BREAKING: City University of New York rank and file faculty members have just voted UNANIMOUSLY to support the five demands of the CUNY students and to protect the students, including holding a picket tomorrow !

Bravo to these brave, brave students 👏🏻

Kendrick went and Kendricked …..

Not me crying watching the Black students at Stanford provide free breakfast for everyone at the Palestine encampment. 😭😭😭

What a way to do the work and honor the Black Panther Party.

Scenes from Palestine Square in New Orleans, Louisiana (formerly 'Jackson Square'), the first non-university encampment in solidarity with Gaza in the US which launched earlier today.

'From the campus to the street, it is time to escalate!'

'Palestinians have seen this

Although no news in USA seem interested in reporting it, Russia bombed Odesa again today: multiple casualties, including children, scores of wounded and dead.

The ballistic missile got into a location Odesans like to call Harry Potter’s Castle. Putin is a Voldemort? You tell me.

Two of the most damaging things Eric Adams has done since becoming mayor is (1) have people involuntarily committed—usually homeless people whose encampments he destroyed, and (2) stopped telling the public about people dying awaiting trial.

We want to introduce you to some young poets in Gaza.

Through the genocide, they have not stopped writing.

Most have been made homeless.

All want to escape.

They need all of our help, so we want to tell you about them. 🧵

Let’s go! Proud of my students. I’ll be going between the protest, classes, and meetings today as I can. If you can show up to support and protect the student encampment, please do!

How these are all colonial tactics of oppression. Be teachable. It's not disrupting the movement to make these broader connections in real time. We're trying to help develop critical consciousness so this momentum continues beyond this present moment. Please listen. /2

Be teachable. Be curious. A lot of us that have been in the fight for liberation for awhile are trying to show you how these struggles are connected. How anti-Blackness and police brutality show up in the protest space. How land defenders feel on our own traditional territory. 1/

'The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light.'

— James Baldwin.

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PROFESSORS:
You will not be able to effectively defend/protect/be in solidarity with your students if you can only defend their 'peaceful'-ness.

You must insist on the rightness of their demands. You must point out the ongoing global violence that gets called 'peace.'

“There are no universities left in Gaza. At Howard, we have $90M contract w/Dept. of Defense. As students across the DMV, we do not support campuses, which are supposed to be spaces of learning, to have relationships w/these genocidal entities”

Howard U. students at GWU Protest

What a profound act of love and solidarity. The students are holding Shabbat service at the gates so their suspended friends can join.

Black Mommy Activist, PhD🎙 Emory University Faculty silence at this moment is anachronistic. This moment is the very reason we need & have tenure. If you can’t speak now, the justifications for having tenure fall by the wayside And they won’t stop at the students. So faculty remain silent at your own peril.