Luca Saeed
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New study from @FAIRmediawatch by me: Since Oct 7, the @nytimes, @washingtonpost and @WSJ have overwhelmingly applied the term "brutal" to violence committed by Palestinians rather than by Israelis.
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Faculty have formed a human barrier between their CUNY students and campus police.
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🚨City College announces it is closing its food pantry as a result of the solidarity encampment. In 2022, 40% of CUNY students reported having low or very low food security. Thats 110,000 students.
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🚨BREAKING: City College of New York students and faculty have erected CUNY’s first Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
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NYU Administrators are imposing “Orwellian” penalties on arrested students, requiring them to write “Reflection Papers” and “Integrity” modules, according to @NYUFJPalestine
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CUNY Gaza Solidarity Encampment (@cunygse) has expressed concern that several City College students—predominantly students of color—have reportedly spent a second night in jail and have yet to be arraigned, despite NY law requiring arraignment within 24 hours of arrest.
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🚨🚨Student organizers from CUNY’s Solidarity Encampment are holding a press conference to give an update on their ongoing negotiations with University Administration. I’ll summarize 🧵
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🚨🚨Rank and File faculty of CUNY have voted in favor of supporting their students’ Five Demands!
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The College of Staten Island has suspended the CUNY officer who said “I support killing all you guys” to protestors yesterday.
City University of NY public safety officer just said “I support killing all you guys” to a group of students who walked out of the graduation at the College of Staten Island.
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CUNY would like a word.
The protests involve small numbers of people and are taking place at some of the most privileged and "bubble-ish" places in the entire world. It's cool to be interested in them - I'm interested in them! ' - but this is the opposite of a mass populist movement.
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🚨🚨🚨Breaking: Cops arrive and are pushed back from CCNY Encampment
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In my latest for @FAIRmediawatch, I write about how Western press is using the “disinformation” label to erase facts key to a negotiated peace, aiding the US and NATO’s information goals.
'Disinformation' Label Serves to Marginalize Crucial Ukraine Facts
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The CUNY Board of Trustees closed off their scheduled hearing to the public today. So students, faculty, and staff are holding their own hearing in support of @cunygse’s five demands.
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Yesterday, CUNY Faculty formed a human barrier between campus police and their students. Today they picket using the same chant.
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“I support killing all you guys” - CUNY Public Safety Sgt. D. Girard.
City University of NY public safety officer just said “I support killing all you guys” to a group of students who walked out of the graduation at the College of Staten Island.
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Yesterday, CUNY Faculty formed a human barrier between campus police and their students. Today they picket using the same chant.
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View out of the 139th and Amsterdam Ave gate at City College
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Student organizers request @PSC_CUNY leadership—the faculty union—come to CUNYs Gaza Solidarity Encampment and support their 5 demands.
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🚨🚨CUNY students are holding an assembly at the @cunygse to deliberate on tactics and legal rights as they remain determined to hold the encampment.
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🚨🚨🚨CUNY leadership state their intent to dismantle the CUNY Gaza Solidarity Encampment by the start of classes tomorrow, threatening “disciplinary and operational measures” should students fail to comply.
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The students demands are:.1) Divestment from Apartheid.2) Academic boycott, including CUNY-funded birthright trips.3) Solidarity with Gaza and impacted CUNY students. “The Chancellor can’t even call it a genocide!”.4) Demilitarize CUNY. Immediately rename the Colin Powell school.
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NYU students are occupying Bobst Library, renaming it after Diana Tamari Sabbagh Library, which Israel destroyed in November as part of its Scholasticide in Gaza. Corporate media remain hyperfocused on supposed hate on college campuses in US as Israel attempts to erase a culture.
أكدت أن استهداف المراكز الثقافية يهدف لنشر حالة من الجهل في المجتمع.بلدية غزة تدين تدمير الاحتلال للمكتبة العامة وإعدام آلاف الكتب والوثائق 👇
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5) FREE CUNY. “CUNY was once free, so we know its possible to do it again.”.
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@FAIRmediawatch @nytimes @washingtonpost @WSJ Israel’s assault on Gaza has been nothing if not “brutal.” But to US newspapers, brutality appears to be less about actions or outcomes than about identity.
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Free CUNY includes fair pay for faculty and staff, the organizers say.
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CUNY Students say their tuition is funding the scholasticide and genocide in Gaza. In their meetings with City College and CUNY executives, Chancellor Matos Rodriguez’s absence was noted. They demand his presence by Monday.
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“We dont have a second to waste negotiating in toothless conversations. So Chancellor Matos Rodriguez, I’ll see you,” one City College student organizer said.
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@FAIRmediawatch @nytimes @washingtonpost @WSJ That US papers used the term more than three times as much to describe Palestinian actions than Israeli ones is a cruel inversion of the actual death toll of the conflict. It helped justify US support for the assault on Gaza and shield Israel from criticism early on in the war.
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CUNY’s legacy as the “People’s University” was founded on its 1969 Open Admissions student occupations. Student organizers are reclaiming that legacy.
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🚨NYPD Strategic Reponse Group are within the bounds of City College Campus
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@wawog_now are outside the America Museum of Natural History protesting the @PENamerica Gala. @PENamerica refuses to forcefully condemn Israel’s targeted murder of Palestinian journalists
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If Woody Guthrie we’re alive, the song would be “All You Zionists Bound To Lose”
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Programming has begun at CUNY’s encampment:.CUNY Professor @JFernandez693 talks about the repression she and other CUNY faculty have faced for their scholarship of Israeli settler colonialism.
