Police snipers made an appearance today atop the Indiana Memorial Union on Indiana University's campus.
Students on IU's campus have setup a Liberation Zone protest and demand their university divest from Israel inline with BDS. They also make specific mention of a local miltary partnership with Crane Naval Base which has a key roll in supplying large munitions to Israel.
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Beat cops are on the ground in IU in a very sparse formation armed with chemical weapons and 40-mm launchers.
A SWAT team mills about with what appear to be AR-15s and wear basaltic armor.
Hundreds of students are facing off with cops chanting "Free Palestine" while hundreds more students look on.
A seen repeated at colleges across the nation played out on IU's Dunn Meadow this afternoon.
Cops eventually just barged into students and began arresting them at random while swinging around AR-15s.
IU students request help calling on their administration to drop charges on student protesters.
At least 22 students and 2 faculty members were arrested.
Earlier this week the student protester's faculty advisor (yes, they even had a faculty advisor) was suspended from their job.
Meanwhile the Indiana JVP also has a request for help up. They ask for folks to call the jail and the prosecutor to demand the charges be dropped against recent arrestees at Palestine protests.
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Important to note, before to cop riot on the Indiana University campus the protest was peaceful and notably unobtrusive.
📸 Braydyn Lents - IU Journalism Major Class of '24
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This morning at Indiana University in Bloomington faculty members who were arrested yesterday held a rally.
They expect to be fired today but say they did the right thing.
Here's Associate Dean for Graduate Education Elizabeth Dunn's remarks.
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I love these comments from IU Professor Barbara Dennis. It shows that these protesters have broad community support.
When it's your hometown friends, neighbors, teachers and babies you played with when they were kids getting brutalized by police for little to no reason how long are you going to stay home?
This is exactly the type of grassroots movements that needed to stop this genocide and its only getting stronger.
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Bodycam footage of arrests at the IU Palestine protests have been released earlier this week. It depicts cops planning to target a Black organizer whose charges were later dismissed.
but there is no place in America for political violence 🧐
@nullagent Built into power structures and the capitalization of society are contradictions that undermine those structures.
Power never realizes they lost their power until it's completely lost. In the meantime, Power exists in a constant state of paranoia that acts in ways that also undermines its own integrity.
it's being undermined every single moment its oppression reverberates through society.
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