Stopped by City High School this morning and talked to some cool students who are camping out on the high school lawn today on school strike for Palestine.

'I know that was such a big risk, but this is the most that people have ever thought for us, so don’t give up. I know that was really hard, but we need to keep fighting. This was just the start of it, okay?' Amazing dispatch from Molly Minta 🐟 mississippitoday.org/2024/05/02/it-…

“Young people are seeing something brutal and they are freaking out about it, with and without nuance. This is where they should be in this moment, as they are opening their eyes to what that world actually contains.”

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This experience has been echoed and shared by so many of my fellow student journalists in our debriefs these last few days.

Don't just talk about how brave we are or impressive our work is, commission it and support it.

May Day edition of The New York War Crimes dotting the growing crowd at Foley Square

Manhattan accounts for nearly a third of the 1,700 protest arrests nationwide—but Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg won't say whether he intends to prosecute.

Elsewhere in the country, prosecutors have already dropped the charges or pledged not to prosecute: theappeal.org/prosecutors-ch…

'During the arrests Tuesday night, cops slammed protesters into cars, pulled them to the ground, knelt on top of them, and targeted protesters seemingly at random... who had linked arms or were standing on the sidewalk in front of campus.'

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'Student journalists will be arrested if they leave Pulitzer Hall' is quite a sentence to hear on WKCR-FM NY

'To declare by fiat that a peaceful outdoor protest poses 'a clear and present danger to the substantial functioning of the University' is a radical redefinition of 'danger' reminiscent of the Red Scare or antiterrorism laws' writes Robin D.G. Kelley bostonreview.net/articles/lette…

NEW:

Hell Gate has now obtained video of NYPD officers getting a 'refresher course' on how to drive MTA buses they commandeered to take protesters to jail last week...and then drove over the Brooklyn Bridge (exceeding the bridge's weight limit).

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You can toggle over any dot on our map to find the campus name, number of arrests, prosecuting agency, prosecutor's response, and prosecutor's election year.

Prosecutors hold enormous power: they can brand these protesters with a criminal record for life—or let them go.

We hear you, we see you, we arrest you

'The practice of giving sedatives to people detained by police has spread quietly across the nation over the last 15 years, built on questionable science and backed by police-aligned experts.' (terrifying) apnews.com/article/invest…

Today marks ten years since the beginning of the Flint Water Crisis, and the city is finally closing in on replacing its last lead pipe. But will that milestone mean anything for residents? wordinblack.com/2024/04/flint-…

This is how Texas Department of Public Safety troopers dealt with a member of the local media in Austin today. The cameraman works for Fox 7 Austin.

This is how amped up troopers were, in a crowd of students.

Once I also spoke to this reporter “at length and with nuance,” telling him things that didn’t serve his precooked narrative, and instead of quoting me he dug up an old tweet in an attempt to bolster an argument my actual words would’ve weakened. Cool pattern of behavior.

'I am wary of a hysterical campus discourse...that draws attention away from the ongoing slaughter in the Gaza Strip and settler violence in the occupied West Bank. We should be focusing on the material reality of war.' Important piece from jon ben-menachem. zeteo.com/p/i-am-a-jewis…

A statement by our faculty at Columbia and Barnard. More to come. I am behind every word.

Growing crowd up at Columbia this afternoon chanting with the students through the fence, “Disclose, divest, we will not stop we will not rest!”

Huge news: The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation has become the first federally recognized tribe to get a portion of their land back in Illinois. Illinois now has tribal lands.