on a serious note regarding the wga strike and (as of 1:50 AM PST 7/13) upcoming sag-aftra strike, dsa-la has a fundraiser called The Snacklist which provides snacks and water on the picket lines here in LA. right now the funds they have will not last through the end of the summer, especially given the current and upcoming heatwaves necessitating more supplies. if you have a couple of dollars to spare it’s a great way to directly support the writers (and potentially the actors) during this difficult time!
happy first sag-aftra strike in 60 years to all who celebrate.
if you are an enjoyer of media (which i will guess based on your presence on tumblr that you are) please consider donating to the snacklist (linked above) or to any of the following mutual aid funds that directly support striking actors/writers, IATSE and teamster union members who are also out of work and by and large refusing to cross the picket lines, and nonunion PAs and assistants (like yours truly) who are directly impacted by the work stoppage. everyone in this industry works unbelievably hard to bring you the shows, movies, webseries, and variety programs that you enjoy and every worker deserves a fair contract. any support you can give is extremely meaningful.
The Entertainment Community Fund provides emergency financial assistance to anyone in the entertainment industry who is unable to pay their immediate basic living expenses such as housing, food, bills, and healthcare.
The Union Solidarity Coalition has been formed by members of the wga, sag, and the dga to help cover the cost of healthcare for IATSE and teamsters who will not get enough work hours to qualify for their coverage this year due to their refusal to cross a picket line.
The Hollywood Support Staff Relief Fund (also run by the Entertainment Community Fund but separate from the above link which supports all film and tv workers) offers assistance to tv and film support staff and assistants who are not protected by a union and have been displaced from low or entry level positions.
Drive 4 Solidarity is an IATSE organized event in August raising funds for all union and guild members. Tickets are available for those in socal but donations are being taken as well.
one of my professors earlier today had the perfect word to describe the feeling of it: traumatizing
what they’re doing seems almost illegal, like.. considering desantis brought in the majority of the trustees in one sweep, we didnt even have a chance to dissent their new supermajority firing president okker with no cause. or if it isn’t, it should be illegal, there’s literally no checks and balances happening here. no democracy involved. genuine fascism at work, it’s actually absurd. extremely fucking filthy and despicable political ploy.
yesterday wrt the board of trustees meeting, a student commented, “The fact they are playing [the college president] like she’s a game and she is sitting at that table CRYING is something that shakes me.”
this is who they replaced our president with
they don’t care about education or the students at all. they don’t care. we’re chess pieces to them.
please help us defend ourselves, not just for NCF but for educational freedom in academic institutions in general. donate, spread the word, etc. here’s the site
this son of a bitch is definitely going to run for president in 2024. pay attention to what’s happening on the ground here. it’s very bleak.
a lot has happened but this is really peak shit. they fucking hate us and want to inconvenience us as much as possible
here’s a pdf of the article. i’m a senior btw. i don’t know what to do
New College of Florida is shifting returning students into housing in buildings with mold problems identified by an outside consultant to make way for student-athletes and other incoming freshmen who are part of a conservative transformation of the school launched by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Weeks before the start of the fall semester, the college emailed returning students Tuesday to tell them their housing assignments had been changed at the last minute to accommodate an influx of student- athletes and freshmen. The new cohort would live in the apartment-style Dort and Goldstein buildings — which have historically housed upperclassmen — while returning students would be moved to other, shared-space dorms, such as the older I. M. Pei designed buildings.
Pei dorms, however, were considered virtually uninhabitable due to mold as of early this summer. Although New College housed students in the Pei dorms last semester, a May report commissioned by the school and obtained by the Herald-Tribune concluded that the Pei dorms “should not be occupied in their current condition” due to a systematic mold issue that would require a fiscal investment to repair.
Mold can cause symptoms such as stuffy nose, sore throat, coughing or wheezing, burning eyes, or skin rash, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. People with asthma or who are allergic to mold could have more severe reactions, and immunocompromised people could get lung infections from mold.
The college’s email to students mentioned ongoing renovations, but it was unclear if those included repairing mold damage and the underlying building issues causing mold.
Students had until July 14 to cancel their housing agreements with no penalty, a deadline only three days after the email was sent.
For many upperclassmen working on thesis projects, living in an apartment-style dorm is preferable because of the private living and study spaces each student receives.
The idea of living in shared-space Pei dorms again has prompted some students to consider off- campus living options, or even transferring to another college. For many, living off-campus is financially impossible because of the cost of rent in the Sarasota-Manatee area.
On-campus housing costs between $3,000 and $5,000 per semester, a student housing employee told the Herald-Tribune. The estimated median monthly rent in Sarasota for a one-bedroom apartment is $1,500, and since March 2020, rents have increased by 43.5% in the North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton metro area, the sixth-largest increase in the country, according to apartmentlist.com data.
Zoe Fountain, a 20-year-old psychology and gender studies student involved in student government, said giving student-athletes the nicer apartment-style dorms is indicative of the school’s new DeSantis- appointed leadership trying to shape a new student body while neglecting the needs of current students.
Earlier in the year, the college fired an LGBTQ librarian and denied tenure to five faculty members. “To all of us (students), that just sounds like they’re trying to drive us out,” she said.
In addition to being given priority in housing assignments, student-athletes have been given preferential treatment in admissions and promised $1,400 laptops if they enrolled, a New College admissions official told the Herald-Tribune.
As the college seeks rapid renovations of different residential buildings, the treatment of the current student body is “dehumanizing,” Fountain said. Current summer residents have dealt with construction crews and dust. “We are being treated as inconveniences that they need to move around,“ she said.
