Forwarded from WOLPalestine
The crackdown on our constitutionally protected speech is a worrisome development at any moment in time but in particular right now as social movements confront the US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza, the Israeli war on Lebanon, and the general global trend toward fascism.
Palestinian prisoners are at the heart of the broader struggle for Palestinian national liberation. The use of the law to criminalize and delegitimize freedom fighters from Indigenous, Black, Puerto Rican and other liberation struggles has a long history in this country.
AN ATTACK ON ONE IS AN ATTACK ON ALL!
You can read the National Lawyers Guild's statement here: https://www.nlg.org/nlg-condemns-the-us-government-attack-on-samidoun/
All copy in this post is verbatim from their statement.
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Palestinian prisoners are at the heart of the broader struggle for Palestinian national liberation. The use of the law to criminalize and delegitimize freedom fighters from Indigenous, Black, Puerto Rican and other liberation struggles has a long history in this country.
AN ATTACK ON ONE IS AN ATTACK ON ALL!
You can read the National Lawyers Guild's statement here: https://www.nlg.org/nlg-condemns-the-us-government-attack-on-samidoun/
All copy in this post is verbatim from their statement.
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Cornell University announced that it has suspended 15 students & banned 5 from campus without investigation. These students now face imminent eviction.
Among those impacted is a student who was suspended for "repeatedly blowing into a kazoo" at a career fair disruption.
Among those impacted is a student who was suspended for "repeatedly blowing into a kazoo" at a career fair disruption.
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Forwarded from WOLPalestine
TODAY! ALL OUT TO MOMA TO PROTEST RONALD S. LAUDER AND THE WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS. New York City’s most prominent art institution is allowing genocidaire Ronald S. Lauder to host his Zionist organization’s annual assembly this evening. A MoMA trustee since 1977, Lauder was the president of the settler-colonial “non-profit” known as the Jewish National Fund from 1997 to 2007, and has since served as Chairman and Chairman Emeritus of its board; he became the president of the rabidly pro-Israel World Jewish Congress in 2007. Because of his extensive political and financial support for Zionist occupation, Lauder's company, Estee Lauder Cosmetics, is a longstanding BDS target.
In his speech at last year’s assembly, Lauder said, “The vast majority of Americans support Israel and stand with the Jewish people,” before quoting former president George W. Bush, whose invasion of Iraq killed over a million Arabs, as saying, “There’s only one villain in this conflict, and it's not Israel.”
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In his speech at last year’s assembly, Lauder said, “The vast majority of Americans support Israel and stand with the Jewish people,” before quoting former president George W. Bush, whose invasion of Iraq killed over a million Arabs, as saying, “There’s only one villain in this conflict, and it's not Israel.”
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Forwarded from WOLPalestine
Tonight’s event — billed as the “2024 Theodor Herzl Award Dinner” — is a tribute to former U.S. ambassador Jon Huntsman, a devout Mormon who is also a genocidal Zionist, and will also honor Tal Huber, the “graphic designer” behind last year’s KIDNAPPED posters.
This is not the first time the museum has lent its space, its tacit support, and its veneer of prestige to individuals and groups that fuel Zionist terror in Palestine. MoMa’s board of trustees includes Larry Fink, the CEO of Blackrock, an asset management firm with massive investments in companies that supply the Israeli army with equipment; Daniel S. Och, a current member and former chairman of the Birthright Foundation, an organization that sends Jewish youth on free trips to “Israel” to support their indoctrination into Zionism; and Paula Crown, who has stakes in the weapons conglomerate General Dynamics, manufacturer of the MK-84 bombs that the IOF has dropped on Gaza for years.
In 2021, @strikemoma laid out the case against the museum: “MoMA was founded with the oil wealth of the Rockefellers. Since then it has been a clearing house for capital, a showcase for domination and an ecocidal machine. It has diversified in content, but in practice has been an enemy of the poor and the marginalized, the fired and the furloughed, the displaced and dispossessed, the detained and the deported, the dying and the dead.”
MoMA’s affiliations show that the museum is more closely aligned with billionaire warmongers than with working artists in New York City. Down with blood money in the arts! Down with Zionism in our institutions! Free Palestine.
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This is not the first time the museum has lent its space, its tacit support, and its veneer of prestige to individuals and groups that fuel Zionist terror in Palestine. MoMa’s board of trustees includes Larry Fink, the CEO of Blackrock, an asset management firm with massive investments in companies that supply the Israeli army with equipment; Daniel S. Och, a current member and former chairman of the Birthright Foundation, an organization that sends Jewish youth on free trips to “Israel” to support their indoctrination into Zionism; and Paula Crown, who has stakes in the weapons conglomerate General Dynamics, manufacturer of the MK-84 bombs that the IOF has dropped on Gaza for years.
In 2021, @strikemoma laid out the case against the museum: “MoMA was founded with the oil wealth of the Rockefellers. Since then it has been a clearing house for capital, a showcase for domination and an ecocidal machine. It has diversified in content, but in practice has been an enemy of the poor and the marginalized, the fired and the furloughed, the displaced and dispossessed, the detained and the deported, the dying and the dead.”
