2024

More than 2,000 people have been arrested at protests on college and university campuses around the country opposing Israel’s military strikes on Gaza since the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas, and the subsequent humanitarian crisis there. It is unclear how many of the protesters are students, as many of those arrested have not been affiliated with the universities, or how many of the arrests will result in charges—sometimes arrests at protests are designed simply to clear an area.

The roots of today’s protests lie in an investigation by the Republican-dominated House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Virginia Foxx (R-NC). The committee announced the investigation on December 7, two days after its members spent more than five hours grilling then-president of Harvard University Claudine Gay, then-president of University of Pennsylvania Liz Magill, and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sally Kornbluth on how their universities were handling student protests against Israel over its military response to Hamas’s attack of October 7.

Led by Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Republicans on the committee insisted that the universities were not protecting Jewish students. The university presidents responded that they deplored antisemitism, that students had the right to free speech, and that they took action against those who violated policies against bullying, harassment, or intimidation. But in their defense of free speech, they admitted both that hate speech against Jews and others is sometimes protected and that they had sometimes made bad calls.

The Republicans’ interest in protecting Jewish students on campus overlapped with their opposition to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives that they associate with Democrats. Burgess Owens (R-UT) said DEI initiatives protect Black students at the expense of others. “I just remember a couple of years ago when we were dealing with Black Lives Matter,” he said. “Try to talk about Blue Lives Matter, Jew Lives Matter, Arab Lives Matter—they call it racist. It’s time for us to focus on what’s happening on your campuses.”

Stefanik called the testimony “pathetic” and, along with 74 other members of Congress, demanded that Gay, Harvard’s first Black president, resign. On January 2, following accusations she had plagiarized scholarly work, she did. Her resignation followed that of Liz Magill. “TWO DOWN,” Stefanik wrote on social media.

Two days after the university presidents’ testimony, Stefanik announced that the House Education and Workforce Committee would be investigating universities. “We will use our full Congressional authority to hold these schools accountable for their failure on the global stage,” she said.

On February 12 the committee informed Columbia it was next up. Columbia University president Nemat "Minouche" Shafik had been unable to testify with the other presidents in December and gave her testimony to the committee on April 17, along with co-chairs of the Board of Trustees Claire Shipman and David Greenwald and former dean David Schizer over the university's response to antisemitism.

In an April 16 essay in the Wall Street Journal, Shafik wrote that “antisemitism and calls for genocide have no place at a university…but that leaves plenty of room for robust disagreement and debate.” She said she prioritizes “the safety and security of our community” and that while the attack of October 7 had a "deep personal impact" on the Jewish and Israeli communities, there was also a "humanitarian catastrophe" in Gaza, and the war was "part of a larger story of Palestinian displacement." She explained that Columbia had defined a space for protests to enable those they upset to avoid them.

Opening the hearing, committee chair Foxx said: “Since October 7, this Committee and the nation have watched in horror as so many of our college campuses, particularly the most expensive, so-called elite schools, have erupted into hotbeds of antisemitism and hate.” Stefanik called out tenured professor Joseph Massad of the Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies department, who called the October 7 attack a “stunning victory.”

Shafik responded by condemning the professor’s statements. “Trying to reconcile the free speech rights of those who want to protest and the rights of Jewish students to be in an environment free of harassment or discrimination has been the central challenge on our campus, and many others, in recent months…. We do not, and will not, tolerate antisemitic threats, images, and other violations…. We have enforced, and we will continue to enforce, our policies against such actions,” she said.

Ilhan Omar (D-MN) questioned Shafik about discrimination against pro-Palestinian protesters. She noted that Israel-born assistant professor Shai Davidai was accused of harassing pro-Palestinian students; Shafik said they have had more than 50 complaints about him and he is under investigation.

On April 17, the same day the Columbia officials testified, pro-Palestinian protesters organized by Columbia University Apartheid Divest (a self-described “coalition of student organizations that see Palestine as the vanguard for our collective liberation”), Students for Justice in Palestine, and Jewish Voice for Peace set up a camp at the university. It garnered little attention; the April 18 New York Times did not mention it. According to Sharif, the school warned protesters they would be suspended if the encampment was not removed. They stayed. On April 18, according to New York mayor Eric Adams, Columbia officials called in New York City police to disband the protest. They arrested more than 100 people, including Representative Omar’s daughter, a Columbia student. The arrests were peaceful.

