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Never forget the Jumbotron, a metaphor for the situation. A small, well-funded, violent, external group assaulting (literally) poorer students. At the end, zero arrests for the well-funded instigators and hundreds of students and some faculty assaulted and arrested.

Skys Mark Stone reporting on 🇺🇸 policing of student protesting at UCLA:

Tear gas
Rubber bullets
Stun grenades

When protesting against genocide is policed in this matter we know our freedoms are under attack.

Dangerous authoritarian times.

DON’T LET THE UNIVERSITY GET AWAY WITH THIS. WE WILL NOT REST UNTIL THEY DIVEST! 🍉🍉

So proud as a member of the #UCLA history department of this statement from the Classics department condemning the recenr violence on campus!!! [email protected] is a member of both depts.

UPDATE:

At least five people shot in the head with rubber bullets.

Cops deployed flash bangs directly into crowd.

132 arrests confirmed by CHP

Listen to the cop double-speak.

He says, 'Move back for your safety” right before firing rubber-coated steal bullets into the students.

Statement from staff and faculty of Classics at UCLA on this week's protests classics.ucla.edu/uncategorized/…

200 students and faculty arrested last night, student journalists assaulted, student radio shut down, protest materials seized from archivists as they were working to preserve them, footage of the faculty press conference taken down

Statement of Members of the Department of History in Response to Clearing the Encampment, 2 May 2024 history.ucla.edu/?p=13425

Please spread widely- Statement from the members of the #UCLA History department in response to the attack on the encampment on 30 April 2024

“Why don’t they make the whole plane out of the black box?”

Hugely excited for this!!! 💜💙

Please join us for a talk given by Associate Professor Alex Walthall (University of Texas at Austin) on Monday, May 13 at 12:00 PM.
The lecture entitled “A City in Transition: Reflections on Recent Investigations at Morgantina (Sicily),” will be held in Dodd 247. All are welcome!

The annual Palevsky Lecture will kick off with a reception at 5 PM on Thurs, April 25 at the Fowler Museum. Followed by our speaker Professor Nandini Pandey's (Johns Hopkins University) talk entitled 'The Colorblindness Gap: From Roman Diversity Beyond Affirmative Action?'

I have spoken to Lee Anderson.
I’ve called out Islamic extremism (& been attacked by hard left, far right & Islamists).
I don’t for one moment believe that Sadiq Khan is controlled by Islamists. To say so, is both foolish and dangerous.
Frankly this is all so tiring...

“My party has slowly started to be taken over by an extreme view…Lee Anderson is really the tip of the iceberg.”

Former co-chair of the Conservative Party Sayeeda Warsi warns suspending Lee Anderson isn’t enough to eradicate Islamophobia from the party.

@AyeshaHazarika

thetimes.co.uk/article/why-i-…

PUBLICATION DAY and it feels incredibly surreal to have my book out in the world. A huge thank huge thank you to everyone who helped me get here ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Open Access Christmas presents! The LatinNow edited volumes 'Social Factors in the Latinization of the Roman West' & 'Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces' are available for download:

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