Emory administration falsely painted the protest as the work of 'outside agitators' but we can clearly see that police are quite happy to slam faculty members on the ground and cuff them. Contrary to ruling class fairy tales, police don't 'keep us safe.' ACAB, full stop.

This statement from Emory University protestors is incredible.

What we are seeing on campuses across the US is a coordinated act of retribution for 2020, meted out by cops who have been unleashed by college presidents who pretended not long ago that Black Lives Matter

One of the primary functions of police is to violently crush progressive social movements. It's one of the reasons expanding the size and power of police is always authoritarian and is never an answer to inequality. *It is a key part of preserving inequality, in all its forms.*

WATCH: Among those arrested today were Noelle McAfee, Chair of the Philosophy Department at Emory University.

I’ve asked for a comment from Emory on this arrest, no word yet.

This video provided to us by an #Emory PHD student. You can hear him in this video. Atlanta News First

Had a delightful time doing our thing in glorious quad in Palmdale alongside Mystery Wacker and Sobbing Honey- next is our final stop at Zebulon in Los Angeles! see you soon!

this starts soon! See you there good people!

Dozens of protesters have gathered at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore to protest the ongoing genocide in Gaza and in solidarity with other campuses facing police crackdowns

R.I.P. Helen Vendler, an acutely attentive reader of poetry. I have vivid memories of hearing her present lectures on Shakespeare's sonnets at Oxford that later become her book on them.

‘the protests are robbing my Columbia students of listening to John Cage’s 4’33, the piece of music that is explicitly designed to force you to listen to…what’s around you.’ absolutely perfect

UN calls for investigation into mass graves uncovered at two Gaza hospitals raided by Israel apnews.com/article/un-isr…

while CNN and NYT are going out of their way interviewing students who feel 'uncomfortable' at Columbia, 4,327 students and 231 teachers and administrators have been murdered in Palestine.

yo

today is Shakespeare's (pretend) birthday & I can't fit my feelings about it into a tweet, but I'm grateful to have spent much of my life--with so many other people--watching performances, reading, teaching, and still struggling to understand your poems and plays- so- thank you

The images of students at the Columbia occupation having a Passover Seder and NYU Faculty forming a line between the police and their students are visions of the kind of solidarity that the entrenched and powerful will tell you is impossible and utopian.