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UCLA is devolving quickly. Fireworks and some type of explosive have been launched at the encampment.
As armored vehicles pull up on college campuses and jackboot phalanxes beat and tear gas students protesting genocide, remember they called Bree Newsome “crazy” and “unhinged” for saying fascism is already here, not waiting to come with Trump.
When the South has trouble with its Negroes—when the Negroes refuse to remain in their “place”—it blames “outside” agitators and “Northern interference.” When the nation has trouble with the Northern Negro, it blames the Kremlin. - James Baldwin, 'Nobody Knows My Name,' 1961
When the South has trouble with its Negroes—when the Negroes refuse to remain in their “place”—it blames “outside” agitators and “Northern interference.” When the nation has trouble with the Northern Negro, it blames the Kremlin. - James Baldwin, 'Nobody Knows My Name,' 1961
Here’s a useful Arabic proverb for this kind of hypocrisy: “He kills the victim, and marches in his funeral”
Here’s a useful Arabic proverb for this kind of hypocrisy: “He kills the victim, and marches in his funeral”
Solidarity with @MullinCorinna who has just been arrested by NYPD at CUNY. We must stand together to push back against this repression and continue fighting for a free Palestine. The more they repress, the more we resist!
Solidarity with @MullinCorinna who has just been arrested by NYPD at CUNY. We must stand together to push back against this repression and continue fighting for a free Palestine. The more they repress, the more we resist!
We’ve been hard at work updating this: By our count, nearly 1,400 people have been arrested at campus protests this month. Some face insane charges, including “hate crimes against law enforcement” in New Orleans
We’ve been hard at work updating this: By our count, nearly 1,400 people have been arrested at campus protests this month. Some face insane charges, including “hate crimes against law enforcement” in New Orleans
This has to be the darkest day I’ve ever experienced as an academic. Universities ordering physical violence against the students to whom we’ve been entrusted to educate. Again and again. It goes against everything I believe in. I feel disgusted by my vocation.
This is war liberalism on the domestic front: NYPD cops clear Columbia of occupying students at gunpoint
ccny campus magazine livestream is genuinely incredible, they’re reading out police badge numbers + names and getting people in the chat to search complaints filed against them, then reading the complaints back out loud to the cops 😭
NYPD officials have spoken often recently of their intent to “control the narrarive” by building out their own media apparatus. In practice, that looks like barring reporters from public streets adjacent to a mass arrest action, then posting videos like this
NYPD officials have spoken often recently of their intent to “control the narrarive” by building out their own media apparatus. In practice, that looks like barring reporters from public streets adjacent to a mass arrest action, then posting videos like this
That’s the striking thing. Those responsible (including the White House) have no endgame. Do they think they can violently quell outrage at Israel’s genocide? Do they think people will just give up? Or is this all just thoughtless reaction to pressure from pro-Israel forces?
That’s the striking thing. Those responsible (including the White House) have no endgame. Do they think they can violently quell outrage at Israel’s genocide? Do they think people will just give up? Or is this all just thoughtless reaction to pressure from pro-Israel forces?
Very difficult to premise your party’s entire electoral pitch on “defending democracy” while co-signing this at every step of the way, to defend of an apartheid regime carrying out a genocide x.com/isaiah_bb/stat…
Very difficult to premise your party’s entire electoral pitch on “defending democracy” while co-signing this at every step of the way, to defend of an apartheid regime carrying out a genocide x.com/isaiah_bb/stat…
If I had any power in Africa, I’d force all these prosperity preachers/prophets into a televised Hunger Games survival battle and then imprison the winner. Bring all of them to an end.
If I had any power in Africa, I’d force all these prosperity preachers/prophets into a televised Hunger Games survival battle and then imprison the winner. Bring all of them to an end.
The #Algerian ambassador to #Niger, SEM Bekhedda Mehdi, was summoned on 3/04 to appear before the Deputy Secretary General of the Niger Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oumar Ibrahim Sidi, to give answers concerning the #deportation of sub-Saharan migrants from Algeria to Niger.
@UCLA Protesters are hacking and getting their eyes flushed as Zionists are trying to rip down the boards videos to come
There’s still no UCPD or security here intervening
This is a fuxking disaster at ucla Zionists just set off fire work at the encampment
IM AT @UCLA ZIONISTS PEPPER SPRAYING PROTESTERS AND THROWING POLES AND SPRAYING PEOPLE
Watch what happens at 14 seconds.
Watch what happens at 14 seconds.
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69K Followers 10K Following Associate Professor of Philosophy and African Studies at Georgetown. Author of Reconsidering Reparations and Elite Capture, @cpluscp member.UCLA is devolving quickly. Fireworks and some type of explosive have been launched at the encampment.
As armored vehicles pull up on college campuses and jackboot phalanxes beat and tear gas students protesting genocide, remember they called Bree Newsome “crazy” and “unhinged” for saying fascism is already here, not waiting to come with Trump.
