🚨BREAKING🚨
Rice's Liberated Zone just recorded this message for the Operating Room at European Gaza Hospital in Palestine; the doctors watched & said the student movement is their crown and all of their hope is in us! 🇵🇸
Gaza, you are our compass ✊✊✊
🚨EMERGENCY ACTION🚨
Rice SJP establishes Liberated Zone in the middle of campus! 🇵🇸
➡️ Tuesday & Wednesday of THIS WEEK: We call on the community to show out! ✊
HELP ONE OF OUR CO-ORGANIZERS EVACUATE HIS FAMILY FROM GAZA 💸
DONATE HERE ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Remember to like, retweet & leave a reply if you can't send $$$. ❤️🔥🇵🇸
Thank you to everyone who showed up for DAY 1 of Rice SJP's Liberated Zone! 🇵🇸
We will be in the same place tomorrow from 10AM-10PM with nonstop educational and cultural programming, art builds, study time and resources. ✊
SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF GAZA! ❤️
SHUT IT DOWN FOR RAFAH! 🇵🇸
PROTEST
@CondoleezzaRice
at
@RiceUniversity
and demand Rice divest from death! ✊
⏰ Thursday, Feb. 15th, 4:30-6PM
📍Central Quad, outside RMC, Rice University Campus
🚨 HOUSTON: EMERGENCY RALLY FOR PALESTINE 🚨
Long live Palestine, long live the resistance, victory is ours! 🇵🇸✊
🗓 Saturday 10/14/2023
🕕 2:00PM
📍City Hall
901 Bagby St, Houston, TX 77002
🚨BREAKING🚨
Pro-Palestine demonstrators at the
@jackharlow
concert in Houston, TX tonight were seen and heard from the ground floor before their march out.
FREE FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸
‼️TEXAS: ALL OUT FOR GAZA‼️
➡️ Join the Statewide March on May 19 at 1PM!
We stand in solidarity with the student intifada as they continue the encampments despite violent state repression.
Busses will be arranged from Houston, Dallas, & other cities:
🚨HOUSTON: EMERGENCY VIGIL🚨
Aaron Bushnell, 25 yr-old member of the military, self-immolated outside the Zionist embassy in D.C. to protest U.S. complicity in genocide on Gaza.
Join us to honor his last call. 🇵🇸
⏰ Tues., Feb 27, 5PM
📍Zionist Consulate; 24 Greenway Plaza
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
A large group of pro-Palestine demonstrators march through the free Jack Harlow concert at Shell Energy Stadium in Houston, TX during the National College Football Championship Weekend 🇵🇸
You asked how you can help Rice SJP after our Liberated Zone art was destroyed by Zionists and administration; to start, please redirect funds, donations & resources to families escaping Gaza 🇵🇸
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🚨HOUSTON LOCATION CHANGE🚨
Tuesday’s emergency protest has been moved to City Hall to ensure the safety of our community members.
CEASEFIRE NOW! HANDS OFF RAFAH! HANDS OFF PALESTINE! ✊
Continue to share updated flyer widely! 🇵🇸
Thank you to everyone who supported and amplified our Liberated Zone, our demands & our calls to action. We are encouraged by the immense solidarity the community had for the student movement's fight for Gaza. 🇵🇸
🚨HOUSTON: CALL TO ACTION!🚨
We call on the Houston community and supporters to join us as we
#ShutItDown
for Palestine and make our stance clear as we stand against Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza. 🇵🇸
🗓️ Friday, Dec 8th
⏰ 4:00PM
📍Israeli Consulate, 24 Greenway Plaza
🚨HOUSTON: A local Palestinian organizer needs our help raising funds to evacuate his family out of Gaza:
DONATE HERE ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Like, retweet & leave a reply if you can't send funds. Thank you! ❤️🔥🇵🇸
Join the Houston literary community for a night of Palestine focused poetry, teaching, books and more 🇵🇸
⏰Thursday, November 30th, 6-9PM
📍20 N Sampson St, Houston, TX 77003
We DON'T WANT the campus to be "beautified" when RICE'S DOLLARS pay for GENOCIDE in Gaza.
Rice wants Israel's genocide of Palestinians & the university's role in it out of sight. But we CANNOT GO ABOUT BUSINESS AS USUAL while a genocide is taking place.
