38 years ago, March 31 1986, activists demanding UC Berkeley divest from apartheid South Africa built a shantytown on Sproul Plaza, which they had renamed "Biko Plaza." Police destroyed the shacks that night, making 61 arrests while students pelted their cars with rocks and eggs
"The Berkeley Police Department spent over $180,000 in overtime costs and prepared to deploy nearly its entire police force to Southside Berkeley when UC Berkeley used an overnight police operation to close People’s Park in January" https://t.co/a9glSxD9SD
It is unbelievable that students had to conduct their own investigation to identify the soldiers who chemically attacked them on campus & Columbia University is still silent about this hate crime. Is still not offering specific guidance or support. No surprise—They enabled this.
We call on students and workers at universities across the world to answer the call of the Palestinian federation of trade unions to Interrupt, block and put an end to the US-Israel war machine: STRIKE STRIKE AT THE CORE; NO MORE MONEY FOR US WAR
Our speech: “Northrop Grumman lied to us tonight! We were told we could land dream internships, but we weren’t told we’d be mingling with war-mongers. Northrop Grumman are complicit in the killing of over 24,000 Palestinians in the last 100 days. We do not dream of genocide!“
Nationwide repression of campus sit-ins:
–UMass students barred from studying abroad
–25 cop cars, riot shields to help arrest 40 students at Michigan
–41 students at Brown, 26 at UChicago arrested for demanding transparency about university investments
https://t.co/pmyDtHmoPr
Holy shit more breaking news — WE WON: the Society of Women Engineers just announced that they are ending their partnership with Northrop Grumman. Thank you SWE for standing with Palestine ❤️🖤💚
Solidarity with our UCSB comrades shutting down a Northrop Grumman internship recruitment event / interrupting the university as a point of knowledge production for the US war machine. “Strike, strike at the core; no more money for US war”! More of this.
When I was at UCSB half of our capstone projects were partnerships with military contractors. Good on these students for trying to break up that partnership.
Breaking: last night we, @uaw2865 workers in STEM + @ucsb_ftp & SJP activists shut down an internship recruiting event featuring Northrop Grumman, the 4th largest military company in the world. Northrop Grumman produces laser & longbow missile delivery systems for the IDF. 1/
They are that both the university and the union are propped up through the anti-blackness that subtends the modern world. #UAWonStrike#UCstrike
Read: https://t.co/zIYD3GtmJG
Print: https://t.co/KDXfJbvUpz
UC Riverside sending UCPD to stop the dining hall liberation, UCLA admin trying to block students from entering the free dining hall, UCSC telling staff not to replenish the food: the UC would rather ensure that no-one eats than see us all eat for free. #AbolishTheUC