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New York University bans pro-Palestinian faculty and students The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) in New York and New Jersey condemns the police-state crackdown at New York University (NYU) directed against protesters opposed to the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza. We demand that the university’s bans on pro-Palestinian faculty and students be lifted immediately....
Posted: Sat, Dec 14, 2024 3:04am PST
Report a Hostile Campus CAIR has launched a site where students can report campuses targeting them for expressing anti-genocide views. No one should face retaliation for standing up for justice and human rights....
Posted: Wed, Dec 11, 2024 10:21pm PST
Wartime economy v. public education: Harris promotes school-to-military industry pipeline No matter which of the two big-business candidates for US president takes office, Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, the frontal assault on the social right to high-quality public education will escalate....
Posted: Fri, Nov 1, 2024 8:00pm PDT
Rights Groups Demand End to 'Heavy-Handed' Crackdowns on Pro-Palestine Campus Protests The judge's decision is "a major win for anti-genocide protestors across the country," said the Council for Islamic American Relations (CAIR), which is representing plaintiffs in Texas.
"The court's ruling confirms what we already knew," said Gadeir Abbas, a national deputy litigation director at CAIR. "The government cannot make special rules insulating Israel from criticism, and pretending those rules are about antisemitism does not save them from constitutional scrutiny."...
Posted: Fri, Nov 1, 2024 5:37am PDT
Protest against removal of pro-Palestinian teacher shuts down Philly school board meeting Several dozen parents and students staged a protest at a Philadelphia School District board of education meeting Thursday in defense of a teacher who had recently been terminated for her outspoken views on the Israeli government’s genocide of the Palestinians. The protest temporarily shut down the board’s proceedings, forcing it to reconvene in a remote location....
Posted: Tue, Oct 29, 2024 6:38am PDT
Under the lying claim of combating antisemitism, Newsom further assaults protest rights Earlier this month, California governor and national Democratic Party standard bearer Gavin Newsom signed into law four bills further clamping down on the free speech rights of anti-genocide protesters....
Posted: Wed, Oct 23, 2024 4:20pm PDT
Universities Raze Jewish Students' Gaza Solidarity Sukkahs To honor the Sukkot holiday, students from Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and other Jewish-led organizations constructed Gaza solidarity sukkahs on campuses including Northwestern University; University of Chicago; Brown University; Columbia University; University of Washington; University of California, Berkeley; Stanford University; Yale University; University of North Carolina; University of California, Los Angeles; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rutgers University; University of Cal...
Posted: Wed, Oct 23, 2024 7:23am PDT
[Claremont Colleges] Students take over Carnegie Hall, rename it Refaat Alareer University Report on student solidarity action via Instagram....
Posted: Wed, Oct 16, 2024 10:56pm PDT
Using Research to Uncover Campus Complicity in Israeli Genocide in Palestine Across the US, students organizing against Israel’s assault on Gaza have made essential use of power research, uncovering financial ties between the Pentagon and campus labs and mapping out connections between university trustees and the war machine....
Posted: Sun, Sep 29, 2024 7:05pm PDT
Meet the First [Non-Palestinian] Tenured Professor to Be Fired for Pro-Palestine Speech Maura Finkelstein was terminated by Muhlenberg College for an Instagram repost....
Posted: Sat, Sep 28, 2024 5:52pm PDT
Legislators Should Vote No on SB1277 The parent of two young Jewish children urges legislators to vote no on SB1277, which legislates a biased, pro-Israel version of genocide education....
Posted: Sat, Aug 24, 2024 4:59pm PDT
retaliation arson attack on construction site at university of kkkalifornia berkeley phase two of the #Escalate movement heats up at u.c. berkeley with a construction site set on fire in broad daylight. this was done in retaliation for u.c.pd's violent assaults on vulnerable student demonstrators and to punish the university of kkkalifornia system for supporting the genocidal zionist-Israel entity. this was an autonomous initiative in concert with the current WEEK OF ACTION currently underway: operation campus flood....
Posted: Sun, Jun 16, 2024 3:45pm PDT
Operation Campus Flood: A Call for a Week of Autonomous Action No more gradualism in the face of a genocide. A new phase of the the #Escalate movement on college campuses has begun. With Berkeley lighting the way. We are calling this OPERATION CAMPUS FLOOD. And it is an open invite for all who are sick of it all to join in displacing the displacers. From the outside in and the inside out, we need to raze the settler-empire academy that provides training, labor, capital, and a steady stream of propaganda and knowledge production for the Israel-Zionist ent...
Posted: Thu, Jun 13, 2024 10:21am PDT
UCLA Students Were Attacked Last Night So We Retaliated With a Firebomb on UCB Campus UCLA STUDENTS WERE ATTACKED LAST NIGHT SO WE RETALIATED WITH A FIREBOMB ON UCB CAMPUS...
Posted: Thu, Jun 13, 2024 6:17am PDT
Hard Times Ahead for UC Davis Facilities Management UC Davis Toilets Clogged with Cement in Solidarity with Palestinian Liberation Movements...
Posted: Tue, May 28, 2024 5:18pm PDT
How Religious Fundamentalism Hijacks the Brain In moderation, religious and spiritual practices can be great for a person’s life and mental well-being. But religious fundamentalism—which refers to the belief in the absolute authority of a religious text or leaders—is almost never good for an individual. This is because fundamentalism discourages any logical reasoning or scientific evidence that challenges its scripture making it maladaptive....
Posted: Sun, May 26, 2024 11:49am PDT
CFA Members File Unfair Practice Charge Over Cal Poly Humboldt’s Campus Closure May 9, 2024 - This week, CFA members filed an Unfair Practice Charge with California’s Public Employer Employee Relations Board (PERB) over Cal Poly Humboldt administration’s decision to close the campus for the remainder of the spring semester. Management took the extraordinary step of closing down the campus last month in response to students protesting the war in Gaza when other campuses around the country have remained open despite fairly large actions and police responses. At Cal Poly Hu...
Posted: Wed, May 15, 2024 6:14am PDT
CUCFA Statement On Campus Protests May 7, 2024 - The Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) denounces the growing number of attempts to intimidate, repress, and criminalize campus protests of Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza that is supported economically and politically by the United States....
Posted: Tue, May 14, 2024 11:41pm PDT
When Students Are a Shock to the System War Culture Hates the Ethical Passion of the Young. Appearing in TomDispatch...
Posted: Thu, May 9, 2024 12:05pm PDT
SDS Humboldt Statement on the End of the Occupation of Siemens Hall It may be the end of the occupation, but we’re only just getting started...
Posted: Sun, May 5, 2024 9:46am PDT