🚨HOUSTON ACTION ALERT🚨
TODAY: NO CELEBRATION DURING GENOCIDE! Make Palestine unavoidable at the Jack Harlow concert at Shell Energy Stadium!
🔗 Join the Telegram channel () for real-time updates.
🗓️ 1/06, 6PM
📍Shell Energy Stadium (2200 Texas Ave)
🚨HOUSTON: BANNER & SIGN MAKING🚨
Join us for banner & sign making before Saturday's protest. 🎨
WHEN: Wednesday, 10/11, 7:30-8:30PM
WHERE: Rice MultiCultural Center (across from Brochstein Pavilion)
*Parking: Non-Rice students can park in the Greenbriar Lot for $3 🚗
🚨HOUSTON: DON'T STOP SHOWING UP FOR PALESTINE🚨
We have so many events for you to attend to demonstrate your solidarity for Palestine. 🇵🇸
Beginning TOMORROW, we have open mics, outreach events, political education spaces and more: There's no excuse for not showing! ✊
🚨HOUSTON: TODAY! EMERGENCY PROTEST FOR RAFAH MASSACRE 🚨
We call on the community to join us as we continue to
#shutitdown
for Palestine & stand against Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza and illegal invasion of Rafah!
🗓️ Mon, May 27
⏰ 6PM
📍Corner of Post Oak & Westheimer Rd
🚨HOUSTON: DON'T SCROLL🚨
Help a Houston Palestine organizer evacuate his family out of Gaza!
DONATE HERE ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Like, retweet & leave a reply if you can't send any funds. thank you! ❤️🔥🇵🇸
🚨HOUSTON: DROP CHEVRON!🚨
We say
#NoPrideInGenocide
as Chevron is named sponsor of
@NewFacesofPride
parade. ❌ This Pride, we stand with our LGBTQ+ Palestinian comrades. ✊
Join us for an art build to rally around
#DropChevron
:
⏰ Tues., 6/18, 7-10PM
📍20 N Sampson St
🚨HOUSTON🚨 We are speaking & tabling at the For The People fest tomorrow night & selling items to benefit an SJP organizer's fundraiser for family in Gaza! 🫶 See you soon! 🇵🇸
On the FIRST freestanding night of the student-made "Popular University for Gaza" mural, two Zionists were seen deliberately and violently tearing down our mural—which we designed, painted and constructed a wooden frame for over the course of several days.
Rice SJP's statement on the shooting of three Palestinian students in Vermont.
We call upon
@RDesRoches
&
@RiceUniversity
to condemn this hateful act, and to put forth immediate measures toward the safety of Palestinian students on our campus.
Join us TONIGHT for an evening of Palestinian arts and culture! 🇵🇸🍉✊
⏰Saturday, December 2nd, 6-9PM
📍PCF1 - Grad Student Bubble, Rice University Campus (nearest building for Google Maps is Kraft Hall)
🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨🚨
Dr. Richard Baker from the Office of Access, Equity and Equal Opportunity at Rice University has ordered no vote proceed on Senate Resolution No. 02: "Student Association Boycott and Divestment from Corporations Complicit in the Ongoing Genocide in Gaza".
🚨HOUSTON: PACK CITY HALL 🚨
TOMORROW, Jan. 9th, EVERYONE will pack city hall for the sitting council's first public comment session!
Show City council and Mayor Whitmire that there will be NO business as usual during genocide! 🇵🇸
📍Houston City Hall,
⏰ 01/09/23 @ 1:30PM
On the SECOND freestanding day of our mural, Rice administration tore it down for to "beautify" the campus for commencement, AND they painted over pro-Palestine student art on scholasticide happening in Gaza.
🚨HOUSTON STRIKE FOR GAZA🚨
Join us for a national strike taking place on Tax Day, April 15th, to put pressure on the US to end the genocide in Gaza and say no more tax dollars to fund Israel's crimes! ❌
🚨HOUSTON: BANNER & POSTER MAKING🚨
⏰THIS FRIDAY ⏰ come make banners & posters for Texas state-wide protest on Sun.! 🎨
All welcome; you don't have to be a student.
⏰Friday, Nov. 10th, 5-9PM
📍PCF1 Grad Student Bubble, Rice University (same place as Kissinger teach-in!)
