in light of police across the country cracking down on pro palestine protests with brutal force, it feels like a great time to remind everyone to shut the fuck up around cops. don't make small talk, dont act friendly, don't fucking engage with them!! if you are arrested DO NOT speak without a lawyer present. protest organizers, get into contact with local pro bono lawyers who can be there for your arrested comrades. no matter what, if cops are there, shut the fuck up unless you are actively doing a protest chant. dont tell cops why you were there, dont tell them if you're affiliated with the school you may be protesting at, dont tell them if you came there with anyone, dont tell them anything!!!
LESS THAN AN HOUR AGO: views from yale's gaza solidarity encampment as they enter night 3! there is a looming threat of counter protesters showing up but spirits, solidarity, and numbers are high!
🇵🇸💚 A mariachi band joins the Columbia encampment!
🔹 Original caption: A mariachi band joined the encampment and sung Cielito Lindo to students at Columbia. “Oh, oh, oh, oh, sing and do not cry, because singing cheers up, pretty little darling, our hearts.”
🔸 Sources: Wear The Peace and Gerald Dalbon (footage)
LESS THAN TWO HOURS AGO: four cornell students have been suspended (and at least the one reporting was evicted, unknown about the others) for their involvement with their campus's gaza solidarity encampment. during a school year centering freedom of expression no less!
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@wizard_bisan1 and AJ+ have been nominated for a Peabody Award for her coverage of Gaza.
For over 6 months, Bisan Owda has shown the world how life in Gaza has been through her eyes. She has told the story of Palestinian survival in the face of the Israeli genocide.
Before Oct. 7, Bisan was making films about cultural life in her native Gaza for her own YouTube channel.
In 2023, AJ+’s @denatakruri won a Peabody Award for her story “One Day in Hebron,” which gave a firsthand account of the Israeli occupation in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier was greeted by crowds of protesters upon his arrival in Türkiye. The protesters called out Germany’s complicity in Israel’s ongoing total war of extermination against the Gaza Strip. Internationally, Germany has not only come under heavy criticism for its crackdown on Palestine solidarity activism but also for its role in supplying roughly 50% of Israel’s weapons supply, only second to the US.