In 1962, we organized sit-ins to end racist policies at the University of Chicago. In '63, I was arrested protesting segregated schools. But we were right.

I’m proud to see students protesting the war in Gaza.

Stay peaceful and focused. You’re on the right side of history.

NEWS: 3,700 University of Pennsylvania grad students have unionized with the UAW, in a landslide 1807-to-97 vote.

The union claims they 'will become the largest new private sector union in Philadelphia in over 50 years.'

Tooze is by far the best liberal. He's actually intellectually honest. Check out his very useful podcast episode from today podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one…

Opinion | Silencing Criticism in the Name of Antisemitism Awareness momentmag.com/criticism-anti…

An anecdote passed down to me: once when the New School was occupied by students, members of the grad faculty met in a hotel room to decide what to do. When the police were mentioned, Hannah Arendt said, *in German*—'you never call the police.'

Andreas Malm: Of course we can. Why not?

Whose safety, whose peace are university officials protecting? dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/0…

In exchange for protestors packing up their Gaza encampment, Northwestern has agreed to fund 2 visiting Palestinian faculty members each year, scholarships for 5 Palestinian undergrads, & build a gathering space for Middle Eastern & Muslim students chicagotribune.com/2024/04/29/nor…

Columbia University Prof. Marianne Hirsch joins Linsey Davis to express her disappointment with the university's decision to authorize the NYPD to go on campus amid ongoing protests: 'I think they're being treated like terrorists rather than as our students who we care for.'

This piece by my UCLA colleague, Prof. David Myers, accurately describes what I also witnessed on UCLA's campus on Sunday. To keep the peace, we both put ourselves between some pro-Palestinian protesters (who were mostly disciplined and non-confrontational) and a small…

“all effective protest contains an element of coercion. It always has”

Okay, maybe there is U.S. fascism

A thing I think about a lot: the main issue on campus when I was at UChicago was a push by activists to have the university open a trauma center, partially to help shooting victims. Much discussion about how unworkable and moronic it was. Anyway, it's been open for six years now.

Thinking about David A. Bell's childhood memory of his father the morning after Columbia called the cops on its students, 56 years ago today dissentmagazine.org/online_article…

My first academic year at Rochester goes out with a bang: ended my Modern European Thought class with Andreas Malm’s manifesto for vanguardist eco-sabotage, linked to earlier readings by Marx & Fanon, with the UR Gaza encampment holding out strong just outside my classroom window

The goal of Princeton's 'Popular University for Gaza' is to create spaces for education. On day two of the protest, Razia Iqbal writes, the lawn had the feeling of an urgent, edgy, talky, relaxed festival.
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Free Speech for a Free Palestine: Speaking Truth to Power. May 4

'These lectures are revelatory - exhilarating, passionate, brilliant, ambitious... a belated gift to us all.' - Rebecca Comay on Gillian Rose's Marxist Modernism lectures, forthcoming 6th August but up for preorder now versobooks.com/en-gb/products…