JUST IN: USC cancels its main commencement ceremony after inflaming campus by canceling speech by Muslim valedictorian Asna Tabassum. via Jaweed Kaleem Matt Hamilton latimes.com/california/sto…

PROTEST UPDATE: 200 Palestinian rights supporters gathering at the UCSB student resource building. Advocates plan teach-ins, art builds, workshops, etc for those 'who choose Palestinian liberation over maintaining their university’s legitimacy,' per instagram.com/ucsbsjp/?hl=en…

NOW: UCLA pro-Palestinian students set up encampment in front of Royce Hall at 4 am today. They join 20+ other campuses that set up camps across the country in huge wave of protests and solidarity.

Crackdowns on pro-Palestinian student protests have galvanized campus activists at California colleges and beyond.

'We will not move,' says one UC Berkeley student.

'It's a turning point,' says another at Occidental College.
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NEW: USC calls off commencement appearances in wake of controversy over valedictorian speech. ⁦angie⁩ ⁦Jaweed Kaleem⁩ apple.news/AZbG8WAE4TXWxX…

USC students — hundreds now — chant “Let her speak!”

here at @usc where a considerable crowd has come out to protest against the cancellation of valedictorian asna tabassum’s speech

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More on USC decision to cancel commencement speech of Asna Tabassum, 2024 valedictorian: Has campus set bad precedent as universities increasingly use 'safety' as reason to shut down speech? via Jenny Jarvie bit.ly/3W3z85K

Decision by USC to cancel the commencement speech of Asna Tabassum, the 2024 valedictorian, has further deepened campus divisions over free speech, antisemitism and anti-Muslim/anti-Arab hate. via angie Jaweed Kaleem Caroline Petrow-Cohen. bit.ly/446NioH

Higher ed is embroiled in speech controversies and students are feeling dispirited. Please join me at a panel today on how to promote their democratic engagement in this election year at UC Center for Free Speech & Civic Engagement’s #SpeechMatters conference.
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JUST IN: Asna Tabassum, USC 2024 valedictorian banned from giving her commencement speech, wanted to talk about hope. She feels USC betrayed her and caved to haters. But “when you silence us, you make us louder,' she tells Jaweed Kaleem Los Angeles Times
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