🚨HOUSTON EVENT ALERT🚨
TOMORROW, come out for facilitated dialogue, a workshop & for writing letters to our reps demanding a ceasefire in Palestine AND to stop the bombing Yemen. 📣
📍Rice University campus, PCF1-Grad Student Bubble
⏰ TMRW, 01/15/24, 7-10pm
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Please note: If you've listed our Liberated Zone as an encampment, we'd like to communicate that the Liberated Zone was not an encampment but rather a Popular University for Gaza; we didn't stay overnight but did set-up & tear-down each day we de-occupied the space.
🚨DIVESTMENT LAUNCH + WALKOUT TODAY🚨
Join us TODAY @ 1PM at RAY COURTYARD to demand
@RiceUniversity
+
@RDesRoches
DIVEST FROM DEATH! ✊️
@RiceUniversity
is complicit in genocide due to its financial ties to cooperations benefiting the Israeli and US war machines! 📣❌
🚨LAST CALL FOR RSVP🚨
Join us,
@SJPHouston
& Rice RADAAR for the release of
@FadyJoudah
's book, [...]. 📚
Books will be available for purchase & signing for RSVPs:
⏰ Friday, March 1st, 6-8PM
📍 Farnsworth Pavilion, Rice Memorial Center (Rice U)
🚨TOMORROW🚨
See you tomorrow for Making Art for Palestine! 🇵🇸 4-8PM @ 20 N Sampson St! Donations of $5 are encouraged for entry.
If you're out of town but want to help with our gala for
@ThePCRF
, send $5+ to SJPHouston on Venmo with the caption "gala"! 💸
From generation to generation, until total liberation! 🇵🇸✊
We encourage those who showed out on Saturday to join us for yet another action TOMORROW at HOUSTON CITY HALL for
@SylvesterTurner
's last mayoral meeting as we echo our demands for an immediate and permanent ceasefire.
🚨EMERGENCY SIGN MAKING🚨
Join Rice SJP for sign making TONIGHT as we prep to protest
@RiceUniversity
hosting
@CondoleezzaRice
THIS THURSDAY. ✊
Are all welcome—all hands on deck! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
⏰TONIGHT, 02/13/24, 7-10PM
📍Rice Pub, basement of Rice Memorial Center, Rice Campus
Tonight marked the official activation of our alumni network—a community of over 40
@RiceUniversity
alum ready to support current student organizers on campus. 🇵🇸
🚨HOUSTON: MOVIE TONIGHT🚨
Join us &
@SJPHouston
for a screening of Born in Gaza as a part of our Palestine 101 series! 🇵🇸
⏰ TONIGHT, Monday, November 20th, 7:30-10:00PM
📍PCF1 - Grad Student Bubble, Rice University Campus
Please join us next week as we partner with
@SJPHouston
and others to protest in front of the Israeli Consulate from 3:30pm-7:00pm for Al-Quds Day on April 14th! 🇵🇸
As apart of our lineup, we welcome renowned Palestinian poet Fady Joudah, Houston Poet Laureate Aris Kian Brown (
@rosewaterframes
), as well as LIVE music performances by Houston Palestinian band Zaytounat! 🙏
As Israeli Apartheid Week approaches, Rice SJP & coalition partners are looking forward to engaging our communities in learning about global systems of apartheid through an open mic. 🇵🇸🎤 Sign up to read:
🚨 REJECT "ISRAEL AT 75": No room for war criminals on our campuses and in our city! 🚨
Swipe ➡️ to learn about the war criminals invited to speak at
@RiceUniversity
's
@BakerInstitute
"Israel at 75" conference. ‼️
As SJPs across the country face repression and backlash for using the phrase "from the river to the sea", Palestinian poet Fady Joudah writes on the expansive meanings of the famous freedom cry in this poem.
🚨HOUSTON ACTION🚨
Are you Palestinian or MENA & want to perform in the Falasteen Arts Festival? 🇵🇸 We need volunteers of ALL experience levels to perform in a play written by the Freedom Theatre in Jenin. 🎭 FUNDS GO TO PALESTINE & GAZA! Audition here:
🚨RICE UNIVERSITY: WALKOUT🚨
THURSDAY is the GLOBAL day of action for Palestine. Join us as we WALK OUT OF OUR CLASSES to show
@riceuniversity
&
@RDesRoches
that our campus stands with Palestine. 🇵🇸
MENA SA Gaza fundraiser to follow 💸
⏰THURSDAY, 2:30PM
📍RAY COURTYARD
Not another nickel! Not another dime! No more money ❌️💰for Israel's crimes! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
Check out our walkout how-to for an email template to send to your professor or boss for leaving early today:
🚨HOUSTON LOCATION CHANGE🚨
Tuesday’s emergency protest has been moved to City Hall to ensure the safety of our community members.
