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Couldn’t sleep last night so I wrote instead. Here’s who I am, why Cornell suspended me yesterday, and why that won’t stop our national student movement.
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I have been suspended from Cornell University alongside three others for my presence in our encampment. Cornell thinks that picking off four students will be sufficient to destroy our movement. They’re wrong — all they have done is enraged our community.
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Barnard College has now suspended and evicted over 1% of its total student body for nonviolent protest. These institutions are eating themselves alive, destroying their own legitimacy by targeting their best and brightest. Shame on you
@preslrosenbury
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i really think university administrators got so into their own heads implicitly framing pro-palestine students as outside agitators that they didn’t realize how viscerally otherwise apolitical students respond to seeing their friends unjustly arrested
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Cornell students successfully defended the Liberated Zone tonight with no suspensions, arrests, or disciplinary violations — solely due to a massive swell of community support that formed three rings around the encampment to defend students into the night.
cheers erupt as organizers announce campus police don’t plan on escalating against the encampment tonight.
camping students and faculty will continue negotiating with Cornell execs to divest university funds from weapons used in israel’s genocide of palestinians.
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legitimately stunning that there was a politicized chemical weapon attack on columbia’s campus yesterday and it has not made national headlines nor compelled any action whatsoever by their president/those of other ivies
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Cornell has announced that they will NOT evict suspended students from on-campus housing or bar us from dining halls. Make no mistake — this shift the result of intense pressure from students, the public, and in particular faculty.
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this is in reference to the university withdrawing me from all of my classes without refunding tuition, banning me from being present on campus, but not kicking me out of my home
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proud to add another encampment to the national movement but i hope when the story of all this is told it doesn’t fall into the trap of forefronting elite schools — cal poly humboldt and other working-class universities are responsible for our biggest strategic innovations
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striking graphic from
@protectpalestineorg
— of the 30 universities with the largest endowments in the US, there are active encampments at 26 and an active process for divestment at dartmouth
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cornell’s student union has a big plaque commemorating its armed takeover in 1969, which forced cornell to create an africana studies program and a legitimate student government. in 2024 cornell banned the unauthorized use of amplified sound at protests
When I went to Columbia they were proud of the scholarship of Edward Said & the history of student protest (including the 1968 anti-war protests which included historian Eric Foner). These things helped defined the school. Which makes what is happening right now deeply ironic.
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sheer joy on campus after
@cmlcornell
’s resounding victory in cornell’s divestment referendum
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I have also been evicted from my home on campus. My suspension comes during
@Cornell
’s “Freedom of Expression Theme Year,” where they have held numerous events celebrating the right to protest. More thoughts to come
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Really beautifully written statement from a student journalist who actually entered our Liberated Zone rather than observing from afar. His conclusion? “I suppose it means hope. I hope it means hope.”
OPINION | Max Fattal '25 describes his own emotions around the encampment, and the broader political context in which it exists
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students are outside agitators, faculty are outside agitators, grad workers are outside agitators, but the stewards of capital in administration who don’t learn, teach, or study and quash the demands of all other university stakeholders are the true voices of the institution
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Last night, I told Cornell’s CFO Chris Coward that suspending students for nonviolent protest would be “a permanent moral stain on the legacy of our University.” Gravely disappointed with my college’s decision.
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BREAKING: Cornell attempted to bribe me with academic credit into staying silent on our Liberated Zone and similar encampments across the country. I refused. 🧵
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it was the people i’m in community with outside of organizing that reacted most strongly to my arrest & that of my peers. prompted more questions about our demands and how to get involved than much of our organizing so far, and emboldened others to be more open about their views
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@cmlcornell
Students everywhere — the best way to support us is to get the fuck out there. Institutions like Cornell do not engage in conduct this severe and disorganized unless they actually think they may lose. Talk to your friends and join a national movement to end genocide.
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Cornell students and faculty can sign a petition in solidarity with me and my comrades here:
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Anyone looking for a real story about elite campuses right now? 22 students and two staff were arrested by Cornell last week for participating in a nonviolent sit-in. Later that day, the House Ways & Means Committee demanded Cornell investigate & “punish” pro-Palestine students.
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This morning
@Cornell
sent me a THIRD eviction notice, taking almost an hour to retract it. They are weaponizing their control over my housing to further intimidate me and other pro-Palestine student activists on this campus.
