For those of you working on random selection as an alternative for elections, consider sending an abstract to the Sortition & Socialism online conference. I will give a keynote speech. 31 August.

“Since 9/11, the U.S. has spent $8 trillion on war. In 2020, for the first time, federal funding to Lockheed Martin surpassed that of the U.S. Department of Education, the federal agency tasked with dispensing scholarships and Pell grants.”

BREAKING: Harvard has started sending out suspension notices to student protestors. Suspensions are effective immediately. Students are now at risk of degree withholding, eviction, food insecurity, and deportation. Details to follow.

Truly shocked by events in Germany.
Police shut down protests at Berlin universities, faculty sign letter on right to assembly, then the defense of right to assembly (!) gets twisted as endorsement of antisemitic violence by a member of gov't, then names/photos printed in tabloid

New School faculty are protesting side-by-side with students, literally putting their bodies in front of a police van to block the arrest of a student. Proud of @claraemattei & others young radical professors standing their ground. Great reporting by Amy Goodman.

I wrote for the London Review of Books about crackdowns on student protest, universities, open letters, and free speech.

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Our camp has been dismantled by police in riot gear, in the rain, beginning before dawn. 33 arrests, at least 3 students sent to the hospital. Penn has revealed the hollowness of its commitments to free speech, rights of assembly, open expression, and due process.

Hillary Clinton is a war criminal. Shame on Columbia University for paying her to teach students about geopolitics and how to bomb and murder.

BREAKING: MIT students and grad workers have maintained an hours-long picket despite brutal arrests at the university building that houses an $11 million Israeli drone project.

BT speaks with the president of the MIT grad student union.

“But in a response to her visa application, the Home Office told Ashkar that it had been denied on the grounds that granting it would 'harm the public interest', without giving any further reasons or explanation.”
As arbitrary as it gets, a violation of the right to free speech.

This is a really good book, especially if you're wondering why very unpopular measures often succeed and popular ones often fail in Western 'democracies' and if anything can be done about it.

Israel invading forces are removing Palestinian families at gunpoint in the middle of the night, then destroying the homes in Hebron in the occupied West Bank…

Netanyahu has ordered the demolition of over 3,500 Palestinian homes that will be used for settlements…

We are…

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now at the NSSR: first Faculty Encampment for Gaza of the Nation

A comprehensive little video showing the unbelievable violence unleashed by the UvA Amsterdam board on their own students.

“Art in its purest form is resistance”

This is an amazing speech. Macklemore is a free man.

BREAKING: Another mass grave has been discovered in the courtyard of Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza, containing the bodies of dozens of Palestinians, including doctors, nurses, women, children, and patients.

Here's what you need to know.

Several hundred students set up a non-violent anti-war protest camp at Freie Universität today. The police cleared the camp within hours — like this. The FU administration at the scene did not negotiate with the protesters. They refused to comment.