Nicholas Kristoff, NIMBY Liberal, unable to cosplay white man saviour, has some things to say about the #StudentSpring and the need for the youth to be acquiescent to police terror.
tell Nicholas Kristoff, a neoliberal and corporatist fascist bootlicker, to FUCK OFF.
The #NYPD in particular, and #cops in general, are such fucking clowns.
They're claiming the thick chains protestors at #Columbia used when occupying a building are proof that the protesters weren't real students.
In fact, not only are those chains widely used by students all over the city... Columbia itself sells them to students.
Don't fall for the NYPD's attempts to manufacture consent for violently attacking peaceful protesters. #StudentSpring#politics#ACAB
Ref: https://www.404media.co/email/1cc25606-201a-4f10-87ce-aeefa8285c3f/
"In practice, adults from all walks -Republicans, Dems, media & univ. admins: exhibiting traits of hysteria & dogmatism they deplore in the young -should come as no surprise -the protests are getting angrier.
Students have every right to protest even with speech that many of their peers find abhorrent. One person's outrage over the killing of 1000s of civilians in Gaza might be another's call for -elimination of Jews from IL."
I wonder, if the public were aware of the Holocaust during WWII, would they have given as much of a shit as the Young are doing today? I don't think they would.
We know their children didn't give a shit, they'd rather tear gas the Young than give a fuck over some dead brown people on another continent. And yet the older generations strut around like they have moral value.....hilarious!
The president of #Barnard College lost a faculty-wide vote of no confidence on Tuesday, as criticism mounts over the school’s response to a pro- #Palestine 🇵🇸 encampment
It is the first no confidence vote against a president in the college’s history.
Seeing all these students protesting around the West is giving me some hope for the future, more than any condescending and distant politician will ever give.
Their shitehawk media twats can choke on it as well. Rupert Murdoch, why do you persist?
#UCLA's Palestine solidarity encampment just posted an update on their telegram - UCLA has declared it unlawful, and administration has reached out to start negotiations. Organizers have been holding occupy-style general meetings and plan to continue that to guide negotiations
The #Northeastern police department carefully separated tents and sleeping bags from backpacks etc. when they swept the encampment, then returned the backpacks etc. to students afterward while tossing the camping stuff to make it harder to restart the encampment.
I don't recall the same deference being shown to unhoused people when tent cities are swept by police.
I don't recall the same deference being shown to BLM protests.
I wonder what's different about the #StudentSpring protesters. 🤔
From last week: “I think the presence of armed riot #police always increases the tension in these kinds of situations—and I think it’s the wrong move.”
LE sometimes uses violence with impunity, & now LE officers are attacking some peaceful protesters who support Palestinians:
"Officers used🚨batons & tasers against protesters in the square, incl. some who'd not entered the park at all. At least 3 ppl were tased. In a video, a woman in an orange dress is wrestled on to the pavement while an onlooker yells, “She’s a med student was never in the park, let her go!” Officers ignore these yells -handcuff her."
Fedifolk! The students at University of Oregon students have a venmo if you want to aid your comrades from beyond the campus! SJPUO is also documenting their encampment on Instagram, if you want to stay up to date with what's going down on campus. Same with Reed, Lewis & Clark, and PSU! Educate, unite, support!
"“To speak at USC in this moment would betray not only our own values, but USC’s too … We cannot overlook the link between recent developments and the ongoing genocide in Palestine.”
Northwestern may be the model for other universities:
"Student demonstrators wrapped up negotiations with the Univ. Mon after 5 days of demonstrations. The Univ. will engage in a number of steps to support Palestinian students & protest on campus in exchange for an end to the encampment.
“This agreement was forged by the hard work of students & faculty working closely with members of the admin to help ensure that the violence & escalation we've seen-."
We need to bring more attention to the university-specific #bds demands that the students of the #studentspring are making: companies invested, dollar amounts, research relationships, etc. So far, the divestment aspect seems to be lost, when it's actually the most important part.
The SJP at the #UCLA encampment has called for all hands on deck tomorrow at 10am at luskin hotel and requested ppl to follow their telegram channel for updates: https://t.me/+La9h17mlP7E1NTIx
Zionist counterprotesters have announced a gathering from 11am-1pm
Edit: the camp went into lockdown at 8am, meeting at luskin at 10am