At City College: "We don't trust the chancellor, but ... [they said] that they will not sweep the camp tonight. Which pretty much means that we fought off the cops." "This is a numbers game. We need people overnight. We need people. ... We have hand warmers, we have food."

When Israel assassinated Ghassan Kanafani for being an eloquent spokesperson for the Palestinian cause, they also killed his 17yo niece. They really are out to exterminate the poets and intellectuals for generations.

Mayor Wu was confronted today and all she had to say was that students should have removed tents at Emerson which was a “fire hazard” and that she will allow protests that stay within the city ordinance - including the one she pushed for that bans houseless people’s survival.

While the media ignores them, students at community colleges ARE protesting genocide too. They have far fewer material resources to leverage but are just as important. I’ll flag them in this 🧵 as I learn about their efforts. #GazaSolidarityEncampment #CeasfireNOW

CUNY Encampment Day 3, we’re not going anywhere

Please sign this petition for Immediate Protection for Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, the Palestinian scholar who was detained and interrogated recently by Israel. This is an official letter/petition that was crafted with her legal team. scholarsagainstwar.org/actions/immedi…

I would like to repeat that I gave a workshop to about a dozen families with kids 10 and under, like three hours ago. CCNY encampment was absurdly safe. Then police barricaded everyone inside and pepper sprayed them

URGENT CALL TO ACTION: ALL OUT TO CCNY! NYPD SRG unit is on site and has just entered campus right next to the encampment. More cops arriving by the minute. We need numbers to defend the encampment NOW!

At CUNY. This is fascism btw.

The reporting from WKCR-FM NY is stunning. Students journalist doing war zone-like reporting from their own campus. It’s a heartbreaking listen, but also inspiring because they are pros who are holding back no punches about the gravity of the moment.

If you're available this morning and not headed to jail support for CUNY and Columbia people, turn out to Fordham's Lincoln Center campus to support New York City's newest Gaza Solidarity Encampment

New York City says it can’t afford to keep its libraries open on the weekends but it can afford to spend literally millions in one night in cop overtime pay to beat the shit out of undergrads sitting still on their own campus. That should infuriate everyone except fascist idiots.

Tents are up at Rutgers-Newark encampment! From the river to the sea, and on to New Jersey, Palestine will be free!

Boston DSA BUGWU member condemns the attacks on students at Columbia, CUNY, NYU, and Emerson. Shame on admin who sick police on peaceful students!

As CCNY students face felony burglary charges, we call on the PSC, CUNY's union, to push for all charges to be dropped; the PSC must also endorse the CUNY GAZA Solidarity Encampment's five demands––starting with divestment. You can pressure the union here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

The 46 protesters arrested inside a Columbia University building were charged with trespassing, a Class B misdemeanor. The 22 protesters arrested inside a City College building were charged with 3rd-degree burglary, a Class D felony. cityandstateny.com/policy/2024/05…

Can confirm from court support details. Columbia got charges lowered, released fairly quickly. CCNY arrestees were stuck in the backlog, charges not lowered, last releases weren’t until around 5pm today following legal threat.

Facebook has just removed the information for our yearly held Hrant Dink Memorial Lecture. The algorithms probably put a ban on anything related to Palestine. Alternatively it is the work of some racist who can't bear Hrant Dink's memory. Please circulate this year's Lecture:

This is old info, but worth re-highlighting: CUNY has signed an up-to $4m contract with a private security firm, which says it will combat Gaza solidarity demonstations' "non-permissive asymmetrical guerrilla warfare tactics" (???). The firm brags about training in Israel.

Every now and then, one gets to chat with a friend about their book, after having watched them work through it for years, as I did with aslı zengin (GENDER STUDIES @Rutgers) on Violent Intimacies (Duke University Press). Check it out on New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social) NB Anthropology 📚: newbooksnetwork.com/violent-intima…