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Great Ormond Street Hospital has confirmed they will receive no money from Warner’s new “Pan” movie, despite being the copyright holders thanks to the author J M Barrie’s generous gift.

On their site they say the copyright is “enormously valuable – not only in financial terms but also as a symbol and icon – and has brought a fair amount of income to the hospital”.

Disney’s Peter Pan and Return to Neverland, Spielberg’s Hook, columbia Picture’s 2003 Peter Pan, and even Finding Neverland all paid proper dues for the use of the Peter Pan characters. Warner did not for the Pan movie.

They are using allusions to the characters to benefit from their popularity, but changed the story entirely. Edit: yes, this is technically LEGAL to do, but morally dubious./edit

So not only are they white-washing the Native Americans, they are also stealing from a children’s hospital.

Let me put it on scale for you - Hurricane Katrina, which ravaged Louisiana, was at a Cateogry 5 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane scale. This is the absolute worst a hurricane can be, with sustained winds reaching 157+ mph. 

Right now in the Bahamas, we have a Category 4 hurricane - nearly as bad as Hurricane Katrina, if not worse considering the conditions we are living in right now with an impossible high tidal surge and deadly flooding. What’s even worse is that it is not moving (< 3 mph). That means for almost two whole days, this hurricane has been sitting ON TOP of my country NOT MOVING and destroying houses. No warning was issued prior to the hurricane, it literally grew overnight and most of the people who live in these outer islands (poor families who make a living fishing, carving bark, plaiting straw) had zero time to prepare. We do not know what the death count is - we lost all communication with most of these islands between the hours of 12 midnight and 4 this morning, and it is too dangerous for rescue teams.

Houses have been flattened or carried out to sea. There are now potential uninhabited cays and islands where there once were communities. And this nightmare isn’t over - it’s heading up to the Northern islands now, where there are a lot of elderly people unable to care for themselves and NO clinics, hospitals, or higherground. 

Please, please, please spread the word about this. We will be trying to put together a GoFundMe soon, and I will have that link to share as soon as it becomes available.

EDIT: HERE IS THE HURRICANE RELIEF ONLINE FUNDRAISER LINK: https://www.youcaring.com/bringing-relief-to-our-families-in-the-bahamas-443717

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!PLEASE, IF YOU CAN’T DONATE AT LEAST SPREAD THE WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!