Palestine Solidarity

Meanwhile In Australia, Campus Protests Undisturbed

May 3, 2024 CN Live!, Consortium News. Resist! Australia, Campus Movement, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Student Activism

“Last week students in Australia established encampments at their universities in solidarity with Palestinians. These join the dozens of solidarity camps established across the US and elsewhere in recent weeks. Like their peers, Australian students are calling on their institutions to end relationships with weapons companies that are enabling Israeli war crimes, and urging our government to sanction Israel and cut military ties. The Jewish Council of Australia strongly rejects the claims that these protests are a threat to Jewish students and staff.

This May Day, Workers Mobilized For Palestine

May 3, 2024 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. Resist! Columbia University, International Peoples' Assembly (IPA), Israel, May Day, National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Student Activism, Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC)

On May Day, workers around the world mobilized for the liberation of Palestine. “This May Day, workers of the world are called to declare their solidarity with Palestine, to denounce the Israeli Genocide, and to call for an end to all aggressions in the region and to all wars,” wrote the International People’s Assembly. “Beyond the call for a ceasefire we must say no to the transportation of arms and arms caches to Israel. Workers in all industries – especially workers in the transport sector – that can withhold their labor in order to halt the continued slaughter of the people of Palestine are emphatically called to do so!”

Pro-Palestine Protest Camps Spread Worldwide

May 3, 2024 The Cradle. Resist! Australia, Campus Movement, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Police, Student Activism

Students at several universities in Australia have launched rallies to protest Israel’s campaign of genocide in Gaza, as the spread of the massive pro-Palestine protests sweeps across western nations. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators set up an encampment at the University of Sydney, the country’s largest, last week. Other encampments opposing the mass murder of Palestinians have since popped up on campuses in Melbourne, Canberra, and other cities in Australia. On Friday, students marched on the Sydney University campus to protest the Israeli offensive and demand that their institution divest from companies linked to Israel.

City University Of New York Workers Announce Wildcat Sickout

May 3, 2024 Left Voice. Resist! Campus Movement, CUNY, Israel, NYPD, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Police, Student Activism

In the evening of Tuesday, April 30, hundreds of New York Police Department (NYPD) officers from precincts all over New York City assembled in Harlem to raid both Columbia University and the City College of New York. The university presidents had invited the police force onto campus to forcibly remove the Gaza Solidarity Encampments at each school and the students at Columbia occupying “Hind’s Hall,” normally known as Hamilton Hall but renamed by student activists after a 6-year-old girl in Gaza who was killed by Israel tanks while surrounded by her dead family members in their car.

Hundreds Arrested In Gaza Solidarity Encampments In New York City

May 2, 2024 People's Dispatch. Resist! Campus Movement, Columbia University, Israel, New York (NY), New York City (NYC), Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Police, police brutality, Student Activism

Hundreds of students, professors, and community members were beaten and arrested by police officers on the night of April 30, 2024 in New York City. The crackdown and mass arrests at Columbia University and City College, ordered by university administrations, were carried out to clear and evict Gaza solidarity encampments which have been launched by students at dozens of campuses across the country in the last two weeks. Legal observers estimated that several hundred people were arrested in the coordinated crackdown in the city.

Loyola And Tulane Students Establish Popular University For Gaza

May 2, 2024 Fight Back News! Resist! Campus Movement, Israel, Louisiana, Loyola University, New Orleans, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Police, Student Activism, Tulane

New Orleans, LA – On Monday, April 29, around 5 p.m., Students for a Democratic Society at Loyola and Tulane universities held a joint rally and march which gathered over 300 people. Students, university staff and community allies marched on both Tulane and Loyola’s campuses. The protesters paused on a sidewalk in front of Tulane’s admissions building and Gibson Hall, the oldest structure. Suddenly, the students took to the lawn in front of the building to set up their camping site. The setup process was met with clashes with law enforcement.

Occupation At Johns Hopkins University Protests For Palestinians

May 1, 2024 Jaisal Noor, The Real News Network. Resist! Campus Movement, Israel, Johns Hopkins University, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Student Activism

Activists and organizers who set up an encampment at Johns Hopkins University said that school officials threatened to call the police on them if they didn’t leave last night. They said that school officials also threatened them with academic sanctions. “We have been clear that the consequences of violating our policies and creating unsafe conditions include academic discipline, which is determined by University officials, and trespass, which is handled by local law enforcement,” a representative for the school said in an email to Baltimore Beat. Organizers launched the encampment on Monday, April 29.

We Need To Strike For Palestine: Why UAW 4811 Matters

May 1, 2024 Mary Jirmanus Saba, Mondoweiss. Strategize! Israel, Labor Movement, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, United Auto Workers (UAW)

Workers across the U.S. labor movement, including the United Auto Workers (UAW), are mobilizing for Palestine. From the strong resolutions passed at Ford UAW Local 551 (representing workers at Ford’s Chicago Assembly Plant), to UAW 4811 at UC Berkeley’s resolution to commit union resources to make Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) a bargaining demand, to the historic vote from the UAW International Executive Board (IEB) last November to investigate the union’s ties to Israel’s apartheid regime, workers in the U.S. are advancing the demands of their Palestinian allies.

