Believe it or not, it actually got much worse before it got better. By 1964, 74% of respondents thought mass protests hurt the cause.

In 1966, 63% of Americans had an unfavorable view of MLK.

By 2011? Only 4%.

What should be done about this ugly anti-black racism? Or should we just say this is protected speech?

A 🧵about the “outside agitator' trope, inspired by our book SOLIDARITY, which looks at why “outsiders” are so threatening & so vital.

Outside support matters to movements. Not everyone denounced as an outside agitator is an outsider. But outside agitators are good, actually.

SCOOP: An NYPD officer fired their gun inside Hamilton Hall during the Columbia raid on Tuesday, Manhattan DA confirms.

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Ask yourself why reporters would need to be arrested for reporting on what's happening at UCLA? What dont they want the public to know? Asking as a UCLA alum class of 1996

“Dissent must never lead to disorder” - President Biden.

From Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” written in 1963:

“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the…

Just to take stock of where we're at: in coalition with the right, a Democratic president is backing a violent crackdown on freedom of speech that will split the coalition that narrowly elected him in support of another state's right to kill and destroy with total impunity.

Students, faculty, and staff The New School have voted for divestment from 13 companies implicated in Israel's offensive in Gaza!

The margins in faculty votes at SPE, Parsons, Lang, and NSSR are overwhelming, with support ranging between 80-90 percent.

prof annelise orleck is a giant, a historian for the working class, an enormous inspiration for our union. cant contain my anger. we will not just stand by. in her own words people do not live with indignity forever

I'm sorry, the person people are citing as an outside agitator at Columbia is Lisa Fithian. Shouldn't Columbia administration be proud that students called in one of the most brilliant leftist tacticians of the past 50 years for advice? Seems like a very Ivy League thing to do.

This is exactly what’s making any normal observer feel insane.
A pro-Israel mob attacked these kids with slurs, fists, mace, and fireworks. Police watched for HOURS & did nothing.
A day later, police instead bombard *them* with rubber bullets & flashbangs.
(All in a “blue” state)

Incredible protest signs happening at #Fordham : “Finance Bros 4 Palestine”

Remembering when this was enough to get a university chancellor shitcanned

Is it antisemitic to speak Arabic?

Boeing whistleblowers keep suddenly dying.

'You're by yourself!' shouts one man from the pro-Israel mob before he and others grab an isolated protester, throw him to the ground, and start beating him.

Breaking: Children from displacement camps in Gaza are raising the names of American universities whose students have protested against the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

So the most salient example of physical violence against persons—resulting in 25 people hospitalized—was caused by pro Israeli thugs, observed and denounced by Jewish professors. This doesn’t evoke “Europe in the 1930s” as Dana Bash has it—but rather Peekskill, NY 1949.

New: Biden and Dems suggest heavier hand with protesters, risking further alienation of youth voters -- and not just the usual suspects...

The College Dems, hardly a hothouse of progressive activism, issue a warning to the White House -->
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