Coral reefs and marine life are not going to like this.

This book is a mic drop. Out this summer via Verso Books.

My AJ+ footage of the Gaza encampment at the University of Tokyo aired on Al Jazeera. Have a watch!
youtube.com/watch?v=6_L9_J…

Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt and Hanin Siam talk about organizing for Palestine in Japan on the latest episode of CounterPunch Radio and much more. Not to be missed! counterpunch.org/2024/05/09/reb…

Campus protest crackdowns claim to be about antisemitism – but they’re part of a rightwing plan

Our editor-in-chief Arielle Angel in Guardian US:
theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

Do correct me if wrong, but I haven’t seen this story get picked up by the The New York Times all day. May be relevant to the debates of the day!

At UCLA now: 800 faculty and staff deliver letter today calling for resignation of UCLA Chancellor Block, dropped charges and legal amnesty, and divestment from military weapons companies

Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt and Hanin Siam talk about organizing for Palestine in Japan on the latest episode of CounterPunch Radio and much more. Not to be missed! counterpunch.org/2024/05/09/reb…

Vermont is poised to pass a groundbreaking measure forcing major polluting companies to help pay for damages caused by the climate crisis, in a move being closely watched by other states including New York and California. theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

One more thing about the late, great Steve Albini. Here's a video of him apologizing for his fascist haircut. That is all.

this is extraordinary. Must watch interview.

Some might say this doesn't matter. It matters. Perhaps not for Palestinians in the immediate sense, but it does politically, and it's proof Biden is feeling the heat from the growing protest movement. theguardian.com/world/article/…

This is the first time I can remember seeing a statement like this as part of something broader

Only 38% of Jewish Israelis polled in April believe Israel can win the war in Gaza, compared with 74% in October when the war started, a huge drop. You can imagine how Israel's adversaries see the situation as well.

Meanwhile the New Yorker: 'Words are the real weapons of mass destruction'

RIP Steve Albini—an unparalleled producer and an exceptional writer. His 1993 essay 'The Problem with Music' is the most clear-eyed examination of money in the arts that I have ever read. Every artist in every discipline should read it. thebaffler.com/salvos/the-pro…

NSJP has received reports that Cal State Sacramento has won full divestment, set to officially start on 5/24

- no direct, indirect, or auxiliary investments that support any genocide, ethnic cleansing or human rights violations
- divestments will be disclosed on the CSUS website

Despite attempts to paint pro-Palestine student protesters as anti-semitic, violent or unserious, Deepa Kumar says protests draw from a long history of Palestine and international solidarity based in principles of equality for both Palestinians and Israelis.

My colleague in Rafah said today that she woke her 6-month-old baby up in the middle of the night to play. With the heavy bombardment, she thought it would be their last night alive: 'If this would be my last night at least I got the chance to hug my daughter for the last time.'

The pro-Palestine student who was deliberately hit by a car was just arrested; she is currently handcuffed to her hospital bed.