Both #faculty and #encampment members took issue with how the president directed blame for those incidents, with the former saying it could hinder meaningful dialogue and the latter saying they’re being #scapegoated.
The faculty group on Friday said they’re around the encampment almost 24/7 and they’re concerned the information coming the #university “does not align with what most of us have seen first hand at the encampment.”
Utrecht University’s board has promised to “reasses” its ties to the Zionist Entity. We recognise this message for what it is: a tactic to placate the masses, keep us silent while the death toll rises to over 45,000 people in Gaza.
We have stated our demands time and time again. However, the university remains insistent on being complicit to genocide and would rather call the riot police on its own students and staff, rather than stand on the right side of history.
Come and join us in demanding an end to our University’s ties to apartheid and genocide. Bring whatever resources you can, as much food and supplies as possible, and join us in the streets as we take back our university.
🇵🇸 In our thousands, in our millions, we are ALL Palestinians. 🇵🇸'
Ondertussen wordt Janskerkhof 15 ontruimd, nadat genocide-wegkijker Anton Pijpers (voorzitter van het College van Bestuur van de UU) eerder op de avond langs was geweest voor zijn neoliberale borrelpraat. De studenten (en docenten) pikken het niet meer! En terecht! :solidarity: 🍉
'For the third time, Utrecht University has chosen to send in riot police against its own students and staff rather than sever ties with an apartheid state.'
About 20%.
"UC investments in entities with ties to weapons makers, #Israel, #Blackrock, #Blackstone and 24 other companies targeted by divestment proponents amount to about $32 billion of #UC's $175 billion...
"A review of CalMatters video from inside the encampment documented at least 25 instances in which those officers appeared to aim their weapons at the eye level of protesters or fired them into crowds that didn’t appear to present an immediate threat to life or serious injury… Law enforcement officers across the state are trained that these types of munitions 'shall not be aimed at the head, neck or any other vital organs…'" https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/05/ucla-protest-palestine-police/
According to my information 4 out of 5 student encampments are allowed to stay the night! 🎉 Only Amsterdam was evicted, more about that later. Preview: outside agitators, not Antifa, escalated things. Probably same folks as earlier (nazi hooligans). 💤
« … we urge the University administration to grant complete amnesty to any students faculty staff and community members facing disciplinary action for engaging in peaceful protest… »
If you're a University of California worker who's a member of UAW 4811 (the new union composed of the former 2865, 5810, and SRU), check your email box for a link to a vote on strike authorization due to UC's unfair labor practices.
"I apologise that this is not a typical graduation speech, but there is nothing typical about the times that we are living in. There is nothing typical about 15,000 children's live-streamed deaths being watched."
#Students in the US are not just setting up #encampments to show solidarity with the #Palestinians but using their #graduation ceremonies to highlight the plight of the people of Palestine.
“…For students and faculty exercising their right to academic freedom including the freedom to protest? Or for those who require a militarized system of surveillance and policing in order to feel “comfortable” in maintaining a status quo that has continued for far too long?”