Doesn’t seem like a total accident that the NYPD raids on students at Columbia and CCNY are happening at the same time that Rafah is under brutal siege
🚨NOW OUTSIDE COLUMBIA! It’s has never been more clear: the people are with Palestine and will not stand for the brutality of the NYPD or Columbia University’s attempts to stop the protest of a genocide!
Hind Rajab died one of the most horrifying deaths you could imagine for a kid — or anyone — surrounded by her dead family in a car, terrified as IDF forces moved in. the kind of story that sits in your stomach for years after you hear it. honoring her in this way is so beautiful.
TO BE CLEAR, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HAS CALLED THE COPS ONTO ITS OWN STUDENTS FOR THE SECOND TIME IN TWO WEEKS, ON THE 56TH ANNIVERSARY OF WHEN THEY LAST CALLED THE POLICE ONTO CAMPUS TO ARREST OVER 700 PROTESTING THE VIETNAM WAR & HARLEM GENTRIFICATION ON APRIL 30TH, 1968
Instead of saying, “Professors and students are not criminals” try saying,
“While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
They do, jackass.
And if politicians like you spent more time ending school shootings, they wouldn’t know how to barricade themselves in student buildings.
proud to add another encampment to the national movement but i hope when the story of all this is told it doesn’t fall into the trap of forefronting elite schools — cal poly humboldt and other working-class universities are responsible for our biggest strategic innovations
THIS IS WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT, DIVESTMENT IS A REASONABLE AND JUST DEMAND - BUT ALSO THE PALESTINIANS IN GAZA SEE YOU!!! THEY RECOGNIZE THE SOLIDARITY!!! DO NOT LISTEN TO THE NAYSAYERS, AND THOSE WHO SEEK TO CENTER ATTENTION ON THE FEELINGS OF ZIONIST COUNTERPROTESTORS!!!
One thing about the call for divestment is that it forces us to confront just how naturalized the imperialist position is. It's considered a non-political issue for higher ed institutions to profit from war, genocide, and occupation. What's "political" is asking them to stop.