NYPD Storm ‘Hind’s Hall‘ In Violent Raid Of Columbia University

May 1, 2024 The Cradle. Resist! Campus Movement, Columbia University, Israel, New York City (NYC), NYPD, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Police, police brutality, Repression, Student Activism

Dozens of student protesters were cleared out from Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall building by New York police late on 30 April, after storming and occupying the building the night before as part of demonstrations in support of Palestine. Hundreds of police officers wearing helmets and carrying riot shields surrounded the building, with a number of policemen climbing into Hamilton Hall via a ramp extending from one of the police vehicles into a window of the building. Dozens of pro-Palestine students were detained and dragged away from the scene with their hands zip-tied behind their backs.

Penn For Palestine Encampment Still Going Strong

May 1, 2024 Betsey Piette, Workers' World. Resist! Campus Movement, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Student Activism

Joining around 80 college campuses across the United States, University of Pennsylvania students, faculty and staff established a Penn for Palestine encampment on the campus April 25 to demand: the administration disclose what companies they have invested billions of endowment funds in and that they divest from any that do business with Israel. Earlier in the day, demonstrators marched from Philadelphia City Hall, led by students from Temple University and activists with the Philadelphia Palestine Coalition to UPenn. En route to UPenn, several hundred people marched through Center City and received an overwhelmingly positive and supportive response from people along the route.

Humboldt Faculty Condemn Police Violence Against Students

April 28, 2024 Cal Poly Humboldt Faculty for Justice in Palestine, Mondoweiss. Resist! Campus Movement, Divestment, Faculty, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Student Activism

As faculty at Cal Poly Humboldt, we deplore the use of physical violence by university, local, and regional police officers and sheriffs and the deployment of other extreme tactics such as helicopters, to surveil students, escalate tensions, and criminalize free speech exercised by students calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. We also find unacceptable the attempt to shut down student voices by shutting down campus. We call on all CPH administrators to reflect on the real harm that this crackdown on free speech inflicts and the message it sends to current and future students, their parents, faculty, and staff, and our communities within and beyond Humboldt.

DC Police Refuse George Washington University Request To Arrest Students

April 27, 2024 Joe Lauria, Consortium News. Resist! Campus Movement, George Washington University, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Police, Student Activism, Washington D.C.

From the university’s perspective, it seemed like the perfect time for the police to move in and break up the students’ anti-genocide camp: 3 a.m. George Washington University had given the students until 7 p.m. on Thursday night to clear out. Instead more than a thousand students from other area universities and other supporters flooded the university yard, forming a circle around around the camp. As the time advanced beyond midnight the crowd dwindled, leaving the encampment less protected. It seemed logical that under the cover of darkness, with fewer media also present, the police would intervene, as they have on a growing number of campuses around the United States.

Students Stand With Palestine, Palestine Stands With Students

April 27, 2024 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. Resist! Campus Movement, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Police, police brutality, Repression, Student Activism

“We, the students of Gaza, salute the students of Columbia University, Yale University, New York University, Rutgers University, the University of Michigan, and dozens of universities across the United States who are rising up in solidarity with Gaza and to put an end to the Zionist-US genocide against our people in Gaza,” wrote the Student Frameworks Secretariat, composed of a variety of student organizations part of larger resistance groups and left parties—including but not limited to the Islamic Resistance Movement, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, Fatah, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Palestinian People’s Party.

Palestinian Youth, Students, And University Workers In Solidarity

April 27, 2024 Palestinian Educational Collective, Mondoweiss. Resist! Campus Movement, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Student Activism

We, a group of Palestinian youth, students, and university workers, stand shoulder to shoulder, in solidarity and pride, with our comrades who are protesting on university campuses across the United States, Europe, Egypt, Australia, and other parts of the world. We hear you, we appreciate your struggle, and together we will triumph against oppression. These protests mark a decisive turning point in the struggle for our collective liberation. Emerging from a long tradition of global struggles for the freedom of colonized and subjugated people, the ongoing protests mark the most significant moment in recent history.

Denver Police Department Brutalizes Student Encampment For Palestine

April 27, 2024 Fight Back News!. Resist! Campus Movement, Colorado, Denver, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Police, police brutality, Repression, Student Activism

Denver, CO – On Friday, April 26, the Denver Police Department (DPD) attacked an encampment for Palestine set up by Students for a Democratic Society. The encampment was set up on Thursday, April 25 as a part of the growing wave of student encampments across the country. The organizers are demanding their universities completely divest from Israel and corporations that are helping Israel carry out a genocide against the Palestinian people. Around noon, April 26, university officials called DPD, which then descended upon the encampment and started arresting protesters.

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