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Can't ever read this poem without reminding people it was written in 2014
Alex Turrall@ImReadinHere
Hardly a day goes by where I don't think about this
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NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE Katılım Mayıs 2019
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Viscerally sickening. It’s not about “who they come for next” or whatever future paranoia motivates the masses, it’s about the fact that they did take Mahmoud— this case isn’t a harbinger of doom for the rest, but a world of tragedy and destruction in itself.
philip lewis@Phil_Lewis_
JENA, La. (AP) — Immigration judge rules that Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported.
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This was under the Biden administration in May 2024, the second NYPD raid of Columbia’s campus in two weeks. What we are seeing now is the culmination of the bipartisan efforts to criminalize every aspect of our student movement.
National Students for Justice in Palestine@NationalSJP
Remember that Biden laid the groundwork for the Trump regime by facilitating the violent repression of student organizing. The neoliberal university, a microcosm of American empire, has never been a “safe space”.
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Wow. Read this full letter from Mahmoud Khalil. "I have always believed that my duty is not only to liberate myself from the oppressor, but also to liberate my oppressors from their hatred and fear."
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Last week, I was expelled from @Columbia for protesting the U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza. As president of @SW_Columbia , Columbia’s student workers union, I was also fired from my job. The Trump administration is pushing their narrative. Here’s the real story. 🧵
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🚨 DHS unlawfully detained Palestinian @Columbia student with a green card, falsely claiming @StateDept "canceled" it. Only an immigration judge can cancel a green card after due process. Columbia Univ. is complicit actionnetwork.org/letters/demand…
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This was ten months ago. Israeli forces have killed more than 12,478 kids since.
Prem Thakker@prem_thakker
Kids in Gaza hosting a press conference, in English, to beg the world for life. “We come now to shout and invite you to protect us; we want to live, we want peace…we want to live as the other children live.” Over 4200 kids, like these, have been killed.
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Joe Kloc's amazing poem, "82 Sentences, Each Taken from the ‘Last Statement’ of a Person Executed by the State of Texas Since 1984," is a cento + documentary form + archival history that feels like a poem of witness. A docu-cento? A must-read.
nybooks.com/articles/2024/…
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Columbia University is lying about the chemical attack. NYPD told me it was “law enforcement grade chemicals”. Columbia also paid a settlement to the guy who attacked us. I have never attended a school with such disdain for their students.
@itslaylas on upscrolled 🪬@itslaylas
One month since I was attacked with chemical weapons at columbia university: still dealing with symptoms, I feel sick all the time. columbia has not sent out a campus wide email. no clery report has been filed. 15 students had to go to the hospital. no arrests have been made.
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Not just at Yale, but everywhere: the new model of university president is less a scholar/teacher and more a fundraiser/disciplinarian.
Yale’s New President Pushed Policing as Head of Stony Brook University nytimes.com/2024/07/02/us/…
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a career devil. mass murderer. in one term oversaw the arming and funding of nazi-like regimes on two separate continents after decades of being an enemy to racial, gender, and sexual progress. your sooner-than-later demise will be a celebratory feat for millions. good riddance!
Joe Biden@JoeBiden
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News today:
US government moves to prohibit itself from disclosing body count of genocide it is funding
War imminent in Lebanon because US “rejects logic” of Hezbollah’s demand for a ceasefire in Gaza
NY dems say public mask-wearing is akin to being in the KKK
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many many thanks to @natashalennard and @prem_thakker for covering this, and to @RabeaEghbariah for a phenomenal article
The Intercept@theintercept
Columbia Law Review Refused to Take Down Article on Palestine, So Its Board of Directors Nuked the Whole Website interc.pt/3X7l1wL by @natashalennard, @prem_thakker interc.pt/3X7l1wL
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CCNY Pres. was arrested multiple times protesting for South Africa divestment in the 80s.
@ChancellorCUNY praises 1969 activists for Black & Puerto Rican Studies. Both now refuse to call for charges against CUNY student protesters to be dropped! @CityCollegeNY #dropCUNYcharge
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liberals, stop calling actions that are getting ppl fired, suspended, blacklisted, beaten, maced, arrested, charged, etc. “performative.”
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"One student sustained “complex facial and skull fractures” and will need surgery, the volunteer said.
Another student looked “like she had a chunk of her forehead taken out” and sustained skull and facial fractures, she reported. Many students had facial lacerations."
Los Angeles Public Press@LAPublicPress
The UCLA Palestine solidarity encampment was attacked for two days, first by masked counter-protesters and second by the LAPD, the California Highway Patrol, and the LASD. On the first night, there were zero arrests. The second night, there were over 200. lapublicpress.org/2024/05/two-ni…
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