#Professor Tiffany Willoughby-Herard

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A tenured professor at UCI University, Dr Tiffany Willoughby-Herard speaking during her arrest for protesting the war on Gaza last night made stark observations about where tax payers money is going as she stood by her students as they protested against their university’s complicity in Israel’s genocide on Gaza, demanding divestment. They were confronted with law enforcement aggression and arrests.

[horseknees]

Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard a tenured professor of black studies at UC Irvine speaks with a voice complete with the anger of our entire generation while being detained by the money we all pay against our will.

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This is Professor Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, a true educator and advocate. Educators and students alike are sounding the alarm on administration and governmental oppression.

Listen to her every word. This is the new McCarthyism.

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Reporter: “Are you concerned about this jeopardizing your job?”

UCI Tenured Professor: “What job do I have if my students don’t have a future?”

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"Now, once again, as has so many times been the case all over the world, students are taking risks to make love visible. They are risking their degrees, their scholarships, their housing, their well-being, their healthcare, and their health to take institutions to task for their investment in violent regimes that are massacring tens of thousands of people and accelerating the conditions that make the planet unlivable for entire species. They are clarifying that what is at stake in stopping the war machine that seeks to eradicate and displace the people of Palestine, the Congo, and beyond is the future itself—and they are emboldening others to take braver action alongside them. As University of California, Irvine professor Tiffany Willoughby-Herard said to reporters who pressed her about her job security while riot police dragged her away from defending the student encampment on her campus, “What job do I have if the students don’t have a future?” —Alexis Pauline Gumbs

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In the middle of our fighting for freedom, we found ourselves fighting against hatred that would kill us if it could: hatred of us as Black folk and as Women folk, both. In the middle of our fighting for freedom we found ourselves daring to try for love across racial and sexual lines of vigilant taboo. In the middle of our fighting for freedom we found ourselves free beyond fear and beyond capitulation. - June Jordan