Also, speaking as someone who actually has done a fair amount of professional agitation training, there are places you get paid and places you're just doing it because they need you.

And student protests are NOT lining anyone's pockets in any way.

there are no universities left in Gaza

Again, Lisa Fithian is a lovely human being who is kind enough to show up when asked & help folks be effective.

People often invite her in to movement spaces to train when they're out of their depth.

The idea that she's some evil mastermind is so wild.

nytimes.com/2024/05/01/nyr…

Lisa Fithian is one of the most unassuming people I've ever met and the fact that she has the entirety of Columbia and NYPD purporting to shake in their boots at her very presence is wildly (darkly) funny to me

I can very easily because I’m not a credulous rube

Yes, yes we can

First they ignore you
Then they laugh at you
Then they fight you
Then you win

The cops are threatening to arrest the journalism school deans for trying to assert student journalists' right to cover the protests.

If the journalists about to be honored at Columbia's Pulitzers have any fucking spine, they will boycott and refuse the award this year

If you live in NYC and have the capacity to protest and risk arrest, this is one of those moments really worth finding your way to the scene and standing in solidarity with students.

Witnesses and numbers help deescalate police.

Telling that CNN is having ex-mayors and ex-police on to speculate about what protesters are thinking as the police crack down.

Never, ever someone with actual experience protesting.

Fuck the police, seriously

A thread I did a while back with practical tips for protests that some folks may find helpful right now

Hey, uh, fuck tradwives and fuck the glamorization of women's economic vulnerability as non-earners in a household.

BUT

1) in what world is fulltime unpaid domestic labor including childcare 'working less' and

2) how does the soaring cost of childcare not get mentioned here?

Took the toddler and the babe out to do donut hole distro here today.

Had to turn off the radio on the way home because it was about parents mourning dead kids in Gaza and jfc that is why students are protesting.

Loathsome the way folks are cheerleading cops against them.