Here is another statement by UCLA faculty, this time from members of the Dept of English condemning the university’s police raid on the student protest encampment & its inaction against violent mobs attacking student protesters.

Breaking: Annelise Orleck, Head of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth, has been banned from Campus for six months after protecting Jewish students protesting for Palestine from police attacks

The unprecedented destruction of housing in Gaza hasn't been seen since World War II, the UN says apnews.com/article/un-rep…

COVID killed people in prisons at disproportionately higher rates, and has been the leading cause of US police deaths over the last few years. Yet, police officers are ripping masks off protestors.

unbelievable that I'm supposed to give Columbia/Barnard students an exam on political theories of freedom after this

like, really understand this: New Yorkers are paying cops to stay at Columbia’s campus to stop students from protesting war. This is what it means to fund the police

At blistering and extraordinary letter to Columbia president Minouche Shafik by Robin D. G. Kelley:

bostonreview.net/articles/lette…

Friends, please, please amplify. The NYPD are now raiding City College. Reports are hundreds of cops. Please, I know that what happened at Columbia tonight is sickening--but this is Part II. And our @cuny students are largely working class students of color.

KingLeon 김윤미 Author🇰🇷✡ Tony Corsentino It only doesn't make sense when someone is willingly engaging in ignorance about why systems are the way they are. Thankfully, several books about it can help educate you. Start with this one by Dorothy Roberts : hachettebookgroup.com/titles/dorothy…

While this seems like a good thing, it is not

If an armed squad can round up citizens and lock them in cages without enforcing an actual law, then they are NOT “law enforcement officers”

They’re a military regime.

“I literally felt that I was in a war zone.”

Emory University professor Emil' Keme describes being arrested while defending student antiwar protesters in what is an unprecedented expansion of campus suppression to include faculty arrests.

We must be clear that administrators are inviting police, who are legally authorized to use deadly force, on campuses to respond to what are peaceful protests. It is an unnecessary and dangerous escalation.

The professor has been charged with battery against the officer.

You read that right.

Our fight to end mass incarceration and protect those who are impacted by it has taken huge leaps forward in the first few months of 2024.

We’ve had major developments in one of our central lanes of work: eliminating solitary confinement.

White woman, world renowned academic, brutalised by cops in full view of video cameras and arrested. They still lied on court records about the event. Now think how often cops lie about those without similar privilege

What a pleasure to speak on the ABA for Law Students ABA for Law Students podcast about my path to linking teaching, scholarship & activism—with a shout out to my amazing University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Reproductive Rights & Justice students!

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North Carolina is prosecuting Amanda Wallace, Founder of Operation Stop CPS, as retaliation for her organizing in defense of families. Scroll to learn how to show solidarity. 🧵

PRSS Founding Director Prof. Dorothy Roberts and former PRSS postdoctoral fellows Eram Alam and Natalie Shibley , have published a co-edited book titled Ordering the Human: The Global Spread of Racial Science (Columbia University Press: April 2024)
cup.columbia.edu/book/ordering-…

Texas’ family policing agency Texas DFPS was fined $100,000 per day because of its failure to prevent the children in its custody from being physically and sexually abused.

Nothing about this system provides safety for children.

texastribune.org/2024/04/15/tex…

My latest for Truthout looks at the BOP's sudden decision to shutter its 'rape club' prison & transfer the 605 incarcerated people to diff prisons (many of which have the same abusive conditions): truthout.org/articles/priso…