🇵🇸THE MINNESOTA 9 ARE FREE🇵🇸
Thank you so much to everybody who showed up to support us today! The MN 9 are now banned from campus for a full year as well as charged w misdemeanors for “trespassing” on the campus we pay for
Next up, DROP THE CHARGES!
PROTESTING IS NOT A CRIME!
JOIN UMN STUDENTS ON THE MALL TO SUPPORT PALESTINE!!!
This morning at 4am, UMN Divest set up an encampment on Northrop Mall in solidarity with the people of Gaza and Palestine and to demand divestment from our university.
Check the replies for our demands and action items!
JOIN UMN STUDENTS ON THE MALL TO SUPPORT PALESTINE!!!
This morning at 4am, UMN Divest set up an encampment on Northrop Mall in solidarity with the people of Gaza and Palestine and to demand divestment from our university.
Check the replies for our demands and action items!
🇵🇸2024 UMN GRADS STAND WITH PALESTINE! DIVEST UMN NOW!🇵🇸
Part 1: Students at the CLA undergrad commencement ceremonies held banners calling for divestment and Palestine flags as they crossed the stage, receiving roaring applause from the audience
VICTORY FOR THE MINNESOTA 9‼️‼️
All nine protestors arrested on campus on April 23 have had their cases DISMISSED and charges DROPPED.
WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN! FREE, FREE PALESTINE!
The reactions from UMPD, MPD, and University administrators to shut down and harass student protest has shown us that we need community control over the police! Make sure to come sign the petition at a protest on campus to get CPAC on the ballot this year. WE KEEP US SAFE!
UMN Divest will be escalating MONDAY. While we regroup, reorganize, and get prepared for major action on Monday, keep ALL EYES ON RAFAH, and attend the rally at Hamline to support the students there - they need the solidarity we have received this week!
🇵🇸2024 UMN GRADS STAND WITH PALESTINE! DIVEST UMN NOW!🇵🇸
Part 2: Students at the CLA undergrad commencement ceremonies held banners calling for divestment and Palestine flags as they crossed the stage, receiving roaring applause from the audience
🇵🇸 FREE PALESTINE RALLY 🇵🇸
This Wednesday (10/25) at noon ditch your classes and come rally with SDS and SJP in front of the Student Union to demand an end to the siege on Gaza and an end to US aid to Israel!
Amy Coney Barrett is coming to speak at Northrop on October 16th! Reserve tickets at and use code 2023univcomm. We want Amy and admin to know that racist, sexist supreme court judges are NOT welcome at our university!
🇵🇸FROM MINNESOTA TO PALESTINE, OCCUPATION IS A CRIME 🇵🇸
Thank you to everyone who came out to our die in today to demand that the University of Minnesota DIVEST from the genocidal and zionist Israel.
A SDS member has been contacted by the FBI for her involvement in the movement for reproductive justice. Join us Thursday June 15th at 5:30PM outside the Humphrey School for an emergency press release to oppose this escalation and any further investigation by the FBI!
Activists drop banners at the College of Science and Engineering Career Fair calling out the UMN for allowing weapon companies on campus. Many companies complicit in the genocide in Palestine such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Hewlett Packard were in attendance.
This morning we joined the practice picket for the UPS
@teamsters
as they fight for a fair and just contract! As students we know that we have more in common with workers then we ever will with the millionaire CEOs who run these companies. Solidarity with the Teamsters!
UMN DIVEST FROM ISRAEL!
Join us Wednesday, January 31st at 5PM outside Northrop (84 Church Street SE) to kickoff the spring semester and demand that the University of Minnesota divest from Israel! Free, free Palestine!!
Today SDS attended the city council vote on the ceasefire resolution and are proud to share that, thanks to immense community pressure and organizing, a VETO-PROOF MAJORITY of nine votes has been secured!
