Former co-chair of Yale YDSA🌹 Oren speaks to the NYC news about his reasoning for standing with student organizers demanding divestment from the Zionist entity and Palestinian liberation:

Hear from DSA National Political Committee Member Alex Pellitteri about the unjustifiable arrests of students at the NYU Gaza Solidarity encampment earlier tonight🇵🇸

Now, at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities:

an emergency protest has mobilized upwards of 1,000 UMN students & staff — now gathered outside Memorial Union.

student protestors arrested this morning have been released, and the Solidarity Encampment is being re-established.

My latest for Left Notes: Rebuilding unions is urgent and absolutely essential for reviving the Left's fortunes in the US. But that doesn't mean unions can replace the role of political parties.

Read: open.substack.com/pub/leftnotes/…

Here are two messages from comrades arrested and released this morning from the NYU encampment, including NCC member Erin and student organizer Charlie.

Their message is clear: Get involved! Demand divestment! No student repression! End the genocide in Palestine! 🌹🇵🇸

The freedoms to speak, assemble, & protest are fundamental to democracy & essential to our ability to build working class power in this country & around the world.

UAW Region 9A will continue to stand with protesters & our membership at NYU, Columbia, the New School, & beyond.

New: 28 unions—representing tens of thousands of workers—are demanding 'the immediate reinstatement of all student and student workers disciplined for pro-Palestine protests and the end to the repression of protest on Columbia’s campus.'

'An injury to one is an injury to all.'

Amazon Flex drivers in NJ recently held a rally outside of their delivery station, demanding a change to the low wages and dangerous working conditions. As one of them told me, 'We’ll continue to fight until Amazon hears our demands and makes changes.' jacobin.com/2024/04/amazon…

THE UMN IS ARRESTING STUDENTS FOR OPPOSING GENOCIDE

We talked to Tim Smith, Director of UAW Region 8, about the importance of VW workers organizing and winning, and the power of a union.

Cops storming peaceful protests at NYU after making violent arrests on students, faculty members, and community members during prayer.

NOW: NYPD arrests at least a dozen NYU faculty members in the ‘Liberated Zone’ at Gould Plaza

Police deployed the LRAD while protesters were praying

Encampments are growing across the country to call for Palestinian liberation and University Divestment in the Israeli military.

The time to act is NOW. 🇵🇸 FREE PALESTINE! 🇵🇸

Passover calls for reflection on the historical struggles of our ancestors against oppression, as a symbol of the universal struggle of the oppressed for liberation. No better way to celebrate than by calling for an end to the Palestinian genocide like these brave students are ✊

Explaining the seder plate at the Columbia encampment. These students truly embody the meaning of Passover in their provisional seder and their commitment to liberation.

NYTimes Editorial Board on Martin Luther King's opposition to the Vietnam War: 'The moral issues in Vietnam are less clear-cut than he suggests; the political strategy of uniting the peace movement and the civil rights movement could very well be disastrous for both causes.'

Following Mercedes workers in Alabama, the service technicians at Mercedes in Manhattan reached supermajority support to join UAW Local 259!

Mercedes workers are standing up nationwide—who's next? #MercedesWorkersUnited #StandUpUAW

We Got Next! VW workers just won their union. Mercedes workers in Alabama vote for their union May 13-17!

#StandUpUAW

JUST IN: Faculty members of NYU walk onto the encampment and begin forming a human chain. Palestine protesters erupted in cheers! Chanting “keep us safe! Keep us safe”. It now dawns the hour of this “unspecified response” by NYU admin but staff appears to oppose it.

WE HAVE OCCUPIED THE DIAG IN SOLIDARITY WITH GAZA UNTIL UMICH DIVESTS FROM COMPANIES FUELING THE GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIANS

Disclose! Divest! We will not rest!