christian davenport

WORLD PEACE We decided that the thing we had in common was Love. And from Love came Peace. So we decided to work for World Peace. #powertothepeople

Why America can't escape its long legacy of political violence newsweek.com/why-america-ca…

🚨BREAKING🚨 The MIT Coalition for Palestine representing 19 student and faculty groups just released an 83-page report 'MIT Science for Genocide' on how MIT conducts war research on campus sponsored directly by the Israeli military. archive.org/details/mit-sc…

Recently gave a talk at the University of Rhode Island as part of their "Democracy in Peril" series. Subtitle - How, Why and Why Not Democracy Can Help Us Solve (some of) Our Problems". A beginning... youtube.com/live/gT9MbPcSZ…

just started adding content to my blue sky account. peace y'all: bsky.app/profile/christ…

Twenty-three years ago this week, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan. At least 243,000 lives were lost in a war that has cost the U.S. at least $2.3 trillion dollars. [THREAD]

While you were having a coffee this morning and enjoying the day, this is what the Zionists did in Rafah. Most of us support this indirectly through the taxes we pay and the support of our governments and by purchasing products from Multinational corporations that support this genocidal regime. If you don't oppose this shit you might be part of the problem. At some point too much silence becomes complicity.

Criticize Hamas. Criticize Israel 30 Times More. rall.com/2024/05/07/cri…

@netanyahu Facts matter twitter.com/GozukaraFurkan…

@democracynow anti-war, anti-genocide or anti-violence? you should be clear on what the students are against.

“I literally felt that I was in a war zone.” Emory University professor Emil' Keme describes being arrested while defending student antiwar protesters in what is an unprecedented expansion of campus suppression to include faculty arrests.

@NickKristof ramped up and primed for even the slightest challenge, everyone looks like a threat.

It's hard to understand why an economics professor showing concern for a student would be thrown to the ground and arrested. This is not an obvious way to defuse a crisis.

@geo3550 tracking activities in real time: wsj.com/politics/colle…. and to be clear i am a scholar of protest/resistance/revolution and protest policing/state repression/human rights violation. if there was some repressive action taking place - overt or covert, i would be first on it!

@geo3550 what is the containment and surveillance of which you speak? there are free speech zones and there are likely some members of the local police force on hand but at a distance. of the available repertoire of activities that could be used, michigan has been quite respectful.

Seeing that brute-force backfired at Columbia, Humboldt, etc, U Michigan opts for containment and surveillance. Faculty must not commend admins for using more sophisticated repressive strategies, but rather ask themselves what they can materially do to stop participating in genocide.

@Snowden edward, where did you get the data on protests? christian

Biden has sparked a wildfire.

has anyone seen any protests or protest policing at any historically black colleges and universities?

@AfricanHub_ best in which way? facilitated the biggest increase in caloric intake? least repressive? largest confiscation of land? biggest increase in educational test scores? least likely to engage in interstate violence? most likely to abide by the rule of law?

Who is the best President among these 12 African Presidents below 👇🏽

Each One, Teach One, Then Run - Tales of Rwanda, Part 6 - [Christian Davenport] christiandavenportphd.weebly.com/1/post/2013/05…

@ShibleyTelhami while these divestment initiatives are useful for signaling some sense of disapproval the empirical support for being an effective way for actually stopping violence does not exist. can these efforts now turn to trying to stop state-sponsored violence?

Columbia College overwhelmingly passes divestment referendum; Students also voted in favor of canceling the Tel Aviv Global Center and ending Columbia’s dual degree program with Tel Aviv University. columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/2…