#student protest

Hind Rajab was a 5 year old girl in Gaza who was killed while she hid alone in a car, along with the paramedics who tried to rescue her. Yesterday students at Columbia seized the administration building and renamed it in her honor.

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Remembering #HindRajab & children in #Gaza: This is what the mother of the child, Hind Rajab . https://tmblr.co/ZTeZMyfB_GHeeu00

Update (July, 2024)

UPDATE FROM

@sunnydice: (and please don't forget Layan Hamadeh , her 15 yr old cousin who was trapped with her or Yusuf Zino and Ahmed Al-Madhoun who bravely volunteered to try to save hind and were murdered by the IOF )

DrSonnet — هذا ما قالته والدة الطفلة هند رجب عندما سمعت بخبر... (tumblr.com)

After putting my pepper spray soaked clothes, shoes, and keffiyeh in a plastic bag and taking an extraordinarily painful shower, a friend and I went for dinner just off campus. There we had a pot of green tea and ramen to soothe pepper sprayed throats. We got ice cream after (shared a cup with chocolate and raspberry pomegranate with strawberry pieces on top, it was very good). From our spot outside the ice cream place we watched a steady stream of groups of sorority girls in matching jeans shorts and blue bikini tops walking back to their apartments after some apparently raucous parties. The cognitive dissonance was insane. I really felt a little like I was going crazy.

Even this morning, waking up to the smeared sharpie of the National Lawyer’s Guild’s phone number on my arm, a black and blue chest from where a grown man straight up clocked me while I was held up by two other protesters in a wall, and a still sore throat and eyes from the pepper spray, life goes on like normal. I still have final papers to write and a math exam to review for.

NATIONAL STUDENT STRIKE (may 6, 1970) persuasive cartography: the PJ mode collection

in the spring of 1970, there was a great deal of unrest on college campuses and elsewhere in the u.s. about war in vietnam. this was crystallized on april 30, 1970, when president nixon announced that the u.s. was launching air attacks — and with the south vietnamese, ground attacks — on cambodia. this invasion, he said, was essential to rid cambodia of communist “sanctuaries” that had been used to mount attacks in south vietnam. (he also said that “neither the united states nor south vietnam has moved against these enemy sanctuaries because we did not wish to violate the territory of a neutral nation.” that was a blatant lie: the u.s. had been violating cambodian neutrality by aggressively bombing the sanctuaries for 14 months under the top secret “operation menu,” not admitted to the public until july 1973.)

the president’s speech set off a firestorm on campuses. student protest demonstrations began immediately at princeton and oberlin, and “within a few days, strikes and other protests had taken place at scores of colleges and universities throughout the country.” scranton 1970, 18. on monday, may 4, the editors of the student newspapers at 11 eastern colleges published a joint editorial calling for “the entire academic community of this country to engage in a nation wide university strike.” new york times, may 4, 1970, p. 1. later on that day, four students at kent state university were shot to death by members of the ohio national guard while engaging in a campus protest. “during the six days after the president’s announcement of the cambodian incursion, but prior to the deaths at kent state, some twenty new student strikes had begun each day.” scranton 18.

the student protests movement proved widespread, deep and persistent. “during the four days that followed the kent state killings, there were a hundred or more strikes each day. a student strike center located at brandeis university reported that, by the 10th of may, 448 campuses were either still affected by some sort of strike or completely closed down.” scranton 18–19. some 158 institutions were reported to be on strike “indefinitely.” new york times, may 12, 1970, p. 19. “an estimated 4.35 million students at 1,300 universities and colleges, or 44 percent of the nation’s total, protested the war in southeast asia and the murder of their fellow students, closing many universities in the process.” ness 2015, 4:1191.

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In fact the few billionaires who are pushing this narrative are actively perpetuating the climate problem for profit and control and we know who they are. They have names and we know what they look like. These greedy, selfish psychopaths are destroying the planet for profit and jeopardizing the future of humanity. Oh and they think “you are trashing your future opportunities” if you speak up and resist.