I just returned to my office after being at the first 2 hours of the #FreePalestine protest & encampment at UW-Madison. I am so proud of our students & am fundraising for protest supplies, bail funds (if needed). I’m @/$ SamiSchalk on PayPal & CashApp respectively.

I appreciate the pushback that Sudan’s war is an ignored one rather than a forgotten one, but it’s also an (internationalized) counter-revolutionary one.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

Still can't get it out of my head that students who lived through shooter drills in the post-Sandy Hook era are now college students resisting militarized police called on by their university administrators.

On this day in 1967, Muhammad Ali was stripped of his heavyweight boxing championship after refusing to be inducted into the U.S. Army.

Here's a video on why he refused to be drafted into the army to go to Vietnam.

Updates Regarding Student and Faculty Rights Advocacy.

You want to hit RT.

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I've realized during my time at an elite school that many of the world's problems can't be solved by just being the leader of any of these industries.

The material conditions of my community back home won't be changed no matter how many accolades or advancements in STEM I make.

Please write into administration for us to be reinstated!

Cornell’s administration threatened those who stayed the night within the encampment with suspension. 1/n

Today on Al-Jazeera discussing Cornell’s response to Pro-Palestinian voices on campus

Being at the encampments is the most community I have seen and felt in my entire time at Cornell. The dancing, music, conversation, everything. *At a university well known for isolation and loneliness the most community I have felt is seen as a threat and not allowed!!*

Exclusive🧵:

Egyptian authorities are conducting mass deportations of thousands of Sudanese refugees fleeing a war zone and one of the world’s worst humanitarian emergencies.

The New Humanitarian and the Refugees Platform in Egypt (Refugees Platform in Egypt - منصة اللاجئين في مصر) have been investigating the…

TACTICS IDEAS THREAD:

For students who want to grow the Gaza Solidarity mvmt on their campus and are looking for creative outreach methods or programming ideas. Here’s a thread of some tactics –– some inspired by the already existing camps. Please reply w/ your suggestions!

As I sit and deep Cornell’s administration’s decision to temporarily suspend 4 of us, I can’t help but reflect on the callousness of it all. Depriving students of housing, food and placing them in vulnerable positions due to their visa status because of their engagement in…

Yesterday Cornell University suspended four students for their participation in the protest encampment on the arts quad. Why these four? Because they were the negotiating team and they were the names the admin knew. Two are international students who are now without visas. /1

One is being evicted from his dorm. Another in my class is now banned from writing her final exam.
All of this is taking place in the culminating days of Cornell’s celebrated year of freedom of expression, revealing it for the sham it has always been. /2

Don't make me tap the sign

📸: Coretta Scott King and her children Bernice and Martin are arrested as they protest apartheid at the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C. June 26, 1985.

#blackwomenradicals

The more they try to silence us, the louder we will be.