Giller Prize interrupted by protestors; Sarah Bernstein wins the Giller

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BREAKING: Protestors disrupt @scotiabank’s Giller Prize Ceremony this evening. Scotiabank is funding the genocide of the Palestinian people through its $500 million stake in Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer. pic.twitter.com/agWTD0kfOx
- Palestinian Youth Movement (@palyouthmvmt) November 14, 2023

• The Scotiabank Giller prize

Comments

[inandoutofgrace]

I’m so in awe of activists 🥺 my anxiety would never let me interrupt anything. Pathetic I know, considering what people are living through right now, but what I’ve been seeing on socials and how protestors are disrupting in order to demand a ceasefire is the only thing that really counters how dark everything feels due to the genocide

[bellwetherr]

i've been keeping back because i'm pregnant and i just don't have the stamina these days and it's been so hard to see these protests happen and not be there

[inandoutofgrace]

It’s a good thing that we have other ways to support Palestine :)

[bellwetherr]

yes!! like frantically emailing every rep i have and being annoying af

[inandoutofgrace]

I’m not gonna lie, it doesn’t help really but roasting CNN on their ‘journalism’ (and seeing a bunch of other people do it too) is also pretty cathartic

[bellwetherr]

ahahaa every little bit is something!

[soyunatetera]

I know a couple of people who has done that kind of protest, like interrupting ceremonies or public act, etc (not about palestine, but in the past). Very brave people, one told she was so full of adrenaline she couldn't sleep at all the night before lol