#college encampments

[dovesmelodyproject]

Rapper Macklemore posts on Instagram a song in support of Palestine called “HIND’S HALL” that will be on streaming platforms soon and all proceeds will go to UNRWA

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

[drsonnet]

Gadzooks Bazooka

@GadzooksB

Here’s a drawing in my sketchbook of NYPD beating people protesting in solidarity with Palestine yesterday. They violently attacked people and press members at random on the Nakba day protest in Brooklyn, punching and choking them for protesting genocide.

[wareesh-a]

Who gets the right to defend and who gets the right of resistance Has always been about dollars and the color of your pigment, but White supremacy is finally on blast

LET'S STREAM HIND'S HALL ON BLAST. All proceeds to UNRWA. FREE FREE PALESTINE!!!

[i-eat-zionists]

i need everyone to remember that if the kind of police brutality being enacted on pro-palestinian protesters right now was occuring in a non-western country this violence would be denounced as barbaric and authoritarian.

however, when we pay attention to college encampments, do not let that distract you from the atrocities in gaza. the disparity between donations for gazans and donations for college encampments is disgusting. remember what people in encampments are fighting for.

[gaysexunfortunately]

personally if I blew load in an anarkiddie at the Harvard Yard Palestine encampment and she kept the kid I'd insist on naming it "River T'sea"

[disruptiveempathy]

The Tent City really protected the occupation and the issue, because a lot of times the issue gets a little lost. Or, people who oppose the issue try to make it get lost. They try to distract from the issue at hand. They make it about the occupation, and the legality or the criminality of it, or whether there are “outside agitators.” That’s a playbook that’s been said by people in power for decades about student protest. 

—Roona Ray and Stephanie Luce, from "Student Occupation Backed Workers’ Demand For a Living Wage," in Convergence

[manichewitz]

some photos i took from emerson college’s encampment for palestine. most of these were taken only a few hours before the boston PD attacked hundreds of protestors and brutally arrested 118 students, most of whom were poc, jewish, and/or queer.

anyone who spent any amount of time in the encampment will tell you just how much it brought us all together—there was always food, music, arts and crafts, and hundreds of messages of support written in chalk.

after the BPD was done brutalising us for peacefully protesting, they power washed down the walls of the encampment—all of these messages are gone. theyre trying to erase what happened, but they’ll never truly be able to. everyone saw, and everyone will remember.

[mirkobloom77]

🇵🇸🎓 Columbia University’s encampments for Gaza: how they could cause a domino effect to end Israel’s apartheid

🔹 Original caption: If Columbia divests and overthrows its Administration, I promise to go back there and finish my degree. In all seriousness, this is a profoundly important moment... still going to take awhile though...

🔸 By Greg.j.stocker

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

When people say they want “peaceful” protests they’re really just saying “be quiet”.

This kind of thinking reminds me of the Dr. King quote: “True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”

[drsonnet]

Today's photos from @OxAct4Pal Encampment by the Radcliffe Camera.

Oxford Action for Palestine (OA4P) is a collective of members of the University of Oxford community who are dedicated to Palestinian liberation.

Credit: Madeleine Jane (@_MadeleineJane) / X

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

Words of wisdom & warning for student protesters

[imawitchywitch]

So we all agree, we will no longer be romanticizing and encouraging teens to attend any of these universities that are harming and punishing the students and staff protesting, correct?

[girlactionfigure]

israelwarroom

#BREAKING: A Google Drive containing 200+ pro-terror and how-to documents is being circulated among encampment organizers. Unsurprisingly, National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is likely behind the Drive. It's likely behind the campus riots and encampments as well. SJP is an organization with chapters on hundreds of campuses across the US that promote antisemitism and harass Jewish students on campus. They're a branch of American Muslims for Palestine, which evidence indicates is a reincarnation of the Holy Land Foundation and Islamic Association for Palestine, which were shut down in the 2000s for funding Hamas. The drive contains more than 200 documents ranging from actual terrorist propaganda materials to how-to guides on launching campus "occupations" to endorsements of violence to general anti-Israel and antisemitic propaganda. We've said it all along — these pro-terror encampments are not grassroots movements. They're being funded and orchestrated by radical organizations with the goal of terrorizing Jewish students and attempting to undermine democracy and US values.

H/T @scartale-an-undertale-au

[disruptiveempathy]

The outside encampment really became the most powerful part of the occupation, because it was visual. It provided other people and organizations a way to engage. It also made it a safer space for us. We called it a Tent City, and it rose up around us, starting with just a few tents. I was running it with another student activist, Amy Offner. We started having daily activities: one to two rallies a day, and candlelight vigils in the evenings. Throughout the day we would have a schedule of different events, with organizations, or with individuals who came to volunteer their talents to perform or speak. Sometimes we had open mics and workers could come and speak. We had various famous people come to support the cause. And eventually we did get through the media blackout and we were front page news in national newspapers. I think at least three times, over those three weeks – in The New York Times, LA Times and Boston Globe.  We felt it was a very successful action.

—Roona Ray and Stephanie Luce, from "Student Occupation Backed Workers’ Demand For a Living Wage," in Convergence

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Cal Poly Humboldt, April 24th 2024