#FreePalestine
🇵🇸 FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA! PALESTINE WILL BE FREE!! 🇵🇸
Last night we joined a coalition of groups demanding freedom for the people of Palestine from the apartheid state of Israel and to demand that MN and the United States no longer send aid to Israel. Free free Palestine!!
The UMPD is so freaked about our protest that locked all the doors to McNamara all day today, so students have to be let in by a cop to take final exams at the Disability Resource Center, even though the protest doesn't start until the DRC is closed. Kinda cringe.
FUCK STARBUCKS! FREE PALESTINE!
Last night SDS had a noise demo outside of the Starbucks in Dinkytown to bring attention to the fact that Sbx, along with McDonald’s, supports the Zionist entity of Israel. Get your coffee in this area at Bordertown or 1.99 Americano instead! 🇵🇸🇵🇸
SDS was recently made aware by CLA faculty that
@UMNews
administration plans to make massive budget cuts to ethnic and gender studies - we will not back down from fighting to keep them!
Protesting is not a crime!!
It was an honor to host the
#Tampa5
tonight on the first stop of their national speaking tour!
Head to for more details about their tour and how to support the ongoing struggle to get their bogus charges dropped!!
When abortion rights are under attack, what do we do?
STAND UP FIGHT BACK!
Thank you to everyone who came out today, Minneapolis sure knows how to put boots on the ground!
SDS members dropped a banner in the student union calling attention to the Israeli bombardment of Rafah. While UMN students were safe at home watching the Super Bowl, Israel attacked the city of Rafah in southern Gaza - the last place of refuge for Palestinians fleeing genocide.
Join us on Monday October 16th at 3 PM at Northrop Plaza to protest the presence of Amy Coney Barrett on campus!
Supreme Court Justice ACB has played an instrumental role in the overturning of Roe v Wade and affirmative action, and is actively attacking the rights of the (1/2)
DROP THE CHARGES ON THE TAMPA 5!
Thank you to everyone who came out to our action this week to demand that the charges on the Tampa 5 are dropped! Protesting is not a crime! Drop the charges on the Tampa 5!!
🇵🇸FREE FREE PALESTINE🇵🇸
Yesterday, we were thrilled to once again march among thousands of Minnesotans to the state capital to demand an end to US aid to Israel to stop funding the Zionist occupation of Palestine!
@AntiwarMN
@amp_mn
MINNEAPOLIS CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION PASSES!!
SDS joined community organizations at city council this morning to support the revote of the ceasefire resolution that was vetoed by Mayor Frey. This is the only resolution to call for a ceasefire as well as an end to US aid to Israel!
🇵🇸🚨ACTION ALERT🚨🇵🇸
Join us this Saturday at 1pm at the Humphrey Circle for a march to Sen Amy Klobuchar’s office to tell UMN and our Senator to cut all ties with Israel now!!!
@SJP_UMN
@ydsaumn
Join us on Friday, April 28th at 5:30PM at the McNamara Plaza to march against the proposed budget cuts to gender and ethnic studies. Defend ethnic studies! Defend gender studies! Chop from the top!
UMN SDS stands in unwavering solidarity with the Palestinian resistance to free themselves from their oppressors by any means necessary. Free Palestine within our lifetimes! 🇵🇸
USPCN Statement: Unified Palestinian
#Resistance
attacking Israeli military outposts & illegal settlements in response to months of Israeli assaults on Palestinian civilians
The unified Palestinian Resistance – consisting of all the different... (1/10)
STUDENTS DEMAND NO WAR WITH IRAN!
Thank you to everyone who came out yesterday to say NO to escalations with Iran after their justified retaliation to the Israeli bombing of the Iranian embassy in Damascus. Money for schools and education! Not for war and occupation!
Clip of SDS member Jasper’s speech at our emergency rally to protest the University of Minnesota’s proposed budget cuts to ethnic and gender studies. Defend Diversity Programs!
Two of the Minnesota 9 still are not allowed to return to campus. Call and email the University to demand their ban is lifted! When we fight, we win! Free free Palestine!