MoMA’s affiliations show that the museum is more closely aligned with billionaire warmongers than with working artists in New York City. Down with blood money in the arts! Down with Zionism in our institutions! Free Palestine.
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📍Sarah Lawrence College, NY
An autonomous group of students have started a Gaza Solidarity Occupation in Westlands calling on the college to disclose their financial investments and divest from zionism.
The solidarity protestors intend to remain inside Dar al-Fayoumi* until Sarah Lawrence's leadership:
🔸provides tangible evidence of communication with Commonfund and establishes an urgent timeline for disclosure
🔸pledges to protect Arab and Muslim students against harassment
🔸commits to amnesty for all those involved in the occupation
🔸takes concrete steps to expand student and faculty input into decisions that impact the entire campus.
Follow for more: www.instagram.com/slcdivest
An autonomous group of students have started a Gaza Solidarity Occupation in Westlands calling on the college to disclose their financial investments and divest from zionism.
The solidarity protestors intend to remain inside Dar al-Fayoumi* until Sarah Lawrence's leadership:
🔸provides tangible evidence of communication with Commonfund and establishes an urgent timeline for disclosure
🔸pledges to protect Arab and Muslim students against harassment
🔸commits to amnesty for all those involved in the occupation
🔸takes concrete steps to expand student and faculty input into decisions that impact the entire campus.
Follow for more: www.instagram.com/slcdivest
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📍 CUNY Law
Queens, NY —CUNY Law Students for Justice in Palestine renamed the the administrative floor of the law school building to "Fatima's Floor" to honor Nigerian-Palestinian political prisoner Fatima Bernawi freedom fighter, the first female political prisoner held in an Israeli jail, protesting CUNY's support of the Israeli regime and its repression of Pro-Palestinian voices, calling for CUNY to honor its legal obligation to disclose its multi-million dollar investments in companies that profit from Israeli occupation, apartheid, and genocide and to divest from those companies. CUNY has invested nearly 9 million dollars in companies that support Israeli apartheid, such as weapons manufacturers and targets of the "Boycott, Divest, Sanctions" (BDS) movement.
Read more about CUNY BDS here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CdllGLXhOyZoual4XGateS4oTa_yHorWXvDqvnJSZk8/edit
Queens, NY —CUNY Law Students for Justice in Palestine renamed the the administrative floor of the law school building to "Fatima's Floor" to honor Nigerian-Palestinian political prisoner Fatima Bernawi freedom fighter, the first female political prisoner held in an Israeli jail, protesting CUNY's support of the Israeli regime and its repression of Pro-Palestinian voices, calling for CUNY to honor its legal obligation to disclose its multi-million dollar investments in companies that profit from Israeli occupation, apartheid, and genocide and to divest from those companies. CUNY has invested nearly 9 million dollars in companies that support Israeli apartheid, such as weapons manufacturers and targets of the "Boycott, Divest, Sanctions" (BDS) movement.
Read more about CUNY BDS here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CdllGLXhOyZoual4XGateS4oTa_yHorWXvDqvnJSZk8/edit
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📍University of Rochester, NY
National SJP stands with students arrested at the University of Rochester. 🤝
Four students of color at the University of Rochester were arrested for exposing administrators’ and trustees’ ties to genocide and repression. In response, the University has deployed the full arsenal of the criminal legal system to punish them. During their overnight detention, the students endured racialized intimidation and were deliberately kept in the dark about their legal status and arraignment. With $7.8M in Israel-linked investments and study abroad programs at Zionist institutions, this crackdown is not an aberration, but a deliberate strategy to crush pro-Palestine advocacy. National SJP demands all charges be dropped— silencing dissent will not inhibit our pursuit of justice.
🔸Send a flash email using this template:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12jB8SIlDxMqcLkwMLKkhMiyoyCHtq6O7STX2nGjECxA/edit?usp=sharing
🔸 Donate for legal fees:
https://cash.app/$URSJP
https://venmo.com/u/URSJP
National SJP stands with students arrested at the University of Rochester. 🤝
Four students of color at the University of Rochester were arrested for exposing administrators’ and trustees’ ties to genocide and repression. In response, the University has deployed the full arsenal of the criminal legal system to punish them. During their overnight detention, the students endured racialized intimidation and were deliberately kept in the dark about their legal status and arraignment. With $7.8M in Israel-linked investments and study abroad programs at Zionist institutions, this crackdown is not an aberration, but a deliberate strategy to crush pro-Palestine advocacy. National SJP demands all charges be dropped— silencing dissent will not inhibit our pursuit of justice.
🔸Send a flash email using this template:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12jB8SIlDxMqcLkwMLKkhMiyoyCHtq6O7STX2nGjECxA/edit?usp=sharing
🔸 Donate for legal fees:
https://cash.app/$URSJP
https://venmo.com/u/URSJP
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