Different encampments, same police: read this masterful, panoramic, and fully freaky piece about how Grants Pass, Oregon might set the blueprint for the fascist attack on the homeless throughout the country. By tracy rosenthal newrepublic.com/article/181036…

Student protesters arrested at Columbia last week are facing misdemeanor trespassing charges. Students arrested the same night at City College are facing felony burglary charges that carry as much as seven years in prison. Why the difference? hellgatenyc.com/columbia-prote…

You might have been targeted by online therapy platforms or maybe are seeing your therapist online through one. But who are therapists doing this work? What does therapeutic labor look like for them? New report out today from me Data & Society : datasociety.net/library/doing-… 🧵

The New Inquiry is seeking dispatches (1k-1.5k word blend of reporting and analysis) from people active in the current anti-genocide protest movements. Send pitches to [email protected]. Anonymity can be preserved, and pitches by groups or collectives are welcome.

London friends, I’m so excited for this one with h nn h pr ct r. and Red Medicine is making a zine with our work for the occasion!

From Gaza's last maternity and neonatal hospital, in Rafah: 'At the moment there are 45 babies between the neonatal intensive care unit and the special care intensive care unit. Without a doubt, if the Israeli army occupies this space, every single one of those babies will die.'

Crowdsourcing q for academics: I know that there’s a growing body of literature on the contemporary use of high tech to enact violence against Palestinians. But does anyone have recs for literature that speaks to the role of tech(s) in the 1948 Nakba?

Student protestors arrested last week at CCNY and Columbia reported the inhumane conditions of NYC jails. Some were denied food and water for 16 hours. theintercept.com/2024/05/06/col…

🚨BREAKING: HARVARD IS NOW THREATENING IMMEDIATE SUSPENSION AGAINST HUNDREDS OF STUDENTS INVOLVED IN THE Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine ENCAMPMENT.

IF UNDERTAKEN, THIS WILL BE ONE OF THE LARGEST MASS DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS IN HARVARD’S HISTORY.

This morning Pradeep Khosla sent snipers after UC San Diego students camping with UCSDivest pushing to end suffering in Gaza.

This is student health at UCSD. Snipers before talking.

All eyes on Rafah. Israel is heavily bombing them right now.

BREAKING: Faculty have joined the strike pledge, joining graduate student workers in pledging to withhold final grades until @NYUniversity meets our demands.

Sign the pledge at linktr.ee/graderefusalnyu

Our statement condemning the violence against student protests across the country and
UCLA. Thanks to UC Riverside for providing a possible model for UC Berkeley and University of California
Michael V. Drake to follow. ucbfa.org/2024/05/bfa-st…
Teresa Watanabe EdSource Berkeleyside

New reading list for you you courtesy of Hannah Proctor, author of the brilliant Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat.
h nn h pr ct r
Verso Books
uk.bookshop.org/lists/burnout-…?

TONIGHT: Two Syrian films—Qais al-Zubaidi's THE VISIT + Mohamad Malas's THE NIGHT—at 5pm, followed at 8pm by a one-night-only screening of Khaled Hamada's THE KNIFE, a feature set in Gaza based on Ghassan Kanafani's All That's Left to You Anthology Film Archives
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We talked with psychoanalyst and psychologist Jess Ghannam about his research and work on mental health in Gaza; how state repression and psychic repression work in tandem; what PTSD means in a place where the traumas don't stop; and more ordinaryunhappiness.buzzsprout.com/2131830/150044…

.New York Magazine's new cover package, in partnership with the Columbia Daily Spectator, is an intimate look at the events on the ground at Columbia University in the midst of antiwar protests. It is written and photographed entirely by staff at the Spectator. Read more: nymag.com/press/article/…

A drop in the dream gossip column up today at The Paris Review in honor of Alice Notley 🪐 theparisreview.org/blog/2024/05/0…

“There are a few of us and I who am in the dream know that I know them but the I that is dreaming has never seen them.”

We’ve revived a column from Alice Notley’s zine, Scarlet. This week only, Dream Gossip: buff.ly/3JIOS6O

The same autocrats who have been disrupting our universities for years now crack down on 'disruptive' protest, insisting business as usual must continue. For Jewish Currents, I ask: How can business as usual not cease when business as usual is so murderous?jewishcurrents.org/who-has-the-ri…