#immigrants welcome

[kropotkindersurprise]

December 26, 2023 - A migrant caravan marches through Mexico to the American border chanting slogans. The migrants are looking for a better life in the rich country, fleeing their homes to escape poverty and violence largely caused by decades of US intervention across Latin America. [video]

#immigrants welcome #immigration #workers #working class #2023 #migrant caravan #refugees welcome #gif #video #usa #mexico #chiapas #latin america #solidarity #no borders #no nations #border

[nando161mando]

#schrödinger #immigration #immigrants #welfare #jobs #job #work #wage slavery #slavery #sweatshop #refugees #refugees welcome #immigrants welcome #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government #class war #eat the rich #eat the fucking rich #trickle down economics #jerkmillionaires #jerkbillionaires #jerktrillionaires

[uw-wb]

#immigrants welcome #refugees welcome #open borders #london #home

[yautjalover]

This blog has been and will be a safe space away from the shitty world we’ve inherited. It’s a cruel and cold place where the bad guys continually win. I will use my platform just this once to bring something from the real world.

My blog is a pro-choice safe space. My blog is a LGBTQIA+ safe space. My blog is a Leftist safe space. My blog is BIPOC safe space. My blog is a safe space for the immigrants and the marginalized.

Unfortunately, Yautja aren’t real, but you all are. Take care of yourselves in the light of the recent SCOTUS ruling. Make sure to eat and drink plenty of water. Set down social media to de-stress and remember that the good fight isn’t over. People with uteruses are under attack.

Nolite te bastardes carborundum.

Don’t let the bastards grind you down.

We will return to the regular posting after this message. I feel it’s important to make my stance publicly on this. Forced-birther replies will be blocked and remember…this isn’t an airport — your departure will just be cheered.

#yautjalover #pro choice #afab autonomy #bans off my body #fuck off forced-birthers #the handmaids tale #no uterus no opinion #lgbtqplus #Bipoc welcome #immigrants welcome #diversity is based

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

#uk politics #edinburgh #scotland #raids #immigration #anti raids #immigrants welcome #fuck the home office

[personal-blog243]

#Daca #dreamers #families belong together #abolish ice #immigrants we get the job done #immigrants they get the job done #immigrant rights #immigrants welcome #dreamers welcome #healthcare is a human right

[johnsaveland]

“States should be able to sponsor whatever immigrants serve the needs of their communities.”

👏👏💪

[LINK]

#immigration #immigrants welcome #immigrants #migrants

[humanrightsconnected]

It has been 10 years ago since applications under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program were accepted for the first time! As we celebrate this milestone, make sure also to read our action guide and find out how you can continue the fight to defend DACA ✊!

#daca #defend daca #daca dreamers #dacamented #dreamers #dream act #undocumented #undocumented and unafraid #home is here #we are home #here to stay #immigration #immigrant #immigrants #immigrants make america great #immigrants welcome #immigrants are welcome here #immigration reform #immigration law #immigration policy #no human is illegal #citizenship #human rights

[drmonkeysetroscans]

Immigrants make the USA stronger.

#immigrants welcome

[1whimsicalgal]

#mybodyisnotgovernmentproperty #celebratediversity #blacklivesmatter #immigrants welcome

[reasonsforhope]

“America likes to tell a certain story about itself: It’s a safe haven, a place of refuge for the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. It’s a story that history shows hasn’t always been true. But thankfully, it just got easier for Americans to take matters into their own hands and turn that aspiration into a reality.

The Biden administration on January 19 launched the Welcome Corps, a new program that will allow groups of Americans to directly sponsor refugees to resettle in their communities.

Whereas recent programs have focused on bringing over people from specific places — Afghanistan, Ukraine, Venezuela — this program makes it possible for private citizens to resettle people from any place in the world, so long as they are refugees as defined by the US Refugee Act.

Under the Welcome Corps program, you and a few of your friends can pool together funds to provide an immigration pathway that allows vulnerable people who may not otherwise be able to immigrate the ability to rebuild their lives in the US. Forming a private sponsor group involves bringing together at least five adults in your area and collectively raising $2,275 for each person you want to resettle in your community. With that money, sponsors commit to helping them through the first three months there, which can include securing and furnishing housing, stocking the pantry with food, supporting job hunts, and registering kids for school.

It’s a powerful way to improve life for the newcomers, granting them protection from persecution or violence in their country of origin, plus the chance to access health care, education, and socioeconomic opportunities. It can also improve life for everyone who’ll be in the newcomers’ orbit, including you and your neighbors. Research suggests welcoming refugees will likely benefit your community as a whole, for example by opening new businesses that revitalize neighborhoods. In Canada, a similar private sponsorship program has proven immensely popular and successful over the past decade.

But you might be thinking: Why should it fall to private citizens to fork over the cash, time, and energy to resettle refugees? Shouldn’t that be the government’s job?

...It’s a fair point: This is the government’s job. That’s why the advocacy groups that pushed for the Welcome Corps program insisted that any refugees who come to the US via private sponsorship should be in addition to the number of traditional, government-assisted resettlement cases.

