Lmst

#PDX #Portland #oregon #pnw #portlandstateuniversity #PSU #bigotry #MAGA #fascism #Genocide https://convo.casa/@b/114445620011419686

The #FarRight Group Building a List of Pro-Palestine Activists to Deport

#BetarUS said it has shared with the Trump administration a list of the “names of hundreds of terror supporters.”

"This conflation of speech critical to #Israel with #antisemitism or support of Hamas will do little to protect Jews in the United States from hate, said #JonahRubin, with #JewishVoiceForPeace, a progressive #JewishAmerican group that advocates for #Palestinian #HumanRights."

Jonah Valdez
February 6 2025

"The premise behind Trump’s more recent order is rooted in #ProjectEsther: a treatise by the authors of #Project2025. The document was billed as 'a blueprint to counter antisemitism' and offered strategies to target and silence critics of Israel, including deportation. A fact sheet about the executive order related by the Trump administration mirrored language from Project Esther and laid bare the order’s intent to 'cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses,' vowing to deport 'all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests.'

"Such ideas are increasingly gaining purchase in conservative discourse. Pledges to deport supporters of Palestinian rights were a key part of the Republican Party’s platform. A congressional bill introduced last May called for similar measures.

"#Academia is a key focus of Project Esther and Trump’s executive orders. While the most recent order instructs all agencies within the executive branch to take part in the crackdown, it encourages #surveillance in specific areas, such as #universities and even K-12 schools, where administrators are being told to monitor and report #InternationalStudents for possible deportation.

"On Monday, the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights launched investigations into five schools — #ColumbiaUniversity; #UCLABerkley; #NorthwesternUniversity; #UniversityOfMinnesota, Twin Cities; and #PortlandStateUniversity — for #antisemitism, the first use of the executive order.

"'Americans and college students that visit the United States should be able to protest the #Israeli government’s human rights violations in the same way that the United United Nations, the International Criminal Court [#ICC], #AmnestyInternational, #HumanRightsWatch, and other respected institutions have for the past several years, without fear of retaliation,' said Robert McCaw, a leader with the Council on American-Islamic Relations who heads the government affairs department. He decried the order’s fact sheet of peddling anti-Muslim terms such as 'pro-Jihad.'"

"Trump’s efforts have inspired a grassroots campaign to identify possible targets for deportation. On #SocialMedia, groups such as #MothersAgainstCollegeAntisemitism and the #ChicagoJewishAlliance have shared links to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement tip line and called on people to report 'foreign students and faculty who support Hamas' and 'students on visas who are suspected of engaging in pro-terror activities,' respectively."

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/fCZve
#McCarthyism #HumanRightsAreNeverWrong #DontSnitch #ICE #ICERaids #ICEArrests #Deportation #CollegeStudents #FreeSpeech #Censorship #Fascism #AuthoritarianRule #authoritarianism #USPol

Portland State President Speech Disrupted

https://kolektiva.media/videos/watch/1eb60680-6e2d-46a6-aeee-98faa5267686

PPB at PSU

https://kolektiva.media/videos/watch/c0a1cf4f-956e-40d4-baec-1287f5466441

critical support to #portlandstateuniversity protesters who are being brutalized by #PPB pigs AS WE SPEAK #bds #freepalestine #PSU

WE WILL KEEP US SAFE

#Portland #Oregon #FreePalestine #FuckBoeing #PortlandStateUniversity #PSU #FuckThePolice

Made it to a good sized rally at #portlandstateuniversity where they're holding down a growing encampment at the library. Lots of watermelon and water jug themed art. Probably 200-300 people total. Hail you students!!!

#BDS #FreePalestine

A rally in front of the library at Portland State University, probably 200-300 people total

Front facade of the library which consists entirely of windows, vandalized/spray painted with pro-Palestine phrases. In the breezeway below, activists have formed a barricade with wood planks and tarps.

Closeup of library window spray-painted in red with "FUCK YOUR HOMEWORK - PEOPLE ARE DYING" and an anarchist A symbol inside a heart.

