CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS

Never forget.

Wow. Fiona Apple is a real one. Watch this video. Calling for donations to bail out Black mothers for Mother’s Day. Her fans already came through w donations & spreading the word. Over $30k! Let’s “fetch the bolt cutters” & support even more. I just gave. givebutter.com/nHSrnp

Reading this as the militarized American police state attacks students & teachers for protesting war and companies like Lockheed itself is very chef's kiss

The brilliant, hilarious Dave Alff got us all amped about trains tonight at Fitz! Can't wait to read this book.

something i can't stop thinking about is how vehemently young people do not want to enter the world as it exists, and their willingness to challenge and contest it.

Historian here, we remember the Kent State Four OTD 1970.

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There’s this weird slippage people do where by “peaceful” they mean “lawful” but then they want to use MLK as an example and seem to forget where “letter from Birmingham Jail” was written from

TY Ariel Aberg-Riger for this captivating and revealing read. Bringing a copy to my Social Justice teacher tomorrow. Hoping to add this to their curriculum.

tell your friends

This country has more force for student protesters than they did for Jan. 6 or white supremacists marching through campuses with Tiki torches.

May Day is a good time to remember that the full, violent power of the state will always be used to try and put down organised, determined efforts to disrupt the status quo. Solidarity with students and workers refusing to accept that things can't be otherwise!

In the spring of 1985 we padlocked the front doors of Hamilton Hall, renaming it Mandela Hall, and encamped on the steps for three weeks. Columbia divested from South Africa in the fall of 1985.

Friends, please, please amplify. The NYPD are now raiding City College. Reports are hundreds of cops. Please, I know that what happened at Columbia tonight is sickening--but this is Part II. And our @cuny students are largely working class students of color.

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).

The Columbia Spectator, New York, Tuesday, April 30, 1968:

We interrupt all this terrible news for the moss and lichen report.