Yes Yes Yes to this entire thread.

“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

Union members in NYC are rallying in Washington Square Park right now to show solidarity with fellow union members arrested at recent mass arrests on college campuses & to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza.

Sundown, and it is time for Shabbat for the 4th night of Passover. This night is when we remember struggle. Many muslim and Christian students participating.

Universities literally attract & send off students under banner: “change the world” & now invite police to brutalize their students for trying to do just that. Notably the same administrations exclaimed #BlackLivesMatter at whose core is a critique of police & prisons #Fail #Gaza

Univ of Rochester announces it will cut academic ties with Israel, a demand advanced by and won by the students

#FreePalestine

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When these freaks were chanting 'Jews will not replace us' in Charlottesville, there wasn't a cop in sight. You can be sure we're seeing a genuinely anti-racist movement here because it's swarming with cops who are gleefully beating the protesters to a pulp.

in every single one of these campuses, the presence of police CAUSED violence. the relationship is CAUSAL.

Bus drivers refused to transport protestors from last night's Seder in the Streets to the precinct, forcing cops to drive the busses. Power and solidarity to the union bus drivers with twu 100 who refuse to collaborate with the NYPD, which commandeers MTA busses for mass arrests.

Also reminded that these universities *welcomed* white supremacists and didn't arrest them but *provided state protection* to white supremacists in the name of free speech.

Compare the Texas DPS (Dept of Public Safety) in how they behaved at Uvalde (wouldn't go for an hour in as kids were murdered ) to how they raise those batons to beat peaceful college students whose only 'threat' is expressing political dissent

50+ arrests. More coming now that university has declared evacuation. Please boost and donate.

I will keep tweeting the same comment: all of you in academia who wanted the police and national guard on campuses to silence students whose opinions you find uncomfortable/unacceptable, you should feel as responsible for this as petty tyrant politicians and university admins.

NEW: UMass Amherst is under investigation for anti-Palestinian discrimination.
Students allege it failed to promptly address harassment such as students shouting threats like 'Kill all Arabs' or running social media accounts with names like 'palisranimals.'theintercept.com/2024/04/24/uma…

Don’t forget what these students are protesting.

At the NLG, we’re receiving a sharp increase in requests for support from university students, as they engage in creative protests against their universities ties’ to the State of Israel and the genocide in Gaza against the Palestinian people.

It turns out that building universities on the neoliberal model of dependence upon billionaire donors, who in turn use universities as tools for dismantling public systems and the regulatory and tax codes that support them, has some downsides.