The largest union of academic workers, representing 48,000 graduate student workers throughout University of California, will hold a strike vote in response to the brutal crackdown against pro-Palestinian student protests theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

No one even remotely involved in ordering this raid should work in higher education ever again

can't stop thinking about this banner - and going with Cesaire instead of Benjamin - truly an all timer

after 1pm and still only 10-15 protestors are out now. some people coming out in rough shape, needing medical attention

This is the head of Jewish Studies. Madness.

“Like Palestine, Central America was a critical site of U.S.-Israeli counter-revolutionary violence that targeted Black, Indigenous, and impoverished working people on an unimaginable, sadistic scale.”

Biden: Dissent must not lead to disorder.

Biden's order:

My husband, Prof. Steve Tamari, is out of the hospital. He will need surgery on his hand, and he is in pain from nine broken ribs. We are asking for time to rest and heal. We will not be taking media interviews at this time. Here is Steve's statement and ways you can support.

Campus protestors have no right to cause “chaos.” That’s the exclusive right of genocidal settler colonial regimes axios.com/2024/05/02/bid…

“University of Arizona has fallen” lmaoooo

LAPD just shot a protester in the fucking face. A psycho with the 40mm gun is just pointing the shit at everyone. The center light is attached to the 40mm launcher.

In his letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr., told us the white moderate “is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice” and said this is someone who “prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.”

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“Letter from Birmingham Jail” more relevant & urgent than ever

Students in the US organize to challenge US imperial policy via nonviolent protests…& they get pig violence, batons & snipers in response. One lesson? As db is always saying, US imperial policy is fully protected, shielded from so-called democratic procedures or pressure

don't worry everyone: it takes about 3 decades for protests and dissent to become 'good,' celebrated by institutions and ruling elites

The American government has genuinely lost its mind

“We’re getting a lot of the same patronizing lines [from admin] that students are getting, which is that this militarized police invasion is in the name of student safety, and I think this is, like, prima facie just absurd” -UCLA prof danielle

this guy's entire account