Wild that colleges are cool with the KKK and confederate flags on campus but not with students expressing solidarity with people experiencing a genocide, and that conservatives are constantly bemoaning their right to free speech when they are in fact the ones curtailing it for others.
I'm going to an action this week (I consider this the bare minimum). If you're an American academic I hope you are too.
Absolutely maddening that
a university with a 40 BILLION dollar endowment (oil money, I think) bends at the knee to an oppressive state government leaving dozens abruptly unemployed and hundreds of students with less support, while using the obfuscating language of "reorganization."
Like at this point if you are involved with an R1 school and you don't know of any political actions happening then you are too disconnected from the material realities of the minds you supposedly enrich.
Being unconcerned at this point is ivory tower-type behavior and that is not something to be proud of.
I also want to be clear, as a disabled person, that physically attending protests and rallies is not the only way you can help and in fact we require people who do other things!
You can be a sign-maker, a phone-banker, a ride-organizer, a mutual-aid facilitor, a meal-bringer, or something else entirely. There are so many ways to show up.
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