"In the span of a week, a hush has descended on higher #education in the United States.
International students and faculty have watched the growing crackdown on #pro-Palestinian protesters at #Columbia University with apprehension. Some say they are familiar with government #crackdowns but never expected them on American college campuses.
From Campus to the Courts, the “#PalestineException” Rules #University #Crackdowns
by Akela Lacy, Yazan Mohammad
November 18 2024, 2:04 p.m.
"With #Israel’s war on #Gaza entering its second year, Khalaf is among thousands of students and faculty members still being targeted in universities’ battles over harsh #ProtestCrackdowns, #FreeSpeech, academic independence, and discrimination.
"The fights are playing out online, in campus quads, internal disciplinary proceedings, and in the courts. Organizers among the students and faculty say universities are retaliating against them for their #activism and restricting their #CiviLiberties and #FreedomOfExpression while claiming to uphold both.
"As campus protests reached their height in May, Dahlia Saba, a second-year Palestinian American graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, wrote an op-ed supporting the demonstrators’ demands. She called on the school to address calls to #divest from industries that profit from Israel’s war. She and her co-author Vignesh Ramachandran, another graduate student, were met with student nonacademic disciplinary investigations that relied solely on the op-ed for evidence.
"'The university is threatening us with sanctions that could jeopardize our academic careers if we choose to speak out again,' Saba said. 'They’re low-level sanctions to begin with, but the university is pursuing sanctions against many people on very little evidence.'
"The issue is not so much the severity of the sanctions, Saba said, but using punishments to chill students’ speech. The disciplinary actions become a tool, she said, to help universities keep track of people involved in protests for #Palestine."
https://theintercept.com/2024/11/18/gaza-protest-campus-palestine-exception/
#FreePalestine #CeasefireNow #StopArmingIsrael #IsraeliWarCrimes
Steps For #Transgender #People Preparing For #Federal #Crackdowns Under #Fascist #Republican #PresidentElect #DonaldTrump.
I outline steps for preparing for these #challenges, sharing #stories from #trans people who are already #TakingAction.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/steps-for-transgender-people-preparing
How #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump Will attempt Mold #America “in the Image of a #Dictatorship”.
#Reproductiverights #crackdowns, #massdeportations, and a #fealty-based #federal #bureaucracy. The former president has disavowed #Project2025, but #VanityFair’s #MollyJongFast and #JeffSharlet say his #fingerprints are all over it.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/how-donald-trump-will-mold-america-in-the-image-of-a-dictatorship
"Thaksin, then #primeminister, quickly branded the robbers "small-time crooks", which can't have improved things. If he had been more prudent, the #KrueSe #mosque & #TakBai #massacres in April 2004 & October of the same year, in which 32 & 85 #Thai #Muslims died, respectively, might have played out differently or even been avoided. Although he did not directly gave orders for the #military #crackdowns in those cases, #Thaksin, as head of the #government, must bear some #responsibility" #Thailand
Too little, too late.
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"For the past few years, the #PrivateSector has been a target for high-profile #crackdowns by the Chinese Communist party (#CCP), worried that companies such as #Tencent and #Alibaba were enjoying too high a profile.
Now, it says it wants to make the atmosphere for #entrepreneurs 'bigger, better, and stronger' ."
#China’s race for growth is fading. So too is its dream of middle-class security | Rana Mitter | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/23/china-31-point-plan-for-economic-recovery-will-stumble
Universal Credit: Labour calls out the DWP over benefits and fraud
Hash tag list:
#UniversalCredit
#UC
#Benefits
#Fraud
#Labour
#RW
#RightWing
#Tories
#Ashworth
#DWP
#EconomicallyInactive
#Crackdowns
#StaffBonusesForSanctions
#Sanctions
#IFS
#WorkingClass
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2023/04/13/labour-is-buying-into-the-right-wing-narrative-around-universal-credit-claimants-whats-new/
