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Unfurling Love from the Window
On April 30, when Columbia University student protesters took over Hamilton Hall, they renamed it “Hind’s Hall,” dropping a large banner out the windows above the building’s entrance. This was a hall...
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12 Arrested Outside NYC’s New School as First Faculty-Led Gaza Solidarity...
The first faculty-led Gaza solidarity encampment in the United States was launched Wednesday at The New School in New York City, where nearly two dozen professors and lecturers pitched tents inside the...
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University Leaders Are in the Wrong. Students and Faculty Won’t Back Down.
The student encampment movement is expanding as faculty find new ways to intensify participation and solidarity. Teachers across the country are providing an example of how the wider community...
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What Happens When Universities Engage, Rather than Arrest, Gaza Protesters?
What if universities negotiated with students engaged in Gaza solidarity protests, instead of calling the police to violently arrest them? A mass movement opposing Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza has...
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Union Power Can Change Campus Protests Forever
Strikes are different from protests. Though protesters frequently say that they are making “demands,” it is more accurate to say they are making requests. Protests rely on persuasion. Their persuasion...
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Reflections on Student Activism
I’ve spent most of my life as an advocate for a more peaceful world. In recent years, I’ve been focused on promoting diplomacy over war and exposing the role of giant weapons companies like Lockheed...
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Columbia-Affiliated Union Theological Seminary Votes to Divest from Israel’s...
As student protests around the world call for their educational institutions to divest from companies with ties to Israel, we speak to the Reverend Dr. Serene Jones, the president of Union Theological...
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Carrying on Kent State’s Legacy of Antiwar Organizing, Students Press for...
If you grew up in Ohio, one of the first things that comes to mind when you hear “Kent State” is the saying “Kent Read, Kent Write, Kent State.” If you grew up outside of Ohio, the first thing you...
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US Undergrads Are Getting an Extracurricular Crash Course in Labor Organizing
When Grinnell College wanted to begin compensating community advisors (CA), who work to provide students living in residence halls with programming and support for personal and academic issues, on an...
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Welcome to the Hedge-Fund Driven Neoliberal University
There can be little doubt that neoliberalism has undermined, if not crippled, the notion of higher education as a democratic public sphere—a protective and courageous space where students can speak,...
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Education in Gaza Has Been Decimated, but the Spirit of Refaat Alareer Will...
Palestinians have always been proud to have one of the lowest illiteracy rates in the world. Many Palestinian refugees, who lost their homes in the Nakba and Naksa, believe that investment in...
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MIT’s Orwellian Language Masks Its Stance On Gaza Protests
Iwrite this essay while thinking of my dear friend and colleague Noam Chomsky who deeply understands the importance of truth, courage, language and linguistics for decolonisation, liberation, peace and...
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Repress U., Class of 2024
The academic year that just ended left America’s college campuses in quite a state: with snipers on the rooftops and checkpoints at the gates; quads overrun by riot squads, state troopers, and federal...
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Building Communal Education in Oaxaca
The Autonomous Communal University of Oaxaca (UACO) is a grassroots initiative that aims to change how public education works in Mexico. The idea of launching a communitarian university became reality...
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Police Are Sending Student Protesters to the ER. Campus Cops Don’t Keep Us Safe.
Police on the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill campus have been out in force in recent days to shut down pro-Palestinian protests and punish students and faculty for participation in...
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Book Bans Don’t Protect Kids, They Harm Us
Dear Manatee Readers, “Did you know that your School District of Manatee County has banned 44 books including I am Jazz by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jenings, according to Pen America? We think this is...
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University of California Union’s Gaza Solidarity Strike Spreads Across Campuses
A strike is underway within the University of California (UC) system — with UCLA, UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz all now participating — as unionized graduate student workers take collective action to...
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The Next Front in Palestine Solidarity: Worker Strikes
This spring’s university encampment protests represented a welcome step up in the Palestine solidarity movement. Now, as students leave campus for the summer, their activism is spawning a further...
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‘What Are They Afraid Of?’: Columbia Law Review Board Shuts Down Website Over...
The Columbia Law Review‘s board of directors temporarily shut down the prestigious legal journal’s website on Monday following its publication of an article arguing for the establishment of the...
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