Wajahat Ali Saul Williams Amazing that Netanyahu can flat-out say 'America is a thing you can move very easily' and that US officials will do whatever Israel wants, and then those officials just bow down and give him billions, proving him correct huffpost.com/entry/netanyah…

I live by Columbia. Tonight I went for a walk & saw 10+ blocks rapidly barricaded, dozens of police vehicles flying by, large groups of NYPD in riot gear gathering.
I study protest in E Europe. What I saw tonight was some of the most wildly disproportionate policing I've seen
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100s of police deployed to arrest 50+ occupying students. Once again CU Administration escalated the situation & put many in danger. Thankfully it seems there were no injuries - I feared the worst. I don't know where CU goes from here but fear it's a long road to rebuild trust
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The Evergreen State College (school of Rachel Corrie) agrees to divestment
cooperpointjournal.com/2024/05/01/tes…

Solidarity with students, faculty, and community members demonstrating at Saint Louis University tonight🇵🇸✊🏾

The DePaul GSE community guidelines

Pls correct inaccuracy circulating in MSM, including by CNN -- those arrested in the first roundup at Columbia University WERE ALL STUDENTS. About 26 Columbia students & about 58 Barnard College students arrested & suspended.

Others were from other schools AT COLUMBIA. No outside…

Judith Butler: “If calling for an end of genocide is understood as making a Jewish student feel unsafe, then the safety of the situation has been oddly co-opted by that particular Jewish student. Palestinians are the one in need of safety [from genocide]” theintercept.com/2024/05/01/jud…

May Day: U.K. Workers Block Gov’t Building to Demand Gaza Ceasefire democracynow.org/2024/5/1/headl…

MAGA oligarchs are destroying Puerto Rico, making it a haven for money laundering and transnational crime. Here's how to stop them

Incredible news.

Kansas has SUSTAINED the governors veto of a gender affirming care ban.

Representative Concannan, who voted for the bill before, backed off, citing government overreach and interference with families medical decisions.

You can thank her at Susan Concannon

'Intifada' in Arabic just means Uprising or Mass Protest; it is used for the Jewish Warsaw Uprising juancole.com/2024/05/intifa… via Juan Cole

“There's a genocide in Gaza,” Anne said. “And my Jewish history, my Jewish values, everything about me that is Jewish, which is everything, says that we have to stand and do everything we can against genocide.”  

From yesterday’s multifaith rally: indianapublicmedia.org/news/bloomingt…

Apparently, public health officials are struggling to gain access to farms to conduct a thorough epi study. They' haven't started critically imp antibodies studies among workers at farms or milk processing facilities, nor have they started these critical studies for cows/farm…

There's never good time to stop collecting & reporting data. But in midst of nationwide outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in food supply animals and other mammals, all in close/constant interface with humans, seems to be one of the worst times to turn off the…

spoke to student organizers at Fashion Institute of Technology, part of the State Uni of NY system, about their multiple campus occupations for Gaza Teen Vogue

'Why are we doing this at a fashion school? Why any school? Because it's a genocide going on.'
teenvogue.com/story/fashion-…

#FollowTheMoney #Ceasefire #Gaza

Our union has been calling for a ceasefire for six months. This war is wrong, and this response against students and academic workers, many of them UAW members, is wrong.

...for $$$, power, a political agenda that doesnt include rights of We, the People. Jan 6, 2021 we saw GOP abndoned Capitol police. We are all being armed, stripped of rights so civilians & police can battle it out, govt calls martial law-->full fascism. #Nonviolence #humanrights

We can't bomb or wealth-accumulate our way to safety, or our children's safety. The more we strip civil rights & human rights away, the more we all lose our humanity, as we see happening in govt, police, families. #nonviolence #disarmpolice + #guncontrol #Ceasefire #Gaza