Julie Halverson

Human Woman. Mom. Researcher. Grant Writer. I Vote.

[Majid Freeman @Majstar7]

🇵🇸 #Gaza: This statement by Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola’s daughter, Maria Guardiola has put a lot of politicians, celebrities, journalists and others with a platform to shame:

‘My God.

So is this really what we're going to do now? Just sit back and watch a genocide happen on the telly? Then decades from now, when it's in the history books, all look round at each other and ask, 'how did that happen?'

For the first time, I truly understand how mass atrocities have been able to occur throughout history - again, and again, and again. We never learn.

What does the death count need to be before someone finally speaks against this madness and urges restraint, not more arms? 10,000? 100,000?

A million? More? When have enough Palestinians died?

I get that lots of us are scared to speak up. I get we're afraid to say the "wrong thing. But I won't sit by in silence and live with the fact that I never spoke up when an atrocity on this scale was committed because of fear. We can express our complete condemnation for what the Israeli govt are doing and also assert our unwavering belief in the equal value of Palestinian lives, without inciting hatred against Jewish communities - another persecuted people. Indeed, many Jewish and Israeli people, in the midst of their deep grief and knowing the pain of persecution too well, have had the bravery and strength to be the very first to do so.

This is quite simple. We are watching an occupied, oppressed people face annihilation by a nuclear state with the full backing of the western world. This is not - and has never been - an 'equal fight'. Right now, it is a massacre on a scale I don't think I've ever seen in my life.

6,000 bombs dropped in 6 days already. On a strip of land just 25 miles long and 7.5 miles wide at its widest point. Whole neighbourhoods flattened. Families wiped out. Hospitals collapsing under the weight of the casualties. On a population of 2 million - half of them children. 70% of them refugees. And now, the forced movement of 1 million people. A choice of forced migration or death is ethnic cleansing. The fact that it is impossible for that many to leave in that time means that this is now a genocide.

We have gone way, way beyond wishy washy 'praying for peace', 'all life is precious' IG statements, posted to show you've done your bit of performative activism. Show you mean it. If you have any kind of platform right now, please use it. Speak. Because it's becoming glaringly obvious that the world is happy to walk into an unspeakable horror that we didn't even bother to try to prevent.’

#Palestine 🇵🇸

[Julie Halverson @JulishHalverson]

@Bell_Support Ok thanks!

[Julie Halverson @JulishHalverson]

@Bell_Support Am needing help with a home alarm system that won't shut off. Can't get thru via 800-267-2001 and 877-267-2004 and calls transferred from other depts to this 2001 number are dropped. pls advise

[Julie Halverson @JulishHalverson]

@Bell_Support Thanks so much. I have tried that number too and get an immediate busy signal.

[Julie Halverson @JulishHalverson]

@Bell_Support Thanks - I can't actually get through to that number at all. Other ideas?

[Dorothy Roberts @DorothyERoberts]

I’ve been saying for decades that women would be imprisoned for abortions—they are in prison already for stillbirths, miscarriages & other pregnancy-related crimes—& anti-abortion advocates kept denying they would be so cruel. The gloves are off. https://t.co/S7PJTLwhbS

[Julie Halverson @JulishHalverson]

@kristen_slack @RTI_Intl Congrats!

[NAACP @NAACP]

Today, we remember and celebrate the life of Tamir Rice on what would have been his 21st birthday.

We will forever speak his name and continue to fight for equal protection, #policeaccountability, and #justice in his honor.

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

My heart goes out to #TamirRice’s family, especially to his mother, Samaria Rice, on today, Tamir’s birthday.

He should be celebrating 21 years.
It is a grave injustice that he’s not.

And I just can’t imagine how devastating that is for Ms. Rice…I’m sorry.

[Julie Halverson @JulishHalverson]

@anonymouse728 Remove the cucumber and add ketchup. there you have my kids preferred meal.

[Dorothy Roberts @DorothyERoberts]

Slavery still shapes law (and social policy, science, medicine, etc) today. This study found that almost 20% of all published US court decisions cite a slavery case or a case that cites one. Where do you think the “insane delusion rule” comes from? https://t.co/6wEDNREtIj

[Julie Halverson @JulishHalverson]

@MandyMatney Right? Up your game single ladies to get involved with a married guy, who isn't creepy...at all...we promise. Is that it?

[Julie Halverson @JulishHalverson]

@IsaacRowlett to answer -sort of- her question - bc UW wants out of state tuition

[Julie Halverson @JulishHalverson]

@Tiffany_L_Green Paisley Park

[Julie Halverson @JulishHalverson]

@rgay Yeah. Well. Your Audacious Round Up brought me joy this week. Again. Thank you.

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

On this day in 1963, civil rights leader and organizer #MedgarEvers was assassinated by a white supremacist in the driveway of his Jackson, Mississippi home.

I remember his legacy and his family, who I am praying for today.

[SisterSong: National Women of Color RJ Collective @SisterSong_WOC]

Remembering the 49 beautiful lives cut short seven years ago at the Pulse night club. We will honor them with our actions to end gun violence and stand strong against hate and racism. We must do all we can to make sure love wins and that we can all live with safety and dignity.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

12 June 1929 | A German Jewish girl, Anne Frank, was born in Frankfurt.

In 1942 on her 13th birthday she received an empty diary. She perished in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.

'Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character & goodness.' (A.Frank)