Donald Trump said he, “probably took a bullet to the head…” No, that was my daughter - in her fourth grade classroom. End gun violence NOW #lexirubio#uvalde
“No soap, sanitiser, or linen..Patients were on plastic sheets that were disintegrating, lying in pools of blood & nothing to change them on. People had explosive injuries..& we were giving them Tylenol & Ibuprofen for an arm that’s been Blown off, or burns to 30% of their body”
THIS POLICE OFFICER WAS BRUTALLY BEATING ON A STUDENT OR PERSON WHILE PUSHING THEM AGAINST A TRUCK AT UT AUSTIN CAMPUS. THIS IS AN EXCESSIVE USE OF FORVE AGAINST STUDENTS
There are snipers on the roof of the school where I got my MA.
There are police beating students at the school where I got my PhD.
At each school, I studied authoritarian regimes and how they brainwash people into believing that state brutality is not only normal, but deserved.
The young person whose poster this is has come to many protests since October and watching the names on her poster grow every time I see her is a punch in the gut. I cannot imagine the pain she must feel and yet on NU’s encampment I saw her actively leading things despite it all.
To the students flying the Palestinian flag everywhere:
In the 1980s, while attempting to raise the Palestinian flag under direct Israeli military control, Mousa Hanafi, a student at Birzeit University who hails Gaza, suffered a fatal bullet from an Israeli sniper.
I was arrested and brutalized along with dozens of other people in Atlanta and hundreds, maybe thousands, around the country this week.
The 23 of us who were kept in lockup at Dekalb County Jail overnight experienced further degradation in inhumane conditions 1/
I'm eating better at the encampment than I ever have in evanston. all the POC and Black & Brown businesses donating..I forgot food could be seasoned this well. just had vegetarian hot pies that a Yemeni teacher made for us and it was the best thing I've ever eaten in this town