I'm hearing disturbing reports that students face suspension if they don’t end their peaceful protests in #Columbiauniversity in the USA. This is a clear violation of their right to peaceful assembly

Columbia University Gives Students Option To Finish Classes From Prison

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'Greenblatt, head of the ADL, has stressed repeatedly that he is concerned about rising antisemitism. Unfortunately, he has also made clear that he cares about antisemitism only as he defines it and as it affects people who agree with him'
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UofT: our university operates in the land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. We honour this relation.

Also UofT: UofT’s lands and buildings are private property, activities have to be authorised and encampments are considered trespassing.

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this is really such a great piece. a lot of tech criticism falls flat when it does not center how many of Silicon Valley’s networks obsess over insulating capitalism from democracy, over preserving class rule & power projection. reactionaries w a digital gloss

they literally sold “versions” at urban outfitters

Palestinian-Ukrainian refugee Zoya Miari explains the world's racist double standards, empathizing with her white half and demonizing the other.

Words can’t convey my disappointment and how horrific the situation is..

#KeepEyesOnSudan #EyesOnDarfur

One of the ways protesters have stopped sprinklers from spraying themselves

They’re now chanting “water is life”

ASU has now turned on the sprinklers to deter pro-Palestine protesters. Protesters are putting bags and items on top of the sprinklers to stop them from spraying.

MPP Sarah Jama calls the keffiyeh ban in the Ontario legislature anti-Palestinian racism & refuses to take it off. We spoke with her & the speaker after he asked her to leave the chambers. Full story: toronto.citynews.ca/video/2024/04/…

I hope folks who were wary or skeptical of the summer 2020 demand to defund police now understand that police are simply the connective tissue for the state’s ability to actualize repression—not the magical municipal department that would save us all from “crime.”

this is happening at workplaces and schools all over the country

Influencers are becoming more important in the 2024 presidential election. Recently, the Trump campaign told WIRED that they were 'seriously' considering accepting Jake Paul's invite to his fight with Mike Tyson.

🎧 to the full #WIREDPoliticsLab pod: listen.wired.com/a7bNPtAg