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@roramdin
“you are irrevocably incapable of understanding or empathizing with another person’s experiences” will always be a toxic thought
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quickly and unequivocally aligning itself with palestine was arguably the union’s most decisive tactic in drawing starbucks to the table. when we tell the story of this campaign that must be abundantly clear
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pro-palestine campus organizers get their personal information posted on public websites and billboard trucks labeling them terrorist sympathizers — anti-zionism is job application poison, especially for arab, muslim, and international students who are so often at the forefront
“The only reliable way to get into a school like Stanford is to be really good at looking really good,”
@tab_delete
writes. “Students know that one easy way to keep looking good is to side with the majority of protesters, and condemn Israel.”
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Cornell’s student newspaper — one of the country’s oldest — has come out in support of divesting from weapons manufacturers backing the genocide in Gaza.
EDITORIAL | The Sun's Editorial Board endorses the "yes" position on the divestment referendum to be held by the Student Assembly on April 18-19
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Labor friends — does your union think it’s bad that Cornell, a university with a school dedicated to the study of work and unions, is suspending unionized grad student workers without bargaining and targeting labor activist students for suspension? If so DM me 😺
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CORNELL STUDENTS HAVE VOTED YES TO DIVEST FROM GENOCIDE: 69% of students voted “yes” on a referendum to divest from 10 weapons manufacturers enabling the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Turnout was **47%**, or over 7,000 students — turnout for our last student gov election was 16%.
Undergraduates voted “yes” on the ceasefire and divestment referendum questions by a 2:1 ratio. 46.77 percent of the student body voted on the referendum.
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Support me by supporting my peers still on the ground.
@CMLCornell
are the most courageous, sweetest people on earth and I’m confident they’ll keep up our fight in my absence. Buy some coffee for the Liberated Zone:
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Cornell’s official position: divesting from arms manufacturers would constitute “political action,” but retaining those investments in a genocide somehow does not
President Pollack formally expressed her disapproval of the student-led divestment and ceasefire referendum in a statement sent on Thursday.
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It is May Day, and the largest group of workers to join the labor movement this past year are grad students who are currently facing police violence, arrest, & suspension across the US. If we can’t fight for them — and by necessity, condemn cop unions — this movement is worthless
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Today at the Cornell Liberated Zone — a large group of architecture students and faculty plan to walk out of class at 1 PM. They will share readings about the weaponization of architecture under settler colonialism, write a manifesto, and donate a tent to the encampment.
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college administrations have fucked up so bad that they’ve created left unity on our campuses lmfao
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Not implying anything, I promise. But can someone please tell me what a worse presidential response to both the genocide in Gaza and pro-Palestine protests here at home would even look like? Be really specific. What exactly could be worse?
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these are administrators that will release statements within the hour when pro-palestine organizers use innocuous chants or hold peaceful demonstrations. completely vulgar
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Cornell students in the Liberated Zone have been threatened with suspension if we do not leave the quad in 30 minutes.
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if unions are looking for savvy young strike organizers they should be heavily recruiting college grads who organized encampments, lots of really skilled people who are looking for new ways to organize
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Proud of my peers who saw their suspensions from Cornell lifted today. My suspension was not lifted due to my refusal to accept an offer requiring me to halt my public support for our movement at Cornell and around the world, as well as my arrest for a nonviolent sit-in in March.
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We were removed from Day Hall by police under the threat of disciplinary action — so we’re camping out across the street until the building reopens tomorrow morning.
CORNELL STUDENTS ARE OCCUPYING DAY HALL, OUR ADMINISTRATIVE BUILDING, UNTIL PRESIDENT POLLACK KICKS STARBUCKS OFF CAMPUS
OUR OCCUPATION IS BEING STREAMED LIVE FROM
@SBWORKERSUNITED
ON INSTAGRAM, TUNE IN OR JOINT STREAM AND SAY HI
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Cornell’s new president supports inviting neo-Nazis to our campus and was the driving force behind Ann Coulter giving a talk on replacement theory on our campus this semester. Seems like a pretty important indicator of ideological dynamics in the Ivies/higher ed writ large rn
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Imagine what it will feel like for classes to be missing so many students for the rest of the academic year — heartbreaking and unprecedented in recent memory. Echoing the call for an academic boycott, American higher ed cannot abide this
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I noticed at Cornell rallies cops will always approach us and ask “who’s in charge here” — even after we’ve repeatedly told them we’re a leaderless, democratic movement. Cops — and administrators who think like cops — literally cannot comprehend effective horizontal organizing.
"Somebody is radicalizing out students" Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz spoke after NYU and New School raid this morning, "we will find out who that is". Chief of Patrol John Chell showed literature found inside the New School 'Gaza Solidarity Encampment' after it was
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STARBUCKS MAY BE DONE WITH ITHACA, BUT ITHACA IS NOT DONE WITH STARBUCKS — Cornell students are calling on Cornell Dining to immediately end their “proudly serving” contract with Starbucks. Starbucks shut down all 3 Ithaca stores bc we’re the first fully-organized city in the US.
