A Dutch church has been conducting religious services for 27 days to protect a refugee family

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For the past 27 days, a small Protestant church in The Hague has been conducting round-the-clock religious services to protect an Armenian refugee family from deportation.

By law, police officers in The Netherlands are not allowed to enter places of worship during religious services. So, reverends from around the country have taken turns holding services at Bethel Church to prevent officials from arresting the Tamrazyan family, who have been in The Netherlands for nine years. 

“By giving hospitality to this family, we could give them time and place to [demonstrate] to the secretary of state the … urgency of their situation,” Theo Hettema, chairman of the General Council of Protestant Ministers says.

#it only counts as a service if people actually attend#so at least one person has to be there 24/7#my mum’s been getting up at 5:30 for weeks now so that she could attend a service before work#:’)#and there are a couple of volunteers who are there at night when fewer people are likely to show up#it’s a community effort and the government has no choice but to address this#there’s increasing pressure from the oppsition and some parties within the coalition as well9,035 notes 

(via @jammeke )

posted 11/21/2018

solidarity/direct action – that’s my kinda religion yeah!

A Dutch church has been conducting religious services for 27 days to protect a refugee family

leerans:

It’s wild how like… JKR is so skilled at so many aspects of writing, especially in little character moments, but when it comes to implications of throwaway lines she just… not a SINGLE thought. 

Like in Chamber of Secrets, when Harry is talking to Tom / Voldemort and is like, you Framed Hagrid, Tom is like, yeah he was always trying to raise monsters, 

he says that Hagrid tried to raise werewolf cubs under his bed like… 

oh you mean like, children? like human children? 

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A short manga about a cute assassin from Toshiya Wakabayashi, mangaka of Tsurezure Children

若林稔弥@最終12巻発売中 on Twitter

He tried posting it on reddit but couldn’t figure out how to so he just copied someone else’s post

I will protect this man with my life.

Another thing

He actually redrew one of the panels since the original animal pun couldn’t translate

Great news everyone! Part 2 is finally in English

https://twitter.com/sankakujougi/status/1064723124992671744

PART 3!!!!

https://twitter.com/sankakujougi/status/1067951550524354561

Heads up–Toshiya Wakabayashi is selling a PDF of the first chapter’s English version on pixivBOOTH for only 324 yen (that’s $2.86 USD)! PayPal can be used to pay!

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https://twitter.com/sankakujougi/status/1068727753170534400

Thanks for addding that. I’ll be grabbing it.

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Ruby Bridges was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis in 1960.

This movie made me cry, I was so heart broken by how Ruby Bridges was treated! She was only 6, but was so strong. She is a very brave girl and she did not care what the white folks called her.

People are simply disgusting to minimize people by skin color!

Ruby you might not think you’re a hero… But to other people you are! You are A HERO and you are A PERSON WHO MADE AMERICA CHANGE!

this is white culture, this is their history, this is their legacy…being enraged at a damn baby just because she’s black.

she’s still alive by the way

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Ruby Bridges in 2010 

“As Bridges describes it, “Driving up I could see the crowd, but living in New Orleans, I actually thought it was Mardi Gras. There was a large crowd of people outside of the school. They were throwing things and shouting, and that sort of goes on in New Orleans at Mardi Gras.“ Former United States Deputy Marshal Charles Burks later recalled, “She showed a lot of courage. She never cried. She didn’t whimper. She just marched along like a little soldier, and we’re all very very proud of her.“ 

U.S. Marshals escorted Bridges to and from school

As soon as Bridges entered the school, white parents pulled their own children out; all the teachers refused to teach while a black child was enrolled. Only one person agreed to teach Ruby and that was Barbara Henry, from Boston, Massachusetts, and for over a year Henry taught her alone, “as if she were teaching a whole class.”

Every morning, as Bridges walked to school, one woman would threaten to poison her; because of this, the U.S. Marshals dispatched by President Eisenhower, who were overseeing her safety, allowed Ruby to eat only the food that she brought from home.

Another woman at the school put a black baby doll in a wooden coffin and protested with it outside the school, a sight that Bridges Hall has said “scared me more than the nasty things people screamed at us.” At her mother’s suggestion, Bridges began to pray on the way to school, which she found provided protection from the comments yelled at her on the daily walks.”

