From UCLA to Columbia, professors nationwide defend students as politicians and police attack interc.pt/3UoaquC by Prem Thakker interc.pt/3UoaquC

The deleted tweet is a reminder that Chell is used to just sweeping away his misdeeds, like when he fatally shot a man in the back, lied about it in court per the jury’s findings, and not only kept his job but got promoted. Enough. Time for consequences for his gross misconduct.

Good time to repost this article I wrote in 2020 about tear gas being banned in warfare and how it should not be used against protestors.
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Pretty moving to see displaced Gazans write “thank you, American universities” on their tents. Students on the right side of history.

Reporter: Have the protests forced you to reconsider any of the policies with regard to the region?

Biden: No

Apparently Biden is not swayed by the mass killing of children, international law, or an election as a growing number of Americans are appalled by his policies.

Students are being shot with rubber bullets at point blank range. Just insane that anyone can see this and conclude that students are the bad actors here.

Pretty telling indictment of our political system that being able to bundle large amounts of cash from billionaire donors is what amounts to a comeback.

Reminder that the “outside agitators” narrative often used to try and discredit protests stems from segregationists that wanted to discredit civil rights protests.

To say this is unnecessary and excessive would be an understatement.

Is a photo op in front of a damaged door supposed to excuse the insane militarized response and mass arrest of students? What a joke.

“We’re getting a lot of the same patronizing lines [from admin] that students are getting, which is that this militarized police invasion is in the name of student safety, and I think this is, like, prima facie just absurd” -UCLA prof danielle

Columbia justified arrests of protesters on the grounds that they were disrupting campus life and academics, and now has cancelled campus life and academic anyway.

NYPD follows up unhinged militarized repression of student protests by trashing democratically elected officials (ironically claiming them to be not representative of the people of NY when they as cops are unelected and paid by taxpayers).

Take a look at this photo from Drake White-Bergey📸, who captured UW-Madison professor Samer Alatout being detained at this morning's pro-Palestine protest on Library Mall:

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I've written on political dissent & violent policing for 15 years, particularly in NYC. Compared to Tuesday night, I have never witnessed, at the scene of a protest, the use of police power so disproportionate to the type of demonstration taking place. theintercept.com/2024/05/01/nyc…

Calling NYPD to beat up students while using the 'outside agitators' narrative that southern segregationists employed to try and discredit civil rights protests. Always a new low.

The 129,000-student Duval County Public School District is crumbling. It is preparing to cut more than 700 positions as charters and private schools siphon millions of dollars away and Tallahassee undermines districts through legislative subterfuge.
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New York and Florida are both in lockstep when it comes to crushing student protests that demand universities not invest in manufacturing weapons of war.