Trump, at a rally in Waukesha, #Wisconsin, called for tougher action against campus protests & again suggested some of the protesters were paid actors. He called on college presidents to “remove the encampments immediately, vanquish the locals & take back our campuses for all of the normal students.”
For now, #Biden is taking a hands-off posture toward the unrest & has no plans to step up his involvement in escalating clashes between #police & #protesters, WH & campaign advisers said, even as #Trump looks to capitalize on the issue.
Like the #protesters, Biden believes that #Israel has inflicted too much carnage in #Gaza. Unlike some of them, he defends Israel’s sovereignty & recoils at the notion of Jews losing a homeland.
Dozens of protesters took over a building at Columbia University in New York early Tuesday, barricading the entrances and unfurling a Palestinian flag out of a window in the latest escalation of demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war that have spread to college campuses nationwide.
...peaceful #demonstrations through the June 1 end of spring classes and in exchange, requires removal of all tents except one for aid, and restricts the demonstration area to allow only students, faculty and staff unless the university approves otherwise.
At the University of Southern California [#USC], organizers of a large encampment sat down with university President Carol Folt for about 90 minutes on...
" #ErnestMoret, foreign rights manager for Éditions la Fabrique, was detained at #StPancras station in April 23 on his way to the London book fair.
He was held under section 7 of the #TerrorismAct 2000, and questioned by counter-terrorist officers about whether he had taken part in anti-government #demonstrations in #France and if he backed #EmmanuelMacron."
The Guardian today has a photo of tents on the steps of UC Berkeley's Sproul Hall, the admin building. I spent a night in such a tent in 1985, as part of an anti-apartheid protest. That protest now has a lengthy Web page praising it on the official UC site, because the whole movement achieved its goals.
Ironically, today's protest could equally well have taken place in 1985, also.
@plragde It's wonderful that the apartheid regime in South Africa fell. In retrospect, do you think that protests at Columbia University in 1985 had any significant role in that fall?
"At this fair, instead of pony rides, games of chance and fried food, visitors took electric bicycles and scooters for a spin, watched cooking #demonstrations on #InductionStoves, and learned about other ways to make their homes and lives more climate-friendly."
My town has one every year: it's a party. People bring their EVs (two and four wheeled) for show and tell. Vendors have a showcase. There's food and music, and lots of people.
Today in Labor History March 30, 1930: Hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers demonstrated in thirty cities. 35,000 marched in New York City and were violently assaulted by the police. At the time, there was virtually no formal aid available for the unemployed or poor. The ruling elite feared that workers would choose the dole over work if given the choice. So, they opposed unemployment insurance. Even the AFL opposed unemployment insurance because it saw itself as the representative of skilled workers only. It didn’t care about unskilled factory workers. The demonstrations were organized by the Communist Party, with the goal of overthrowing capitalism.