the leftist position is that people’s positions, even if horrific, have roots in their material reality. the liberal position as best i can tell is that 20-30% of the country has an irredeemably evil soul. i guess im going with the one you could actually do something about.
The moment the UAW Local 4811 union, which represents UC graduate students, academic researchers and employees, and postdoctoral scholars, announced its strike vote was authorized.
The UC currently says the strike is illegal.
Matthew wrote a story! https://t.co/DLAUCfP1gw
Law enforcement officers tackle and violently detain pro-Palestinian student protesters at UC Irvine, while other officers aim less-lethal munitions into a crowd.
Video by Jon Putnam, @jonp_photo_ on Instagram.
UC Irvine just sent a mass alert about a protest turning “violent” on campus.
But when you view live footage at UCI, you just see a peaceful group of students.
You also see police on the rooftops threatening students with chemical weapons, tasers, batons, and rubber bullets.
ccny campus magazine livestream is genuinely incredible, they’re reading out police badge numbers + names and getting people in the chat to search complaints filed against them, then reading the complaints back out loud to the cops 😭
TO RESPOND TO STUDENTS WHO ARE DEMANDING THAT COLUMBIA STOP INVESTING IN WEAPONS MANUFACTURING COMPANIES. WHO DO THEY SERVE? WHO DO THEY PROTECT? CAPITALISTS AND COLONIZERS
#NYC The rally outside CUNY on 139th street to support the trapped students is not just still going strong, but is has grown even bigger despite attempts by NYPD to disperse the crowd
It's past midnight, and turnout of students and faculty has filled the entire plaza of Columbia University. An end to US complicity in the genocide of Gaza remains their focus, they insist, despite media attempts to divert attention to issues like student safety or free speech
i come on this site exclusively to remind you that palestine will be free, and the student spring, campus intifada, american spring, or whatever other name we may give it, shall only be the beginning. tiocfaidh lá an phalaistín!!! saoirse don saol!!!
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: Students have taken over Hamilton Hall.
This escalation is in line with uprisings in 1968, 1985 and 1996, which Columbia repressed then and celebrates today.
All power to students putting their bodies and livelihoods on the line to stand against genocide.
From behind jail bars, journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal commends City College students' protests through a phone call and urges them to demand more, saying: "It is not enough to demand a ceasefire. How about this? Make your demand cease occupation!"