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Sona Jobarteh on Tour - Interview (audio/mpeg 85.9MB) Interview with activist / musician / educator Sona Jobarteh by John Malkin....
Posted: Fri, Mar 28, 2025 9:36am PDT
ICE Agents Abduct Tufts Ph.D. Student in Escalating Crackdown on Anti-Genocide Campus Protests 
March 27, 2025 - Plainclothes immigration agents have detained another international student without warning, Turkish national and Tufts University Ph.D. student Rumeysa Ozturk. Surveillance video shows six masked agents approaching her on the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts, near her home Tuesday evening. She was with friends, making her way to a meal to break her Ramadan fast....
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2025 11:30pm PDT
CAIR-NY Condemns Targeting of Yunseo Chung; Welcomes TRO from Federal Court 
March 26, 2025 - The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) today strongly condemned the ongoing efforts by federal immigration authorities to target Yunseo Chung, a Columbia University undergraduate student activist, for her involvement in pro-Palestinian demonstrations and welcomes the temporary restraining order from the Federal Court....
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2025 2:48pm PDT
Trump Sends Spooks for Genocide to Tufts 
Rumeysa Ozturk was within a few months of completing a PhD at Tufts University, when men in black abducted her because she co-authored this op-ed. Though ICE has been ordered by a court not to remove her from Boston, her whereabouts are currently unknown....
Posted: Wed, Mar 26, 2025 2:11pm PDT
A Letter From Palestinian Activist Mahmoud Khalil 
Earlier this month, recent graduate, activist, soon-to-be father, and legal permanent resident Mahmoud Khalil, was arrested and detained in direct retaliation for his advocacy for Palestinian rights at Columbia University. Later, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) transferred him to a Louisiana detention facility 1,400 miles away from his home and his family....
Posted: Mon, Mar 24, 2025 9:46am PDT
After Columbia Revokes Pro-Palestine Protesters' Degrees, Alumna Says to Burn Our Diplomas 
Academia, exemplified by Columbia University, has surrendered its proclaimed mission of intellectual independence and endeavor, and the academic pursuit of knowledge and social advancement....
Posted: Sun, Mar 16, 2025 6:11pm PDT
Jewish Americans and Allies Occupy Trump Tower Demanding Release of Mahmoud Khalil 
"We know what happens when an autocratic regime starts taking away our rights and scapegoating and we will not be silent."...
Posted: Thu, Mar 13, 2025 3:41pm PDT
NLG Condemns the Targeted Detention of Palestinian Student Organizer Mahmoud Khalil FULL TITLE: National Lawyers Guild Condemns the Targeted Detention of Palestinian Student Organizer Mahmoud Khalil and Reiterates its Call for โSanctuary Universitiesโ to Protect their Students and Workers from Escalating State Repression...
Posted: Thu, Mar 13, 2025 8:26am PDT
'Bring Him Home': Mahmoud Khalil's Wife Describes Nightmare Arrest, Demands Safe Return 
"Khalil's abduction, in its cruelty and unlawfulness, has horrified people around the country. Let us be clear: This is what fascism looks like, and it is part of a much broader campaign," said the director of Palestine Legal....
Posted: Wed, Mar 12, 2025 2:55pm PDT
Educators Attempt to Educate DOGE on Education 
WASHINGTON (03-11) โ One of the fundamental pillars of our free and democratic country is the right of every child to have a free public-school education. While this is not the case globally, it is a model of a modern progressive society in which todayโs world demands literate, educated and well-informed citizens and workers. That very notion of a free education is truly one envied by parents and children around the world....
Posted: Tue, Mar 11, 2025 5:35pm PDT
CAIR-CA Releases New Report Examining the Suppression of Studentsโ First Amendment Rights 
FULL TITLE: CAIR-CA Releases New Report Examining the Suppression of Studentsโ First Amendment Rights on College Campuses...
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2025 11:43am PDT
Demand the Immediate Release of Palestinian Student Activist Mahmoud Khalil from DHS Detention On the evening of March 8, 2025, Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil was detained by the Department of Homeland Security. The arrest comes on the heels of the Department of Stateโs announcement that it plans to deport students affiliated with pro-Palestine protests. The student, who is Palestinian, is a lawful permanent resident of the U.S....
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2025 11:32am PDT
Threats to Student Protest Are Antithetical to the Mission of Higher Education March 5, 2025 - AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement today....
Posted: Sat, Mar 8, 2025 9:54am PST
Trump Kills $400 Million for Columbia U because it didn't persecute anti-genociders enough 
Targeting 'Criticism of Israeli War Crimes,' Trump Kills $400 Million in Columbia University Contracts
"You can't appease the Zionists," said one critic. "Stop playing the gameโrefuse the terms."...
Posted: Fri, Mar 7, 2025 4:03pm PST
Solidarity Lessons: Western MA Stands With Smith College Students for Justice in Palestine 
We hope that communities and non-academic organizations across the country find ways to stand with all college and university students on the vanguard of the movement for a free Palestine and an end to the ongoing genocide.
President Willie-LeBreton: Rescind your draconian โExpressive Activityโ policy. Celebrate your anti-genocide students. Learn from their humanity. Protect them from external attack, arrest, deportation. We community members implore you: Wash clean your blood-soaked Ivory...
Posted: Thu, Mar 6, 2025 6:40am PST
Obeying Billionaires, Columbia University Expels Students for Anti-Genocide Activism 
Barnard college EXPELS two students for pro-Palestinian activism under pressure from billionaire donors...
Posted: Mon, Feb 24, 2025 9:14pm PST
Students protest at UCLA against the suspension of two pro-Palestinian clubs 
On February 18, over 100 students protested the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) administrationโs February 12 decision to suspend two pro-Palestinian clubs from campus, the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Graduate Students for Justice in Palestine (GSJP)....
Posted: Thu, Feb 20, 2025 1:29am PST
Fascist Donald Trump, GOP and Democrats All Murder 11-Year-Old Girl 
Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, an 11-year-old sixth grader in North Texas took her own life this month after being bullied for months at school over her familyโs immigration status. The fascist Trump administration and the Republican Party bear immediate responsibility for these deaths, but the rot goes much deeper.
Trumpโs policy would be impossible without the ongoing complicity of the Democrats and their role in promoting decades of promotion of anti-immigrant chauvinism. The Democrats voted ...
Posted: Thu, Feb 20, 2025 12:19am PST
Actions at Columbia University on Anniversary of Hindโs Death (video/mp4 6.4MB) Hind Rajab remembered, university in occupied Lenapehoking challenged. Attached video of disruptions is less than a minute long....
Posted: Thu, Jan 30, 2025 2:24pm PST
Trump's Executive Order Aims to Punish Protests of Israel's Genocide in Gaza Palestine Legal: Trump's Executive Order Aims to Punish Protests of Israel's Genocide in Gaza, Promotes Anti-Palestinian Discrimination...
Posted: Thu, Jan 30, 2025 1:59pm PST