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rest in power to aaron bushnell — his immense sacrifice will be remembered. that said, i feel strongly that every organizer should know they are worth more to the movement alive. living to fight another day, especially if you struggle to, is also an act of bravery.
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I’m not even an active member but I’ve received more communication about phonebanking & actions from
@ChicagoDSA
in the past few weeks than I have in a long time — leftists in Chicago applied overwhelming pressure to make this happen. Durbin would never do this voluntarily.
BREAKING:
@SenatorDurbin
becomes first US Senator to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Asked by
@PoppyHarlowCNN
whether it’s time for a cease-fire, Durbin said: “I think it is.”
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Today I and 23 other members of the Cornell community were arraigned after being arrested by the Cornell University Police Department for our participation in a nonviolent sit-in. We received ACDs, meaning the charges against us will be dismissed in around a month.
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Same university president who offered to lift my suspension only if I agreed not to speak publicly in support of our encampment
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new starbucks statement links directly to ben shapiro’s right-wing news site & condemns the union’s solidarity with a colonized people under siege. the divide could not be clearer and failing to recognize it would be a moral failure beyond belief
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CORNELL STUDENTS ARE OCCUPYING DAY HALL, OUR ADMINISTRATIVE BUILDING, UNTIL PRESIDENT POLLACK KICKS STARBUCKS OFF CAMPUS
OUR OCCUPATION IS BEING STREAMED LIVE FROM
@SBWORKERSUNITED
ON INSTAGRAM, TUNE IN OR JOINT STREAM AND SAY HI
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i am here to tell you that hundreds of mediocre white dudes get in to cornell every year. skill issue sadly
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actually my beef with arms manufacturers is that they manufacture arms
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This is why we have chosen media reps, and this clarity, elocution, and familiarity with our demand is why most of the press is so afraid to talk to them
“The students don’t know what they’re talking about”
The students:
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fuck cornell university. eyes out for a statement on my disciplinary status soon
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putting cornell on notice — the op-eds will grow more wistful and abstract until my suspension is lifted. i’m gonna be talking about deleuze in the cornell sun if they don’t reenroll me before the fall
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At last trustees reveal their true ambitions for their institutions — universities with no students
The center of our campus is again open to ALL our students and campus community for free speech & diversity of thought.
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can’t share details (yet) but after losing my on-campus summer employment some very cool people scrambled on my behalf and hooked me up with a very cool union organizing job in town this summer, very very stoked for the next few months
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More detail on the University’s conditional offer is available here:
BREAKING: Cornell attempted to bribe me with academic credit into staying silent on our Liberated Zone and similar encampments across the country. I refused. 🧵
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CORNELL STUDENTS ARE OCCUPYING DAY HALL, OUR ADMINISTRATIVE BUILDING, UNTIL PRESIDENT POLLACK KICKS STARBUCKS OFF CAMPUS
OUR OCCUPATION IS BEING STREAMED LIVE FROM
@SBWORKERSUNITED
ON INSTAGRAM, TUNE IN OR JOINT STREAM AND SAY HI
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@CMLCornell
’s full statement on my and three other students’ suspensions from Cornell University. My proudest moments at Cornell have come organizing with these people — the most courageous, kind, and principled students, grad workers, staff and faculty on this campus.
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Admin will pretend as if this was policy all along — but take a look at the incredibly vague notice we received yesterday. The establishment of our Liberated Zone has spurred panic, disorganization, and internal division within admin as they grapple with a crisis of legitimacy.
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@Cornell
President Martha Pollack just sent an email out to all students announcing that she will be suspending more nonviolent student protestors involved in our Liberated Zone — despite community outrage over the first round.
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@Cornell
is named ***18 TIMES*** in the federal decision finding Starbucks guilty of illegal union-busting in Ithaca.
@Starbucks
explicitly targeted Cornell students for firing & scheduled a months-long “bloodletting” where 5 workers were illegally fired around our winter break.
Starbucks was found guilty of violating U.S. labor laws in its employee conduct and store closures at unionized Ithaca locations in a Thursday decision from the National Labor Relations Board.
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Two Columbia University students, both IOF soldiers, sprayed a chemical weapon on peaceful protesters. Skunk spray is used on Palestinians in the West Bank by the Israeli occupation. It is known to cause nausea, abdominal pain, and vomiting.
@Columbia
must take action.
