📍George Washington University

Our comrades have set up a new encampment outside of the GWU admin building. Cops are already on sight — show up and support! Free Palestine!

📍Union Theological Seminary, Columbia

The Union Theological Seminary, part of Columbia University, just became the first US institute of higher education to divest from the war in Gaza! We are winning, comrades! Steadfast!

🚨 JAIL SUPPORT NEEDED AT 1PP FOR NEW SCHOOL ARRESTS 🚨

Our comrades have been going all night in the rain. Supplies and community support needed now!

Legal support requested for 7am!

📍University of Pennsylvania

University administration called in riot police in the early hours of the morning to sweep the UPenn Gaza solidarity encampment.

Follow @pennfsp for updates on jail support.

📍MIT

Earlier this morning, MIT sent hordes of riot police to sweep the Gaza solidarity encampment.

Follow @mit_caa for updates.

📍Tucson / University of Arizona used the move back chant to push back the cops and their light tower, preventing them from setting it up to help with surveillance of the camp

📍New York. Police arrested students and faculty members outside The New School in New York City a day after the launch of the first faculty-led Gaza solidarity encampment.

📍Tucson. Protesters wearing goggles and masks evade riot police at the University of Arizona Gaza Solidarity Encampment.

‼️PICKET FOR PALESTINE‼️

All out to the Diana Tamari Sabbagh library ‼️ We will not remain complicit in NYU’s enabling if genocide. Disclose & divest, we will not stop we will not rest!

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📍University of Calgary

The University of Calgary viciously attacked its own students protesting in solidarity with Gaza with flash bangs, rubber bullets, tear gas and mounted police. This comes a day after a member of the Blackfoot Confederacy granted permission to the encampment to occupy the space, further confirming the intertangled nature of policing, academia and settler-colonialism.

📍Columbia University

The liberators of Hind’s Hall released a statement today articulating their political vision and detailing their experience facing down the fascist NYPD.

“In the eyes of this occupying force on stolen land, we are all outside agitators. We wear this as a badge of honor.

It was our refusal to accept the terms and categories imposed on us by the university that threatened its power.
Our uncompromising commitment to nothing short of full divestment and the total liberation of Palestine threatened the jackals of the university system—administrators, donors, trustees, and talking heads—who work overtime to defang our budding revolution with bread crumb concessions.

We refused to be pacified while the blood of Palestine spills on the streets of Gaza. Instead, we forced Columbia to show the world the iron fist inside its velvet glove.”

Read the full statement at https://thenewinquiry.com/from-harlem-to-palestine-globalize-the-intifada/

🇵🇸DISPATCH (5/10/2024)🇵🇸

Images from Rafah and across occupied Palestine flood our screens with fresh horror — mangled babies, bodies crushed under concrete, some vaporized by US-made bombs. Today: concentration camps in the desert, where kidnapped Palestinians are held hostage, humiliated but steadfast.

Do not let these horrors anesthetize our hearts; feel the grief in its totality—but let it fuel you.

The student intifada continues its forward march: a slow trickle of schools across the globe have begun committing to divestment from Israeli apartheid, including the Columbia-affiliated Union Theological Seminary and California State Sacramento. Seventy-six universities in Spain cut ties with “Israeli” universities, while Trinity College in Dublin nears total divestment.

The end of the semester is near: the fall will bring new opportunities for organizing and escalation, built on the foundation constructed over the past weeks.

But the summer must remain hot; our movement, re-ignited on campus, must spread to the streets, apartments and factories. It demands that we continue to shout fuck the police—and act accordingly. As the liberators of Hind’s Hall wrote today: “In the eyes of this occupying force on stolen land, we are all outside agitators. We wear this as a badge of honor.”

Palestine in our heart; revolution on our mind; fire in our belly and steadfast, concrete commitment in our feet. Onwards, comrades!

📍University of Alberta

This morning, Edmonton police violently swept the University of Alberta Gaza solidarity encampment, making at least 2 arrests while wielding and swinging batons at students.

📍Virginia Commonwealth University

Students at VCU walked out of their commencement in protest of their schools complicity in the genocide of Palestinians. Solidarity!

📍UC Berkeley

Students formed the words “UC DIVEST” with their shirts in a protest at the UC Berkeley Law commencement.