University faculty and community members were shocked by the resort to law enforcement at a place known both for learning and debate and for its history. In April 1968, in the midst of the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, a week of protests after students learned of Columbia’s support for weapons research and its plan to construct a seemingly segregated gym in a nearby community had led New York City police to crush the demonstrations with violence.

In the days after the current arrests, nearly a dozen student and faculty groups released statements or open letters objecting to the police presence on campus and supporting students’ rights to free speech and peaceful protest. The protest encampment sprang back up.

At the same time, Jewish leaders warned that antisemitism was increasing. Rabbi Elie Buechler, of the Columbia/Barnard Hillel and Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life, urged Jewish students to return home for Passover, which began April 22, and to stay there for their own safety.

In the next weeks, protests sprang up around the country, with protesters generally demanding that university administrators divest from investments in Israel or in companies that sell weapons, technology, or construction equipment to Israel, and cut ties to Israeli universities. They have tended to turn their anger against President Joe Biden and his administration, whom they blame for what they call a genocide in Gaza. Universities have responded in a variety of ways, from discussion to armed law enforcement officers.

Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have insisted that Israel has a right to defend itself from Hamas and have continued to provide Israel with military defenses, whose importance in stopping the war from spreading showed on April 14, when those defenses shot down virtually all of the weapons Iran launched at Israel. They are working hard for a ceasefire, with Blinken currently in the Middle East and a proposal on the table that Israel has accepted but Hamas has not.

The administration has also stood against the initial policy of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration to cordon off Gaza without food, water, or electricity, and has pressured Israel into permitting humanitarian aid into Gaza. It has also firmly opposed Israeli plans to attack Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians have taken shelter, and has stood firmly in favor of a Palestinian state, which the protesters have not indicated they endorse.

On April 24, House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) visited Columbia, where he called for Shafik to resign. On Monday, April 29, he and Republican leadership met to discuss how they might reenergize the party and gain traction now that their impeachment effort against Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has flopped, the conference is bitterly split, their control of the House of Representatives has resulted in one of the least productive congresses in American history, and their presumptive presidential nominee is being tried for election interference that involved paying off women with whom he had extramarital sex. They settled on campus antisemitism—although Trump’s open embrace of white nationalists makes this problematic—and the campus protests as a sign that Democrats are the party of disorder.

On that same day, 21 House Democrats wrote a letter to Columbia’s trustees demanding they “act decisively, disband the encampment, and ensure the safety and security of all of its students.” That night, protesters took control of Columbia’s Hamilton Hall, where they broke windows and vandalized furniture. About twenty hours later, police in riot gear arrested them. Arrests across the country climbed.

Yesterday, Representative Foxx announced that her committee’s antisemitism investigation will expand into a Congress-wide crackdown on colleges. In a press conference, she said she had a clear message for “mealy-mouthed, spineless college leaders. Congress will not tolerate your dereliction of duty to your Jewish students. American universities are officially put on notice that we have come to take our universities back.”

Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Inquirer noted that right-wing politicians jumped on the Kent State shootings of May 1970 to defund colleges and universities, while a “law and order” backlash helped to give Republican president Richard M. Nixon a landslide reelection in 1972.

Today, President Biden addressed the protests, saying they “test two fundamental American principles. The first is the right to free speech and for people to peacefully assemble and make their voices heard. The second is the rule of law. Both must be upheld.”

Biden called for lawful, peaceful protests and warned: “Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations—none of this is a peaceful protest…. Dissent is essential to democracy,” he said, “But dissent must never lead to disorder or to denying the rights of others so students can finish the semester and their college education…. People have the right to get an education, the right to get a degree, the right to walk across the campus safely without fear of being attacked.”

When asked, he told reporters he did not think the National Guard should be involved in suppressing the protests.

Steven Lee Myers and Tiffany Hsu of the New York Times reported today that Russia, China, and Iran are amplifying the protests “to score geopolitical points abroad and stoke tensions within the United States,” as well as to “undermine President Biden’s reelection prospects.”

It is unclear if the protests will continue during the summer, when fewer students will be on campus.

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

#House Republicans #GOP #MAGA extremists #anti-education #liberty university #Hillsdale #higher education #WAPO #Heather Cox Richardson #Letters From An American #Right Wing attacks on education #student protests #war in Israel #DEI #anti semitic

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