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@bedwyrssong
@georgeciveris
he had a bad date i think most people still think he deserves a job
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WE WON!
@Cornell
committed to not renew their contract with
@Starbucks
& work with student activists to find a new, ethical coffee vendor when it expires. Our school stands with
@SBWorkersUnited
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goodbye, cornell liberated zone
What haunts my reflections are the images of the lawns after encampment removal. They remind me of quilts. And graveyards. Each yellow patch was a community. Now we're left with specters—fading. I can't help but feel I will always think of this/us when I see yellow against green.
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I don’t know how to explain how it feels to sleep in my own bed tonight because my friends and peers stood up to defend me. We are so powerful when we stand together. Fuck em — I’m staying home.
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CORRECTION: The basic premise of our story was false :/
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Also, I should be clear that
@Cornell_GSU
played a massive role in this win by releasing a statement in solidarity with suspended students
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New from me in
@CornellSun
— on how
@Cornell
effectively evicted me from student housing yesterday, just hours after I exposed their attempt to bribe me into staying silent on their investments in the genocide in Gaza.
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Same at Cornell — thanks primarily due to some very cool librarians and archivists — but deeply troubled by the idea that the same institution which is threatening my future so aggressively today might one day celebrate my efforts and use them to attract kids like me to apply
Columbia is already archiving banners, artwork, and other materials from Hind Hall, even as the students who occupied the hall are still suspended and facing possible expulsion.
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the world has failed gaza so many times, in so many ways, but it has done so in an incredibly pronounced manner today. we will never be forgiven, and it falls to us never to forgive the perpetrators.
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I have declined this offer, which is a blatant attempt to silence me and intimidate my peers. Though I have already abided by the terms of my initial suspension, I will not sign an agreement prohibiting me from supporting my peers at Cornell and around the world remotely.
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stunned by the bravery of ucla students, who faced some of the most jarring repression from police & right-wing agitators and have nonetheless continued fighting. the movement for divestment endures
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Incredible and strategic play imo, even though it’ll almost certainly fail. Most of congress supports unconditional aid, and this is a morally black-and-white issue that will force legislators to grapple publicly with the consequences of their decisions & justify their position.
Today, Rep. AOC introduced an amendment banning Israel from using U.S. military aid to deploy white phosphorous in civilian areas. White phosphorus burns human skin to the bone, and even minimal burns can result in organ and respiratory failure.
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I think some Americans’ refusal to adhere to targeted boycott lists (a genuine obstacle to the success of BDS) emerges because on some level they see boycotting as a way to wash their hands of the genocide, not a strategic tool to shift corporate incentive structures
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this is the bit i care about most
New from me in
@CornellSun
— on how
@Cornell
effectively evicted me from student housing yesterday, just hours after I exposed their attempt to bribe me into staying silent on their investments in the genocide in Gaza.
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Cornell believes they can take away our right to free expression, wrongfully suspend us, and then bribe us into submission – all while continuing to support genocide with our tuition dollars. I will not be intimidated. Thus, I have rejected their McCarthyist offer.
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If I haven’t replied to your text/DM I apologize — I’m totally overwhelmed with support. Cornell stresses a faux corporate form of “community engagement” as a core value, but I’m seeing what those words really mean — my peers, professors, and friends standing up to keep us safe.
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@JohnMayer
Welcome to Ithaca! We’re proud to be the first city where all Starbucks workers are unionized. Last Friday, the company announced they’re closing all 3 stores in town — now, students are calling for Cornell to kick them off campus. Will you speak out for us tonight?
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Cornell targeted me for disciplinary action because I am more publicly visible than others in our movement. Since my suspension, this visibility has only increased, garnering national media attention and public scrutiny on Cornell’s investments in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
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Worth noting that admin justified their outrageous new censorship policy by analogizing pro-Palestine students to the Charlottesville fascists — free speech and warm welcomes for the alt-right, whose conduct is then used to justify suspensions and arrests for the left.
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if you don’t think we have the juice to build a postcapitalist future you should check out the unbelievable amount of uncompensated labor people all over the country put into organizing independent music scenes to show their friends a safe, fun time on the weekends
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the idea that the labor movement should moderate our support for oppressed people around the world so that management or the public will take us more seriously is insidious, ahistorical, and most importantly a losing strategy
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The correct way to look at a genocidal university’s CFO
Update, 4/25, 4:05 p.m.: Wilson continued: “The encampment negotiating committee told them that without material movement on our demands deemed acceptable by this collective — not any smaller committee — we’re not going anywhere.”
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right-wingers losing their minds at every encampment having those green tents is really funny bc that’s just the cheapest tent at wal-mart
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