#Escalate4Gaza

[readytoescalate]

Buildings are easier to defend than outdoor camps AND they can be more disruptive. For anyone ready to escalate for Gaza, check out this re-issue of a text that has been used in previous movements.

[sayruq]

[lovehael]

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/04/29/18865522.php

[horseknees]

Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard a tenured professor of black studies at UC Irvine speaks with a voice complete with the anger of our entire generation while being detained by the money we all pay against our will.

[girlinafairytale]

is there a dream bigger than going back home?

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[shamebate]

It's really strange to see people on here talking about the police repression across american university campuses and how serious they are in such a spectacular-by-way-of-Bonnano manner - these liberals talking of voting whilst everyone around them with senses to know are rattling the bars, saying, hey, do you trust your water provider? are you safe from the borders? Do you have masks and medication and things to make art with, how much can the state fuck with you? Have you seen the brownshirts? (They were there before, already; this violent wave isn't exceptional, just a steady descent thru oft trodden roads.)

There's footage of a violent arrest on an american campus demo: a student is tazed and restrained. It seems like people filming are everywhere in shot - as journalists have shown where their interests lie, as ai is used to further mechanised slaughter and genocide across the globe, facial recog and data doppelgangers and all the rest - the camera flashes sting. Body cams and documentation have shown their place in societys prison industrial complex. dearrest work and legal observers take nothing away from the cameras if they must be there. Not to backseat analyse, but if i can soapbox about any issue it is about many cameras being cops. This is not to blame any of the brave demonstrators for state violence; it's just something that hurts to see happen again and again; many black and brown and racialised people have spoken about how turning state brutality into media for consumption by white supremacist media is further violence many times already, better than me. German arrests against conferences and other academic organising nodes are subject to legal, border, arrest and other violence; blood literally flies across the world.

I have seen reports of tear gas and rubber bullets (ar Emory) used (update: pepper bullet and spray seems to have been used instead of earlier reported munitions, but the violence at that campus is without question.) I have also seen two sniper's nests at Indiana and Ohio - the sheer brutality being wielded against many campus (here's Boston) demonstrators are not those of earlier in the campus demonstration wave; the escalation people like @ 3liza, @ intactics (and others) are noting as not unlike the ladder used in the escalation of violence that led to the Kent State state murders. american and german (as well as most of anglosphere and 'west europe') states continue to victimise jewish dissenters disproportionately (just as in the KS murders) thanks to the post IHRA-style zionist revisionist legalist shit definitions of anti semitism being used to repress huge numbers of brave people.

Here is an update on palestinian campus and school violence/repression, too. Update 28th April (28.04):

Join the American Campus Arrest Amnesty Phone Blast here! Calls are needed!

UT Austin Jail Call Support needed!

and to add to the spectacle of it all - hurry to attack capital before a new ideology makes it sacred to you! How does that old song go? - AOC is doing the old cooption enforcing, PR for cops, flashing her maskless face around a swarm of those Damn Cameras. May all journos politicians and bosses fuck off!

Guide to emory encampment.

reportback from emory arrestee

[itsror9]

Go to bit.ly/palfunds to donate directly to Palestinian families in Gaza now! 4 families that need urgent help.

[sapphicpoetspost]

Sharing this message from Ola in Gaza, please support her and her family if you are able:

“I have got 99.6 in high school and I was regarded as one of the best students in the Palestine, and I was preparing to study abroad, but due to war I lost my opportunity.

One of my sisters is a graduate medical doctor, and she has just got an acceptance to get a master degree in Turkey, my second sister is a 4th medical student but due to war she won't be able to continue her journey.

In addition, we want to help my 6 years old nephew to have an emergency physical therapy as he is suffering from cerebral palsy and needs am emergency surgery to straighten the tendons in his legs in order to be able to walk.

My family has lost their jobs and property, and our sweet home has been burned, so we need a help to let my three sister and our little nephew to have a brighter future, and rebuild our lovely home.

