A Couple of Tidbits
Been very busy and also feeling a bit sick lately (heat? dunno - but today's supposed to be cool and rainy, so we'll see). Therefore, I've not got a lot for today's Open Thread. But I do have a few tidbits!

Tidbit 1:
A young woman in Canada, a student at a high school in Montreal, got suspended for supporting Palestine! So much for free speech, eh? It was, of course, that she was against the wars and the genocide Israel is doing. And she posted a link to a reel by Lee Camp about October 7th. And those two things got her suspended.

Lee says:

That’s right. Apparently the first ever suspension in Montreal public schools (or perhaps even Canada’s public schools in general) due to reposting criticism of a country was because of …me. Wow. I’m more powerful than I realized.

But here’s the good news. After many people wrote to defend the student and protesters even showed up in freezing temperatures in March to demand the school system apologize, the student was vindicated.

What the heck?! Canada, how disappointing!

Protesters in support of the student, what the student wrote on her own private instragram account is on the little white protest sign (from the story at therover.ca here)