How #Columbia’s Leadership Refashioned the University in Trump’s Image

#ColumbiaUniversity President Claire Shipman said the school retained full independence, but it gave in to virtually all of #Trump's demands.

from #TheIntercept
Meghnad Bose, Anna Oakes
August 7 2025, 10:10 a.m.

https://theintercept.com/2025/08/07/columbia-gaza-student-protests-expulsions-trump/

#DefendFreeSpeech

#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine

#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine

this is a repost of https://sociale.network/@gubi/115003955787654526
with alt text added to the pic, plus 2 groups and some hashtags
#Alt4You

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If you want to protest in UK against a government that outlawed the pacifist organization "Palestine Action" with the anti-terrorism law, here is a plan for you:

1) Print the T-Shirt of the image below
2) Make a trip to UK
3) Wear the shirt at a public rally
4) Get unduly arrested under terrorism act for speaking the truth as nonviolent resistance against the authoritarian nature of regimes supporting ongoing genocide.

@palestine@lemmy.ml @gubi
#repression
#DefendFreeSpeech

#ProtestIsNotACrime
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine

@palestine@a.gup.pe

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with #Trump
Rashid Khalidi

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Fri 1 Aug 2025 06.00 EDT

Columbia’s capitulation has turned a #university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an-anti university, a gated security zone with electronic entry controls, a place of fear and loathing, where faculty and students are told from on high what they can teach and say, under penalty of severe sanctions. Disgracefully, all of this is being done to cover up one of the greatest crimes of this century, the ongoing genocide in #Gaza, a crime in which #Columbia’s leadership is now fully complicit.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/01/columbia-historian-rashid-khalidi-open-letter?CMP=share_btn_url

#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#StopTheDeportations
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Israel #Palestine #DefendAcademicFreedom
#news #press @palestine

Prominent historian cancels course at Columbia University over Trump deal

#RashidKhalidi, in open letter published by #Guardian, accuses university of ‘capitulating’ with $200m settlement

from #TheGuardian
Dani Anguiano
Fri 1 Aug 2025 06.00 EDT

“Although I have retired, I was scheduled to teach a large lecture course on this topic in the fall as a “special lecturer” but I cannot do so under the conditions #Columbia has accepted by capitulating to the #Trump administration in June,” Khalidi wrote.

Columbia announced last week that it would pay more than $200m in a settlement with the federal government after the White House claimed the university failed to adequately address alleged antisemitism on campus amid protests over the #Israel-#Gaza war, and threatened to pull significant funding.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/01/columbia-historian-rashid-khalidi-trump?CMP=share_btn_url

@palestine
#DefendFreeSpeech

#ProtestIsNotACrime
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine

#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
#news #press

Trump Deploys #Marines to a “Manufactured Crisis,” Defense Official Says

A defense official told The Intercept that #Trump's move to use Marines to stifle anti-#ICE protests in #LosAngeles is a “provocation.”

from #TheIntercept
Nick Turse
June 9 2025, 8:26 p.m.

https://theintercept.com/2025/06/09/la-ice-protests-national-guard-marines-trump/

#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#immigration
#StopTheDeportations
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
#news #press

Millions across US turn out for ‘No Kings’ protests against Donald Trump

Protesters demonstrate at about 2,000 sites nationwide on day US president holds military parade in Washington

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Rachel Leingang in Minneapolis, Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles and Melissa Hellmann in Philadelphia
Sat 14 Jun 2025 18.45 EDT

"“No Kings organizers estimated the day’s events have so far drawn millions of people, with some hundreds still under way in all 50 states and to some cities abroad. These included over 200,000 in New York and over 100,000 in Philadelphia, plus some small towns with sizable crowds for their populations, including the town of Pentwater, Michigan, which saw 400 people join the protest in their 800-person town, the No Kings coalition said.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/14/no-kings-protests-trump-military-parade?CMP=share_btn_url

#NoKingsProtest #NoKings #DefendRuleOfLaw #DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime #StopTheDeportations
USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press

#ICE Says It Has No Immediate Plans to Release #MahmoudKhalil

A federal judge ruled this week that the government cannot hold the #ColumbiaUniversity graduate under the rarely invoked law it used to detain him.

