Just your daily reminder that governments do not represent it’s citizens…🇵🇸🇺🇸

James Baldwin at UVM 1985 youtu.be/5F2uQcSu5lI?si… via YouTube

THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN EVERYWHERE!

It’s clear that UNC-Chapel Hill is scared of what will happen when the labor movement is in full solidarity with the movement for a #FreePalestine ✊🇵🇸

#UNC #Escalate4Gaza

THREAD. Last night, the White House quietly sent out a press release notifying reporters that Biden would be seeking $37 billion for, among other things, 100,000 new cops. This is one of the most dangerous developments imaginable.

Palestine and the Arab Revolution tempestmag.org/2024/05/palest…

Our movement organizations must fund themselves. Relying on our class enemies is a trap; this dependence shackles us with golden manacles, restricts our politics, and limits our strategies and tactics. If not ended, this will co-opt struggle from below. politi.co/4blQwaq

No justice, no peace. wsj.com/video/graduate…

BREAKING: Faculty have joined the strike pledge, joining graduate student workers in pledging to withhold final grades until @NYUniversity meets our demands.

Sign the pledge at linktr.ee/graderefusalnyu

Oh damn.

The Mar-a-Lago Monster hosts crackpots, thugs, and far right strategists at his McMansion and rewards them with a 75-minute, delusional, paranoid rant. nytimes.com/2024/05/04/us/…

Dark parody.
Read in reply a short statement from a remarkably wide cross section of the history faculty of Columbia University
history.columbia.edu/department-fac…

BREAKING: Palestinian flags flying high during the University of Michigan’s commencement ceremony in Ann Arbor, MI, today.

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Promise Li interviews organizers Richard Lai and Lynn Ta on the connections between Vietnam and Gaza, and on the role of anti-imperialism in community organizing. spectrejournal.com/from-vietnam-t…

Liberal defense of police state repression and institutional complicity with apartheid and genocide.

Shafik offers no vision of what a university is, or what one should be. She talks about her time at the IMF and says Columbia 'can be an exemplar for a better world' and she wants 'to rebuild community.' She sounds like a banker reciting a corporate PR statement.

54 years ago today, 4 students at Kent State University were killed while protesting war.

Allison Krause, 19
Jeffrey Glenn Miller, 20
Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20
William Knox Schroeder, 19

Today, we see antiwar protesters on campuses.

We must not repeat history.

Check out this article about our big May Day picket! Last Wednesday, we were at the Hannaford in Williston from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. demanding that the supermarket chain join #milkwithdignity

UVM encampment demands:

Northern Gaza in ‘full-blown famine’, UN food agency chief says aje.io/9wehdb via Al Jazeera English