Thank you to everyone who came out tonight!
UMN SDS is committed to mobilizing students in the fight for Justice for Amir Locke.
We also are campaigning to create community control over UMPD and need your signature to get on the Spring ballot. Sign at:
SDS would like to announce our new demands and campaign for ending the University of Minnesotas complicity in the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Read our demands below!
Join us next Monday, February 19th, at noon outside the student union (300 Washington Ave SE) to demand that UMN divest from Israel and to bring awareness to the on going genocide in Palestine.
UMN divest from Israel! No more of our tuition towards genocide!!
Join us Wednesday, November 1st at 4:30PM at the East Bank green line station to join a contingent of students to the
@AntiwarMN
@amp_mn
and
@SJP_UMN
action against Joe Bidens visit to MN and to demand an end to all US aid to Israel!
We are going public now -
Biden has announced no public events for his visit on November 1st. We can't let Biden come to MN and not express our outrage at US support for Israel's war. Join us at the Mpls Federal Building for a large protest to unwelcome Biden to MN.
We’ve just adjourned our planning meeting for the emergency protest against the budget cuts toward ethnic studies programs at the UMN. See you at McNamara on Friday!
UMN students overwhelmingly support CPAC!
Thank you to everyone who helped make this tremendous victory a reality.
Stay tuned for upcoming actions, our fight for community control over UMPD will only intensify from here.
Want a little treat? Find us on Monday, September 11th on the Washington Ave bridge and in Dinkytown to buy treats and support a the Tampa 5! Two members of the Tampa 5 will be visiting Minneapolis on September 21st as a part of a national speaking tour. Justice for the Tampa 5!!
The Brooklyn Center police department is nowhere near our campus and yet our school's militarized police are out there nonetheless.
@UMNews
this is unacceptable. Rein in your pigs Joan Gabel and the BoR!
IT'S THE POST YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR: UMN GRADUATE WORKERS HAVE A UNION! We won 2487 yes votes to 70 no- that's 97% in favor of a union! The hard work of countless graduate workers pays off!
Videos from our disruption today demanding the university listen to its students, staff, and faculty and fully fund CLA and to paise on the PEAK initiative! Chop from the top!!
Support striking Minneapolis educators by coming to our speak-out this Saturday!
Co-sponsored by
@ydsaumn
,
@collegedemsmn
, and UMN Students for Climate Justice!
Join us Thursday, September 21st at 6PM in Mondale Hall 25 to hear from 2 members of the Tampa 5 as part of their speaking tour. Justice for the Tampa 5! Drop the charges!
This Sunday, December 3rd, come support SDS and other community organizations at our Craft and Bake Sale from 12 PM - 3 PM at 4200 Cedar Avenue! Come get a little treat and get some holiday shopping out of the way while supporting your local activists!
Voting for the All Campus Elections start today! Remember to vote YES on question 2 to tell the University of MN that we don’t want our tuition dollars going to genocide!
HANDS OFF YEMEN! EYES ON PALESTINE!!
Happy first day of spring semester! This morning SDS dropped a banner on campus as part of National SDS day of action against the United States escalation toward Yemen. From Yemen to Palestine, imperialism is a crime!!
Clip of SDS member Fa’aumu’s speech at our emergency rally to protest the University of Minnesota’s proposed budget cuts to ethnic and gender studies. Defend Diversity Programs!
🚨🚨ACTION ALERT🚨🚨
Come out TOMORROW for an emergency protest against UMN VP Croson meeting with Consul General of Israel to the Midwest.
Noon outside of the student union!
Open the thread to read our full statement:
CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES FOR A STRONG CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION!!
Yesterday, SDS attended and spoke at
@AntiwarMN
rally to demand that the Minneapolis city council pass a strong ceasefire resolution.
