With almost no exceptions, the only violence involved in these protests has been the violence perpetrated upon the protesters – either by police in riot gear, or by counter-protesters, or in some cases, like at UCLA, both. presswatchers.org/2024/05/journa…

Happy May Day--always loved this story from 1982 about a British trans woman who was fired from her job at the General Electric Company after transitioning. Her fellow trade unionists at ASTMS rallied around her and successfully won her job back. digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/b8515n41k

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We’ve been hard at work updating this: By our count, nearly 1,400 people have been arrested at campus protests this month. Some face insane charges, including “hate crimes against law enforcement” in New Orleans

Protesters being dragged for arrest outside the gates of Columbia University

NYPD entering Hamilton Hall through the window Columbia University

'We're being escorted off the premises by NYPD. ' There's no one left to document what's going on at Hamilton - WKCR journalists.

students scatter as NYPD enter campus.

In the spring of 1985 we padlocked the front doors of Hamilton Hall, renaming it Mandela Hall, and encamped on the steps for three weeks. Columbia divested from South Africa in the fall of 1985.

A question I'd ask the American political elite is how many students and professors are you willing to beat into a pulp in order to shield Israel from perfectly legitimate criticism based on widely shared principles?

If you're following Columbia, turn on WKCR right now-- it seems like the cops are cordoning off even public streets and there are no legal observers allowed in, but NYPD counterterrorism units are massing. Listening to the police state prepare to pounce in real time, ghastly.

🚨BREAKING: NYPD are beating and pepper spraying protesters. Who were already locked inside the encampment.

my friend Michael Waters is publishing his first book next june 4, a history of the murkiness of sex texting and its links to nazi germany. go preorder a copyyy!