#student repression

[immaculatasknight]

Dirty socks

[alwaysbewoke]

[mamawasatesttube]

you know the "aliens made them do it" variant of the fuck or die trope? i think the funniest possible subversion of this is like... outsider pov, but specifically the pov of the alien xenobiologist phd student who's just like please. please i placed these two humans in an isolated setting with provisions for food, water, waste removal, and sleep. im waiting. please i just. please why aren't they... im STILL waiting. what do i have to do???? please... my thesis...!!!

[moonshynecybin]

asking cuz you seem to be in a pecco mood lately, but they were VERY fun in the postrace press conference marc was making lots of jokes 💃

yeah this was cute. they are a sitcom pair 2 me where marc is very earnest and pecco is the proverbial straight man… but also mentally marc is chasing pecco with a knife shaped like a gp23 in both of their brains and they both refuse to acknowledge that it’s happening <3

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Several hundred NYU students, faculty and supporters are rallying in Washington Square Park after last night's mass arrests and destruction of the Gaza solidarity encampment, April 23.

The plaza is barricaded and NYPD is stationed at the entrance of every building on campus.

Photos and report by redguard

[workersolidarity]

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COLOMBIA UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION THREATENS PROTESTERS WITH SUSPENSION

The administration of Colombia University has issued a statement in which they demand the student protesters dismantle their occupation encampments under threat of suspension.

According to the statement, students must dismantle their encampments and identify themselves to faculty or face suspension and presumed further arrests.

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[the-secret-garden1]

Palestine Updates | Students Freedom of Speech is under attack at Curtin Uni.

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Students have received emails stating that the notorious phrase, "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free." Is banned on campus, this phrase implies a call for justice and equality for the Palestinian people and their right to their land.

This is a blatant attempt of repression towards the student's freedom of speech, and call for justice. Students as well as citizens should have the right to speak out against genocide, and criticise those that are complicit in it.

So what can you do?

Email the university, demanding that they stop repressing pro-Palestine activism.

Here are the emails;

Vice Chancellor Harlene Hayne - vc@curtin.edu.au

Chief Operating Officer Fiona Notley - fiona.notley@curtin.edu.au

[satellitesunset]

perpetually thinking about suguru geto.

[nando161mando]

Please explain why cancelling $1,900,000,000,000 in student debt is a "handout", but a $1,900,000,000,000 tax cut for rich people was a "stimulus"?

[aweirdbugcreature]

Dude who saw the fight club seeing a wet sad patethic man with an office job: Getting lot of Fight Club vibes in here

[halcyyan]

oc_tober02: new oc

“why weren’t you at elf practice???”

[themassespress]

On the FIR Against Student Activists for Wall Paintings on G.N. Saibaba

By Bhagat Singh Chatra Ekta Manch (bsCEM) Image source: Bhagat Singh Chatra Ekta Manch Instagram page On 10th November, Delhi University student activists of Bhagat Singh Chatra Ekta Manch (bsCEM) had done wall paintings across the North Campus for the late professor G.N. Saibaba. Professor Saibaba was an English professor in Delhi University who dedicated decades of his life engaged in various…

[readingsquotes]

"The problem is — and I will keep banging this drum as long as I have to — Biden’s incoherence on Israel and Palestine is both morally unforgivable and bad political strategy. He is bleeding support not only from young people, Arab-Americans, and others incensed with his continued support for a genocidal war machine, but also from pro-Israel moderates and Never Trump conservatives who are enraged at his furtive and contradictory efforts to ever-so-slightly rein that war machine in. I’ll give more details about that incoherence below. For now, I’ll just say that by trying to make everyone a little happy, he is making no one happy, as the pile of Palestinian corpses grows at his feet.

But that’s the narrow part of the question in the context of American politics. The bigger issue for me is why Biden’s management of the human catastrophe in Gaza is so salient. My answer is that it points to the larger and even more consequential failures of liberal politics over the last four to eight years.

....the heart of Biden’s failure to both recognize and confront the actual danger facing democracy. In a recent In These Times essay titled “Antifacism after Gaza,” the Italian philosopher Alberto Toscano subtly tweaked leftist Democratic politicians for whom “the threat of Trumpian despotism blunted opposition” to Biden’s Israel policy: “There is a bitter irony in granting primacy to the national fight against fascism over the campaign to stop a U.S.-funded genocide when the current Israeli government — in its exterminationist rhetoric, patronage of racist militias, colonizing drive and ultranationalism — fits textbook definitions of fascism far more neatly than any other contemporary regime.”

The campus protests would have been another opportunity for Biden to show his commitment to democratic and pro-social ideals. I’m not saying he had to support the protesters or their aims — they are, after all, in large part protesting him. But no one made Biden take the further step of employing reactionary talking points about the protests being fonts of antisemitism and supposedly genocidal rhetoric, or repeating memeified claims about “Jewish students” being “blocked, harrassed, attacked, while walking to class” — questionable claims that have been weaponized to justify state and vigilante violence against demonstrators exercising their First Amendment rights.2 Biden repeated those claims on May 7, Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day. Yet he said nothing about the weeks of wanton anti-demonstrator violence by both police and unhinged pro-Israel counterprotesters. In fact, instead of condemning the episodic police state, he is pushing a new plan to funnel $37 billion more to police departments and hire 100,000 more cops.

The political problem here should be obvious. How do you explain to a student who just watched, say, the NYPD throw their friends down a flight of stairs for participating in a nonviolent protest — acts committed without so a peep of condemnation from the president — that a vote for him is a vote against fascism?

Nor is Gaza the only place Biden and the Democrats keep undermining their claim to being the antifascist party. The president has repeatedly pleaded with Trump to work with him in passing a MAGA-like immigration bill: one that prioritized enforcement, detention, and “shutdown” measures over, for instance, pathways to citizenship for undocumented migrants or those who came as children. When Trump didn’t take Biden’s obvious political bait, the president tried running even further to his right. Biden can insist, as he did at the State of the Union, that he “will not demonize immigrants” or endorse Trump’s Hitlerian cant about “poisoning the blood of our country.” But by adopting reactionary fearmongering about the need to “secure the border” above all else, all that remains of a message to voters is that even squishy libs think the fascists have a point about immigration — it’s just that they aren’t willing to do more to stop it.

The connection between state violence at home and genocide abroad isn’t lost on the students. Popular chants connect the dispossession and killing in Palestine to U.S. policy in the Philippines, Vietnam, and Latin America, as well as immigration policy here: “From Palestine to Mexico / border walls have got to go.” As Toscano notes, protesters at the University of Texas chanted at the Austin police: “APD! KKK! / IDF! They’re all the same!” — connecting domestic policing and racism to the Israeli military. And indeed, that connection isn’t purely theoretical: thousands of U.S. police officers have received direct training from the Israeli military on crowd control, use of force, and surveillance in recent decades, including the NYPD, and yes, the Austin police as well.

[a-bee-wizard]

i have to join a stupid NATION to apply for scholarships, i hate nations

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

How ironic that the anniversary of the Kent State Massacre falls while Genocide Joe seems determined to repeat it.

[workersolidarity]

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When we see protests being crushed by American police, we are reminded of this quote from the movie Boondock Saints:

"Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most. And that is the indifference of good men."

Nothing could be more dangerous to the personal freedoms, human rights, democratic rights, freedom from violence, freedom of speech and the freedom of the people to peaceably assemble than the indifference of good people to the injustices being committed by their government, in their name, with their tax dollars.

@WorkerSolidarityNews