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"The Harvard graduating students denied their degrees over Palestine protest"

"The decision by Harvard to delay degrees for 13 students for one year has caused outrage at the university & a mass walkout from its graduation ceremony.

"Harvard Corporation barred these students from receiving their degrees... on account of their involvement in the three-week pro-Palestine encampment at the university last month."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/9/the-harvard-graduating-students-denied-their-degrees-over-palestine-protest

#StudentProtests #HarvardCorp #USPol ...

Jeannho, to China
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“Grieving Tiananmen as US Cops Crush Campus Protests”

A physicist who emigrated from China and was born during the same year of the Tiananmen Square massacre writes about his perspective on this event within the context of recent history and compares it with the US response to the protests taking place on its campuses.

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/tiananmen-protest-china-campus/

PariaSansPortefeuille, to palestine French
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"Describing us as ‘violent’ puts us in greater danger as we continue to sleep out in tents. By claiming they do not know who we are, the university’s senior leadership have renounced their duty of care."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/may/oxford-action-for-palestine
#GazaSolidarity #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarityEncampments #StudentProtests #UKpol #Oxford #OxfordActionForPalestine @palestine

cartoonistsrights, to China
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‘PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC’ by #Herblock records the horrors of the Chinese suppression of student-led pro-democracy protests, when, on June 3 and 4, 1989, troops and tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square (Beijing) to violently crush the dissent. #tiananmensquare #Democracy #StudentProtests #Protests #EditorialCartoon #China #Democracy

CharlieMcHenry, to humanrights
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Who gets to decide what counts as disorder? - “When those in power frame dissent and poverty as disorder, more than freedom of expression is at stake.”
https://theconversation.com/who-gets-to-decide-what-counts-as-disorder-229783

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UChicago students walked out of a graduation ceremony in protest...

after the university withheld diplomas from four graduating students who participated in a pro-Palestinian encampment.

“My diploma doesn’t matter when there are people in Palestine f in Gaza that will never walk a stage again, who will never receive a diploma. What about them? Who’s going to fight for them?” said one of the students affected.

4.45 GMT JUNE 2 AJ UPDATES

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DrALJONES, to random
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Student Protesters at University of Toronto Vow to Continue Gaza Encampment

"We know what we’re doing is just. And all of us are willing to stand our ground no matter what happens."

~Mohammad Yassin, a Palestinian with family members currently in Gaza & a member of the student negotiating team.

A court will decide in mid-June on an admin injunction requesting the police to clear the vast 175-tent encampment.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/30/palestine_protest_university_of_toronto#transcript

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PariaSansPortefeuille, to Palestine French
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LALegault, to Toronto
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“If you decide to move against the students, you will have to go through us”

-University of #Toronto faculty

#StudentProtests #BDS

Clip from CBC NEWS pf U of T faculty speaking at a microphone

CharlieMcHenry, to Palestine
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Trump tells supporters he would ‘crush’ pro-Palestine protests, deport protestors (most of whom are American citizen students). Source: Washington Post (paywall). #Gaza #Palestine #StudentProtests #colleges #Universities #politics #Conservativers

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"Punched, choked, kicked: German police crack down on student protests"

Germany’s students are being labelled ‘terrorist sympathisers’ for protesting against Israel’s war on Gaza.

Police recently evicted more than 150 people from the grounds of Humboldt University & charged 25 with "suspicion of committing criminal acts."

One student said police "punched his head repeatedly & kicked him, sending him to hospital with concussion."

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/5/25/punched-choked-kicked-german-police-crack-down-on-student-protests

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"1,000 Harvard Students Walk Out of Commencement to Support 13 Seniors Barred from Graduation over Gaza"

"Asmer Safi, one of the protesters barred from graduating, says.. he has no regrets about standing up for Palestinian rights: This is an ethical stance that we’re taking."

Also interviewed is history professor Alison Frank Johnson, one of over 100 faculty members who voted to confer degrees on the 13 seniors."

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/24/harvard_gaza_protests

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"It’s supposed to scare students who are righteously standing up against the killing that’s happening."

~Prof Steven Thrasher on being singled out during congressional hearings on so-called university "antisemitism" & described as a “goon".

He is undeterred in both his pro-Palestine advocacy & defense of his students:

"It’s supposed to scare everybody who supports Gaza. It’s supposed to scare everybody who’s against the genocide."

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/24/campus_protests_in_congress

#StudentProtests #USPol .

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"It’s supposed to scare students who are righteously standing up against the killing that’s happening."

~Prof Steven Thrasher on being singled out during congressional hearings on so-called university "antisemitism" & described as a “goon".

He is undeterred in both his pro-Palestine advocacy & defense of his students:

"It’s supposed to scare everybody who supports Gaza. It’s supposed to scare everybody who’s against the genocide."

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/24/campus_protests_in_congress

#StudentProtests #USPol .

DrALJONES, to random
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"1,000 Harvard Students Walk Out of Commencement to Support 13 Seniors Barred from Graduation over Gaza"

"Asmer Safi, one of the protesters barred from graduating, says.. he has no regrets about standing up for Palestinian rights: This is an ethical stance that we’re taking."

Also interviewed is history professor Alison Frank Johnson, one of over 100 faculty members who voted to confer degrees on the 13 seniors."

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/24/harvard_gaza_protests

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