Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈

The #Fascist #Crackdown on #Campus #Protests Is Happening Everywhere

Across the #US, #students protesting the #Israeli #Genocide in #Palenstein have faced #repression, #suspension, and #arrest. We asked more than a dozen #students to share how their #schools have #restricted the #right to #protest.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #HigherEducation #MiddleEast #Israel #Gaza #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #EmptyThePews

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/gaza-solidarity-encampments-campus-crackdown-palestine/

The Crackdown on Campus Protests Is Happening Everywhere

Across the US, pro-Palestine students have faced repression, suspension, and arrest. We asked more than a dozen students to share how their schools have restricted the right to protest.

The Nation
Apr 26, 2024 at 4:27pmWeb
Show threadSusan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈Apr 26, 2024

A #dreadful #sense of #dejavu: #Gaza #protests look a lot like the ones during #Vietnam.

"Once again, #ThePowersThatBe are doing exactly the #wrong thing, having learned nothing from the #foolish, #authoritarian #Fascist #mistakes they made more than 50 years ago. "

— Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.

https://dailymontanan.com/2024/04/26/a-dreadful-sense-of-deja-vu-gaza-protests-look-a-lot-like-the-ones-during-vietnam/

A dreadful sense of deja vu: Gaza protests look a lot like the ones during Vietnam • Daily Montanan

The current protests popping up on campuses is reminiscent of the Vietnam War era, and columnist George Ochenski said it appears we've learned nothing.

Daily Montanan
Show threadSusan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈Apr 26, 2024

#Poisoning the #American Mind: #StudentProtests in the New #Age of #McCarthyism.

We live in an age of increased #disasters and encroaching #fascism.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/26/poisoning-of-the-american-mind-student-protests-in-the-age-of-the-new-mccarthyism/

Poisoning the American Mind: Student Protests in the Age of the New McCarthyism

No longer considered a public good where ideas and important social issues are nurtured, debated. and interrogated, institutions of higher education are being transformed into indoctrination centers where critical ideas and imagined futures are held in contempt, transformed into apparatuses of censorship and hopelessness. Derided as a haven for critically informed social criticism, the far-right wants to reduce teaching and learning to what might be called cloning pedagogies, designed to clone culture, knowledge, ideas, and extremist world views.

CounterPunch.org
Show threadSusan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈Apr 26, 2024

The Years #1968 And #2024: Will #History #Repeat Itself?

Once again, we are looking toward a #DemocraticConvention in #Chicago in August as well as an #election in #November that will be close.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/26/the-years-1968-and-2024-will-history-repeat-itself/

The Years 1968 And 2024: Will History Repeat Itself?

In the summer of 1968, I was assigned to the Central Intelligence Agency’s task force on the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.  The task force met around the clock in the CIA operations center, which was outfitted with myriad television screens.  Most of these screens were showing the Soviet invasion.  But several screens were devoted to the violence and mayhem on the streets of Chicago, where Mayor Richard Daley’s police force was pummeling young people holding a protest rally against the Vietnam War.  The chaos and the violence, which a federal commission labeled a “police riot,” played a key role in Richard Nixon’s narrow defeat of Hubert Humphrey in the election several months later.

CounterPunch.org
Show threadJeanPDelietApr 26, 2024
@Susan_Larson_TN rather out of touch…solipsistic… eliminating the humanities/social sciences requirement from the curriculum beginning 40 years ago is showing…Vietnam protests were not performative and participants were very informed … now the entitled & the pampered are clueless about the stakes