GoFund link:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-my-family-getting-out-of-gaza

I hope to have your support for my family gofund whether by donating or by sharing their story.

Thanks again 🌷”

[ehmio]

Welcome to Intifada Hall at Cal Poly Humboldt, where students have fully occupied and barricaded 2 buildings, and encampments are set up outside. 

Despite threats from federal and state authorities, students at Cal Poly aren’t backing down, continuing to defend their encampment. Classes are canceled or online for the rest of the semester. The protestors are rejecting negotiations without amnesty.

[nando161mando]

New Yorkers gather on courthouse steps and demand Eric Adams resign @ Within Our Lifetimes action for Black and Palestinian liberation.

#StopCopNation #Escalate4Gaza

[readytoescalate]

"EMORY IS EVERYWHERE": AN OPEN INVITATION FROM PROTESTORS OCCUPYING EMORY UNIVERSITY

As the Palestine Solidarity movement rips across college campuses, college administrators and government bureaucrats are rushing to denounce anyone taking action as an “outside agitator”. Those who grease the gears of the war machine think that this rhetoric will erode public support for bold actions at Emory. They are wrong. 45 years after the Camp David Accords - an infamously botched, imperialist plan for peace between Israel and Egypt with no input from Palestinians - was orchestrated by an Emory faculty alum President Carter, we observe that there is nowhere on Earth “outside” of Emory University. We want to say as clearly as possible - we welcome “outside agitators” to our struggle against the ruthless genocide of Palestinians. Emory University has the highest tuition, the lowest acceptance rate, and by far the highest endowment of any institution in Georgia. Economic barriers, infamously racist standardized testing, and nepotism have barred many from studying at Emory. To students in Atlanta and beyond - we invite you to struggle with us. Local high school students dream of attending Emory, and many teachers encourage them to study hard and take up extracurriculars to increase their chance acceptance, knowing their chance of admission is slim. To local high school students and teachers, we invite you to struggle with us. Just down the street from Emory Hospital Midtown is the site of the former Peachtree-Pine homeless shelter. In a bid to gentrify the city and evict its houseless population, the City closed the shelter and did not replace it, displacing hundreds and cutting off a last line of support for thousands of poor people in the city. Emory University purchased this building, just one example of Emory’s contribution to gentrification in Atlanta. To those without homes, or those displaced by gentrification, we invite you to struggle with us. Emory’s $11 billion endowment, the 11th highest in the country, is an outsized influence in Atlanta’s economy. While economic inequality widens in the city, Emory remains a bastion of the rich. To the restaurant workers, house cleaners, gig workers, and all proletarians - we invite you to struggle with us. In 2020, Emory University laied off or furloughed over 1500 employees. To those who are no longer affiliated with the university - we invite you to struggle with us. 4 out of 5 students at Emory are not from Georgia. While the Freedom Riders were heading down to Georgia in the 1960’s to fight for Black people’s right to vote, segregationist governors cast them as “outside agitators”. To those from outside Atlanta and Georgia, we invite you to struggle with us. 1 in 5 students at Emory are from outside of the United States. The Palestinian students murdered by American weapons under Biden will never be one of those students. To those from outside of the country, we invite you to struggle with us. In April 2023, Emory admin called the police to break up a protest led by students against Cop City on the quad. None of the pigs were Emory students. To all of those who struggle against police brutality, we invite you to struggle with us. EMORY IS EVERYWHERE. THE PLACE FOR DIVISION IS NOWHERE. WE INVITE YOU TO STRUGGLE WITH US.

[sayruq]

[lovehael]

[horseknees]

[vampyfg]

Hey y’all I don’t post on here often but I got an important mutual aid request! I’ve been barely scraping by since being unemployed w/ house cleaning gigs and doordash etc but there is a strong need to be at these actions. Feels kinda shameful asking for help when there’s so many desperate for funds rn, but we support each other ❤️ thank you lovely souls in advance. Pls feel free to DM for confirmation or receipts.

[queenpinkireellylikethisname]

I need to kill the israel entity with my own hands