Wow disgusting to undervalue the artificially cheap labor of Sandwich Artists

we are supposed to believe that the young people working to end mass slaughter are the threat and that the riot squads sent in to brutalize them are the peacekeepers

no 💖
(not dunking on Barry he does lots of valuable work but I fundamentally disagree with this paradigm!)

I have a pleasant part-time UW-Madison gig that helps me maintain stability while building a small publication, previously had full-time UW gigs including one in public media. I’m a journalist but also?Solidarity or what’s the point. 🇵🇸

Tony, don’t do this.

This morning I dropped off more supplies at the encampment. The sun is out & sprints are high. There will be teach-ins throughout the day. I’m proud to support these students.

Donations can go to:
Venmo: @ Kelly-Ward-87
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tbh I've always kinda liked this sculpture but I also didn't realize this

Also the student journos of The Daily Cardinal and The Badger Herald are all over the encampment coverage to an astonishing degree. Both have live updates going

dailycardinal.com/article/2024/0…

badgerherald.com/news/campus/20…

What do you want young people to do? Civil disobedience is met with litigiousness & asymmetrical force. How about vote & run for office? Well here’s two sitting city of Madison alders representing student heavy districts being shoved out of a campus building by police.

Our 'Progressive' local police--several different forces represented!--interacting in a real pleasant and civil manner with our city's elected officials. 🙃

(I'm sure Paul Fanlund is already cooking up a column about how 'enlightened' they are)

Talked with both of these Madison Alders, Juliana Bennett and MGR Govindarajan, tonight (several hours before this). They've both spent the day trying to keep communications open between UW admin, cops, and protest organizers. This is fucked

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Vehicles with officers in them on the move at UW-Madison... some have pulled into an underground loading dock at Memorial Union

UPDATE from the protest: At least seven Wisconsin State Patrol officers have stationed themselves by Memorial Union. They have a trailer containing state-owned equipment with them.

dailycardinal.com/article/2024/0…

Letter to the editor: Muslim and Muslim-allied faculty, staff support rights of UW-Madison students to protest.
Story: UW Muslim and Muslim-Allied Faculty and Staff
Photo: Ty Javier
dailycardinal.com/article/2024/0…

Handy archive dot org link to the UW-Madison one in case anyone needs it :)

web.archive.org/web/2024042615…

Tents are popping up at a pro-Palestine protest on Library Mall at UW–Madison.

Camping is not allowed anywhere on campus, and the Chancellor has said she will not make an exception despite having the ability to do so.

Background from The Daily Cardinal:
dailycardinal.com/article/2024/0…

The American Red Cross promised to provide disaster relief services to people who lost their homes in a 2023 apartment fire in Monona. Some survivors say the organization did not fulfill its promises, reports Tessa Jade Price

tonemadison.com/articles/survi…

Illustration by Kay Reynolds

The Studempt wrote a Cap Times opinion column

I really think people who reach for this talking point crave the impunity that throwing someone off a building represents to them, and on some level treat human freedom as a sort of perverse hostage situation