“had raised about $400,000 from over 700 grassroots donations”
“says $3 million of the donation will go toward the group's primary — and most time-sensitive — goal of raising $5.6 million to buy the theater”
"We do not quite have enough money for the purchase itself yet, but we are drawing close to that," Heilig said.
Hmm. I thought $5.2M + $400k was equal to $5.6M. Sounds like the primary goal is to make 2.2 million, 2.6 if you include the 400k raised, disappear. Sounds super dodgy.
The goal is to raise $14m, for purchase, renovations, and operations. The article says that $2m of the $5m is going to be used in a campaign for matching donations. It's a common tactic to get more people to donate. Even though they already have that money, they aren't adding it to their total until more people chip in. If it works, it will get them up over $7m.
Is this the one that smells like cum? We have those all over the place where I am in California, too. Wish they'd ban them for the same reason. They're invasive and kill everything around them. I actually don't mind the smell. I like cum.
Callery pear tree (or Bradford pear tree) is well known for its gorgeous white blossoms — as well as a smell that’s been described as foul, fishy, pungent and distasteful.
That's a very polite way to say the tree smells like semen.
Videos from the demonstration appeared to show counter-protesters holding an Israeli flag chanting “Kill the Jews.”
I've seen a lot of articles like this but I've yet to see any evidence. I find it very hard to believe any student protesters would allow anything like that parallel to their protests since it would undermine their goals.
Yeah something smells fishy. I’m thinking agitators, or like 1 or 2 people said it and they use it to make it sound like the whole group was saying it.
The rumor is a counter-protestor (pro-Isreal) started pretending to be an antisemitic pro-Palestine person and everyone there shouted him down. Again it's just a rumor that I read. I feel like these days its getting harder and harder to really know anything, but I have a hard time imagining ACTUAL antisemites would take over a college campus protest.
On the other hand I do acknowledge that ACTUAL antisemitism have been huge problem as they appropriate the pro-palestine movement to further antisemitism, as I have seen in wayy too many places online these days (Just to make sure I'm clear- criticizing Israel isn't antisemitism, but saying Jews secretly control the world and every Jew is secretly pro-Israel certainly is).
There is a video on birdsite showing it was one guy, holding an Israel flag, who changed it once and then said “right? Any takers? Because that’s what you were just chanting for, right guys?”
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