New York City: PACK THE COURTS FOR 8 OF THE CUNY 28 on THURS, SEPT 5
🔻 Press Conference at 1 PM at Columbus Park Pavilion. This will be the first public statement made by the 28.
🔻 Pack the Courts at 2 PM on 100 Centre St, NY 10013

PACK THE COURTS FOR 8 OF THE CUNY 28

at 100 CENTRE STREET NEW YORK 10013. On 4/30, hundreds across the city were arrested at protests and Gaza solidarity encampments. While the charges have been dropped for most, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, CUNY, and the NYPD continue to pursue the heaviest charges for 8 of the now CUNY 28. In addition to the previously known 22, there were 6 additional comrades arrested that same night also facing felony charges. We've since connected with the 6 other comrades who were brutalized and arrested that night at CCNY, but who were isolated by the bureaucracy of the carceral machine and are also facing heavy and unjust charges.

TELL CUNY TO MEET THE 5 DEMANDS. DROP THE CHARGES FOR ALL OF THE CUNY 28. FREE PALESTINE.

Prepare for Heavy Zionist Presence: Wear a Mask. Come with Trusted People. Have a Safety Plan

From the WAWOG Newsletter:

To be in struggle against scholasticide — that is to say, to organize for the fall of the occupation — means refusing to normalize institutionalized intellectual activity that funds genocide. University investments in weapons manufacturers that supply jets, guns, bulldozers to ‘Israeli’ forces have aided the wholesale destruction of the education system in Gaza. Perhaps the most effective and truthful learning in the imperial core does not happen in classrooms at all, but in schools of our own making: on quads, in tents, on porches, on organizing calls, in Signal messages. Another pedagogy is here and yet another pedagogy is ever still on the horizon.

Just a few months ago, transforming the grounds of the elite university into what Walter Rodney called “groundings,” student-led encampments sharpened the reality that education in the imperial core is not an unequivocal social and public good. The organizers in the encampments, by screaming “free Palestine” and insisting on that scream’s place in their learning, also disrupted the hegemony of the capitalist university. Dependent on domination and discipline, the statist university is a frothing establishment that hoards knowledge, preys on debtors, harms the most vulnerable, and weaponizes the myth of upward mobility.

This “protected class” of Zionists have supported the decimation of Gaza’s 12 universities. Displaced Palestinians are now sheltering in their remains. School is out in the West Bank since the ‘Israeli’ military invaded last week, declaring the occupied region a war zone. At Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank, over 141 students were arrested by ‘Israel’ last academic year. “The Israeli occupation uses education as a weapon against Palestinian students,” explains Sundos Hammad, coordinator of Birzeit’s Right to Education Campaign. Interrogators, said Hammad, told detained students: “You will not continue your education. You will have no future.”

‘Israeli’ attacks on the infrastructure of Palestinian study and history manifest one of Zionism’s central aims: the demolishment of the past. By bombing Palestinian universities and libraries; by ravaging the storehouses of knowledge; by razing the archives, the Zionists endeavor to starve the future. They will fail. As we often hear, and repeat, the future belongs to Palestine, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. No quantity of U.S.-funded bombs detonated on Palestinian soil can stop the people of the land from cataloging their present; from keeping the stories of their past alive. Indeed, there is life outside the archive. There is life in Palestine.

CUNY 22 press conference before their court appearance today in Manhattan: “We are all outside agitators whether we are fighting in Atlanta, New York, Sudan or Palestine — the enemy remains the same. The zionist entity escalates & so does the Palestinian resistance. The pigs & their institutions escalate, so do the agitators of the world.” Repost on Twitter and Instagram

📍 Georgia Tech, Atlanta

GT divested before, we’ll do it again.

📍University of Toronto

Zionists, including members of the terror group Jewish Defense League, the org founded by the racist Meir Kahane, have begun patrolling the University of Toronto campus in an attempt to intimidate and harass anti-Zionist students.

More on X from Samira Mohyeddin: https://x.com/smohyeddin/status/1832212553352577348?s=46

📍McGill University

Students staged a home demo at President Deep Saini’s house and used a tactic—the primal scream—which former Columbia President Minouche Shafik admitted was deeply disturbing to her and her family. Let’s keep making these complicit administrators lives hell.

📍Princeton University

As Princeton attempts to repress the Free Palestine movement on campus, they have resorted to sending detectives from DPS to harass and coerce students to talk.

We protect us and we keep us safe: DO NOT TALK TO COPS, DO NOT TALK TO ADMIN. If you need legal support, contact PIAD.

THURSDAY (9/12) is National SJP's DAY OF ACTION‼️🇵🇸

The downtown NYC schools will be collaborating to highlight the citywide struggle to fight for Palestinian freedom.

The school-wide rally will begin at the Fashion Institute of Technology on 27th Street and 8th Ave at 12pm.

Throughout the day, students will rally between SVA, NYU, and finally, TNS

Bring friends, family, noisemakers, masks, and keffiyehs to show your support!

📍Cornell University

Students walked out of a job fair today to demand the university divest from its partnership with Boeing, one of the worlds largest military contractors and a supplier of weapons to the Zionist entity. Students can be heard chanting “fuck you Boeing.”

From BreakThrough News.

📍NYC
Last Sunday, the NYPD shot Derrell Mickles and three others after Mickles entered the platform through the emergency exit at the Sutter Ave. station in Brownsville—committing a mass shooting in one of New York City’s poorest neighborhoods. In response, yesterday night hundreds of city residents conducted a mass fare evasion at the West 4th station, hopping the turnstiles to say clearly that no one should be killed for not having $2.90, that in fact the subway should be free—and free of cops.

As dozens streamed through the gates, onto the platforms, and into the different subway cars, cops brutalized and arrested those few they could get their hands on. The people are undeterred and are committed to maintaining this form of mass action in the weeks to come.

Our cities are under occupation: cop training facilities are flourishing all across America—we have one in our backyard near College Point, Queens.

Live free, ride free, fuck the NYPD.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DAFQCwMtqqq/?img_index=1

📍MIT

Banner reading “Lockheed Kills Kids in Gaza” hung by protesters at the MIT career fair. Disrupt and disorient the American war machine wherever possible!