Northwestern reaches agreement with protesters; it will “reestablish the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility this fall & ensure it will include representation from the students, faculty and staff.” Not the end game but an opening step. chicagotribune.com/2024/04/29/nor…

The demands of the UChicago Popular University for Gaza who started the encampment. It's what decolonizing the university should be: cutting the university from war-making, genocide, carbon & policing reorienting it towards reparations & rebuilding. 'Divest, Disclose, Repair'

Notable—unlike other schools, Wesleyan Uni says it will not clear an encampment so long as it remains non-violent:
'This morning you can find pro-Palestinian protestors camped out…as long as we all reject violence, we have opportunities to listen and to learn from one another.'

Could this be the beginning? opb.org/article/2024/0…

There are 24 living former ASA Sociology presidents. Of these, 19 have signed onto a letter officially endorsing our Resolution for Justice in Palestine. I’m really proud to have comrades like my Sociologists for Palestine fam. Now let’s win this!

Woah Ruha Benjamin

And the cops should take off their military grade helmets and weaponry and put down their equipment; they’re dealing with kids who are doing some chants and sleeping in tents. Who’s the “chicken littles” here hiding behind helmets and guns?

“Dear University community

The administration respects all student protests just not this one. Students have fought for many important causes over the years and their right to protest is sacrosanct. In this case, however, we must arrest and slander them.” mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-mes…

I'm looking forward to the event at on my book Policing Empires: Militarization, Race and the Imperial Boomerang CRITIQUE (critiquecentre.bsky.social) at The University of Edinburgh. I'll also be doing a Methods workshop with Jared Holley critique.sps.ed.ac.uk/methods-worksh…. See you!

I visited the Gaza solidarity camp at Columbia yesterday and wanted to share a few
very brief observations.

First, it's one of the most highly organised student protests I've ever seen. They have media and de-escalation training, a nutzone to protest students with allergies.

“We later found out that Hamas had offered on October 9 or 10 to release all the civilian hostages in exchange for the IDF not entering the Strip, but the government rejected the offer.”

timesofisrael.com/no-doubt-netan… via @timesofisrael

I now understand why universities are being so repressive: free speech to them has limits. The limits are: you cannot criticize the Israeli-US military state and its corporate ties Boeing Airplanes.

Read Let This Radicalize You REBECCA O’CONNOR 🆘🟧

Breaking: 4 cops viciously assault a professor at Washington University in St. Louis for filming as they attack students.

I’m honored to be giving the
Law at Leeds annual lecture next week on the colonial origins of policing. I will also be doing a post lecture discussion & a masterclass on postcolonial thought & methods. If you’re around Leeds
& interested drop by.

essl.leeds.ac.uk/law/events/eve…

Some outstanding letters of protest here from NYU (New York University) faculty to the President and Provost, but the below from Steven Hahn is pure 🔥 🔥 🔥 : facultyforpalestine.education/statements/fac…

Oh I think some police are very much in sight

'Thank you American students'
From the displaced people in Rafah

Indiana University President Pamela Whitten says that her mantra is 'Putting Students First.' Let's take a look at how she puts Students first 🧵