Gift: 'Here’s Where Pro-Palestinian Protests Have Embroiled U.S. Campuses'

NYT's overview of the arrests of pro-Palestine protesters. As of 5 pm, Sat., they count >700 arrests. Gift link!
nytimes.com/article/pro-pa…

The usual identity-based framing of US justice conflicts—Black/white, men/women, queer/straight, etc.—discourses that have been thoroughly booby-trapped so that no cross-movement solidarities can form, doesn’t work with Palestine. It transcends identity, and exposes empire.

What Israel is doing to the Palestinian people is a genocide and gender is a construct, hope this helps Karen!

Curious why anyone should care about the White House Correspondence dinner in Washington except those attending of course but instead it’s live on CNN . Asking for a friend

This is such an amazing story

While everyone is paying attention to protests in higher ed, you should know that 800,000 people took to the streets in Buenos Aires this week to fight Milei’s cuts to free public university education in Argentina: english.elpais.com/international/…

'We can not write these phrases ... that they are supporting us on our walls because they are destroyed walls, walls that have been shot down on our heads. So we wrote these phrases on our refugee camps.'

Disgraceful. Columbia Univ. president concocted a plan to close campus and evict *all* students early from the dorms.

Why? Students support the encampment. When the admin proclaimed a midnight deadline on <3 hrs notice, a huge # of students ran to the camp foiling admin's plans.

Northeastern is really underrated as far as sinister college administrations go. this post is so bizarre

More horrible news. A stringer for Reuters in Moscow has been arrested (for some alleged other/prior work) according to the court.

Konstantin Gabov, a journalist and video producer, will now face trial and jail in Russia. Local staff always at highest risk

Why doesn’t Joyce Carol Oates camp out in front of the Supreme Court for abortion rights?!?

Proud of Joe for his clarity, moral and otherwise

Kathleen Belew 1995 or 1996. One of many photos of the 7 year struggle for Asian American Studies at Northwestern.

I'd love to see your old pictures of protests you participated in during your college years. Starting a thread here:

This photo of me from the New York Times in 2013 is uncannily apropos today.

In India the government is close to passing laws that make end to end encryption unworkable, with the consequence that WhatsApp may leave the country. In Europe it’s worse: the EU may mandate mass scanning of conversations.

Encryption is one or two badly-constructed laws from being broken the world over.

NYC will pay a settlement of $2.1 million to three white Dept of Education executives as recompense for race-based discrimination.

BREAKING: Anticipating pro-Palestine campus divestment protests, Portland State University has just announced it will “pause” accepting donations from genocide-profiteer The Boeing Company, a major funding contributor.

We’ve obtained a copy of the email sent to faculty & students:

PHILLY: Bryn Mawr has set up their encampment fresh as of this morning