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Shortly before 3:30 a.m., four Daily Bruin reporters were walking on campus when they were followed and then assaulted.
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
C Pam Zhang and Safiya Noble have withdrawn as keynote speakers for the USC Rossier’s doctoral and master’s commencement ceremonies. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 lithub.com/c-pam-zhang-an…
"When students begin to defy established authority it often appears to besieged administrators that 'someone must be behind this,' the implication being that young people are incapable of thinking or acting on their own." - Howard Zinn, reflecting on Spelman students rebelling
Amid today's news, it may be hard to make space for this report that @Regmi_Ira & I have written on the civil rights struggle to eradicate involuntary unemployment. But there is an important connection between free speech, robust protest, & protection from economic immiseration🧵
Amid today's news, it may be hard to make space for this report that @Regmi_Ira & I have written on the civil rights struggle to eradicate involuntary unemployment. But there is an important connection between free speech, robust protest, & protection from economic immiseration🧵
(to my butler) read me the diabetic of enlightenment interview again publicbooks.org/the-jokes-ulti…
‼️JAIL SUPPORT NEEDED‼️ Over 50 protestors have been arrested at USC and are now being taken to 77th St Station and Metro Detention Center. Head over there now and demand that LAPD release them ALL!
Today in @thenation we have a piece by Lujayn, a 14-year-old girl in Gaza, that has floored me every time I've read it. It's about what happened when an Israeli bulldozer came to destroy the house she was staying in, and you must, must, must read it. thenation.com/article/world/…
BREAKING: Eleven members of the Advisory Committee on Muslim Life at USC have resigned as of Friday, the USC Muslim Student Union announced Monday, "in protest against the University administration's decision to revoke Asna Tabassum's valedictory address at commencement."
On Wednesday, I am scheduled to give the 2024 Mamie Phipps Clark and Kenneth B. Clark Distinguished Lecture at Columbia University. In light of the university’s current repression and criminalization of students, as well as the present academic boycott of the institution, I have…
proud, inspired. thank you to all the authors who withdrew their work, to the PEN staff who supported our action, to the writers who withdrew from the WVF and charted a path forward, to Jean Stein for saying what PEN America refuses to––Gaza will be free lithub.com/the-pen-americ…
USC did indeed build a pool for 1984 Olympics that was supposed to be open to the community for subsequent generations… you’ll never guess what happened next.
USC did indeed build a pool for 1984 Olympics that was supposed to be open to the community for subsequent generations… you’ll never guess what happened next.
BOOKFORUM PARTY on May 3! Big thanks to our friends at @nplusonemag for hosting. Free to attend, RSVP required: eventbrite.com/e/bookforum-pa…
probably says a lot about the state of literature that it’s been extremely impressive and heartening to me that someone who writes so brilliantly and honestly about empire has been consistently vocal about empire
probably says a lot about the state of literature that it’s been extremely impressive and heartening to me that someone who writes so brilliantly and honestly about empire has been consistently vocal about empire
There are several faculty-led petitions, a statement of support from our AAUP chapter, and many outspoken faculty of color who have been posting/ critiquing the institution. Given the lack of faculty governance, sadly, we’re pretty much exhausting the options we have. Links below
The spring issue of Bookforum is online now, with pieces by Christine Smallwood, @MelissEAnderson, @lisa_borst, @Harmony_Holiday, Joy Williams, @xlorentzen, @GeneSeymour, @MoiraDonegan, Becca Rothfeld, and much more. Read, subscribe, and spread the word! bookforum.com/print/3004
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Shortly before 3:30 a.m., four Daily Bruin reporters were walking on campus when they were followed and then assaulted.
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
Editorial: UCLA has failed its students in not taking action to prevent violence between protesters and counter-protesters at the pro-Palestine encampment. dailybruin.com/2024/05/01/edi…
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"We're being escorted off the premises by NYPD. " There's no one left to document what's going on at Hamilton - WKCR journalists.
You may well have the unusual situation of the Columbia student radio station being eligible for a Pulitzer Prize, administered by Columbia University, for the station’s coverage of how Columbia called the cops on Columbia students. (They’re doing an extraordinary job).
To the people making a federal case out of the word intifada, know that it will be called the Student Intifada in history books if anyone is still allowed to write them
between classes calling mayor bass’s office asking for the removal of a jumbotron tv placed on campus by counterprotestors across from the encampment & in front of my dept, which plays a loop of images & audio from oct 7 to harass student protestors. this shit.
This de-arrest primer zine should be available at every Gaza Solidarity Encampment Available here: haters.noblogs.org/files/2024/04/…
I could listen to my wife talk aimlessly for the rest of eternity, until the sun burns itself out, until the heavens fall from the sky, and not even notice a minute had passed
My wife’s stories are like Grateful Dead songs. I literally applaud when she gets back to the point.
some bad news for the president of the university of chicago about arguments based on etymology
Please stop making fun of this. UChicago alumni only start doing etymology when they’re very distressed
At the USC encampment and student organizers have announced that President Carol Folt has agreed to a meeting with them at 3:30pm PT.
C Pam Zhang and Safiya Noble have withdrawn as keynote speakers for the USC Rossier’s doctoral and master’s commencement ceremonies. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 lithub.com/c-pam-zhang-an…
So much love for state school students who are overwhelmingly working class, many first generation, without a safety net for violence, arrest, or expulsion and doing this w/ little recognition. Truly a risk-taking principled stand in solidarity
Challengers has its merits—the actors, the dialogue—but its presumed sexiness is like a fast-food chain adding a grind of pepper to the special sauce: factually but minimally true, mostly significant as publicity, as branding.