I feel like a lot of you didn't see
the man crushed by the tank
the girl shredded in half
the multiple people carrying their family in bags
the doctor who had to amputate his daughter's leg
the bodies left out to rot
cuz ur talking about property
Put a quick pin in your opinions about who has a right to protest and why and how and where: I am forty-five and have never once had the guts to fling my actual body between the gears like these kids.
Shira Cohen, a #PHLed teacher: if you don't take action to end 3-5-7-9, what happened to teachers' health is on you. Calls out the district's "increasing micromanaging of teacher attendance." #PHLed
Ridgeway: the district has capitulated to a white teacher who was uncomfortable with the video. "Guess what? I am a Black woman and I was born feeling uncomfortable." #PHLed
Ridgeway: "Instead of protecting our students, you have capitulated to people who don't even have students at our school." Why is district more concerned about the video than the fact that a student's name was not protected? #PHLed
Katherine Riley, a #PHLed teacher, speaks out against "censoring student expression" and a teacher sharing confidential student info. Context: https://t.co/Ca5GquGswK
South Africa’s closing statement:
-Each day, 247 Palestinians are being killed, 1 every 6 minutes
-48 mothers, 2 every hour
-117 children, 5 every hour
-Each day, 10 children will be amputated without anaesthetics
—Irish lawyer, Blinne Ni Ghralaigh
“Thank you for walking through neighborhoods with your terrorist scarf.”
A Harvard graduate student wearing a keffiyeh, was subjected to Islamophobic harassment on campus by Eve Gerber, wife of Jason Furman, professor at Harvard's Kennedy School and a former Obama Admin advisor.
“Are we young minds to be cared for, or are we statistics to be ignored?” a #phled 9th grader said after 100 students walked out in another protest against magnet underenrollment caused by admissions changes. https://t.co/h0j7AXvHvQ
When some #phled students walk out to protest underenrollment at some district magnets prompted by changes to the district’s criteria-based admissions changes, of course a spontaneous drummer joins the group.