📰 Student files civil rights suit against U-M alleging retaliation for support of Palestinian rights — #MichiganPublic
❝Josiah Walker is one of the five students interviewed by The Guardian, who said they were followed, recorded and eavesdropped on by undercover investigators from City Shield, a Detroit-based security service.❞
It's particularly confusing that the #umich president claimed these were "remarks regarding the Israel-Palestine conflict that were hurtful and insensitive to many members of our community," which might make sense if this were a grade school graduation as small children should be sheltered from the horrors of was (in Gaza as well, I assume).
However, this was a college graduation and the remarks were intended to highlight the risky work students undertook to transform their community.
I for one appreciate how pro-Palestinian activists opened our hearts and eyes to the inhumanity of Israel's war in Gaza. I'm not sure what part of that #umich thinks it should be apologizing for.
It would clearly be against the university's mission to ignore a massive humanitarian catastrophy and the policies (American and Israeli) that enable it. Did I miss something? Can somebody explain this to me?
#Canvas has been hijacked.
Attackers broke into #Instructure's systems & demanded a ransom to keep them from locking down the popular #LMS. Supposedly, Instructure applied security patches instead, which were ineffective against these criminals. Then the #pirates locked down the system & demand a ransom to not publicly release all the Canvas user organizations' data and unlock the system. #UMich is only one of the orgs using Canvas. There are many others.
Video and transcription:
https://video.edu.nl/w/etcdhToJyQXR4VL9ddx21t
“Sing for Lawrence Levy, the first Jewish professor at the University of Michigan….”
“Sing for the students of the Black Action Movement,…”
“Sing for the pro-Palestinian student activists. This opened our hearts to the injustice and inhumanity of Israel’s war in Gaza.”
#DerekPeterson #universityofmichigan #umich #activism #graduation #palestine #genocide
“The greatness of this institution does not only rest on the shoulders and on the accomplishments of our student athletes, who deserve all the congratulations we can offer them,” Peterson said. “The greatness of this university rests also on the courage and the conviction of student activists who have pushed this university down the path towards justice.”
#DerekPeterson❤️
#universityofmichigan #umich
#activism #graduation #palestine #genocide
Now playing, an archival copy of the Voice of America's "Music Time in Africa" featuring King Sunny Ade from April 13, 1980
https://mtia.labs.si.umich.edu/broadcast/1980-04-13/
Many good years of listening here
https://mtia.labs.si.umich.edu
For background on this collection see
https://swling.com/blog/2020/12/the-music-time-in-africa-archive-at-the-university-of-michigan/
Shobita Parthasarathy: Well, they've finally struck home. #ICE has detained my former #umich student, Yousif Azizi, a PhD student in public policy at Virginia Tech w/a valid visa
He was arrested while taking his children to school in Maryland. After multiple transfers, he is in a detention center in Arizona
Yousof is a widely-quoted policy expert on US-Iran relations (his dissertation is on US foreign policy particularly related to Iran and nuclear power)
Yousof is a widely-quoted policy expert on US-Iran relations (his dissertation is on US foreign policy particularly related to Iran and nuclear power). It seems likely that this is one of the reasons he was picked up; in addition to his opposition of the current US-Iran war. https://www.linkedin.com/in/yousofazizi/
The #fourthReichUSA #tortured a chinese scientist to #death and the media calls it "hostile questioning"
#UMich investigating researcher’s death after alleged questioning
😱😓🤬
https://www.michigandaily.com/news/news-briefs/umich-investigating-engineering-researchers-death-after-alleged-questioning-by-u-s-government/
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