The State Department has signaled that it agrees. This means that by sponsoring a refugee, you can play a role in allowing the US to take in more refugees overall. It really is additive.

And unlike prior programs for Afghans or Ukrainians, which were temporary, ad hoc responses to crises, the Welcome Corps is intended to be a permanent fixture. The hope is that it’ll complement the traditional resettlement process, which has been struggling for years.”

-via Vox, 1/27/23

#refugees #asylum #us politics #immigration #migration is a human right #refugee #afghanistan #ukraine #welcome corps #refugee sponsorship #united states #human rights #immigration reform #immigrant rights #good news #hope #this has SO MUCH potential to make a difference #to let us help people rather than just watch the government be awful and racist #it's huge

[africanrefugeeswelcome]

Just random photos and videos of white women who love Africa

#mixed babies #mixed families #mixed baby #mixed family #mixed pregnancy #interracial couple #kisses #intarracial kisses #african immigrants welcome #africanrefugeeswelcome #africanrefugees #blacklivesmatter #pregnant #white mothers #interracial kissing #tiktok

[nando161mando]

"Workin' a lotta hours..."

Mhm, yes.

"...for not a lotta pay"

yep, can relate

"Strugglin' to put food on the table..."

yep, the struggle is real.

"all because of those DAMN FORIEGNERS"

Ah... you were so close.

#class consciousness #wage slavery #slavery #anti slavery #chattel slavery #refugees welcome #immigrants welcome #no laws no borders #capitalism #shareholders #eat the rich #eat the fucking rich #class war #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government #anti capitalism #anticapitalista #anti capitalist love notes #anticapitalistically #antiauthoritarian #antifascist #workers solidarity

[runonthewater]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: trying to re-learn how to do social media on Tumblr as opposed to Twitter is a weird process. There's a rhythm to writing for Twitter, dictated in part by the character limit and in part by culture, that's totally different to Tumblr.

Take the graf above. On Twitter I might have written it so:

I've said it before and I'll say it again: re-learning how to do social media on Tumblr as opposed to Twitter is Weird. There's a rhythm to writing for Twitter that's totally different. That's dictated in part by character limit and in part by culture.

Tumblr, both as a medium and a culture, lends itself more to long sentences and denser paragraphs. (I think Reddit is similar but I've never been a poster there, only a lurker.) Twitter encourages more line breaks, not only when you have a new high-level idea to introduce, but when you have supporting points to bring up within the idea.

Like, I feel like a lunatic putting this thought on a new line here on Tumblr.

On Twitter I wouldn't think twice. It's normal. Expected. Required!

Here I feel like a slam poet who just barged into a university lecture or a Shakespeare soliloquy.

This being said, it's not like Tumblr doesn't have a local convention of breaking up thoughts over multiple lines/posts. Here we often do it via the medium of reblogs, though, like in this excellent post by @amtrak-official.

idk man I just think linguistic cultures are so interesting!!

#tumblr #twitter #reddit #reddit migration #twitter immigration #welcome to tumblr #linguistics #language

[quotidianish]

I love when characters have a weird relationship with their identity as an immigrant (psychoanalysing silly tf2 men) (demo n heavy)

#The long title is for a fic I’ve always wanted to write #Mostly about how they both heard of America through media in their nation as an ever welcoming utopia #Mikhail dreams of it or a world like it during his hardest times #It’s something that sticks with him throughout life the early naive idea of a country free from strife #Then when he arrives and suffering is everywhere #Hatred Directed especially at people like him and Tavish #Blah blah blah idk #They bond over it. TWO FUCKED UP IMMIGRANT BOYS!! Are you interested (shaking) #The scene in particular is seeing some dead guy on the street #People are ignoring said dead guy and they try to brush it off #sorry for rambling woopsie #tf2 #art #tf2 demoman #tf2 soldier #tf2 heavy #tf2 fanart #team fortress 2 #quotidianish

[supercantaloupe]

What is the antisemitism in TUC season 1? Does it have to do with Wally the golem?/gen

[ID: an ask from an anonymous tumblr user that reads "would love to hear more about the antisemitism in unsleeping city! was a while ago that i watched it and can't remember what you might be referencing but definitely want to be aware of it.]

no, it's not about willy the golem -- i actually think willy is a great addition to the season (even if i wish we got to see more of him), and an indication to me that brennan/the showrunners were definitely trying to be sincere and inclusive. i want to make it clear that i don't think anything antisemitic in tuc is there intentionally; i think it's there out of simple ignorance, which is also why i think fans don't frequently see/comment on it either. but i don't think that's an excuse, either.

my grief with tuc1 is largely centered around its portrayal of robert moses as the villain. especially by making him a greedy, power-hungry lich working en league with bloodsucking vampires. (also his mini is literally a green skinned skull man in a suit. yikes.) here's the thing; i know robert moses was a real life horrible person, who actually was racist and powerhungry etc etc. and i know that robert moses, the real actual person, was jewish. my grief with tuc1 is not that they chose to use robert moses over literally any other person (real or fictional) to be their season villain (though i'd be really curious to know what tuc1 would have looked like with a different villain), but that they chose to take a real jewish person, turn them into an antisemitic caricature, and then only barely add other portrayals of judaism to balance that out.

