BREAKING: Students at UMass Amherst (where I recently spoke) just posted video showing state police violently disbanding their peaceful protest camp last night with chemical weapons. Reports say 150 students and faculty were arrested; all had demanded the university cut ties to…

Brilliant sign from the peaceful student rally at George Washington U. Armed police must respect free speech rights and exit all campuses in the US immediately.

Real threat comes from Israel's mass killing of innocents in Gaza -- not from the brave students trying to stop it.⤵️

BREAKING: Although mostly ignored by the media, student protesters have won big victories at 6 major US universities over Israel's mass civilian killings in Gaza. Agreements reached at Rutgers, Northwestern, Brown, Middlebury, Evergreen and Vassar.

Protest works. More to come.⤵️

Oil and Gas Action Network is hosting a talk tonight on Chevron's crimes against humanity -- including the company's 50-year poisoning of Amazon communities in Ecuador. I'm going to dial in at 9 ET.

To join: actionnetwork.org/events/chevron….⤵️

🚨BREAKING: NYPD tackle and put pro-Palestinian protester in a chokehold.

'I didn't feel safe, let me go!' protester screams before an officer takes down a protester and puts them in chokehold. In 2023, NY state passed a law forbidding police from performing chokeholds.

For months, Netanyahu made his intent to invade Rafah clear, yet the majority of my colleagues and President Biden sent more weapons to enable the massacre.

My statement on the Israeli apartheid regime's ground invasion of Rafah:

BREAKING: This brilliant speech yesterday by a Columbia professor on the cowardice of the university administration in calling in police to arrest students will be cited throughout history -– and will inspire generations of students for decades to come.

Columbia still on…

Several Irish citizens led by Tom Roche of Tom Roche - Just Forests went to the US embassy in Dublin to demand President Biden pardon me after I was illegally detained for three years by a private Chevron prosecutor. So grateful for the support.

Please help our campaign by signing the…

BREAKING: High school students from across Boston walk out of class to join the MIT student encampment in response to the increasing police repression.

Eleven high schools, including private high school Boston Latin, have walked out to stand with Gaza.

Brilliant sign from the peaceful student rally at George Washington U. Armed police must respect free speech rights and exit all campuses in the US immediately.

Real threat comes from Israel's mass killing of innocents in Gaza -- not from the brave students trying to stop it.⤵️

BREAKING: Police arrests in the US of students protesting Israel's mass killings in Gaza have surpassed 2,500. Protests continue at 75 universities with some now canceling graduation ceremonies. (Photo at ⁦Fordham U by Alex Kent.)

Historic display of student power.👊⤵️

BREAKING: After using riot police to invade campus and arrest 200 of its own students protesting Israel's mass killings in Gaza, ⁦Columbia University⁩ University just canceled its main graduation ceremony anyway.

Big mistake and a stunning sign of institutional failure.⤵️

BREAKING: In just a few weeks US police have arrested more 2,000 students nationwide protesting Israel's mass killing of civilians in Gaza. This is the largest police crackdown on students since Vietnam and a massive violation of human rights.

Protester at UCLA, by…

Impunity is when the entire world calls you out for committing war crimes, and you keep doing it anyway. ⤵️

On this fateful day in 1970 US army troops killed 4 unarmed students at Kent State in Ohio protesting the Vietnam War. University presidents who today are using militarized police to arrest students protesting Israel's brutality in Gaza need to reflect on this.

Those who refuse…

BREAKING: Columbia U hired Cas Holloway (below) weeks ago to 'contain' growing pro-Palestinian protests. Turns out he led the massive police repression of the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011 as NYC deputy mayor.

Yesterday: Same strategy. Same repression. Same mastermind.🤔

What's really important is that we condemn property damage at Columbia University.