📍Virginia Commonwealth University

Tonight, VCU students resisted a police invasion of their Gaza Solidarity Encampment, using projectiles and reinforced mobile banners. ❤️‍🔥

🇵🇸 DAILY DISPATCH (4/29/2024) 🇵🇸

Palestine has its eyes on us. Journalists in Gaza have been addressing students of the popular university, imploring them to seize this historic moment. Hind and Bisan have reminded us that we must do more! We cannot lose sight of the stakes. As the semester nears its end, and the US-funded genocide continues, we all know that the time to act is NOW.

Dozens of new Gaza Solidarity Encampments have emerged over the past 48 hours. Across campuses and encampments around the world, students and community members have begun to escalate. The cutting edge of the movement is Cal Poly Humboldt, who today announced they had liberated not one, not two buildings — but the entire campus, all while rejecting the arbitrary and counter-revolutionary distinction between students and so-called outside agitators.

At Reed College, Princeton University and the New School, the movement took three more struggles from the quads to the buildings. UT Austin, the DMV collective encampment, and the University of Illinois have demonstrated that with superior numbers, well-honed strategy, and a steadfastness rooted in the necessity of our struggle, we need not submit to violent police intimidation.

And in a touching show of support, Columbia faculty surrounded their students to protect their encampment from police invasion. We salute all the supportive educators, and to them we say: STRIKE!

Earlier today, National SJP, the Palestinian Youth Movement, and Writers against the War on Gaza echoed the call from Gaza for a faculty strike and tactical escalation starting May 1st. Spread the news: STRIKE!

We know the complicit university administrations are hoping to wait us out, but we refuse to lose momentum to stalled negotiations; we will not settle for anything less than a free Palestine!

ESCALATE FOR GAZA NOW!

📍 Case Western Reserve

The encampment stands. This morning, a violent police sweep took down all the tents. A community rally re-established them, and the school agreed to allow the tents to remain through the night. Twenty students who were detained were released (instead of being arrested). We keep us safe!

Carling all our supporters: MOBILIZE TO THE ENCAMPMENT NOW. We need you to come out now and show the university that we will continue to resist their repression and criminalization.

📍 Portland State University

OccupyPSU takes the library, becoming the fifth new building occupation of the day!! From @occupypsuforpalestine:

THE REFAAT ALAREER
MEMORIAL LIBRARY NOW BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE FOR PALESTINE. we will not leave until demands are met. once it is secure, any student will have access to study, get resources, eat warm food, sleep somewhere dry, attend teach-ins, and be in community. Look out for more things we are posting in regards to activities!! We do not want to hurt our fellow peers - we simply refuse to be complicit in genocide. In addition, no books will be harmed. Period. We hope to see fellow students out here and begin building our People's University for Palestine. 🇵🇸

📍Cal Poly Humboldt

The fearless Cal Poly students and community members are facing off with the cops right now. We are with you in spirit, comrades, we know you’ll hold it down!

🚨COLUMBIA STUDENTS HAVE TAKEN HAMILTON HALL🚨

BREAKING: In a revolutionary nod to the 1968 uprisings, and in continuation of the campus legacy of resistance against complicity, Columbia students have begun occupying Hamilton Hall, the campus’s main administrative building, overseen by the university’s genocide profiteers.

WE WILL NOT STOP, WE WILL NOT REST. COLUMBIA: YOU WILL DIVEST! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

Barricades at Hamilton Hall, Columbia University

📍University of Utah

Heavily armed riot police violently arrest students at the University of Utah Gaza Solidarity Encampment.

📍Cal Poly Humboldt

Still waiting on more information on number of arrests, but we know that CPH was raided last night by riot cops. Please support our comrades by donating to their bail fund!

"Gaza Calls, Columbia Falls" with image from Paris 1968 student protests from Atelier Populaire #Escalate4Gaza

💢MAY DAY💢

An assembly of CUNY union members voted to organize a Mayday sickout. If they get 250 pledges, they will do a work stoppage. This has never happened at CUNY, and could set a precedent for faculty at other schools. If you’re at CUNY, pledge here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe7jLXgRDHv_A_TL3aUUyy8Yiw6h8fz3vuyJyiUg0xTWl-FvA/viewform

HIGH ALERT: We are receiving reports of encroachment by New York Crimes “journalists” on encampments all over the country. Yesterday, someone from the NYT called a Columbia encampment organizer at 10 a.m. “I have never given the Times my number,” the student said. Did they get it from the cops, or from admin?

From Columbia to Cal Poly Humboldt, students are correctly identifying the NYT as a zionist mouthpiece.

📍University of the South

Welcome to the liberation zone! #TakeACathedralChallenge