Lawmakers here are saying they need to stay inside the National Assembly until the president lifts martial law. For this to happen, Yoon has to hold a cabinet meeting to lift the decree but it’s being reported there is no movement in the Blue House
Civilians helped South Korea parliament members to enter the national assembly... one of them had a yellow ribbon on their bag, a symbol to remember the 2014 Sewol ferry tragedy which happened due to the negligence of previous president Park Geun-hye...
I'm a South Korean journalist based in New York City. This is a thread about what's happening in South Korea right now after the president declared emergency martial law.
an Emerson College student sent me this video of city crews cleaning blood from the alleyway where 108 students were arrested last night during an encampment sweep. I'm at Boston municipal court today where eight of those arrested have been given summons for arraignments in May.
Someone on tiktok said, “they’re messing with the Sandy Hook generation”. And that sentiment has reverberated in my head all morning. Lived through the thoughts and prayers of an elementary school shooting just to be brutalized by cops in college. Fucking crazy.
Israel has dropped almost 75,000 bombs and shells on Gaza in 200 days, twenty times more than the US aimed at Iraq in six years of war.
It’s not war. It’s genocide.
This is Kate Rosenblatt, a professor of Religion and Jewish Studies at #Emory. She says it’s “unconscionable” that the university called police on students.
"Land of the free". Professor Noelle McAfee, Chair of the Philosophy Department at #EmoryUniversity is arrested by police for expressing solidarity with the Palestinian cause on campus. Atlanta, USA.
#MISSING- IT ONLY TAKES 2 SECONDS TO SHARE! 19 year old Lily Marie Whitmore was last seen in Portland, Texas near the Wal Mart on Thursday. She graduated from Gregory Portland High School in 2020. Lily stands at 5 foot 4 inches. Can you help spread the word to help find Lily?