#campus-protests

#campus-protests

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday it is investigating how UC Berkeley prepared for a Turning Point USA event Monday night that sparked intense protests on campus. In two letters posted on X and addressed to university officials, the department's Civil Rights Division requested campus communication records related to how the university prepared security for the event and responded to the protests.

Heads up: We sometimes link to sites that limit access to non-subscribers. UCPD officers in riot gear cleared pro-Palestinian protesters wearing face masks as they held a teach-in at the Doe Library. (Daily Cal) Joshua Block, a TikTok star with over 4 million followers, got in a fight outside a Southside sports bar after going on a rant against immigrants. (Daily Cal, TMZ)

Over the weekend, thousands of people across the country participated in "No Kings" rallies, protesting what they perceive to be President Donald Trump's abuse of executive power. That included many Towson University students, who had originally planned to hold the protest on the Maryland campus. But when university administrators began asking for the names and addresses of speakers, organizers moved the rally off campus to avoid "[putting] them in harm's way," one organizer told the Banner.

One fall morning in 1985 the prominent Palestinian activist arrived to work at the Santa Ana office of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. When he opened the civil rights group's door, a rigged pipe bomb went off, mortally wounding him. "How can I forget that horrible day?" said Michel Shehadeh, whoreplaced Odeh as the West Coast regional director of the organization, which formed in 1980 to combat anti-Arab stereotypes in U.S. media.

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian students had arranged themselves in the grass in front of Harvard Business School, pretending to be dead. An Israeli American student appeared, holding a camera phone. It was two weeks after Hamas' attack on Israel, and tensions were high. The student with the camera was quickly surrounded. Protesters blocked his lens with scarves, yelling, "Shame." They formed a scrum and forced him to exit the area.

Universities in the UK reassured arms companies they would monitor students' chat groups and social media accounts after firms raised concerns about campus protests, according to internal emails. One university said it would conduct active monitoring of social media for any evidence of plans to demonstrate against Rolls-Royce at a careers fair. A second appeared to agree to a request from Raytheon UK, the British wing of a major US defence contractor, to monitor university chat groups before a campus visit.

Rather, the intent of the Secretaries was more invidious-to target a few for speaking out and then use the full rigor of the Immigration and Nationality Act (in ways it had never been used before) to have them publicly deported with the goal of tamping down pro-Palestinian student protests and terrorizing similarly situated non-citizen (and other) pro-Palestinians into silence because their views were unwelcome.

We will transform this space into a base for struggle, collective education, and resistance against the institutions that fund, legitimize, and profit from genocide,

Former Columbia University president Minouche Shafik has been appointed chief economic adviser to British prime minister Keir Starmer, the Associated Press reported. An economist by training, Shafik served as president of the London School of Economics before she was tapped to lead Columbia in 2023. She also previously held leadership positions at the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the Bank of England.