#criminalization of solidarity

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In a report released today, CAIR documented the different ways in which the culture at UT Austin reflects apparent discrimination based on religion, race, and ethnicity by actively suppressing the free speech of Palestinian, Muslim, Arab, Jewish, and other students, staff, and faculty who oppose occupation and apartheid, making them feel marginalized. 

In 2022, the university interfered in student democratic processes, declaring student support for Palestinian humanity a non-university issue despite the fact that President Hartzell issued a statement apparently supportive of Israel. University administration opted to deploy state force against students engaged in the American tradition of protest.  A July report found the university violated its own institutional rules in its response to anti-genocide protesters.

At Columbia University, former president Shafik greenlit the use of state force against students and faculty who were peacefully engaged in the American tradition of civil disobedience. The university has reportedly repeatedly short cut its own policies and implemented new ones to sanction anti-genocide protesters. The university faces at least one lawsuit and a Department of Education investigation into reported discriminatory practices targeting Palestinians and their supporters.

[nando161mando]

[muslims-matters]

Will the cowards at BBCNews ever figure out who is killing Palestinians? 🤔

[makowcy]

i blacked out i think have another 90s anime esque gif woohooo

au by @kiszoneszczury once again

[baalzebufo]

some additional doodles and a Lot of Headcanons... sorry if im spamming these a little bit. ive got so many thoughts in my head, lmao

theres my older pacifica- after weirdmageddon, her and gideon become friends. theyre both sort of ostracized from the town as a whole bc of their past attitudes/actions so they cling together and become buds. its nice having someone else who 'gets' it.

pacifica moved out as soon as she could to get away from her folks and has a job at a local mall. gideon enables her to enjoy at least SOME of her old luxuries by taking her shopping and to get their nails done together and stuff. also his prison buddies help ''kindly persuade'' her parents not to break her enforced no-contact rule from time to time. i know the two have the bitchiest gossip in the entire town together. sometimes when its hard to be 'nice' they know they can at least vent to the other and they wont get judged for it, yknow?

also some backstory doodles! he was a Normal Kid, Once. or close enough to it. gideon was a sickly child and was sheltered and homeschooled for most of his life. the gleefuls moved from texas to oregon when he was about seven (yes i know this breaks canon a little. its fine shh.) and he found journal 2 shortly after. things went downhill from there

other notes. he's always kept his hair long, but used to either let it down or tie it into a long braid. he very briefly attended a public school and he didnt fare very well there (fat kid + albino + 'girly' + general weird interests is basically painting a massive target on your back) he used to stay up and watch late night televangelists when he couldnt sleep in hospital and copped his aesthetic from there

sorry this post is so long i have a lot of thoughts about him </3

[floral-ashes]

People are claiming that sending police after University of Alberta students is okay because the University grounds are private property and the students were thus trespassing.

As a law professor, let me state that this is a gross mischaracterization of the law.

University grounds are essentially considered public property for the purposes of student protests. The Alberta Court of Appeal has ruled that the regulation of student expression on campus property is governmental in nature and subject to the Canadian Charter (2020 ABCA 1).

As the Court explained: “The ability of students to learn and to debate and to share ideas is not only a central feature of the core purpose of the University but also the grounds of the University are physically designed to ensure that the capacity of each student to learn, debate and share ideas is in a community space.”

This means that the University’s decisions to trespass people are subject to the Canadian Charter, and must conform with the rights of freedom of expression, peaceful assembly, association, and life, liberty, and security of the person. It should be noted that courts have previously held that temporary structures can play an expressive role and thus fall under freedom of expression.

The university simply cannot use its ownership of the grounds to suppress student speech or in a way that violates their rights. It is little different from a protest on, say, legislative grounds.

For more on the right to protest in Alberta, see this blog post by three esteemed law professors at the University of Calgary. I also recommend this blog post on student encampments and freedom of expression in Canada.

[meet-me-in-the-pouringrain]

Paget Brewster (an actress who has been in the business since the early 90s) just tweeted out that she was paid $990 for Criminal Minds Evolution that was broadcasted across SEVENTY countries what the fuck?? FUCK HOLLYWOOD AND TV EXECS!!

Support The WGA, Support SAG- AFTRA. Actors and Writers are humans too.

Edit : Right everyone I read this wrong coz i’m a bit of a dumbass. @storiesofsvu and @blackbird-brewster both commented and corrected it! Pls read the comments and reblogs of this before taking my word for it, she didn’t get paid $990 for CME. It was *residuals* over the entire series.

[vyorei]

Oh I'm so done with the US..

[wraithsoutlaws]

modern day rook and taash

[guldaastan]

hundreds of students from kozhikode, kerala, rallied against the ongoing genocide in gaza. they protested against the complicity of the indian government in the genocide as indian made weapons are being used against palestinians.

pc

[menuliso]

taps mic Erm,..,,. Queerplatonic bkdk

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“My speculation is that the authorities understand that their political objective is to discourage a political movement,” said Marlon Kautz, an indicted Solidarity Fund organizer. That goal effectively requires targeting not only protesters but organizations, such as civil liberties groups and bail funds, that empower protesters to carry on in the face of intimidation, brutality, and aggressive prosecution. It’s an attempt, according to Kautz, to create “a blueprint that can be applied to solve the problem of social movements as a political force in the U.S.” What is ultimately at stake, he said, “is the notion of solidarity within a broad social movement.”

The criminalization of a left-wing movement comes as no surprise. But Georgia’s sweeping and openly political application of conspiracy law is a particularly concerning case. It was this tactic that shattered the left roughly a hundred years ago, when the U.S. government targeted growing socialist parties and increasingly militant unions with laws against criminal syndicalism, espionage, and sedition. Now, as then, conspiracy stands in as the evil double of plain solidarity—the tool we need to fight repression, and what makes protest possible.

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Because the defendants have not hurt anyone but the police have, the indictment relies on rhetorical leaps to illustrate an association between anarchism and violence. It describes the George Floyd uprisings as a movement “centered around a message of anti-police violence,” rather than a movement calling to end police violence; likewise, it claims that the high-profile police killing of Brooks caused “anti-police violence tensions to boil over.” The indictment links Tortuguita, the forest defender killed at Cop City, with an “extremist ideology” that justifies the police shooting them fifty-seven times as they sat in their tent with their hands raised, according to an independent autopsy. (As evidence, the indictment twice quotes an anonymous, uncited blog post that reads, “Tortuguita died trying to kill a cop in defense of the Weelaunee forest.”) The most overt acts of violence committed by police are not swept under the rug, as one might expect, but severely contorted into instances of victimization.

The indictment blames the violence on “outside agitators,” a civil rights–era dog whistle, and provides paranoid interpretations of terms such as “mutual aid” and “social solidarity.”

[nando161mando]

Students from Lausanne University in Switzerland have joined the global protests in solidarity with Gaza, condemning the Israeli genocide and demanding the university to boycott Israeli academic institutions.

[muslims-matters]

New forensic analysis reveals details about Israel's killing of 6-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza

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