CEASEFIRE NOW! HANDS OFF RAFAH! HANDS OFF PALESTINE! ✊
Continue to share updated flyer widely! 🇵🇸
Join us for the release of Fady Joudah’s book, [...]. 📚
This was written in the first months of the genocide in Gaza and responds to the unspeakable in real time—offering multiple ways of seeing the world through a Palestinian lens. 🇵🇸
RSVP:
We call on all community organizations, masajid, churches, businesses, students and workers to walkout, and abstain from business as usual on April 15th. We call on all people of conscience in the US to close businesses, call off work, and walk out of schools! ✊
Have you donated to our comrade's family today, yet? 💸
DONATE HERE ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Remember to like, retweet & leave a reply if you can't send $$$. ❤️🔥🇵🇸
Will we see you at an event this week or next? 🍉
*Please note: Masking is strongly encouraged at all of our events as we move toward more disability accessible organizing practices, and Rice SJP + others will do our best to provide masks, when possible! 😷
🚨PALESTINE SHOW HAPPENING NOW IN BENEFIT OF PCRF🚨
This intimate concert venue is briefly waving RSVP for tonight's 7-11PM show.
Donations of $5-10 suggested at doors!
Palestine merch, including keffiyehs and flags, sold inside! 🇵🇸
Let's unite voices from all corners-mosques, churches, businesses, workers-and strike for Gaza! Demand a permanent ceasefire and the liberation of Palestine!
Don't cross the picket line of justice. Stand in solidarity and
#Strike4Gaza
on April 15th. 🤝
Our people who are suffering are long past due for a ceasefire, and we intend to disrupt business as usual this tax day to say NO MORE TAX DOLLARS TO FUND ISRAELI CRIMES!
🚗 Parking:
All parking at Rice maxes out at $12 per day, but Greenbriar Lot is $3. You can also park at:
West Lot 3
West Lot 5
Cambridge Garage
Central Campus Garage
North Annex
Moody Lot
Greenbriar Lot
SEE YOU SOON! ✊🇵🇸🙏
📲 Will you be striking? Let us know in the replies or tweet about it and tag
@rice_sjp
! We'll be retweeting our favorite posts throughout the week in preparation for the strike.
Calling all Rice community members! 📣
We need your help drafting and delivering a speech at this Friday's Al-Quds Day protest (04/14/23). 🇵🇸
Reply or DM us to get involved this week! No prior activism experience required. ✊
Through worker, student, and people power, this national strike day is meant to increase pressure on the United States government to end the genocide in Gaza. ‼️
The art you make at this event will be auctioned at our gala in benefit of
@ThePCRF
! You don't have to be artistic to attend. 🎨 Make it an outing with friends, family and loved ones! 🍉 Enjoy light snacks, community and solidarity.
Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event. 📚
⏰ Friday, March 1st, 6-8PM
📍 Farnsworth Pavilion, Rice Memorial Center (Rice University campus)
Rice SJP will be cohosting Isr🤮li Apartheid Week event, "Resistance Through the Generations" w/ iftaar to follow, alongside
@SJPHouston
&
@UHabso
. 🇵🇸
Everyone is welcome to perform at the open mic, sign-up sheet below!
Thursday, April 20th
Science & Engineering 103 (UH)
6-8pm
@willathewisp
Flagging that our Liberated Zone was not an encampment but rather a Popular University for Gaza; we didn't stay overnight but did set-up & tear-down each day we de-occupied the space!
Rice Students for Justice in Palestine stood in solidarity on Quds Day alongside
@SJPHouston
and others to protest in front of the Isr🤮eli Consulate 🇵🇸✊
Let's continue to mobilize by signing and sharing the petition to stop "Israel at 75" at Rice!
🔗:
@JayUlfelder
Flagging that our Liberated Zone was not an encampment but rather a Popular University for Gaza; we didn't stay overnight but did set-up & tear-down each day we de-occupied the space!