The media wants these kids dead.

I've covered campus activism since the late 90s. Nothing that's happening on campuses now -- sit ins, building takeovers, encampments -- is at all outside the standard vernacular of student protest.

What's unusual is administrators calling in riot cops on their own students

STATEMENT FROM BESIEGED UCLA PALESTINE SOLIDARITY ENCAMPMENT

The only means of protection we had was each other. WE KEEP US SAFE.

The university’s hypocrisy
all too apparent. The university would rather see us dead than divest.

Call on UCLA to disclose, divest, end the silence

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Fun fact: the use of these exact same “chemical agents” is prohibited in war but law enforcement uses it on unarmed American citizens

Those who are making peaceful protests impossible are making violent revolution inevitable.

Democratic Mayor
Democratic Governor
Democratic President

a desperate activist tells Malcolm X that the situation is hopeless as there are too many powerful interests and too few to oppose them. Malcolm's response is as important today as it was then: 'Never let your enemy tell you how many of you there are.'

If Trump was president and Rudy Giuliani were mayor, most liberals would be screaming.

Noticing some folks reasoning that particular students don't deserve a militant police response bc they are 'peaceful.' I don't care if students break windows, shove back, or throw things; none of them deserve a militarized police response. They're protesting a genocide.

A woman on CNN is saying the anti-Vietnam protests were different from the situation now, which is “very polarizing.”

People always do this — make it seem like past activists were somehow uncontroversial.

It’s nonsense. Activism by its nature is antagonistic to the status quo.

Universities, like Columbia, must ask themselves, “under what conditions would they permit the police to kill one of its students or one of its faculty members.

Is Columbia willing to have police kill one of its students today? That is the gamble they’re taking.

They think this will compensate for the assaults and arrests of students protesting genocide

A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that’s going on right now.

You quite famously relied on sources to push for the invasion of Iraq that refused to identify themselves publicly. You went to jail for it.