what is happening in amsterdam right now is absolutely unprecedented in my lifetime!
direct action protesters have just managed to put a fence around the fucking cops in the fucking city center of amsterdam!
In our lifetime Falastiin will be free and Zionism will fall!
So I was supposed to deliver the keynote at a @columbia symposium on climate and language this Friday, but I have informed the organizers that, with true sorrow, I am pulling out because I will not be associated with this university at this political moment.
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I live by Columbia. Tonight I went for a walk & saw 10+ blocks rapidly barricaded, dozens of police vehicles flying by, large groups of NYPD in riot gear gathering.
I study protest in E Europe. What I saw tonight was some of the most wildly disproportionate policing I've seen
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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.
Despicable.
Not only did the New York Times publish the op ed defending JK Rowling the day after the GLAAD letter criticized its trans coverage...
It publicly threatened all of the trans employees and allies that signed onto that letter.
DROP the New York Times.