Watching the video of this student crying that he could not open his eyes broke me. I wouldn’t want this for any student. ANY student.
Every day dozens of stunning new pictures from the campus protests but I want to highlight this amazing one by .@loriannejpg, a photojournalist at UT Austin. MBV make shoegaze music. These students are making worldgaze music.
When the South has trouble with its Negroes—when the Negroes refuse to remain in their “place”—it blames “outside” agitators and “Northern interference.” When the nation has trouble with the Northern Negro, it blames the Kremlin. - James Baldwin, 'Nobody Knows My Name,' 1961
The "outside agitator" is classic agitprop + projection. King demystified it for us in his "Letter from Birmingham Jail."
Here’s a useful Arabic proverb for this kind of hypocrisy: “He kills the victim, and marches in his funeral”
Today I met with families from Gaza. I heard the suffering that they and their loved ones continue to endure. Some killed or wounded, others displaced. We are working tirelessly to get more aid to people in Gaza and secure an immediate ceasefire and release of hostages.
how can anyone justify this kind of police response to a peaceful protest
One of the most enraging and accurate scenes from tonight outside the CCNY encampment — a protestor pleads with NYPD in riot gear to back off and reminds them they’re here to divest from a genocide.
Solidarity with @MullinCorinna who has just been arrested by NYPD at CUNY. We must stand together to push back against this repression and continue fighting for a free Palestine. The more they repress, the more we resist!
“Is it the chancellor who runs this campus or is it the NYPD who runs this campus?” This is CUNY professor Corinna Mullen. The NYPD just arrested her.
We’ve been hard at work updating this: By our count, nearly 1,400 people have been arrested at campus protests this month. Some face insane charges, including “hate crimes against law enforcement” in New Orleans
UPDATE: Crackdowns on pro-Palestine campus protests have now led to over 1,300 arrests at nearly 70 colleges and universities across 30 states. As police continue to storm encampments, prosecutors will determine the fate of many protesters. theappeal.org/prosecutors-ch…
This is part of the video shown by the NYPD to prove their intel that the Columbia protests have been “co-opted” by professionals -
NEW - @NYCMayor says Columbia protest has been "co-opted" and is going to share their intel, he says at 1 Police Plaza. He advises students involved in the protest to leave the area and tells parents to tell their kids to leave "before the situation escalates."
CUNY is the people’s school & right now they’re under siege. but the arguments won’t be the same, the coverage won’t be the same, & the assault won’t be the same, it will be worse. holding our CUNY brothers & sisters up at City College in strong solidarity tonight
We all famously remember when thousands of cops decked out in riot gear beat the January 6ers senseless and arrested them all on the spot
You can’t denounce the J6 rioters and then say the Columbia students who occupied a building by force and destroyed property should be immune from consequences. This is the real world.
This has to be the darkest day I’ve ever experienced as an academic. Universities ordering physical violence against the students to whom we’ve been entrusted to educate. Again and again. It goes against everything I believe in. I feel disgusted by my vocation.
"These incidents have put many on our campus, especially our Jewish students, in a state of anxiety and fear." ~Eugene Block, UCLA
This is war liberalism on the domestic front: NYPD cops clear Columbia of occupying students at gunpoint
ccny campus magazine livestream is genuinely incredible, they’re reading out police badge numbers + names and getting people in the chat to search complaints filed against them, then reading the complaints back out loud to the cops 😭
NYPD officials have spoken often recently of their intent to “control the narrarive” by building out their own media apparatus. In practice, that looks like barring reporters from public streets adjacent to a mass arrest action, then posting videos like this
#HAPPENINGNOW: An incredible scene and proud moment as we have assisted @CityCollegeNY in restoring order on campus, culminating in raising Old Glory once again on their campus flagpole. 🇺🇸 @NYPDPC @NYPD1stDep @NYPDChiefOfDept @NYPDChiefPatrol @NYPDnews
Kind of nuts that the US president is harder on students protesting genocidal mass violence than the psychopaths committing that genocidal mass violence.
That’s the striking thing. Those responsible (including the White House) have no endgame. Do they think they can violently quell outrage at Israel’s genocide? Do they think people will just give up? Or is this all just thoughtless reaction to pressure from pro-Israel forces?
Anyone who thinks this militarized response to the demonstrators will end their anger over Israel’s genocide is nuts. Shame on Columbia, its donors, its pathetic President, & the NYPD. And btw, this will have consequences in November.
In 1968, 100 Black students at Northwestern famously occupied their campus Bursar’s office for 38 hours. They were protesting racism and discrimination. Too many of y’all don’t know the history of civil rights and student movements. sites.northwestern.edu/bursars1968/
“Peaceful non violence” was the predicate of the Civil Rights Movement. Taking over a building and destroying property feels January 6th ish to me. 🤷🏽♂️