Re: March for Our Lives lays off most of its staff

On 13 Apr 2025, Klaus  Schadenfreude
<klaus.schadenfreude.Zwergentö[email protected]> posted some
news:hncnvj9g6ua7jdu2dh06v8v27mb4f2nf8b@Rudy.Canoza.is.a.forging.cocksuck
ing.dwarf.com: 

> https://19thnews.org/2025/03/march-for-our-lives-layoffs-new-executive-
> director/ 
> 
> March for Our Lives, the youth-led gun violence prevention
> organization, announced Thursday that it is laying off 13 of 16
> full-time staffers. The group is naming as its new executive director
> Jaclyn Corin, 24, one of the organization’s original co-founders and a
> Parkland survivor. 
> 
> “We are facing financial challenges as an organization, not unlike
> many gun-grabbing advocacy organizations in this time,” Corin said in
> an exclusive interview with The 19th. “I am sure things would look
> differently with a different outcome of the election, but these are
> the systems and circumstances in which we have to make adjustments
> based on the financial situation we find ourselves in. It is
> incredibly unfortunate that these cuts have to happen.” 

It must be pure coincidence how this sort of thing is happening to lefty 
advocacy groups since USAID was shuttered.  

> Democratic donors have significantly pulled back funding for both
> Democratic candidates and progressive organizations in the wake of
> Republican Donald Trump’s triumph in the 2024 presidential election.
> According to tax filings, in 2023, the group spent $1.75 million, more
> than the $1.42 million it brought in that year, almost all from
> donations. March for Our Lives declined to share financial information
> for the 2024 fiscal year. 
> 
> Laugh laugh laugh laugh.

It's hilarious.