Layla, LMSW 🪬
@itslaylas
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romans 12:2 | writer, social worker, creator of “A Different World” | MSW @columbiassw, @ncstate alum | palestinian american | likes & RT’s ≠ endorsements
NYC // NC
Joined August 2014
New issue of "A Different World" is out! This issue features: - multiple paid student internships - a contract ghost writer role that pays $100 per hour - a concert by the Palestinian Youth Choir fundraising for @MECAForPeace, and more! https://t.co/r4OZY3spAN
Opposing the ongoing genocide in Gaza often means paying financially: cancelled contracts, loss of employment, and struggling to find work. Excited to announce A Different World, a new newsletter filled with jobs and events. All 100% free and hand curated by me.
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i'm at the point where.... idc how it happens, when it happens, whatever makes it click....as long as folks are waking up ...i'm here for it. i'm loving this. just don't stop here. keep reading, keep getting mad, keep learning... keep going!
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I have some incredible news to share. Today, after 9.5 agonizing months, Mohammed Zaher Ibrahim was released from Israel’s Ofer Prison and into his father’s arms. The Israeli military had no right to take him in the first place, and the family credits the relentless grassroots
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OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: CCNY students respond to DOJ’s decision to open investigation into campus Palestine advocacy. @wawog_now (1/2)
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North Carolina joins Minnesota, Michigan, the Presbyterian Church (USA), the United Methodist church, & many cities across the US in divesting from “Israel Bonds”. More info here:
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“Israel Bonds” are security bonds issued by the Israeli government. It’s basically a loan that provides financial support to the Israeli military. Since October 7th, “Israel Bonds” have been used extensively to finance bombs and munitions in Gaza.
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BREAKING: North Carolina Divests from Israel. Break the Bonds coalition, a collective of 40 activist & faith organizations, has pressured North Carolina to sell all “israel bonds” in the state pension fund, $6.4 million dollars.
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Please share with your friends looking for work and reach out if you have a gig/job/event to feature. Several people have been hired through A Different World & one person quit their job at Microsoft. My next goal is ten hires!
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New issue of "A Different World" is out! This issue features: - a new section just for freelance, contract, and temporary work - marketing & communications roles - a free first aid workshop by Philly Action Readiness Collective & more! https://t.co/hdP9W8bSoh
Opposing the ongoing genocide in Gaza often means paying financially: cancelled contracts, loss of employment, and struggling to find work. Excited to announce A Different World, a new newsletter filled with jobs and events. All 100% free and hand curated by me.
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🚨 Four prisoners for Palestine have declared a hunger strike for Palestine They are demanding a complete end to UK complicity in genocide, an end to the use of terrorism laws and fair treatment as prisoners. This act of resistance is their last line of defence. Support and
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Day laborer organizers in California are lining up at Home Depot to buy a single 17-cent scraper, return it, and repeat the process in an effort to slow sales and protest the store’s cooperation with ICE operations.
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announcing https://t.co/02gJDRBfpK - A directory of resources and aid for NYC. use / distribute / add
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The NYPD confirmed its involvement in an FBI investigation that included surveillance of a private Signal chat of volunteer courtwatchers monitoring ICE activity inside New York City’s immigration courthouses. https://t.co/NFDYayTQ2e
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For 10 days I haven't received any donations despite being in dire need 😭💔 I am facing great difficulties in life due to a lack of money. $10 makes a big difference to me Thank you to everyone who stands by me 🥺 https://t.co/eMx4NRjShQ
@Louis_Allday @MothTongue_
My mother still needs physical therapy 💔 https://t.co/nAuWuqr1Fc Every time she screams so much from the pain, I cry when I hear it 😭💔 Please help her recover faster. The fewer the donations, the longer her sessions are delayed, and the frostbite returns after several
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Israeli warplanes carried out a strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs, with an Israeli spokesman claiming the target was a Hezbollah member. Once again, Israel violates the ceasefire agreement, this time by striking Lebanon’s capital itself.
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https://t.co/DI9WGTlT9v… Two days without donations means two days without food, two days of deprivation that we try to make our children forget after the war.
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It never dawns on them that maybe the solution is to just treat Palestinians as equal human beings. Ban cell phones, ditch holocaust education, shut down tiktok, sue the universities into the ground. All that is easier and more reasonable for them than treating us as humans.
“…When I’m trying to make arguments in favor Israel, I realize I’m talking through a wall of dead children…” Her solution? Ban cellphones.
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