BREAKING: for weeks, Shahan Mufti & I have worked together to co-author & gather 50 signatures for a letter demanding the New York Times commission an independent investigation of 'Screams Without Words.' Laura Wagner has the story The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/style/media/20…

NO CLASS. NO GRADES. NO FINALS. STRIKE!

Starting May 1st, we call on faculty, academic workers, and graduate students to join the student movement by withholding their labor from institutions that are invested in genocide.

reminder for those who still don’t understand — cop city is modeled after an israel* militarization facility that is literally known as “little gaza”

*Japan has entered the chat*

Look around.
You can see who's made 'their piece' with murderous concessions on what they're willing to care about or even notice.

In these times, it's very clear who has made their 'peace' with the long genocide of settler colonialism.

The motive is genocide. Israel keeps telling us the motive. All of we survivors of white western orchestrated genocides are saying don’t wager coming back later in unrigorous “hindsight”. We are “driven instead” by life! Palestinian life! Which is worth all of our lives. And now

Volunteers helped Tala obtain a scholarship to continue her studies. She will do great things.

Some tenured faculty members at Brown University are being threatened with vague disciplinary action after having visited the encampments. They received this email from the Dean of Faculty. I’ve confirmed at least 2, but there are at least 2 more I am hearing about beyond that.

Every writer I seen standing by PEN — none of them surprise me. And if most of us are honest with ourselves, we never expected them to be alongside us. So let them save the banned books who will be read by everyone but the Palestinian people who are being genocided by us.

the difference is chilling.

The problem with PEN America is that they CAN express full solidarity & HAVE. They’ve done it before, condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with their whole chest. Palestine is just the blaring exception. You can’t pretend now to be an org above politics. You just can’t!

Incredible how a so-called free-speech organization didn’t bother to concern itself with Israel’s targeted assassination of hundreds of journalists & poets in Gaza, deeply mysterious

This whole thread is an object lesson in hand-wringing complicity & should be studied as such

THIS THIS THIS STOP GIVING A PASS TO PEN AMERICA FOR DOING THE BARE MINIMUM WHILE ACTIVELY ENGAGING IN GENOCIDE DENIALISM

“Refocus.” In an update from Wizard_bisan1, she reminds us that the goal of the campus demonstrations is “to stop the genocide in Palestine.”

Divesting from anything that has anything to do with cop city is not a big ask. It is an opportunity.