📸 1, 2, & 3:
@halftheskyx
Chalking for freshmen move in this week! If you want to fight admin and defend ethnic studies join SDS! We meet every Tuesday at 6:30PM in Nicholson 335
SDS had a great time in Milwaukee this weekend at the national planning conference for the Coalition to March on the RNC! Join us this summer to demand an end to Republicans racist and reactionary agenda, to defend reproductive rights, and to defend justice, peace, and equality!
JUSTICE FOR THE TAMPA 5!
Join us and
@TCC4Justice
Wednesday July 12th at 5:30PM outside Mayday Books to demand that the charges are dropped on the Tampa 5, who were brutalized and arrested by USF police for peacefully protesting Florida Governor Desantis’s attacks on education.
🇵🇸Say No to Pink-Washing!🇵🇸
This pride month, join us for a rally protesting Israeli pink-washing on Thursday June 20th at 5:30 pm in Dinkytown across from McDonald's at 319 15th Ave SE.
JOIN THE STUDENT MOVEMENT!
Are you looking to get involved with activism on campus but don’t know where to start? SDS is having our new members meeting Tuesday, January 23rd at 6:30PM in Nicholson 125. Come learn about SDS and our plans for this semester!
🚨 EMERGENCY PROTEST 🚨
Keep Abortion Legal!
Wednesday, May 4
6:00 pm
UMN Humphrey School
19th Ave & 3rd St S Mpls
Initiated by
@UMNSDS
Protest in response to Supreme Court's vote to strike down Roe v. Wade!
Defend Women's & Reproductive Rights!
Join students, staff, faculty, and alum this Wednesday, November 29 for the global Shut It Down For Palestine Walk Out. Tell your professors to cancel class or don’t show up to class all day and come out to show solidarity with the people of Palestine!
On Wednesday, students across the US are going to be walking out of their classes in protest of the US's ongoing military and financial support of the Israeli apartheid. Join us in fighting for a free Palestine!!
Join us on Monday October 16th at 3 PM at Northrop Plaza to protest the presence of Amy Coney Barrett on campus!
Supreme Court Justice ACB has played an instrumental role in the overturning of Roe v Wade and affirmative action, and is actively attacking the rights of the (1/2)
On May 2nd at 6PM we are hosting a picnic on the Knoll (15th Ave and University) to celebrate Joan quitting her job. Take a break from studying and join us for free pizza and to learn more about Joan’s proposed bonus. Chop from the top!
CHOP FROM THE TOP!
Join us Thursday, September 14th at noon outside the Student Union to demand more funding for gender and ethnic studies and less in admins pockets!
(2/2) most vulnerable populations in our country. The University giving her a platform is a disgrace, and we must fight back! Abortion is a human right!! Defend affirmative action and queer rights!! No to Amy Coney Barrett!!
This coming week (March 18-22) is the All-Campus Student Elections - be sure to vote YES for Divestment from Apartheid Israel, and come join us for a speak out to get out the vote in front of the student union at noon on Monday!
Rally on Tuesday December 12th @ noon at the UMN student union in celebration of charges being dropped against the Tampa 5 + in defense of the right to protest!
The fight doesn’t end here. Pro-Palestine protest is being attacked throughout the US!
Protesting is not a crime!!
Updated statement on the proposed budget cuts to ethnic and gender studies departments in CLA. Any cut to these departments while admins 6 figure salary goes untouched is unacceptable! Chop from the top!!
Just voted YES for divestment from apartheid Israel - all UMN students, campus elections are happening NOW and we have an opportunity here to make it clear to university admin that we DO NOT WANT OUR TUITION MONEY INVESTED IN ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE!
We are grateful for organizing an incredible event last Friday!
Thank you speakers Plestia Alaqad, Salma Shawa, Taher Herzallah, and Miko Peled!
SJP, along
@umnsds
&
@ydsaumn
announced our UMN Divest campaign demanding
@UMNTwinCities
divestment from genocide and apartheid! 🇵🇸