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Outside the UT Tower now with a large group of students. Police pepper sprayed someone. #NotOurUT

What is happening at UT Austin is disgusting.
Citizens are allowed to protest peacefully. This is what a democracy is.
Using riot police to take down students is what a totalitarian regime does.
The tension and escalation all at the hands of UT Austin’s president.

Joined Vanessa Fuentes 💃🏽 at UT Austin to support the 50+ staff who lost their jobs due to SB 17 banning DEI programs.

They have been blocked from receiving more water

Of course students would clean up the most visited space on campus. We care about the lawn as much as the university claims it cares about students

This is unacceptable.

Reminder: UT Austin faculty, the no confidence letter was delivered to Faculty Council this morning but we are still taking signatures here: tinyurl.com/4tf6wpjk

For faculty worried about reprisals you may sign anonymously as long as you provide a verifiable email address.

Police are pepper spraying students and just set off two flash bangs on campus.

and if you thought UT Austin couldn't go any lower, now the cops are using stun grenades and mace on student protestors

Mailbox is full, email: [email protected]

Jay Hartzell is repeating his mistakes from last week — part of a larger pattern by UT leadership of dismissing student/faculty/staff concerns in favor of image/political optics.

Remove Jay Hartzell as UT Austin President #NotOurTexas #ResignHartzell

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We can’t normalize this. This isn’t normal. A group of students were sitting on the lawn of their own school. Daring to ask for peace in Gaza.

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A Travis County Sheriff’s bus is on scene. Could be to transport detained protesters here at UT Austin en masse.

THIS is how our state and higher education leaders treat students they disagree with. Unforgivable Jay Hartzell Greg Abbott.

Imagine being the college dean who escorts snipers to the roof to take aim at your own students.

HAPPENING NOW: What’s labeled as a “student-run” press conference, students and advocates who were arrested last week at UT Austin are condemning their arrests, as well as the suspension of Palestine Solidarity Committee from campus.

“Red-state governors like Abbott… have watched the new hero of U.S. conservatism, Hungary’s Viktor Orban, make crushing his homeland’s once freethinking universities the centerpiece of his strongman governance. Now they are importing the strategy.”👇👇 inquirer.com/opinion/commen…

State and university officials silencing those they disagree with is discriminatory and unlawful.

Texas students: Understand your right to protest. ⬇️
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