One of the ways protesters have stopped sprinklers from spraying themselves

They’re now chanting “water is life”

Northeastern used this lie to justify the mass arrest of over 100 protesting students this morning

One thing I found interesting was that the protest organisers studied the Columbia archives to learn from the 1968 protest movement. They copied their tactics and later invited some 1968 vets to campus.

Story on that here:

independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…

Free ebooks for solidarity with pro-Palestine campus protests.
lithub.com/verso-and-othe…

International solidarity is so cool and fun

NOW: NYU students have established a new ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment’ after NYPD swept their first encampment in Gould Plaza

Hundreds of UAW members and supporters marched to the encampment

.Emory University
faculty senate meeting is packed, faculty members outraged and seeking to censure
Greg Fenves, moving for vote of no confidence

History is what hurts.

As part of our series to Fredric Jameson's 90th birthday this month, Maria Elisa Cevasco reflects on Fredric Jameson's Political Unconscious:
versobooks.com/blogs/news/his…

.Peter Salovey: Nearly 300 Yale University faculty condemn the criminalization of Yale students engaged in acts of peaceful protest. Yale University must drop all charges, take no disciplinary action against those arrested, and respect peaceable speech and assembly on campus. docs.google.com/document/d/13G…

We hear you, we see you, we arrest you

LAPD marching towards USC

BREAKING: Full Video Of Elderly American Economics Professor Caroline Fohlin Being Assaulted By Police

She Is An Over 65 Year Old American Woman.

Americans Attacked For Israel.

What If This Was Your Mother/grandmother?

Seems to have been a real advance in baseline protest tactics over the past few years. People are moving rapidly to de-arrest, push the cops out, defy dispersal orders etc. Can’t wait to see what’s next !

Wtf!!

Good morning from Harvard Yard

I wrote a short essay for the New Left Review blog newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

Superb piece by Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi on the complex history of Iran–Palestine solidarity, the former's shifting regional strategy, and the meaning of Operation True Promise:

newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

I mean at this rate, we may finally get build to build something outside the university structure when we have to boycott all of them…

Over 1,400 academics from around the world have signed a letter committing to an academic boycott of Columbia in solidarity with protesters demanding that the University divest from Israel.
l8r.it/RLNF

*2,418 signatures so far