Everyone is talking about the student protests. But *stunning* how little we've heard from student organizers themselves. We asked some to explain their aims and concerns. If you read one thing about the protests today, read this: lpeproject.org/blog/from-the-…

It's incredible that politicians can support this. These people are the bottom of the barrel but get the largest amount of money from the State. They are so eager to rough up UCLA students with the tacit endorsement of establishment politicians

So when the Biden admin uses its power to intervene *not* for protecting Roe *nor* for debt relief, gun laws, etc. but instead to slap teenagers with federal charges when they peacefully protest a genocide, tell me why young people should vote for the Dems ever again?

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omg he’s opening a wine bar

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R.I.P. Paul Auster.

'If nothing else, the years have taught me this: if there’s a pencil in your pocket, there’s a good chance that one day you’ll feel tempted to start using it.' In a piece from 1995, Auster answers the question 'why write?'

newyorker.com/magazine/1995/…

The dilemma for American college students is that their tax and tuition dollars are helping fund a plausible genocide; if they protest that fact, their tax and tuition dollars are then used to beat and arrest them & their teachers.

“january six involved buildings… and college campuses have buildings too. all buildings and protests are the same” is how your dumb ass gotchas sound

Paul Auster, who passed away yesterday, wrote this in 2008, during the Iraq war, reflecting on his participation in the 1968 student protests at Columbia. Worth reading, or re-reading, today. nytimes.com/2008/04/23/opi…

“The zionist attacks, their use of chemical weaponry, their hatred, their destruction, are but a microcosm of the genocide in Gaza. The university would rather see us dead than divest.”

Read this thread of courageous student journalists and judge for yourself if 'clashes' is the right word to describe what happened

For the people upset with college protests:

All this so Israel can keep killing kids

I think it's okay to protest this, actually.

NYPD officials have spoken often recently of their intent to “control the narrarive” by building out their own media apparatus. In practice, that looks like barring reporters from public streets adjacent to a mass arrest action, then posting videos like this

Columbia are using the NYPD to place all of their students on house arrest. This is martial law being imposed on the people of New York for the benefit of a foreign government.

Rafah is being decimated, there is nowhere else left to go. Israel is now bombing more than 1.7 million civilians trapped in Rafah, Gaza's last place of refuge. A massacre is happening in Rafah right now and the world is silent.

Hard to tell if the 'if you don't support the party that sent hundreds of cops to hit college kids in the head with sticks, you support FASCISM' people are doing this bit intentionally or if they're literally so dumb they require medical attention