🇵🇸THE MINNESOTA 9 ARE FREE🇵🇸

Thank you so much to everybody who showed up to support us today! The MN 9 are now banned from campus for a full year as well as charged w misdemeanors for “trespassing” on the campus we pay for

Next up, DROP THE CHARGES!
PROTESTING IS NOT A CRIME!

Happening NOW: After police arrested all students encamped here, thousands of students at the University of Minnesota gathered here to protest the uni investment in weapons manufacturers arming Israel #Columbia_University

A Gaza solidarity encampment has gone up today at Umich. If you are a faculty or staff member, sign up with FSJP to see how you can support these courageous students!

On Wednesday, I am scheduled to give the 2024 Mamie Phipps Clark and Kenneth B. Clark Distinguished Lecture at Columbia University. In light of the university’s current repression and criminalization of students, as well as the present academic boycott of the institution, I have

Last night over 1000 peaceful protestors joined #occupybeinecke plaza at #yale demanding our university disclose & divest its investments in militarism #booksnotbombs Today at dawn Yale admin removed over a hundred students from plaza and arrested 47 students, many tearfully. 🍉

Welcome to the new McCarthy era

During today’s State Budget Committee, I urged FSSA to not cut services or reduce benefits to Hoosiers as a result of the $1B Medicaid shortfall/forecasting error. As the author of SEA 438 (2023), it is my commitment to advocate for medically vulnerable Hoosiers.

This is leadership.

By Palestinian American poet, Fady Joudah.

I was among the Barnard and Columbia students in the 3-week protest at Mandela Hall in April 1985 calling for divestment from South Africa. Some faced disciplinary action after, but not arrest, suspension, and eviction.

columbiaspectator.com/eye/2016/04/12….

Columbia Professor Rebecca Jordan-Young: 'The faculty who are supporting the students do not all agree on the issue of Israel and Palestine...[but] we are astonished and disgusted with the way the university has cracked down on the students.'

Congratulations to Fady Joudah Fady Joudah, winner of the 2024 Jackson Poetry Prize. The prize, which this year carries an increased award of $100,000, is awarded annually by Poets & Writers to an American poet of exceptional talent. Read the press release:

Back on the picket line at Global and International Studies! #IUONSTRIKE24

I am continuing to see the (likely well-intentioned) conflation of Arab and Muslim identities this #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth .

Here’s a primer. Arab, Middle Eastern, and Muslim? What’s the Difference?! teachmideast.org/arab-middle-ea…

Today, is #PalestinianPrisonersDay .

Israel is abusing and torturing thousands of Palestinian prisoners.

The BDS movement calls for urgent and meaningful pressure to #FreeThemAll .

Read our full statement: loom.ly/Tg-8pgM

Next week: In addition to State Senator Fady Qaddoura we will be joined by Senator Andrea Hunley , at least two descendants of the original families of the Quarter, and the Indiana Historical Bureau! #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth #MakingArabAmericanHistory

Sudan's war began a year ago. Children are among its most fragile survivors apnews.com/article/sudan-…

USC announced that valedictorian Asna Tabassum’s commencement speech has been canceled, stating it was “necessary to maintain the safety of our campus and students”

‘I am surprised that my own university has abandoned me,’ Tabassum said in a statement

uscannenbergmedia.com/2024/04/15/pro…