Our statement condemning the violence against student protests across the country and
UCLA. Thanks to UC Riverside for providing a possible model for UC Berkeley and University of California
Michael V. Drake to follow. ucbfa.org/2024/05/bfa-st…
Teresa Watanabe EdSource Berkeleyside

socgen.ucla.edu/2024/05/03/sta…

More soon.

I have not tweeted the NYT in years. But as someone who has been in these trenches this last week, this is pretty damming. ⁦Gene Block ⚠️ Parody of a Coward⁩ ⁦Gene Block⁩ must resign. A failure of leadership on multiple levels. via @NYTimes nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Join CSUS and Ziibiing Lab May 14th 4-6pm for Imperial Heat, the second in the Ecologies of Empire Salon series by TWIG Research Kitchen with Hiʻilei Julia Hobart Hi'ilei Hobart (Yale), Bharat Venkat (UCLA), and Waqas Butt (UofT)!

Register: shorturl.at/ruBT6

Let’s go!!!! These are the consequences we need in response to UCLA leadership’s decisions to brutalize students. Faculty having similar discussions. #disclose #divest

It's not weird to anyone else that this 'Israeli Special Ops Vet' was coordinating with the police last night during the raid of the UCLA encampment?

instagram.com/jvpatucla/live…

Police about to violently disperse ucla encampment, livefeed here

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

IS UCLA TRAINING A FUCKING SNIPER ON THEIR STUDENTS? WTF IS GOING ON Gene Block Mayor Karen Bass???

87-year-old Holocaust survivor, Stephen Capos, says: “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free, no matter how long it takes'.

Kapos, who attended the march for Gaza in London, was 7-years-old when he and his family survived the Nazi Holocaust on Jews in Hungary in 1944

Today, Heat Wave to severe heat wave conditions prevailed in most parts over Gangetic West Bengal; in Few parts over Saurashtra & Kutch, Bihar, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Odisha and Heat wave conditions in isolated pockets over Jharkhand, Kerala, Konkan and Rayalaseema.

'I wish we could have ended in a hug.' 😂

Jokes aside, I've been so incredibly impressed at how organized and disciplined the protestors have been at UCLA. Could not be more proud of my students 💙

#Kolkata 's maximum temperature could stay above 40°C for the next two days, making 2024 get this century's highest number of April #heatwave days.

Details here🔗 toi.in/oG9G8Z/a24gk

This Black student singing gospel (which emerged from the souls and spirits of slaves) while the Black police (who likely heard the same song in church but are doing work descended from slave patrols) is truly something to behold.

I have been banned from my university's campus for protesting against a genocide

Another reminder that it's always a good time to defund the police.

Had a colleague at MIT send this to me, and it confirms to me the dangerous alibi that is “time, place, & manner restrictions” for calling the cops

m.youtube.com/watch?si=7-4Qg…

UCLA Encampment Day#2:
Another beautiful day on campus.

It is worth watching this CNN video from the moment Emory Econ Professor Caroline Fohlin came across the violent arrest of a protester on campus and asked the police, with shock, 'What are you doing?' That's all that prompted an officer to hurl her to the ground and handcuff her.