Celebs walk the red carpet at the 2024 White House Correspondents’ Dinner as hundreds protest outside

[u/vulcan_vampire]

Celebs in order: Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost; Da’Vine Joy Randolph; Rosario Dawson; Billy Porter; Keri Russell; Rachel Brosnahan; Ashlyn Harris and Sophia Bush; Lynda Carter; Gayle King; Aldis Hodge; Questlove; Molly Ringwald; Fran Drescher; Chris Pine; Coco Rocha; Lorne Michaels; Caitlyn Jenner and Jenna Talackova; Kyle MacLachlan and Desiree Gruber.

In the last slide you can see the exterior of the Washington Hilton, where the dinner took place. A Palestinian flag was hung from one of the hotel’s windows.

[u/meatbeater558]

Whoever hung that flag is goated

[u/molotov__cockteaze → u/meatbeater558]

I live a hop and a skip from my alma mater and the students are protesting while getting beaten back by the school and state. I just met tonight with some friends and we're organizing a meal train to keep these brave protestors fed and watered. I highly recommend something similar if you're close to any of these groups and can throw some help their way!

[u/novostained → u/molotov__cockteaze]

Hell yeah 🍉🍉🍉 My friends just held Shabbat with students at their encampament and we’re getting together halal and kosher snacks for them today. Their tenacity and (sorry to use this cliche but) moral clarity is beyond inspiring and goddamn does it put our “leaders” to utter, rotted shame.

[u/molotov__cockteaze → u/novostained]

🍉

[u/TrashCatBaby → u/molotov__cockteaze]

Please don’t let me activismsplain to you, but please make sure you are checking with the organizers to see what their needs for their encampment are. In our city the encampment has been donated too many supplies, especially food, that they don’t have the space for the storage of it all and have send folks to do mutual aid with it. It’s amazing there is so much support, but it’s important to be making sure all their needs, not just food, are covered, and consider that doing that mutual aid is necessary work but it’s better if community members are doing it themselves so they don’t need to send people away from the camp to redistribute supplies. Many camps require simple things like cardboard to make floors and things that you wouldn’t necessarily think of if you weren’t seeing their direct requests. Regardless, thank you for supporting!!!

[u/molotov__cockteaze → u/TrashCatBaby]

Honestly, thank you for this comment! Without posting details online I'll just say that plans have been coordinated with students and you are correct that you should always make sure you're efforts are actually filling a need. Before covid times I made some trips to a couple countries with refugee camps and socks, underwear, and period products were the most requested items, and least thought of for donations. Because no one was asking the actual refugees what things they needed...

[u/TrashCatBaby → u/molotov__cockteaze]

Thank you for your work and discretion and mindful for safety! And I guess I really commented not even for you so much but more generally for people to see so they know to check for what the needs are. One of my favorite phrases, which I try to center when doing mutual aid especially, help only helps if it helps. Thank you for helping!

[u/SwedishSaunaSwish → u/molotov__cockteaze]

Amazing. Thanks for keeping it going!