More info on Ruby Bridges on Wikipedia

THIS SHIT WAS ONLY 58 YEARS AGO. PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THIS RACIST TERRORISM AND ACTS LIKE IT ARE STILL ALIVE, AND THEIR KIDS ARE IN THEIR 40′S AND 50′S. 

DON’T LET RACISM APOLOGISTS GET AWAY WITH “WHY ARE YOU LIVING IN THE PAST,” BULLSHIT ARGUMENTS. WE ARE LITERALLY STILL DEALING WITH THE FAMILIES THAT FORMED HATE MOBS OVER BLACK CHILDREN ATTENDING SCHOOL WITH WHITE KIDS.

This was her then:

This is literally how she looks in 2017. 

She’s literally not even  old. 

This is what I don’t fucking understand about people who act like racism isn’t a big issue anymore. MY mom went to a school that was still “whites only” and some of the teachers at mine had been there since the time it was a “blacks only” school, all of this shit was too recent to even be called “history.” It may as well have been fucking yesterday and a huge chunk of our CURRENT government consists of people old enough to have voted for or against changing any of this.

aka14kgold:

For the first time, my block is unsafe for me to be on after dark. A balcony towards the end of the block has moving colored lights – not good, but not too terrible on its own. However, on the other side of the street – the house right next to my building – one window is blanketed in strobe-fast Christmas lights. Like, you can see a square of light flashing on the sidewalk from a block away. Avoiding the full force of it entails approaching my building only from the north and east, so I’ll have to detour a couple blocks when coming from anywhere except Steinway. And I’ll have to have my sunglasses on hand – I didn’t tonight, but I was focusing really hard on keeping my head low and eyes glued to the ground, which is not conducive to crossing the street.

So, here’s your yearly reminder that if you put up Christmas lights which flash, blink, cascade, flicker, or move in any other way, you are, statistically, likely putting someone in serious danger and/or pain. 

aka14kgold:

For the first time, my block is unsafe for me to be on after dark. A balcony towards the end of the block has moving colored lights – not good, but not too terrible on its own. However, on the other side of the street – the house right next to my building – one window is blanketed in strobe-fast Christmas lights. Like, you can see a square of light flashing on the sidewalk from a block away. Avoiding the full force of it entails approaching my building only from the north and east, so I’ll have to detour a couple blocks when coming from anywhere except Steinway. And I’ll have to have my sunglasses on hand – I didn’t tonight, but I was focusing really hard on keeping my head low and eyes glued to the ground, which is not conducive to crossing the street.

So, here’s your yearly reminder that if you put up Christmas lights which flash, blink, cascade, flicker, or move in any other way, you are, statistically, likely putting someone in serious danger and/or pain. 

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Empire Strikes Back (1980).

When you’re told to evacuate because the Galactic Empire just took over your city, you only have time to grab the essentials.

God, this guy is one of my favorite ridiculous EU characters along with Elan Sleazebaggano.

He was basically just a random extra with an ice cream maker, but they gave him an entire in-depth backstory about how he was a member of the Rebellion and that ice cream maker contained a lot of vital data and basically he single-handedly saved the Rebellion that day.

No really.

He has an action figure, of course, as does his ice cream maker computer datacore.

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Fuck.

the star wars eu is a wild fucking ride

“After the Rebels’ victory, Hood decided to take it easy.” with a daily supply of fresh ice cream i guess

Epic legends.

Every Star Wars Celebration has the Run of the Willrow Hoods. Dozens of fans cosplay as Willrow and run through the con with their ice cream makers.

^ Please tell me there’s video footage of this. Do people wait for the stampede and see if they can press one of the On switches without getting gored?

this is the greatest thing ever

That’s … a ride.

Star Wars extra: *runs by with an ice cream maker*

Star Wars fandom:

nochnyr:

Raise your hands if your lore just sort of happens in absolutely random bursts where one second you’re reading a nice forum post and the next you cobbled together an entire backstory/relationship/magical ability for some derg on the fifth page of your lair that you’ve never even looked at before.