Another part of the barricade consisting of wood planks and orange safety netting, with flags and protest signs attached including one that says "NO FACE PHOTOS". A couple of the famous water jugs are hoisted up above as symbols of solidarity

from #CommonDreams
#PortlandStateUniversity Pauses Ties With #Boeing as Campus Protests Spread

#AmnestyInternational has documented several cases in which Israeli forces used Boeing-made weaponry to commit atrocities in Gaza.

#DefendStudentProtesters #SolidarityWithPalestine #Gaza #Palestine #StopGazaGenocide #FreePalestine #CeasefireNow #Portland #EndUSAidToIsrael #PalestinianLivesMatter #EndTheOccupation #Israel #StopArmingIsrael
#news #press @palestine @israel

https://www.commondreams.org/news/boeing-portland-state-university

for once I feel proud to be a #PortlandStateUniversity #alumni #FreePalestine #FuckBoeing #Oregon #Portland

In response to pro-Palestine protests, Portland State University freezes ties with Boeing

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/education/psu-portland-state-university-boeing-israel-palestine-protest/283-040775fd-1aa5-4692-b7b2-6605deb1fb88

> #PortlandStateUniversity President Ann Cudd said the school will pause seeking or accepting further gifts or grants from #Boeing pending "debate."

#Palestine
#PDX

An Oregon university said Friday it is pausing seeking or accepting further gifts or grants from Boeing Co. after students and faculty demanded that the school sever ties with the aerospace company because of its weapons manufacturing divisions and its connections to Israel amid the war in Gaza.

Portland State University President Ann Cudd said the school acted in response to “the passion with which these demands are being repeatedly expressed” by members of the university community.

The move isn't permanent, Cudd said in a message to the community. The pause will be in effect until the school has had a chance to “engage in this debate and come to conclusions about a reasonable course of action."

The university plans to hold a moderated forum with students and faculty next month where concerns can be debated. Cudd said she would participate.

Students had a list of 13 demands including cutting ties with Boeing

This week in #PortlandStateUniversity's TREC Transportation Seminars: #Transportation Planning in an Aging Society

Free & open to the public, in person or online via #Zoom

Topic: "By 2030, all #BabyBoomers (those born between 1946 and 1964) will be 65 and older in the U.S. However, the understanding of how Baby Boomers travel differently from the previous generations, and the opportunities and challenges of older people's travel, do not keep pace"

https://trec.pdx.edu/events/professional-development/psu-transportation-seminar-10132023

#LegendsOfGeology

The #ColumbiaRiverBasalt Group (#CRB) forms a dominant feature across the #PNW.

Dr. Marvin Beeson who taught and conducted research at #PortlandStateUniversity set the stage for understanding the CRB through his pioneering application of geochemistry to understand the evolution, structure, and extent of the CRB.

His research, and that of his many graduate students, led to many important, fundamental breakthroughs in understanding the geology of the CRB and the geologic history of NW #Oregon. He was widely considered the foremost expert on the #geology of the Basalts and was widely sought as a geologic consultant by U.S. Geological Survey, state agencies, municipalities, and private sector companies.

In honor of Dr. Beeson, his many colleagues at the #USGS and OR Water Resources this web page was dedicated to publishing his work.

https://or.water.usgs.gov/projs_dir/crbg/sources.html

Vintage Nick Zentner gives a quick tour of the CRB and why it is uniquely impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UBFSXu9UHY

Dr. Marvin Beeson (right) and Dr. Jonathan Elliott Allen of Portland State University gaze to the right of the frame while conducting a lecture in the field on the Columbia River Basalt.

Black and white photo shows the two geologists in front of a blurred outcrop, with Dr. Beeson holding a rock hammer in right hand and a rock hand specimen in left.

Picture circa early 1970s.

What to do about #COVID? The #Delphi methodology was invented at #RAND corporation by a group that included Hal #Linstone, who BTW was one of the founders of the #SystemsScience program at #PortlandStateUniversity, where I got my degree. It's a way to get a group of experts to come to a consensus. Here's an article on the recommendations resulting from a Delphi study of possible responses to the COVID pandemic.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05398-2