Views from the 'Front Lines.' Columbia University just now.

u would think university administrators would know that u def don’t want to use *your own buses* to deport your students to the penitentiary

BREAKING‼️ Students and alumni at the University of Michigan have started day 1 of their Gaza Solidarity Encampment✊🏾🇵🇸

france is a joke. a fascist joke

Rise and shine from day five of Columbia University’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment.

who’s gonna tell him that muslims do… pray

UNC students right now starting an encampment outside of the university administration building in solidarity with Columbia students and Palestine 🇵🇸

As my employer - Columbia University University - calls armed riot police into campus to smash a peaceful protest against a genocide, we must all speak out. My former students have been arrested. I'm proud of you. History will be too. Remember what I said in our first class last year:

Columbia tonight: music, dancing, and poetry under drones and the near-full moon, beside a glowing Butler Library… A response poem to Refaat’s “If I must die” & a Walid Daqqa reading… Peaceful, clear-eyed, w community-supplied food, blankets, pillows, all for life and justice.

lol ‘who’s that?’

the students are ‘the best of us’ in this profession cornellsun.com/2024/04/18/edi…

At around 4am today, hundreds of Columbia University students descended on the main lawn and launched the Gaza Solidarity Encampment.

Nearly 60 tents were erected in minutes, with plans to remain until the school divests from Israel’s genocide of Palestine.

so ann coulter asked cornell to arrest an undocumented, untenured, assistant professor and they arrested her?
cornellsun.com/2024/04/17/ann…

yes! and don’t lose your soul in the process. these places are wild

8) Reflect that, in a climate where tenured profs are being fired for condemning #genocide , for early-career &/or marginalized scholars to speak out is exceptionally risky & courageous. These colleagues should be celebrated & supported, not reprimanded @ISAnet #ISA2024 12/

7) Resist the urge to take things personally. Recognize that publicly holding to account people who hold leadership positions, and/or asking them to adhere to their responsibilities and principles, is not an ‘ad hominem attack’. It is democratic politics. It is our job. 10/

4) Reflect that, for many of the ppl calling for institutional action, these issues are not academic. They are literally issues of life, death and collective existence. This is not personal to individuals – it is collective action against collective violence. ISA #ISA2024 7/

2) 1) Recognize that in extreme situations such as moments of unfolding #genocide , rules and regulations may need to be reviewed, and/or that actions may need to be taken that challenge existing rules if those rules violate principle of ethics or justice. ISA #ISA2024 5/

[thread] Dear @ISAnet executive, I am taking this opportunity to respond to the email you sent to your membership yesterday regarding discussions of the genocide in #Gaza at #ISA2024 1/

a wise person once said ‘institutions are not faithful to us.’ that ‘us’ can take a lot of different meanings, of course. the bottom line is that if that ‘us’ speaks to your experiences, you know that to be true