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The wallpaper is available now and I will also be working on a notebook and an art print! Maybe more?

at a tribal finance conference listening to a quileute tribal council member talk about how companies have bought every house in forks, wa because it’s a tourist destination so they can’t hire people to work for the tribe

anyway fuck stephenie meyer for profiting so intensely off of racist stereotypes of quilteutes and all native people while never contributing a dime to help them solve the problems she caused!

if you have the ability, you can donate to their move to higher ground fund here: https://mthg.org

alivingfire

important context, thank you @fiercestpurpose

did not expect my rage post to reach this level so to add to my nearly incoherent screed, sustainable housing was mentioned as the most immediate issue now that the school has been moved. if you ask any tribal elder, council member, or leader, they will say that one of the most important growth factors for tribes is the ability to send their kids out for education and experience, and for those members to come back to help their people when they can. quileute tribal members actively want to move back to la push, but nearly all housing is either exorbitantly priced or is owned and operated as airb&bs/tourism rentals. by fundraising for and building their own housing developments, they can build in long-term capital as well as bring in talented, educated tribal members to help their people.

kineticpenguin

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

kineticpenguin

At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely

yourunderwaterskies

technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.

Free Harvard courses. Free Courses from Stanford. Free Courses from MIT. Free courses from Yale. Free courses from Princeton.

Free courses on Coursera.

Free Courses on EDx Free Courses on Alison

For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.

When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses." Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.

lynati

Harvard alone has these free online classes: Citizen Politics in America: Public Opinion, Elections, Interest Groups, and the Media U.S. Political Institutions: Congress, Presidency, Courts, and Bureaucracy U.S. Public Policy: Social, Economic, and Foreign Policies

We the People: Civic Engagement in a Constitutional Democracy Justice ...in case anyone wants to brush up on how these things (are meant to) function.

feluka

Do we think "Israel" brazenly bragging about not allowing humanitarian aid through the border will be enough for people to stop scolding Gazans for making individual/family fundraisers because "it's better to donate to trusted orgs instead" or are they never going to get it?

feluka

Don't let your anxiety cause inaction, especially since there are people spending an incredible amount of effort to weed out the scammers and ease your anxiety about scammers. I don't know what else to do short of begging. Please don't let them starve. All my friends in Gaza are asking me why their campaigns are stagnating and I don't know how to answer them.

Anas is fighting cancer. (fundraiser) (vetting)

Amal needs to feed her baby. (fundraiser) (vetting #175)

Samir is in danger of losing his leg. (fundraiser) (vetting #428)

Mahmoud needs to pay remote tuition fees. (fundraiser) (vetting)

Please boost them and every vetted fundraiser that comes your way, and donate if you can. If you have any following and can think of anything like charity streams or giveaways to promote campaigns, please do so. This is a very crucial and difficult time for Gaza.

emmaharwoods

you can click on this button once daily to help palestine and support other causes in the middle east for free. it takes literally 5 seconds and could help save lives so please take the time to click and share this link.