Secretly recorded video draws scrutiny to Ohio State’s DEI efforts under Senate Bill 1

A video released Wednesday by a conservative media organization suggests Ohio State is ignoring a state-imposed diversity, equity and inclusion ban, based on an interview of a single Ohio State employee.  Posted by Accuracy in Media, which conducts undercover interviews and investigations, also known as AIM, the video is meant to draw scrutiny of Ohio […]

The Lantern

"In Conversation with #MahmoudKhalil" live at Busboys and Poets - 450K. Khalil discusses his #activism, #immigrationDetentions, and the ongoing legal battle following a federal appeals court decision that overturned his release. Tune in for a timely conversation on protest, immigration, and free expression in the U.S.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2BgqnuFqx8
#Palestine #Gaza #USpol #USpolitics #PalestineSolidarity #studentProtests #stateRepression #ICE #ICEdetention #FreedomOfSpeech #freeSpeechOnCampus

In Conversation with Mahmoud Khalil

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Letter from the Editor: Stop censoring student media’s free speech

This past year, we have seen very concerning incidents on different college campuses where a student newspaper has had their free speech curtailed or outright violated.  In September 2024, Penn State University removed The Daily Collegian’s 35 newsstands and papers from on-campus locations without notifying the newspaper’s staff. The university said it was because of […]

The Lantern
A Professor Was Fired for Her Politics. Is That the Future of Academia?

Maura Finkelstein is one of many scholars discovering that the traditional protections of academic freedom are no longer holding.

The New York Times

"If history is any guide, rescuing the rights now being rolled back will require a range of tactics, including vigorous #protest itself. It will also require building broad and unwavering consensus about the speciousness of the rationales being offered for today’s draconian crackdowns."

Alex Gourevitch | The Right to Be Hostile

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-right-to-be-hostile/

#USpol #StudentProtests #FreeSpeechOnCampus #stateRepression #PalestineSolidarity #rightToProtest #civilLiberties #activism @palestine

"A year ago, the #ColumbiaPalestineEncampment sparked a national #studentMovement that eventually spread across the globe. As the #Trump administration wages war against university students and the institutions themselves, Francesco Anselmetti argues that in the US, the campus remains a crucial site in the struggle for #PalestinianLiberation."

https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/blogs/news/spring-again

#Palestine #Gaza #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #USpol #StudentProtests #StateRepression #FreeSpeechOnCampus @palestine

Spring Again

There’s hardly been a moment to breathe — let alone sit, take stock, commemorate. If April 17th marked one year since the largest anti-war protests in a generation, the picture now looks almost impossibly bleak. Flimsy and insincere as it may have been, it seemed natural at the start of this year to believe the ceasefi

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State of Emergency in US #HigherEd

Alan Wald of UMichigan's Faculty and Staff for Justice in #Palestine discusses the climate of #politicalRepression directed at #PalestineSolidarity work and the parallels with earlier periods including the McCarthy and Red Scare eras

https://marxedproject.org/event/state-of-emergency-in-us-higher-education/

#Gaza #GazaSolidarity #StudentProtests #FacultyProtests #USpol #USpolitics #stateRepression #FreeSpeechOnCampus #deportations #civilLiberties #civilRights #censorship #AcademicFreedom @palestine

State of Emergency in US Higher Education - Marxist Education Project

Alan Wald presents an overview of the state of emergency in higher education in the United States that recalls earlier eras of extreme political repression, such as McCarthyism in the 1950s. Students, faculty, and staff at US colleges and universities who stand up for Palestinian human rights and stopping the genocide in Gaza are being threatened with deportation and punished by the administrations.

Marxist Education Project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz_GaV6WD-E

#DaveNeal #RushHour

6.40min.mark: Trump still kvetching about #Greenland and locals have something to say about it #NoToColonisation

9.18 min. mark: #Canada 🇨🇦 basically said, fuck you. Bugger off USA #ElbowsUp

15.25min mark: #EduardoNunezGonsales (Cuba) doing the paperwork, etc 'doing it the right way', yet he was kidnapped.

16.44min mark: #RumeysaOzturk.
Dumb politicians kvetching about Hamas, but obviously there's no proof.

21.10 min mark: #YungseoChung sued U.S. govt and won. For now. #StopDeportations #FreeSpeech #FreeSpeechOnCampus #FuckMarcoRubio

Like the rest of us, #fascism pisses Dave off.

27.05 min mark: Neighbours with megaphones standing up against #ICE following #ICE around letting #immigrants know what their rights are. #AbolishICE

Where Is Blake Lively's MISSING REPORT From NY Times Article?! & Thanking YOU For Your Kindness

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"We have been saying for a year now that these charges of systemic antisemitism at #Columbia are obscuring real incidents of bias against both Jews and others, that they are part of a bad- faith right-wing attack on #higherEd, and that we are going to be powerless to defend ourselves against the #MAGA #Trump agenda. It turns out we were right.”

When They Came for #ColumbiaUniversity

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/trump-attacks-higher-education-columbia/

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When They Came for Columbia University

The university has become the Trump administration’s test case for the largest assault on higher education since the McCarthy era. Sadly, it has notably failed to defend itself.

The Nation