It’s pure luck that Shafik doesn’t have a dead student on her conscience, and that America doesn’t have another Kent State

My dispatch from the Pro-Palestine protest in Oxford today, one of the most... astonishing things I've ever seen Mississippi Today mississippitoday.org/2024/05/02/it-…

I have NEVER EVER EVER seen police do this at those Proud Boys protests.

A spokesperson for Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg confirms that an NYPD officer fired a gun inside Hamilton Hall during Tuesday night’s raid at Columbia

This comes after rumors circulated on social media earlier this week about a gun being fired during the raid
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“You were attacked and therefore we had to finish the job”

Musk deliberately reinstating an open Neo-Nazi who has called for the extermination of all Jews, while trying to pretend he’s against anti-semitism, is one of his most vile decisions yet.

They might know something …

A BBC report on how the Israeli Defence Force killed two Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank - 15 year old Basil and 8 year old Adam.

8 year old Adam was shot in the back of the head as he was running away from the soldiers.

Back-of-the-head shots to 8-year-olds seems like a legitmate thing to protest in about the most vociferous way possible...but that's just me.

The ADL is praising Dartmouth’s response to anti-war protests after the police called in to remove protesters brutally knocked down and arrested 65 year old Professor Annelise Orleck, who is head of Jewish Studies and now banned from campus for six months

FYI: NYPD official Rebecca Weiner, who cited “outside agitators” as a reason for NYPD raids but offered no transparency is a Columbia adjunct. The unit she leads came under fire in the early 2010s for spying on Muslim New Yorkers. I know because I sued that unit for spying on me.

Johnson oversaw a huge expansion of detention & “baby jails” during Obama’s 2nd term. His predecessor Napolitano become president of the UC system. The revolving door between govt institutions of repression, defense/prison contractors & academia really helps explain this moment

The Committee to Protect Journalists is calling on the United States to allow journalists to safely and freely cover protests.

Read that again.

No serious injuries????????

.Dan Mihalopoulos Tom Schuba found 27 current & former Chicago police officers whose names appeared in leaked membership records for the Oath Keepers, a far-right group.

CPD investigated. The result⬇️

I found this piece incredibly helpful in explaining the thought pattern that appears operative in the response to student protest. Well worth your time.

Annelise Orleck, a great labor historian and the head of Dartmouth’s Jewish Studies department

The Los Angeles public defenders' union called the UCLA arrests 'shameful and a complete failure of leadership' and said it is ready to 'represent every person facing charges.'

UPDATE: President Halloway has agreed to 8 of the 10 demands given by Rutgers SJP and the students in the encampment. Most notably the demands for total divestment and the termination of its partnership with Tel Aviv University are “things not in the President’s control”.

Thus…

Just an FYI for people referencing the Civil Rights Movement as the ideal and legal means of protesting, students sitting in at lunch counters, in movie theaters, in bus terminals and marching in public parks were violating laws and ordinances and agents of the state were also…