Elizabeth Starrantino
@estarrantinoNonprofit expat still trying to do some good in the world @sprucefdn @fandmcollege @VU_Business alum. Thoughts=mine. Photo: Cassie Boca on Unsplash
This November, the hottest club is your local polling place. It has everything: stickers, democratic freedom, poll workers who can't work the machines, free pens, the chance to elect people who won't take away your rights, florescent lighting.
⚡️Mykolaiv zoo asks public to buy tickets to save animals from starvation. The southern city has been under attack for days. The struggling zoo, which has been shut down, is asking the public to donate by buying tickets online: bit.ly/3t7im77
That moment when you slow down for a minute and are hit, overwhelmed, once again by the rage and the grief, by how bone-crushingly unfair and monstrous this all is, for this small, insecure men to destroy so many lives for absolutely nothing.
“The fight is here. I need ammunition, not a ride.” Ukrainian President Zelensky
One more reminder that if you are not currently a working parent of 1+ children under the age of 5, you may not fully appreciate just how impossible everything is, or just how soul-crushing it is to hear that such impossible-ness isn't likely to change anytime soon.
Here’s our official announcement from @TexasChildrens @BCM_TropMed on our partnership with @biological_e to vaccinate the world beginning with this EUA in India 🇮🇳 texaschildrens.org/texas-children…
I don’t pray often but I am now. I am trying to get people out of Afghanistan. If you can add this to your prayer card tonight I would appreciate it.
Talked to one of our office staff who's got a family member who contracted covid-19 (in another country) they were almost in tears about it, saying people in Philly aren't taking the vaccine while my family is dying (abroad) and would have gladly taken it. #Perspective
David Dorn was 77. He spent four decades protecting people as a police officer in St Louis and then came out of retirement to keep serving as Moline Acres' police chief. Looters shot him in the torso & he died bleeding on a sidewalk This chaos must end stltoday.com/news/local/cri…
Philadelphian of the day. 💯
Khalil Gardner is a part of a group dragging a basketball hoop around center city trying to get people to play to break the tension.
George Floyd and I were both arrested for allegedly spending a counterfeit $20 bill. For George Floyd, a man my age, with two kids, it was a death sentence. For me, it is a story I sometimes tell at parties. That, my friends, is White privilege.
Journalists I respect and have worked with for years are getting arrested for doing their job, beat up by racist assholes, getting berated by lunatics...just for doing their jobs. As more and more get laid off across the industry. It is a truly dark time. Democracy is dying.
“Look for the helpers” You don’t have to look far at all! Philly showed up to clean this morning. This as the city prepares to shut streets down to prevent more looting and damage tonight. @NBCPhiladelphia
I didn't spend my childhood in barbed wire enclosed internment camps so I could listen to grown adults today cry oppression because they have to wear a mask at Costco.
This La Salle grad and Johnson & Johnson materials engineer is 3D printing plastic masks to donate to health centers as a "first line of defense" against COVID-19 phillyvoice.com/coronavirus-ma…
New: Starting Monday, free food is available for anyone who needs it. This is in addition to our meal sites for students only. You can pick up 1 box per household, and that will last up to five days. Find a food site near you ⬇ bit.ly/3awBQq8
If we're able to slowly substitute case-based interventions for population wide mitigation in areas where transmission is suppressed or declining, these kinds of surveillance tools are critical. We should be replicating this nationwide. #COVID19 @trvrb publichealthinsider.com/2020/03/23/int…
Thank you to our Ohana for delivering our first 9000 masks to UCSF. We are working hard across all of our resources & relationships to deliver an additional 5 million masks this week plus additional critical PPE. All of us need to focus on getting PPE to our local hospitals. ❤️
🚨NY has a critical need for PPE including gloves, gowns & masks🚨 We need companies to be creative to supply the crucial gear our healthcare workers need. NY will pay a premium and offer funding. Need Funding? 📞212-803-3100 Have Unused Supplies? 📞646-522-8477 SHARE widely.
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