like, tuc isn't completely devoid of other jewish representation. as you mention, there's willy the golem -- and again, i really like willy, and i love that it's a portrayal of a golem that's faithful to jewish folklore (ie as a benevolent, guardian construct rather than a mindless destructive monster. i am not a fan of how 'golem' is so frequently misused as a generic enemy creature in other fantasy and ttrpg spaces, including other seasons of d20). but as i said earlier, i wish we see more of him in the season, because he's not around very much, and feels a little more like worldbuilding than a full character to me. also, he's not human. jews are people.

the only other human jewish character in tuc1 is...stephen sondheim. which, again, yeah, that's a real person who really was jewish. but i really wouldn't blame you if you had no idea of that when watching tuc1. maybe from the name you could guess he might be jewish, but i don't think people ought to make a habit of trying to 'clock' someone being jewish by having a 'jewish-sounding' surname. as he's portrayed in tuc1, you'd never know he's jewish, unless you happen to already be pretty knowledgeable about the man in real life. it's far more likely you'll know him as a theater legend than anything else (may his memory be a blessing).

now i'm not saying that brennan or the showrunners should have played up the jewishness of Real Person Stephen Sondheim to counterbalance the depiction of robert moses; that just feels weird to me, especially considering that sondheim was literally alive when tuc1 was filmed and released. it's a tricky thing to portray real people in fiction alongside made up characters, especially when they are contemporaries, and i don't think 'outright caricature' is the way to go about that. nor do i think that moses' jewishness should have been played up at all, because again i don't think that would have been particularly true to the person/character, and also Fucking Yikes. but, c'mon, if you hear the names 'moses' and 'sondheim' next to each other, which one do you associate more with judaism?

and as it stands, these are the only representations of judaism in tuc1. one admittedly nice but very minor nonhuman character; one human character you'd never be able to tell was jewish; and a third human character who, while never explicitly referenced as jewish, plays into some really hurtful antisemitic stereotyping. and it was a choice to not include anything else. maybe not a deliberate one, probably more likely one made out of simple ignorance than anything else, but a choice nonetheless. in a city with one of the largest and most visibly jewish populations in the country, and a culture that is inextricably influenced by that jewish population. a jewish population which has been and continues the target of rising hate crimes for years. i know that nyc means different things to different people, and everyone's nyc is their own -- but my nyc is jewish, and it sucks that that its jewishness is referenced directly in only one very minor way, which is greatly overshadowed by its, in my view, really insidious indirect references.

i don't know exactly how to go about addressing this. obviously, the show can't be changed by now. even if it could, i think the final product would be very significantly different from what it is now if the villain was something/someone else. i think including more references to jews in new york, more (human) jewish characters, hell, even mentioning hanukkah celebrations and menorahs in windows (it takes place in late december, after all; depending on the year it's not at all out of place for hanukkah to coincide with xmas!) would help. having literally any more positive jewish representation in tuc1 would, i think, help balance the bad stuff that's there. because, yeah, robert moses was real and he was terrible and he was jewish. but he's one jewish guy in a city with over a million jews, the vast majority of whom are just normal people. i don't want him to be the only vision of us that people get, in tuc1 alone or in any media. i'm not saying that jews can't or shouldn't be villains in fiction; but especially if you are a goyische creator, you should be really careful in how you're portraying us, and if there are other contrasting depictions in your work, too, in order to not (even accidentally) demonize jewish people as a whole.

#sasha answers #anon #unsleeping city #the unsleeping city #long post #sorry for not putting this under a read more but i think people ought to see this. or at least #if two people felt the need to ask me about it then at least they would want to see the full thing uncovered #also fwiw i do think that they tried to address this to some extent when they made tuc2 #with more scenes with willy (and incorporating more golem folklore with the animating word in his mouth -- nice touch!) #the jewish immigrant family in the photo flashback encounter (even if the hanukkiah in the picture isn't exactly kosher lol) #and ESPECIALLY rabbi mike. i ADORE rabbi mike. i think he's a WONDERFUL addition #i do still wish he was a more important/prominent character. cause again he isn't in it all that much. #(and he's still like. the only new jewish human character in the campaign.) #but i recognize what he represents and i am happy about it #i do think brennan & the d20 crew tried to improve after tuc1. i do. i see their efforts and i applaud them for it #but still to my knowledge they haven't ever directly addressed the errors made in season 1 #and it's extremely rare that i even see other fans mention it #and like. sorry but i am tired. i am. we deserve better. we deserve portrayals in media that show us as People #not just as evil monsters #anyway you're welcome to rb this but be cool in the notes esp if you're a goy #other jews are welcome to (respectfully) disagree with me if they want #also if you so much as mention the word israel on this post you're getting blocked end of