Signs at today’s faculty rally in support of Columbia’s students & against the NYPD occupying our campus #nocopsoncampus

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Photo of the main quad at UChicago. Sunny day with tents on the grass, colorful artwork, and people sitting and talking. Large banner reads 'UChicago Popular University for Gaza.' Small sign says, 'Bothered by this? look away like you do for genocide.'

UCLA has taken down the Daily Bruin website (dailybruin.com).

I’ve been told it was done to sensor the student journalists. They sent me a copy of their most recent article before the site was taken down.

Students at some Chicago high schools are protesting Israel's war in Gaza today and marching to the University of Chicago and DePaul University encampments to show solidarity with their college peers.

We'll have coverage all afternoon. chicago.suntimes.com/education/2024…

Grateful to The Offing for publishing these poems I withdrew from a forthcoming ghazal anthology that originally didn't want to publish too many poems about Palestine and the genocide.

theoffingmag.com/poetry/palesti…

Columbia University President Minouche Shafik should be ashamed of herself. Columbia admin is morally bankrupt. Y’all are willing to let students get attacked by NYPD to please donors and trustees. There is no coming back from this.

A note on “outside agitators”: The universities belong to the people of the city. The people of Harlem should be allowed through those gates. They should be able to occupy those buildings the way Columbia occupied their homes

from uchicago popular university for gaza

People think that the forced famine has ended in Gaza. People have no money to buy even basic necessities.

NEW:

A frontline account, minute by minute, from two journalists inside Columbia, during the NYPD’s ‘dystopian’ nighttime raid on Columbia student protesters.

hellgatenyc.com/nypd-raid-colu…

walk out of commencement y’all

Dems are just as fascistic as republicans. Never let them tell you otherwise.

It’s just that when republicans are in office, democrats will fundraise with the lie they are not.

nypd unsurprisingly seems to be targeting black men at a higher rate

The students declare: NYPD is not welcome here.

It's so interesting how quickly classes can move online when it's not about your personal safety or a pandemic.

one more thing: it is a matter of time, weeks if not days, that sundry pols, pundits, grifters & thinkovators will start shilling for more surveillance, predictive policing &c as a 'less violent' 'alternative' or 'solution' or even as compatible w 'defunding' DO NOT FALL FOR THIS

if you are feeling a desperate brazenness in what cops are doing right now, if you are sensing in our miserable leaders a combination of resignation and being held hostage, all this is why. they don't just know what's coming: the system depends on it. this is existential for them