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
By Jonah E. Bromwich
June 13, 2025, 11:04 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/nyregion/mahmoud-khalil-trump-detention.html

https://archive.ph/o4Lvd

#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#repression
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine

Mainstream media: Trump deploys Marines to LA to frontline of protests

Mastodon: protesters deploy mariachi bands to frontline of protests.

Trump 0, protesters 1

#ProtestIsNotACrime

“When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not ill-treat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God."
— Leviticus 19.33-34

Pew pew.

#LA #Andor #CriminalisationOfDissent #protest #ProtestIsNotACrime #authoritarianism #Trump #PoliceState #ACAB #Leviticus #graffiti

Protesters are probably doing net bemefit to the economy through the police overtime pay.
#losangeles
#losangelsprotest
#ProtestIsNotACrime

Live footage of an officer being injured during the #LAProtests
#losangeles
#ProtestIsNotACrime

Maybe someone needs to bring the LAPD a Pepsi?

#LAProtests
#losangeles
#ProtestIsNotACrime

Oh damn, easily 10k people outside the fed building in #losangeles
More streaming in

#ProtestIsNotACrime

Shit is about to hit the fan, LAPD has setup a kettle #losangeles
#ProtestIsNotACrime

#losangeles umbrellas are very useful, not just for rain or sun. They are effective defenses against fascists and any reasonable person could not call them a weapon.

Also, you can liberate traffic cones as effective tools to manage CS gas.

#ProtestIsNotACrime

And the police escalated against the protesters in LA outside the federal building just now

#losangeles
#ProtestIsNotACrime

University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student #Gaza protesters

Revealed: security trailing students on and off campus as video shows investigator faking disability when confronted

Tom Perkins
Fri 6 Jun 2025 06.00 EDT

"The #UniversityOfMichigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-#Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations, #theGuardian has learned.

The surveillance appears to largely be an intimidation tactic, five students who have been followed, recorded or eavesdropped on said. The undercover investigators have cursed at students, threatened them and in one case drove a car at a student who had to jump out of the way, according to student accounts and video footage shared with the #Guardian."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/michigan-university-gaza-surveillance?CMP=share_btn_url

#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#Israel #Palestine
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
#news #press @palestine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL34WpoETds

#WIRED #IncognitoMode

How Governments Spy on #Protesters --And How to Avoid It

#ProtestIsNOTACrime #Tech #Spyware #TechSurveillance #GovernmentSurveillance

#DontGetTracked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXYrfjP6G4Q

🚨 🚨 #ALERT 🚨 🚨 #ACAB #NYC #NEWYORKCITY

#STATUSCOUPNEWS #PeterAlexander

#NYPD 🐷 Police ATTACK Pro-PalestinianProtesters at #ColumbiaUniversity GRADUATION

#ColumbiaUniveristyGraduation

#NewYorkCity #NY

#ProtestIsNOTACrime

#FreePalestineNOW 🇵🇸

#ViolencesPolicieres #FascistUSA

Judge says US effort to deport Mahmoud Khalil on foreign policy grounds is likely unconstitutional

from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 6:58 PM EDT, May 28, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge said the #Trump administration’s effort to deport #MahmoudKhalil because of his pro-#Palestinian activism at #ColumbiaUniversity likely violates the #Constitution.

In a lengthy order issued Wednesday, Judge Michael Farbiarz wrote the government’s primary justification for removing Khalil — that his beliefs may pose a threat to U.S. foreign policy — could open the door to vague and arbitrary enforcement.

https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-doj-dhs-columbia-university-f802564cf42c31b11fec99730d53ee5b?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#ReturnKilmarAlbertoGarcia
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
#news #press @palestine