A standing ovation for Asna Tabassum, USC valedictorian, and cheers for her “resistance to genocide” minor today at the USC student awards ceremony

We're here at #AAHM2024 🙌 Stop by our booth to chat with María García and browse our books on display 📚

Can't make it to the conference? Check out this blog post and browse our virtual exhibit 👇

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“Landscapes of Care” author Thurka Sangaramoorthy talks to Barn Raiser’s Paco Alvarez about U.S. reliance on immigrant labor, solidarity between U.S. citizens and immigrants, and the country’s abandonment of rural areas. harvardpublichealth.org/policy-practic…

Tamils begged for the UN to stay.

‘If we allow you to leave the truth is everyone here will die.’

They left. Sri Lanka would kill tens of thousands.

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📹 Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields, 2011.

Read more at remembermay2009.com

#nofirezone #tamil #eelam #tamil genocide

UPDATE: ALL of our CUNY comrades have finally been released.

We are enraged by the brutal force and violence perpetrated by NYPD, SRG and CUNY PS. We ask you all to continue to call and email the CUNY administration and hold them accountable.

BREAKING: UC Berkeley administration has begun negotiations with the UC Berkeley Divestment Coalition and Free Palestine Encampment, which has been occupying the steps in front of Sproul Hall since April 22
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BIG! A bill passed in Hawaii to effectively convert 10,000's of illegal Airbnb's to local housing. Incredible work from Our Hawaiʻi and Lahaina Strong. The winning strategy was uniting fire survivors, advocates, and unions – then going all out. hawaiinewsnow.com/2024/04/24/sho…

Today, all of Palestine grieves the loss of Professor Adnan Bursh, the renowned surgeon of Shifa Hospital in Gaza, who was tortured to death by Israeli soldiers while in prison.

In Nov, soldiers forced him out of Shifa Hospital before later abducting him at Awda Hospital.🕯️

NOW: About 50 faculty members & staff from DMV Universities stand in solidarity with students at GWU encampment #FreePalestine

Right now @UMichSPH’s commencement speaker, Jodi-Ann Burey, condemned the UMich’s leaders for not divesting in the face of the genocide in Gaza. “We are witnessing the most well-documented genocide in human history on our cell phones.”

BREAKING: The American University Student Government voted to express no confidence in University President Sylvia Burwell and called for her resignation effective immediately. SG also expressed their support for the ongoing encampment at GW.
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this is going to radicalize a generation towards police abolition and towards university abolition, we will remember the date april 30, 2024.

Hundreds participated in a campus walkout calling for AU divestment from Israel. This protest followed University rejection of a Student Government resolution.
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Read Gabriel Winant on how the response to the student encampments for Gaza reveals the problem of the undemocratic university:

Why Students Must Shout to Be Heard chronicle.com/article/why-st…

How do you go back to school after they brought out snipers on you?

One thing the student protests bring into focus is that American authoritarianism doesn’t flow from Trump.