There is no question that UC severely violated the rights of students and workers. The brutality they sanctioned on peaceful protesters cannot and will not stand.
#StandUpUC

Leaders in 8 red states, including Gov. Greg Abbott, would rather sacrifice $13 billion in federal funding for public universities than agree to protect LGBTQ students from discrimination. Hate isn’t cheap. 💵💵💵 insidehighered.com/news/governmen…

Palestinian mothers are on my mind, mothers having caesarean birth without anesthesia, mothers saving lives, mothers cradling dead children, mothers mourning their men, mothers making meals out of almost nothing, mothers willing tents to repel bombs, mothers resisting genocide

'Alongside this effort to tar protest as terrorism, the right is seizing on the emotions inflamed by Israel’s war to make headway in a longstanding offensive on education.'
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On this mama’s day, do everything u can 2 protect Palestinian mothers. Israel kills two mamas every hour in #Gaza as part of its genocidal rampage & one element of its attempt to prevent Palestinian births & stem a Palestinian future.

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#MothersDay #Nakba

It’s been 2 years since my aunt #ShireenAbuAkleh was killed by an Israeli soldier and life has not been the same since. No one has been held accountable & the U.S. has failed our family in holding the killer responsible.
#JusticeforShireen .

The #WeeklyRead is 'A Tranifesto for the Dolls: Toward a Trans Femme of Color Theory.' This written dialogue builds on a roundtable discussion held at #NWSA 2022. It's published in a recent special issue of tsqjournal. Read it for free through 6/30: ow.ly/HLfS50Rzv8E

Gwendolyn Brooks:

'We didn't want public funds connected to a project about a polarizing geopolitical issue that is still playing out,' said the Vail town manager of a cancelled residency for a Lakota artist, apparently with no sense of either history or irony.

“I believe history will vindicate these students & their call for Palestinian liberation...But even if you disagree, it’s clear that protecting them is also an investment in the protection of our fundamental liberties.”
—Arielle Angel, Jewish Currents theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

📍UC Berkeley

Students formed the words “UC DIVEST” with their shirts in a protest at the UC Berkeley Law commencement.

As crackdowns on the campus protests continue, we get reports from the ground at Dartmouth, Rutgers & CUNY. In the latest episode of #AAUPPresents we sit down w/ Annelise Orleck, Todd Wolfson, Nivedita Majumdar & AAUP president Irene Mulvey. Listen: buzzsprout.com/1837772/150453…

Please join us for the launch party (ok, fine, webinar) of the new journal QTR: A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion next Tuesday, May 14th 5 pm EST!

Contrary to Interim President Larry Jameson's statement this morning, it was not the encampment but the administration that created a crisis on campus, disrupted education, and undermined the mission of our university [4/7]

Join us tonight!

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Young people across the world absolutely know their history, and that is why they are protesting. They know praxis is key. They also have eyes and hearts, and understand love is integral to a praxis against genocide. Their integrity far surpasses leaders across geographies!

We condemn in the strongest possible terms the Penn administration's decision to call in riot police early this morning to arrest students and faculty engaged in nonviolent antiwar protest on our campus [1/7]

Today I will give a brief lesson on Palestine at the UC Davis Whole Earth Festival. The festival has moved to Russell Field, and I go on at 5:40 pm at the Education stage.

File under: “No shit, Sherlock.”
(And don’t call the cops on your students)

Nearly all Gaza campus protests in the US have been peaceful, study finds theguardian.com/us-news/articl…