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PSC member calls for a strike on Wednesday as requested by Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions.
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🚨🚨🚨Police Raid of CUNY Gaza Solidarity Encampment is imminent.
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CUNY faculty are ready to put their bodies on the line for their students.
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Last song from the Rude mechanical Orchestra is called ‘Wein a Ramallah’
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On @AJEnglish, @marwanbishara just said that student protests in the United States are playing a role in accelerating President Biden’s incentive to reach a ceasefire deal.
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@FAIRmediawatch @nytimes @washingtonpost @WSJ Consider the actual meaning of “brutal,” which Merriam-Webster defines as “suitable to one who lacks intelligence, sensitivity or compassion: befitting a brute,” and the selective use of the word echoes Israeli President Herzog’s statement that Palestinians are “human animals.”.
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CUNY’s legacy as the “People’s University” was founded on its 1969 Open Admissions student occupations. Student organizers are reclaiming that legacy.
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🚨Update here at the @cunygse takeover of CUNY Grad Center, organizers say President of GC has asked for a meeting with Chancellor Felix Matos to discuss their demands.
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🚨🚨Campus security/NYPD has informed organizers they will be taking down students’ tents in 5 minutes. Organizers chant “Students, students hold your ground. NYPD back down.”
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Professor remarks this is the most PSC members he has seen in one place in a long time.
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CUNY student negotiator says that administration offered to provide Port-O-Pottys only if students take down the Palestinian Flag they erected.
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CUNY Gaza Solodarity Encampment is holding an assembly to deliberate on their course of action following CUNY administration’s threat of dismantling the camp.
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This contract hires 100 new officers to patrol City College. The next public hearing for the Board of Trustees is Monday, May 13 at Laguardia Community College.
In response to student protests, the CUNY board of trustees, which has plead poverty in union negotiations for the past year+, is introducing a resolution to authorize a new $4 million contract with a security firm that advertises its ties to the Israeli surveillance state
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🚨Students at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies are staging a sit-in at Dean Gregory Mantsios’ office.
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Hey everybody! I wrote about how DeSantis’ culture war is contributing to Florida’s worst-in-the-nation teacher vacancy crisis in my first ever piece for @TheProspect.
Florida teachers have the highest vacancy rates in the country. @cityascanvass examines how Gov. Ron Desantis’s racist attacks on public education are pushing teachers to leave the profession.
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🚨CUNY Student organizers say that only in the past hour has the university administration agreed to engage in negotiations. Students and Admin will be meeting for the first time today at 3pm.
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The callousness, dehumanization, and targeting of Jews on display at last night’s protest outside the Nova Festival exhibit was atrocious antisemitism - plain and simple. Antisemitism has no place in our city nor any broader movement that centers human dignity and liberation.
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Brooklyn College Professor @avitale says that universities (particularly elite ones) are at the center of an exploitative political and economic system, and campus police exist primarily to perpetuate that system.
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CUNY Gaza Solidarity Encampment (@cunygse) organizers took over the Grad Center Library today, renaming it Al-Aqsa University Library. Read all about it in this report from @marichreports and I down below ⬇️:.
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🚨@cunygse has renamed the Grad Center library after Al-Aqsa University, the oldest public university in Gaza, seen below partially destroyed by Israeli bombardment.
Eye witnesses observed Israeli forces shelling & destroying 2 buildings of Al-Aqsa university campus on Tuesday.The army fired at displaced🇵🇸s who were taking shelter there.Al-Aqsa,the oldest institution of higher learning was already bombed in Dec 2023.
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Finkelstein said the students give him hope and are doing “a thousand things right,” but cautioned against using slogans that can be misinterpreted. The students followed his speech with a “from the river to the sea” chant. He walked away laughing.
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Faculty have formed a human barrier between their CUNY students and campus police.
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CUNY student negotiator says that administration offered to provide Port-O-Pottys only if students take down the Palestinian Flag they erected.
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Swarms of NYPD entering City College campus to sweep out the Gaza Solidarity Encampment
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🚨🚨City College campus security have set up barriers at the 140th street entrance. Student organizers are calling on supporters to show up now.
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City College President Vince Boudreau sends email to CUNY community regarding the encampment:
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🚨30 or so Counterterrorism officers here at the CUNY Grad Center have closed in their formation on the protest in front of the occupied Library
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I have words in @thenation’s forum today on students’ Gaza solidarity protests and the repression they face.
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@simon_schama Youre statement is essentially the same as Thomas Jefferson’s when, regarding slavery, he said, “as it is, we have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go.” Of course he was wrong and so are you.
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📣📣: Manhattan DA has dropped all charges against seven of the CUNY students and staff arrested at the @cunygse according to @THECITYNY.
As the genocide in Gaza worsens, 22 members of the CUNY encampment face felonies. These charges are an attempt to break pro-Palestine organizing across NYC, and bolster CUNY’s NYPD partnerships and Zionist investments.
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🚨🚨🚨Campus Police and NYPD have blocked off the Northern Entrance to City College because of the @cunygse.
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DAY TWO at the City University of New York’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment. Stay tuned for updates
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