📍MIT

With support from large crowds of supporters, the Gaza solidarity encampment at MIT has been bravely re-constituted despite threats from administration and local police!

A BUILDING OCCUPATION HAS BEGUN AT RISD! INVITE YOUR COMRADES TO JOIN THIS TELEGRAM, AND TO PULL UP TO THE RALLY NOW!

A group of 24 including students and community members have renamed the building to Fathi Ghaben Place in honor of the revolutionary artist who was martyred in late February after being denied permission to travel for medical treatment abroad by the genocidal Israeli occupation. They will not leave until administration meets their demands for DISCLOSURE, DIVESTMENT, PRESIDENTIAL CONDEMNATION OF ISRAEL, and COMPLETE AMNESTY FOR ALL STUDENT PROTESTERS!

Show up and show out, call your friends, wear a mask, and support our movement for divestment!

📍New York City

Protesters continue to square off with police near the grotesque cesspool of American “culture” that is the Met Gala. At least a dozen violent arrests have reportedly been made by SRG, the famously brutal anti-riot police. While the the NYPD mobilizes in defense of celebrity excess and US media fawns over these symbols of a rotting society, Israel’s bombs reign down mercilessly on Rafah.

🇵🇸DISPATCH (5/6/2024)🇵🇸

The zionist invasion of Rafah has begun. Rafah, a refuge for more than 1 million displaced Palestinians, a maze of tents teeming with life — was subjected to brutal bombardment today as the IOF’s death tanks edge closer to the city’s densely populated areas.

To announce their invasion, the zionists littered Rafah with thousands of leaflets cynically demanding that refugees evacuate—but there is nowhere to go except the highways of death and hunger leading north or the shuttered Egyptian border to the south. Despite reports that Hamas is willing to accept a ceasefire deal, the zionist entity presses forward with its blood-soaked plot. Make no mistake: in their eyes, this is the final solution to the Palestine question. The zionist entity aims to wipe Gaza off the face of the earth.

We send our solidarity to the brave comrades in Palestine resisting this latest chapter of zionist aggression.

Here, nothing will suffice but escalation. Who are we to sit back and quibble while our Palestinian brothers and sisters resist slaughter? Palestinians in Gaza call for strikes, disruptions, blockades and action. By any means necessary is not a slogan. Our movement, reignited on campuses across the world, must spread to the streets. Even as the state continues to crack down on our protest, making dozens of fresh arrests in California and New York City in the past 24 hours, we are not cowed. State violence only demonstrates the just nature of our cause.

To put forth anything less than our maximum energy and effort is to abandon Palestine. Our responsibility is to follow in the footsteps of our comrades on the ground, and remain steadfast. Gaza will be free. Palestine will be free. The American empire and its satellite compradors will fall.

With grief in our hearts and grim determination in our minds, we say: onwards!

🚨Providence Police are pulling up to Fathi Ghaben Place NOW! Student and community occupiers are holding their ground on the inside against campus police-- **but we need everyone to SHOW UP ASAP and defend our comrades occupying the building!**🚨

📍University of Chicago

Organizers are asking for anyone able to show up and support the UChicago Gaza solidarity encampment in anticipation of a late night police raid.

‼️ EMERGENCY MARCH FOR RAFAH AT NOON ‼️

In solidarity with the Palestinian people, we will be meeting at the Liberated Zone today at noon before marching down Kirkwood. We encourage everyone to bring noise-makers with them (pots/pans/etc). We need the world to know what is happening in Rafah. No justice, no peace. We hope to see you there.

🗣️ TOMORROW: All Out for Rafah

🇵🇸 NYC all out for Rafah tomorrow May 7 at Union Square, 6PM 🇵🇸

https://www.instagram.com/p/C6pgQyDA0qm/

📍Berlin

Students at the Free University of Berlin started an encampment to extend their solidarity to the people in Palestine. The university administration quickly called the fascist german police to attack the protesters.

Video: www.instagram.com/reel/C6qugeON-GD/

Escalatenetwork: The RISD Gaza Solidarity occupation of the admin building, brought to you by trash artists. #Escalate4Gaza

📍Columbia University

This morning, at a protest of the Columbia Board of Trustees, a fascist member of the Kahanist movement drove his car into a protesting student. Other students were attacked by counter-protesters as well. The student hit by the car has been detained and is in the hospital, handcuffed to their bed.

📍UC Davis

Students at UC Davis have joined the many campus encampments around the world, demanding divestment and a total academic and cultural boycott of israel.