🚨 BREAKING: my fucking brain

This piece by my UCLA colleague, Prof. David Myers, accurately describes what I also witnessed on UCLA's campus on Sunday. To keep the peace, we both put ourselves between some pro-Palestinian protesters (who were mostly disciplined and non-confrontational) and a small…

The past 4 days, more than 20 departments met to discuss whether we might do a labor stoppage in solidarity with Palestinian workers. Last night, I helped lead a meeting with more than 200 graduate workers to discuss this possibility. And today, we've walked off the job ✊

Let's be clear: to the extent that university campuses today are unsafe, the fault lies squarely with pro-Israel counter-protesters, the cops, and the university administrators who enable them.

Shit got really nasty, really fast, security absolutely disappeared immediately at the jump and once cops got there they stood around for an hour watching it continue before clearing the counterprotestors with no arrests

Despite heavy repression, campus protests in solidarity with Palestine have been spreading like wildfire across the US. The support of organized labor can help the movement grow — and increase its leverage to achieve its demands.
jacobin.com/2024/05/labor-…

Sending in militarized police and snipers to stop students from exercising their First Amendment rights is truly disgusting.

Why are my colleagues and the mainstream media more outraged over these anti-war protests than they are about the over 35,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza?

Happy May Day to the workers of the world! Today is about joy, solidarity, and rebellion, and has been since a Black anarchist named Lucy Parsons led the country’s first May Day march in 1886. The cops called her “more dangerous than a thousand rioters.”

Be dangerous, beloveds.

U.N. Decries Widening Police Crackdown on Student Protests in U.S. democracynow.org/2024/5/1/headl…

May Day ❤️

The UAW will never support the mass arrest or intimidation of those exercising their right to protest, strike, or speak out against injustice.

The bosses have two parties, it's time for one of our own! The “Run for the Bread & Roses Socialist Gala” is a fundraising party for the JP Lyninger for Louisville Metro Council campaign. secure.actblue.com/donate/jpoaks

Pls correct inaccuracy circulating in MSM, including by CNN -- those arrested in the first roundup at Columbia University WERE ALL STUDENTS. About 26 Columbia students & about 58 Barnard College students arrested & suspended.

Others were from other schools AT COLUMBIA. No outside…

We are seeing where NYPD’s $5.8 billion budget really goes. It doesn’t go to community policing or making our neighborhoods safer.

It goes to tanks, riot gear, to helicopters and weapons of war so they can attack “threats”—from BLM protestors to college kids fighting genocide.

I can’t get anyone from the city on the phone to help constituents facing eviction because we’re spending all our taxpayer money on an army of brutal fascists who are deployed to attack children who want to end genocide. This is NYC under Mayor Adams.

In a country where children go hungry, people die unhoused and libraries are only open part time, this is where our resources go

Fascism.

It's so incredibly clear that the police stood aside and let a pro Israeli lynch mob run wild at UCLA. They did nothing for two hours as violent Zionists assaulted students, launched fireworks into the encampment, and sprayed mace on students.

Last night, students and workers protesting peacefully at UCLA for justice in Palestine were physically attacked by a group of 100+ counter protesters. UC’s failure to protect students and workers is an abdication of its responsibility. UAW 4811 members are mobilizing in response