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.

🚨 Full on police siege of IU Bloomington encampment, police in riot gear far outnumber protestors and advance on people standing together. Live feed ended just as they closed in and were dragging away tables and supplies. If you can, get down there and support your comrades now! 🚨

🚨 SWAT called on IU Bloomington encampment!! 🚨

🚨*ALL OUT TO CCNY* 🚨
We need numbers at the CCNY camp now. They’ve set up barriers at entrances and closed gates to campus. We need numbers in now before they close entrances/exits completely. Please spread the message to all networks and comrades

AT LEAST 22 ARRESTED AND BRUTALIZED BY MILITARIZED POLICE

📍McGill University

Montreal now has a Gaza Solidarity Encampent at McGill University‼️

https://x.com/McgillSphr/status/1784278896168284403

Mumia-abu Jamal calls into CUNY encampment last night from prison:
"Do not let go of this moment. Make it bigger, make it more massive, make more powerful. Make it echo up into the stars."

"Do not bow to those who want you to be silent. It is time, right now, this day, this month, this moment, to be heard. And shake the earth so that the people of Gaza, the people of Rafah, the people of the West Bank, the people of Palestine, can feel your solidarity with them."

📍MCGILL UNIVERSITY, MONTREAL

🚨HAPPENING NOW: McGill and Concordia University students is making history by setting up indefinite encampments on the lower field of McGill campus to protest their universities’ continued investment in the Zionist regime at a time of ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

This is coming at the heels of dozens of students across North America defying their academic institutions’ links to a genocidal regime despite increased repression on university campuses.

JOIN US NOW on McGill Campus downtown to stand in solidarity with the brave students!

📍University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne protesters have encircled police using reinforced banners & signs

https://x.com/readytoescalate/status/1784283020184240206?s=46&t=1x42-I-TbI9zDQtLWVsZUQ