MORE STRIKES, MORE SICK-OUTS: Over 200 Columbia student workers are pledging to withhold their labor until the University grants amnesty to all students and faculty involved in pro-Palestinian protests and permanently removes the NYPD from campus: https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/05/13/over-200-student-workers-pledge-to-withhold-labor-until-university-grants-full-amnesty-permanently-removes-nypd-from-campus/

‼️OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT AT UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IS ATTACKED‼️

“Using a fire extinguisher filled with red paint we covered the facade and smashed seven windows. Then, with access to the building, we released 500 cockroaches inside and emptied a second fire exintguisher onto the interior…”

READ MORE: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/05/14/18866217php

🚨THE CUNY GAZA SOLIDARITY ENCAMPMENT LIVES ON🚨

We have just taken the CUNY Graduate Center and renamed our library "The Al Aqsa University Library." We are highlighting CUNY's complicity in scholasticide and the Zionist entity's systematic destruction of every single university in Gaza.

CUNY should not be able to posture as a center of learning as long as it prioritizes profit over liberatory education. We look to the Palestinian people and the Palestinian resistance as our teachers in liberation.

As the largest Black and Brown public university system in the U.S., we have a special responsibility to our colonized brothers and sisters in Palestine, because we know our liberation is connected.

CUNY must adopt our Five Demands and drop all charges against protestors!

Read our press release here: bit.ly/cgsegrad

THREAD: updates on CUNY, and how they got the president of the graduate center to listen to their demands.

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📍Berkely : A building has been occupied to avenge the martyrs of Al Shifa hospital #Escalate4Gaza

📍Houston. A group of protesters halted a bridge connecting to the Houston port. Block all channels to Genocide!

📍UC Irvine

Heavily armed riot police on site at the building occupation. Get down there and support your comrades fighting for a free Palestine on Nakba Day!

🇵🇸NAKBA DAY DISPATCH🇵🇸

Today marks 76 years of the ongoing Nakba. Today marks 76 years of resistance to the zionist entity. Today, bombs rain down on the starved and besieged Jabalia refugee camp, the birthplace of the first Intifada, a punishment for the unyielding resilience of the Palestinian people, who are closer than ever to liberation.

As Kaleem Hawa of the Palestinian Youth Movement wrote today: “Zionism is the catastrophe.” The Nakba is not an event, calcified in the archive—it is a structure, an ongoing settler-colonial project sponsored by the most powerful empire on the planet.

“The movement is stronger than ever, more militant, more connected to the working class, to labor, to the students, whose encampments have bravely resisted their cities’ counterinsurgency strategies. Because of this work, the contradictions have become undeniable, an American left has been injected with new energies and now circles the fascists and their mercenaries.”

This Nakba Day, a solemn memorial to our martyrs and a celebration of their concrete commitment to liberation, we must spread the fire Gaza has ignited from the campuses to the streets, from the ivory tower to the embassies, from the students to the masses.

Embody the spirit of the courageous stone throwers, the freedom fighters, the elders who remain unbowed, feet rooted to their land like so many olive trees, those who brandish tools born out of revolutionary necessity. Embody the undefeated spirit of the children facing down tanks and bulldozers.

This Nakba Day we honor all our martyrs, and we promise to avenge them in life and in death. The empire will burn! By the millions, we will return!

“Zionism is the catastrophe,” by Kaleem Hawa: newyorkwarcrimes.com/zionism-is-the-catastrophe.

📍University of California System

STRIKE! In a historic win, UAW 4811, which represents 48,000 academic workers, voted tonight to authorize a strike in solidarity with the movement for Palestinian liberation!

As cops bear down on the newly occupied building at UC Irvine, the workers make it known that they stand with their comrades on the barricades!

📍Barnard College

Parents for Palestine show their solidarity at the Barnard College graduation!

📍UC Irvine

California riot cops drawn from multiple counties and sheriffs offices cracking down violently on the Gaza solidarity encampment erected earlier today.