After more than 100 students from Barnard College and Columbia University were arrested at an encampment calling for the school to divest from Israel amid the country's deadly assault on Gaza, similar encampments have begun across the United States.

Workers are sharing testimony now LIVE, please listen the impacted workers now:

notechforapartheid.com/pressconference

*** 50 *** of us have been retaliated, 'including non-participating bystanders'

Shame on you @google

'Our societies have not previously tolerated spaces that are beyond the reach of law enforcement'

For 100s of 1000s of years, almost EVERY space was 'beyond the reach' of LE surveillance. Mass digital surveillance is a VERY recent development. PLS, read a book before spewing

WELCOME TO THE PEOPLE’S UNIVERSITY FOR PALESTINE!

Today, students in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia have taken their education into their own hands for themselves and for the young people visiting for Admitted Students day. The People’s University for Palestine has

Vibes are great at the MIT encampment 🫡🫡🫡

BREAKING: Organizers of the Yale divestment encampment have been informed that those at the encampment can expect arrest, likely sometime between now and early morning.

Repeat: ARRESTS ARE EXPECTED AT YALE.

The crowd of hundred of students is sitting in a circle and singing.

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i saw an estimate that they expect to find up to 700 bodies in this site.

do you understand the level of impunity the western world has granted to israel, that they can kill this many people and leave them behind to be found and then make speeches about how they’re peacemakers??

Stay focused. All eyes on Palestine. We reject those who use this movement to center themselves.

for students who want to build encampments, please don’t make your encampments about solidarity with Columbia.
this is about solidarity with Gaza & Palestinian Liberation over anything else. Use us as an example to escalate but we should not be the focus, it’s about Palestine.

Statement from Columbia University Apartheid Divest just released on community values.

“We are frustrated by media distractions focusing on inflammatory individuals who do not represent us. At universities across the nation, our movement is united in valuing every human life.”

Comrades keep you strong.

don't believe Google's lies.

hear from workers firsthand about what happened during the protest–

and hear *urgent developments* since their firings TOMORROW, 2pm ET:
youtube.com/watch?v=LLiWHO…

TOMORROW 2PM ET—Emergency Press Conference w workers who Google fired &/or arrested for protesting Google’s complicity in genocide

Workers will share testimony of what happened during the historic sitins & urgent developments

Hosted by Haymarket Books

notechforapartheid.com/pressconference

Those fighting to reduce BigTech's concentration need to recognize that integration of BigTech infra into gov--via Military contracts, gov't surveillance, etc--is contrary to their aims.

The more gov is dependent on BigTech, the harder it will be to check their size/power.

BREAKING: Billions of Pentagon dollars are shifting to Silicon Valley and Big Tech, according to our latest research. The top five contracts to major tech firms between 2019 and 2022 had contract ceilings totaling at least $53 billion combined. watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/pap…

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