"Let them pray!"

A circulating video of students at Ohio State University preventing police from arresting another group of protesters, who were praying.

🚨 NYPD on scene at NYU already preparing for another riot, 3 days after they brutally arrested 150 students and faculty! If you can, get to 181 Mercer to support these brave students!🚨

🚨 Numbers needed at FIT People's Museum for Gaza at 227 West 27th NOW 🚨

Security has locked campers inside, so people can exit but can’t enter again. People needed to picket outside ASAP!

Email FIT administration to unlock the Museum doors: https://tr.ee/P7ddKM3p9w

🇵🇸 DAILY DISPATCH (4/26/2024) 🇵🇸

The martyred poet Refaat Alreer’s daughter Shaima, her husband, and their newborn baby were killed in an Israeli airstrike today. Even as we mourn three more martyrs, Refaat and his family live.

Students across the world have set up people’s libraries — all named in honor of Refaat — along with efficient supply distribution systems, teach-ins, cross-faith religious gatherings, and community agreements.

Meanwhile, at Ohio State and Indiana University, snipers took to the rooftops and aimed at students sitting in the college green. NYPD riot cops threatened more arrests as NYU students rebuilt their encampment anew, while pigs assaulted protesters at Arizona State mere hours after setting up their tents.

Contrary to dishonest media narratives, the popular universities are spaces where we fight for a free Palestine while communing to envision a world free of need, greed, and war. Organized de-escalators demonstrate that public safety is born out of community, not the baton and the bullet. Encampments are not spaces separated between “peaceful students” and “outside agitators.” Especially at public universities like CUNY and Cal-Poly Humboldt, organizers have explicitly rejected the division of their communities, inviting children, tenants, and workers to join in the making of revolution. Today, the students at Cal Poly-Humboldt continued to lead the way as they occupied a second building after renaming Seimens Hall “Intifada Hall.”

While we plant the seeds of the new world, our enemies, their empire of lies and oppression crumbling underneath their jackboots, prove that they are only capable of speaking through violence. We echo the 8 year old girl who got on the megaphone at CUNY yesterday and bellowed: “To all the cops listening… we ain’t scared of you!”

We are in a historic moment. They are afraid of our power, our refusal, and our commitment to Palestinian liberation. Act accordingly, and remember what we are fighting for.

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It is 5 AM at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and over a dozen state and city police vehicles and police with riot gear have showed up in preparation to attempt to dismantle the encampment which began four days ago.

Student occupiers have been preparing for an anticipated raid since last night. Trucks were observed, and a raid is expected soon. As the sun begins to rise, the students have broken out into pro-Palestinian chants.

Students are livestreaming the developing events here.
Follow updates on Telegram here.

It is estimated over 100 students have been arrested. Paddywagons have been seen leaving campus via Leon and Forsyth Streets. Stay alert for ways to help arrested students

GOOD MORNING. We held it down for another cold cold night. But we are fine and we are safe- unlike our siblings in Gaza who are facing Israel’s US-backed genocide and eight decades of colonial occupation. We hold it down for them. We won’t rest until UConn divests and refuses complicity in Israel’s slaughter. For now, campers, drink some water, eat some food, and review our camp norms and safety guidelines above. We stay smart, focused, and determined in the fight for a free Palestine, from the river to the sea.

“In defending himself against charges of disloyalty under the Espionage Act for giving an anti-war speech, Debs says ‘While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.’ Here, Debs espouses the fundamental principle of solidarity, that an injury to one is an injury to all — and that when people are hurting, it becomes a moral imperative for us all to contribute what we can to their liberation.”

- Nick Wilson on his suspension from Cornell

Read the full statement here: https://cornellsun.com/2024/04/27/wilson-i-was-just-suspended-by-cornell-university-heres-what-i-have-to-say/

📍Cornell

A statement from Momodou Taal, one of the three students suspended from Cornell for participating in the encampment there:

Myself and 3 other students were informed today that we are temporarily suspended. Cornell deliberately targeted students in precarious positions such as visa status and those who live on campus which means their housing and access to fund is now at jeopardy. This means now that we are no longer permitted on campus. This decision comes after one day of an encampment in which students, grad workers and faculty have decided that we refuse to remain silent and cower in fear whilst our school remains complicit in Israel’s genocidal campaign against the Palestinians.

Cornell’s administration has refused to even meet to discuss the demands presented by the students and have decided to retroactively apply temporary suspensions as a means of leverage against the students in the hope that the encampment is brought to an end. This shameful move comes at a time where fellow students have constantly harassed and called the police on us as a means of intimidating students who are pro-Palestinian.

Now, I understand people want to make this about freedom of speech or about individuals, but I want to recommit myself to Palestinian liberation and refuse any attempt from Cornell’s administration to distract from the genocide in Gaza. Their attempts at silencing us comes from a position of weakness. Their repression only generates more resistance. These actions will only bring us nearer to a free Palestine. From the river to sea, Palestine will be free.