William Lindsey Apr 25, 2024

"University administrators from Texas to California moved to clear protesters and prevent encampments from taking hold on their own campuses as they have at Columbia University, deploying police in tense new confrontations that already have led to dozens of arrests.

At the same time, new protests continued erupting in places like Pittsburgh and San Antonio."

~ NY Times

#StudentProtests #universities #FreeSpeech #Israel #Gaza #Palestinians
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/us/college-protests-spread-austin-dallas.html

Campus Protests Over Gaza Intensify Amid Pushback by Universities and Police

There were more than 120 new arrests as universities moved to prevent pro-Palestinian encampments from taking hold as they have at Columbia University.

The New York Times
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Apr 25, 2024

"This week may end up marking the moment when Republicans and the far-right hijacked the campus protest movement and tried to turn it into the same bogeyman they made of Black Lives Matters protests in 2020.

Radical lefties needing to be taken down by force plays to the right’s pre-existing authoritarian tendencies, and is a handy election-year cudgel for Republicans."

#StudentProtests #universities #FreeSpeech #Israel #Gaza #Palestinians
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https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/18-people-indicted-in-arizona-fake

18 People Indicted In Arizona Fake Electors Scheme

INSIDE: Mark Meadows ... Rudy G. ... Boris Epshteyn

Morning Memo
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Apr 25, 2024

"The protesters and many voters are upset about something more than a regular matter of foreign policy. Many believe that they are witnessing a genocide aided and abetted by an American president whom they supported. They feel personally implicated in a conflict in which the death toll continues to rise, with no end in sight. This is a moral issue for them, and their position won’t be easily altered."

~ Charles Blow

#StudentProtests #Israel #Palestinians #Biden
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/opinion/chicago-dnc-antiwar-protests.html

Opinion | The Ghost of the 1968 Antiwar Movement Has Returned

The suffering in the war in Gaza is unacceptable. Young people will make that point clear this summer in Chicago.

The New York Times
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Apr 25, 2024

"A group of students assembled on the University of Texas at Austin campus to call for an end to the war in Gaza. They did not engage in violence. They did not disrupt classes or occupy administrative buildings. They set up tents on a lawn. They were met with a militarized response, ordered by Governor Abbott, and supported by University administrators. Students and journalists were arrested."

~ Jay Janner

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https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/manufacturing-dissent

Manufacturing dissent

Turning campuses into theaters of disorder

Can We Still Govern?
Show threadWilliam Lindsey 

"Greg Abbott is one of many on the right that has bemoaned the death of free speech on campus. He signed a law to protect such speech in 2019. And then he calls for peaceful protestors to be arrested.

So how can Abbott justify such a reversal to his call for free speech? The protestors are anti-semitic, he says. Really? How does Abbott and the police wading through the crowd know the students are anti-semitic?"

#StudentProtests #universities #FreeSpeech #Israel #Gaza #Texas #GregAbbott
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