The Varsity Op-ed: Now is the time to strike the U of T’s protest guidelines --
U of T’s protest guidelines are an attack on freedom of expression

https://thevarsity.ca/2026/03/08/op-ed-now-is-the-time-to-strike-the-u-of-ts-protest-guidelines/

#UofT #PalestineException #ClimateEmergency #CampusProtest

“…now any effort to revive free speech at the academy is starting from a hole, six feet under. It can be saved, but it requires a lot of planning, much time and effort, and one thing in particular: Courage.”

From Will Bunch

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/free-speech-american-universities-20250518.html

#FreeSpeech #campusprotest #highered #highereducation

Free speech is dead at the American university. Here’s who killed it.

Today's U.S. university is overpoliced, with students and profs afraid to speak their mind and punished if they do.

The Philadelphia Inquirer
Class Of 2025

A cartoon for May 18, 2025

Crooks and Liars
Over 35 protesters gather on South Oval Tuesday to oppose Turning Point USA presentation by Riley Gaines

Over 35 protesters gathered on the South Oval Tuesday evening in response to an Ohio State Turning Point USA event featuring Riley Gaines — a prominent former collegiate swimmer known for advocating against transgender women’s participation in women’s sports. The protest, which included Ohio State students and community members, began at 6 p.m., an hour […]

The Lantern
Over 35 protestors gather on South Oval Tuesday to oppose Turning Point USA presentation by Riley Gaines

Over 35 protesters gathered on the South Oval Tuesday evening in response to an Ohio State Turning Point USA event featuring Riley Gaines — a prominent former collegiate swimmer known for advocating against transgender women’s participation in women’s sports. The protest, which included Ohio State students and community members, began at 6 p.m., an hour […]

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"[Robert Cohen, NYU history and social studies prof] wrote:“college administrations in the Vietnam era used police force as a last resort in the face of major campus disruptions, this past semester administrators used police as a first resort to suppress student protests even when those protesters — encamped outdoors on campus plazas or lawns — did not commit major disruptions of the university & its educational functions.”

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/berkeley-60th-anniversary-campus-free-speech-20240926.html?id=bUz6ALuskmlak&utm_source=social&utm_campaign=gift_link&utm_medium=referral

#Berkeley
#FreeSpeechMovement
#CampusProtest

60 years after the day college students won free speech, their rights are vanishing

It's hard to celebrate the anniversary of 1964's Berkeley Free Speech Movement when students are losing their right to protest.

The Philadelphia Inquirer
Letter from the editor: Ohio State needs to be more transparent about its space standards

As student-led demonstrations surge on college campuses across the country, nationwide controversy regarding free speech has sparked. The discourse largely surrounds the limits on students’ abilities to exercise their First Amendment rights compared to the powers universities possess to enforce campus safety and security — and Ohio State is no exception. Though the university’s space […]

The Lantern
On the 11th of July, at 5am we were made to leave our protest camp, under threat of forcible removal from a pack of bailiffs who had arrived, outnumbering the student protesters who had been sleeping. https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/08/29/birmingham-uni-bosses-preferred-court-to-dialogue-with-solidarity-camp/ #campusProtest #anarchism #palestine #gaza #ukpol #birmingham
Birmingham Uni bosses preferred court to dialogue with solidarity camp - Freedom News

In our third article from Palestine solidarity campers, the the Student and Staff Encampment Coalition write about their two months at the Univerity of Birmingham campus.  Other articles in this series: On the 11th of July, at 5am we were evicted from our encampment on the University of Birmingham (UoB) campus. We were made to

Freedom News
Not only did it not acknowledge its students' deaths, Nottingham university was the first campus in the UK to take legal action against Gaza protesters https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/08/22/palestine-campus-protests-rhetoric-and-reality/ #gaza #campusProtest #nottingham #anarchism
Nottingham university ignored alumni killed in Gaza - Freedom News

Produced by a general assembly of people involved with a solidarity camp at Nottingham University, the following article considers how their aims evolved, and uni bosses reacted, over the course of the occupation. The Nottingham Camp for the Liberation of Palestine set up an encampment on Jubilee Campus after the University of Nottingham consistently ignored

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