Juan De Lara

The @Dodgers have abandoned the city that embraced them. Dave Roberts claims he cannot speak out because he doesn't know enough about what is going on. Well Dave, step outside & open your eyes. To claim ignorance shows how disconnected you are from the city that shows up for you.

Happy #NoKingsDay

A standing ovation for Asna Tabassum, USC valedictorian, and cheers for her “resistance to genocide” minor today at the USC student awards ceremony

But to #thewholeworldiswatching Asna has a Major in resistance to genocide!! ⁦@jvpatucla⁩ ⁦@jvplive⁩ ⁦@NationalSJP⁩ ⁦@ColumbiaSJP⁩ ⁦@ColumbiaJVP⁩ ⁦@CAIRNational⁩ ⁦@AACivic⁩ ⁦@USC⁩ ⁦@ICUJP_SoCal⁩ ⁦⁦@mpac_national⁩

USC faculty is gathered outside Bovard, where a delegation is inside negotiating w Folt & Guzman urging they drop disciplinary action against student protesters. Here w @ZainShafiKhan @USCAnnenberg

This right here: “the near-universal willingness to speak derisively about protestors.”

“I do question how much the university administration understands the concept of free speech,” says @USC journalism professor @afuahirsch. “The point of free speech is that people have the right to say things that you might find uncomfortable or inconvenient,” she tells me.

Sen. Sanders: "I suggest to CNN and maybe some of my colleagues here, maybe take your cameras, just for a moment, off of Columbia and UCLA . Maybe go to Gaza, and take your camera show us the emaciated children who are dying from malnutrition because of Netanyahu's policies."

I don't know who she is but she's iconic. A true queen.

Really @UCA? Is this how you @UCLAchancellor keep our students safe? First letting a mob violently attack & the next day allowing police to shoot them? You have failed all of us. #NoConfidence in you Police shoot at UCLA protesters as encampment cleared newsweek.com/ucla-campus-pr…

Out of concern for the safety of the @USC community, the general public, and in the interest of fiscal prudence, we urge the @USC Administration to refrain from using police to suppress peaceful student protest. @PresidentFolt: Students’ right to free speech must be protected.

I am going to teach this in my classes. What a powerful lesson.

On Friday the American Studies and Ethnicity Department sent this letter to USC’s President Carol Folt and Provost Andrew Guzman to decry the University’s response that has unleashed violence upon the students and faculty who are peacefully protesting against Israel’s genocide of Palestinean people in Gaza.

In case you want facts instead of wishful thinking - Ken Calvert is an extremist with a long anti-queer, anti-immigrant, anti-voting rights and anti-women voting record. Don’t be fooled. Check his record for yourself. @CVIndependent @KenCalvert cvindependent.com/2023/12/commun…

Spread the word and apply. We are organizing an IE people's history conference. #inlandempire docs.google.com/forms/d/1dZbsB…

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Need a new book to cozy up with during the holidays? Look no further because @inlandemperor’s new book, Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us (NYU Press, 2023), has been published and is ready for purchase!! Head over to @NYUpress to get your copy of Normporn ASAP!

Insurgent beats - message to the boss

@jonathanjleal @DukePress @usc_english Congratulations @jonathanjleal ! I look forward to reading your book.

lovely discussion about ‘dreams in double time’ (@DukePress) with the folks at @usc_english yesterday afternoon (including a few surprise guests). fantastic questions!