Salute to the brave Students of Bangladesh. They've ended the 15 years long dictatorial rule of Hasina Wajid. The Indian Proxy is no longer in Dhaka!!!
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There’s this weird slippage people do where by “peaceful” they mean “lawful” but then they want to use MLK as an example and seem to forget where “letter from Birmingham Jail” was written from
Student protesters were right about segregation in the early '60s, right about Vietnam in the late '60s, right about apartheid in the '80s, right about Iraq in 2003, and right about wealth inequality in 2011. Seems generally bad to side against student movements.
Last night, students and workers protesting peacefully at UCLA for justice in Palestine were physically attacked by a group of 100+ counter protesters. UC’s failure to protect students and workers is an abdication of its responsibility. UAW 4811 members are mobilizing in response
UPDATE FROM ONE POLICE PLAZA:
- No press allowed inside Hind’s Hall, including WKCR.
- Multiple Columbia students were taken straight to the hospital due to severe injuries by NYPD.
- Students had swollen faces from being kicked repeatedly by police.
“We have put up the most glorious fight. We did not allow the movement to end with a false deal from Columbia. Keep all eyes on your comrades, mobilize to Columbia. If you are free, come to protect the encampment.”
— Columbia Encampment
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
it's so so so so crazy to have young people in this hell of a world, tell them that this is going to be -- no money, no jobs, you can't pay rent, and we're going to use your tax money for genocide -- and then punish them when they say we don't want this life
wkcr students are having to counter report against journalists like anderson cooper who are repeating fact free conjecture that the people being brutalized and arrested are indeed their peers. this is insane.
I don't give a fuck whether these kids are peaceful or not. Idgaf if they're sitting in a circle knitting sweaters for kittens or rioting and taking bats to every window in the fucking building. I will NEVER support state sanctioned violence against people protesting genocide.
AFTER LOCKING MEDICS INTO JOHN JAY, NYPD AT COLUMBIA PUSHED THREE STUDENTS DOWN THE STAIRS AND DRAGGED OUT ONE PASSED OUT STUDENT. THEY THREW ALL ITEMS DOWN THE STAIRS, ENDANGERING STUDENTS, AND PUSHED A GROUP OF FIVE THAT WERE WALKING WITHOUT RESISTING ARREST.
NOW: After merging with a large group of FIT students, the march has swelled to several hundred people
The march is now expected to head to Columbia University