Fountain said that the housing situation, coupled with other actions by the administration, have alienated her from New College. She said she plans to take a gap semester this fall to find another college destination.
"The rug is being pulled out from under you, and all of us are just very desperately wanting to go back to the way things are and realizing that that’s not possible for us anymore,” Fountain said.
Megan Nigro, a 19-year-old zoology fourth-year student, was set to live in the Dort building with three other students this fall. Now, she’s likely going to live in Pei dorms, where she lived last year. One of the biggest draws for the Dort and Goldstein dorms is the kitchens in each unit, something Nigro said she was excited to use because of the limited food options on campus. She said she’s exploring off-campus living options. However, Nigro said she pays for housing through scholarships at the school, so being able to afford an apartment off-campus would be difficult.
Some students won’t be given an on-campus housing opportunity at all. Andy Trinh, a 20-year-old computer science third-year, said they were supposed to live in the Palmer B dorm, but they received an email saying the dorm had been taken offline. Corcoran had previously received approval from the Board of Trustees to begin the process of demolishing the building, despite not having obtained permits to do so.
In the meeting, Corcoran said displaced students could be moved to a nearby hotel or to USF’s Sarasota-Manatee campus.
“I don’t have a car. I don’t know how to get to campus from there unless I take the bus, but it’s not something I can do for like every single meal,” Trinh said. “It’s not completely feasible unless they have like a shuttle or something running.”
and email update from the board meeting. this is insane. they are actively trying to demolish existing spaces and push existing students out.
It’s already happening. Like guys I cannot emphasize this enough the studios are going to make content creators the deal of a lifetime because they have a void to fill and those content creators will then be on the do not work list for the rest of their professional lives.
I think tiktok and youtubers should be specifically warned as well. With SAG-AFRA on strike studios will be looking to fill spots and a lot of young people who are big on tiktok and YouTube and would be super excited to be recruited for Hollywood are easy targets
So let’s be unequivocally clear here:
If you work (scab) now you will NEVER make it in Hollywood.
Your ability to network with other actors is part of what will make or brake your career. If you cross the picket line now you will never, and I mean Never, be able to network with the actors on strike.
They will shun you (rightfully) and that will be it.
You can get as big as you want in the 2-? weeks the strike is in affect, but as soon as it’s over, as soon as the career actors and A-list big names come back you are done for.
Don’t let entertainment companies destroy you for their quick buck. If you are a YouTuber or a tiktoker- this is not “an opportunity of a lifetime”. It’s a con.
My family and home are fine because the 7.8 inches of rain that fell in a day didn’t cause our house to slide of the ridge it sits on, but less than a thousand feet away roads have been washed out and homes are being condemned. Yesterday, our congressional delegation, the governor, and a FEMA representative, toured the town - focusing on the non-profit cat cafe turned hazardous waste site thanks to a basement full of red diesel fuel and the neighborhood that includes a ten story, low income, senior and disabled apartment building where the blacktop of the road lifted and peeled away in huge sheets. There is still only one route out of town to the interstate due to landslides and flooding. In every direction I can point to there are towns going through similar things. Our capitol, Montpelier, flooded causing most of the state government to shut down and move essential operations to a nearby airport. Many farms were in the path of flood waters and lost most of their crops. Vermont has the second largest population of unhoused people per capita, second to California, with many of them camping in the woods along our rivers. They have lost everything.
In short, we need help.
I gathered some resources if you need an updated news source or are able to donate.
white ppl have no concept of the pain of finding a community that you belong to and then discovering the deeply entrenched racism in said community
coming out as an nb dyke was freeing don’t get me wrong but discovering how racist white wlw can be takes away some of the joy of that experience. we’re fetishized or shunned or demonized or mocked or all of the above. then I see and hear white wlw saying shit about how welcoming wlw are like they haven’t been pushing us out all this time
I’m not saying this is a problem exclusive to wlw by the way, this happens in literally every community that has white people in it. I’ve dealt with racism from white people as a member of the disabled community, from white women in feminist spaces, in activist groups I worked with, etc.
white people need to take a good long look at racism in their communities before they start proclaiming them to be welcoming spaces. because I can guarantee that if your community has white people, your community has racism
it’s genuinely so heartbreaking how many people of colour in the notes are relating to this. I’m not surprised how many people relate, but I really wish we all didn’t have to go through this
I think that every white person who reads this post should also go through the notes, read the tags that poc are adding this. because you need to recognize how you’re hurting us, and how we’re justified in hating you.
and to any of my fellow people of colour who see this: I love you, I see you, we’re in this shit together and we’re gonna survive this mess
Not much we can do right now for college applicants of color, indebted graduates, or lgbt people facing discrimination from businesses, but we CAN donate to the Navajo water project https://www.navajowaterproject.org/
My roommate is in the hospital and may end up needing emergency surgery. They’re trying to decide rn, either way we will need help affording his food, meds, and other things needed for recovery. This is urgent. I don’t even have a way to get home to pick him up some things and grab my meds. Also our fucking storage bill needs paying.
I’ll do art when things settle for anyone who gives $50+ @theartistrans
Estimating on the goal because what will happen is still unknown but I’m lowballing
Dm for details or proof I have so much given I’ve been documenting the severity of his situation in case they botch his care.
$151/$1,000
He’s been discharged, they said he doesn’t need surgery, but gave a very specific diet for him to follow, and sent him home with some meds. They’ll be getting him another gastrointerologist appointment soon. Goal may need to be updated for thay but progress is urgent to get him food in the morning.
