Huge update to our campus arrests + prosecutions tracker—now at 1,300+ arrests.

Charges include trespassing, assault on police, mob action, 'hate crime on law enforcement,' + more.

We got responses from 22 prosecutors on how they'll handle the charges. theappeal.org/prosecutors-ch…

Yesterday, a faculty member at USD made public that they were threatened with termination if they didn’t remove their preferred pronouns and tribal affiliation from their email signature

1/11🧵

Living in Texas, UT protesters may be more likely to face police brutality.

But they're *less* likely to face criminal charges — because they have a progressive DA.

Your votes for prosecutors, judges, and sheriffs matter so much in moments like these:

themarshallproject.org/2024/04/30/cam…

.JSTOR and Reveal Digital have a whole archive on this: about.jstor.org/revealdigital/… Morgan Godvin JSTOR_Daily

Prisons and jails obscure the devastation wrought by decades of discriminatory housing policies.

Over 20% of people in state prisons were homeless or housing-insecure before their incarceration. Behind bars, they're hidden from sight.

This is possibly the coolest I've ever been. My first Teen Vogue byline! (with thanks to The Hechinger Report for supporting the story) teenvogue.com/story/crisis-c…

I’m looking for families affected by the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People epidemic in CA. Do you have a MMIP loved one? Please fill this out. The Bee is looking at creating a MMIP database, and we need your help. The Sacramento Bee + Equity Lab docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

UPDATE: Crackdowns on pro-Palestine campus protests have now led to over 1,300 arrests at nearly 70 colleges and universities across 30 states. As police continue to storm encampments, prosecutors will determine the fate of many protesters. theappeal.org/prosecutors-ch…

Cant go to my office today because my ID wont get me in. First time ever in my West Indian life that I feel bad about being told to stay home from work (!!) But my employer just doesnt want faculty present to witness whatever they are going to pull on protesting students today

Which schools are treating their protesting students peacefully? I’d love to have a list. UCLA, Rochester, where else?

What a treat to join DePaul University students and a group of incarcerated folk at Cook County Jail for one of their book club meetings. apnews.com/article/jail-b…

A lesson from this story: College students—especially those involved in activism—need to educate themselves about which prosecutor has jurisdiction over their campus, which handles misdemeanors vs. felonies. Could have a huge impact in moments like these. theappeal.org/we-asked-prose…

Columbia University Gives Students Option To Finish Classes From Prison

theonion.com/columbia-unive…

🚨 The TX Dept of Criminal Justice isn’t just forcing families to spend money on e-messaging. It’s also charging more than double what its contract with Securus says it should be charging, for no apparent reason, reporters in San Antonio found. 🧵

sceneinsa.com/editorial/prof…

The state prison in Pine Bluff, Arkansas has rejected an entire package of our books because the mailroom decided that 'inmates cannot have art books' (Policy determination conveyed via this purple post-it note affixed by the prison to our original invoice and mailed back to us)

10yrs ago, my 2nd FRONTLINE showed what a year looks like in one of the most incarcerated communities in the U.S. On Tuesday, FRONTLINE premieres a new film on policing w The Associated Press, involving my students at Howard Center for Investigative Journalism! #lethalrestraint I’m so proud!

'Since the bill’s introduction to the Senate on March 20, word has spread like wildfire. In the 30-plus years I’ve been incarcerated—and there are nearly 1,000 of us who have now been in Georgia state prisons that long—this is a first.'

By Jimmy Iakovos:
filtermag.org/georgia-parole…

While the media ignores them, students at community colleges ARE protesting genocide too.

They have far fewer material resources to leverage but are just as important. I’ll flag them in this 🧵 as I learn about their efforts.

#GazaSolidarityEncampment #CeasfireNOW

If you are a reporter in Arizona trying to cover the student protests. It would behoove you to look into WHY state universities legally can’t divest. We covered it a bit in our newsletter, but it’s worth a reporter diving into this, exclusively: eepurl.com/iMxZsw