The young people of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) were often referred to as “outside agitators.”

They are getting it *in* tonight over on rolandsmartin's show. Good stuff.

Can't wait to dig into this!

Kelly Grotke And it will be hard, really, to know whether divestment has taken place - or whether reinvestment would occur later. There is huge room for obfuscation given the way these endowments are currently managed.

(2) the timing of protest threatens to disrupt the two most important moments for raising institutional capital: commencement (especially donations from parents); and reunions (do not underestimate how important reunions are for these institutions' fund-raising activities)

Every single historian I respect is both worried and terrified about what is going on, because the patterns are recognizable.

Plenty of historians I know are also ignoring this moment or marching in step with Biden and the other merry genocidaires

J6 was an attempt to overthrow the federal government to install a dictatorship, with heavy doses of murder the vice president and a sizeable portion of Congress. For fuck's sake, comparing it to the occupation of a building on a college campus makes you look absurd.

I was interviewed by NPR on 'How some faculty members are defending student protesters, in actions and in words' npr.org/2024/05/01/124…

College Democrats’ votes are not to be taken for granted by the Democratic Party. We reserve the right to criticize our party when it fails to listen to us.

Sixty years later:

“It was a glorious moment where free speech was celebrated, supported, and defended.”

Yup.

I’m sure the American Historical Association is too busy composing editorials about the dangers of presentism, but it’d be really nice if they said something about multiple police assaults on historians at protests.

This is despicable behavior by the cops.

The horrific violence from the pro-Israel agitators is probably worth at least as much condemnation from Joe Biden as the pro-peace protesters sitting in tents, eating lentils, and doing a Passover Seder got, right?

Anyway, I'm overwhelmed and behind but going to rearrange a bit and spend my reading time today on Hajar Yazdiha, Ph.D.'s extremely relevant book on sanitizing the Civil Rights Movement. press.princeton.edu/books/paperbac…

University leadership will start canceling graduation ceremonies now, because who will come sing your school song and clap politely for you after you brought police on campus to brutalize students?

.CNN talking about how no one was hurt, and the NYPD was careful. Meanwhile videos like this are all over social media. This one from the IG page of Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine.

Also reports of officers turning off body cams and then using excessive force against students.

Campus Cancel Culture Freakouts Obscure the Power of University Boards | Teen Vogue

The type of article ⁦The Atlantic⁩ would write if it had any grownups working there. teenvogue.com/story/campus-c…

Most shocking revelations in Archdiocese search warrant: Victims told police priests sexually abused them in the pool at Notre Dame Seminary in front of other clergy, and priests gave kids 'gifts' to pass on to other clergy as a signal.
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