The Nation’s Conscience, Part II - Read by Eunice Wong
"The courageous stance of students across the country in defiance of genocide is accompanied by a near total blackout of their voices. Their words are the ones we most need to hear.
"The genocide has awakened a sleeping giant. Let us pray the giant prevails."
Walkout for Gaza at Harvard University's commencement ceremony
Students protested the Gaza genocide and the “unduly harsh punishment” of 13 students barred from receiving their diplomas due to their support for Palestinian rights.
More than 1,500 students had petitioned, & nearly 500 staff & faculty had spoken out against sanctioning the student protesters.
Walkout for Gaza at Harvard University's commencement ceremony
Students protested the Gaza genocide and the “unduly harsh punishment” of 13 students barred from receiving their diplomas due to their support for Palestinian rights.
More than 1,500 students had petitioned, & nearly 500 staff & faculty had spoken out against sanctioning the student protesters.
The Nation’s Conscience, Part II - Read by Eunice Wong
"The courageous stance of students across the country in defiance of genocide is accompanied by a near total blackout of their voices. Their words are the ones we most need to hear.
"The genocide has awakened a sleeping giant. Let us pray the giant prevails."
Police raided UMich Gaza Camp before UMich president is due to appear before Congress - alongside the presidents of UCLA & Yale.
The president claimed the peaceful action had become a threat to public safety, & "police raided the encampment, arresting & hospitalizing students after pepper-spraying & pushing them to the ground".
"The university has refused to discuss divestment with protesters."
I’ve never been accused of having a way with words. I have always been more drawn to math, hence economist.
That said, I gave a speech today asking our administration to drop charges related to the #StudentProtests that I am quite proud of.
I am sharing it here for anyone who would like to hear my perspective as a member of the faculty who has witnessed and been arrested alongside students at one of these protests you have heard so much about.
If anyone is in the Denver area tomorrow (Wednesday 5/22) and is interested in helping push the administration to drop charges against student protesters, I am speaking at a faculty press conference at noon and we would love the support!
Graduating Yale students stage walkout in solidarity with the Palestinian cause.
As President Peter Salovey began the traditional ceremony, around 150 students stood up, turned their backs, & exited through Phelps Gate, drawing cheers from peers.
Graduating Yale students stage walkout in solidarity with the Palestinian cause.
As President Peter Salovey began the traditional ceremony, around 150 students stood up, turned their backs, & exited through Phelps Gate, drawing cheers from peers.
Peter Beinart offers valuable analysis of the current student protest movement and how it illustrates "the way in which one protest movement feeds into another at a time of broader protest." The Civil Rights and anti-war demonstrations of the 1960s fed the subsequent activism for LGBTQ and women's rights. And the backdrop to the current campus protests is the BLM movement and its protests.
“White nationalists and neo-Nazis joined forces with Zionists (including some saying they were Israelis) to attack #UCLA’s #Palestine Solidarity Encampment, whose residents included a large number of Jewish students. The assailants were not affiliated with the university. One neo-Nazi was heard shouting, ‘we’re here to finish what Hitler started,’ without any apparent protest from the self-identified Zionists.” #studentprotests#freepalestine https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/uclas-unholy-alliance/
The police attacks on the #studentprotests, which #Biden went out of his way to endorse before the nation, are at least comparable to attacks on BLM protests under Trump.
This is the job’: How some college professors are supporting #studentprotests
The 19th spoke to several faculty who have intervened at #encampments, signed letters condemning administrators and participated in work stoppages in an effort to advocate for students.