One example, from just up the Ivy-garlanded I-95, at Brown University, was announced just hours before Shafik again called in the police. Brown’s governing body agreed to vote on a proposal that would divest the school’s endowment of companies affiliated with Israel in a meeting in October. The proposal is based on a 2020 Advisory Committee on Corporation Responsibility in Investment Practices that identified and recommended divestment from “companies that facilitate the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory,” per the Brown Daily Herald.
In exchange, the university’s nonviolent student protesters agreed to vacate their encampment by 5 p.m. that afternoon.
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Another plausible outcome from California: When a similar encampment went up a few days ago at the University of California, Irvine, it seemed likely that police might sweep the protesters away. Orange County sheriff’s deputies began to appear in riot gear near the protest.
But, rather than traffic in vague allegations of misconduct before hiding behind a belligerent mayor and an aggressive police force, like Shafik, the UC–Irvine administration took a much different tack. “UC Irvine respects the rights of any students to engage in free speech and expression including lawful protest,” the school said in a prepared statement. This, remember, is at a public school, where keeping public police forces away is more challenging than a private enclave like Columbia.
And in fact, Irvine’s mayor did get involved in the action. Not long after that, Mayor Farrah N. Khan issued a resounding statement declaring that she would not tolerate any violation of students’ free speech or right to assembly. “I am asking our law enforcement to stand down. I will not tolerate any violations to our students’ rights to peacefully assemble and protest.” She asked the deputies to leave, and they did.
Cops love to beat up people protesting genocide but they won’t run into a classroom of kids being murdered because they’re too afraid.
Well that’s obviously because one group is preaching no violence and one is shooting everyone and everything.
So of course the police attack the easier target.
so we need to shoot guns to be listened to, ok got it.
South Park called it a while ago
Maybe the solution is to have peaceful armed demonstrators 🤔
It’s worked in the past. Force is the only language that bullies and thugs understand. “Moral high ground” isn’t going to do it when the state can just shoot you and get away with it.
Worked for the Black Panthers
Well… right up until it didn’t.
But I can’t help thinking a parade of armed college students marching through the quad could change a lot of views on the 2A very quickly.
Seeing as we still have capitalism and racism I wouldn’t quite say it worked, but yeah it made people take them more seriously and we would do well to study how exactly it failed
Can’t help but wonder what would happen if Columbia’s students were armed.
I know there’s a guy who said something about this once, a long time ago. German fellow with a big beard. Wrote a few economics texts. Gah, it escapes me.
There hasn’t been a school shooting in NYC in decades. Kids know the NYPD is not afraid to shoot them. They’re bullies with badges.
There hasn’t been a school shooting in NYC in decades.
Police increases presence near Manhattan schools in wake of 3 recent shootings
~ Wednesday, March 15, 2023
That suspect, 19-year-old Cheick Coulibaly, faces several charges, including attempted murder, after police say he shot a 17-year-old student multiple times near 68th and Amsterdam. Police say the suspect, believed to be a former classmate of the victim, has three prior arrests, including two arrests for narcotics in 2023.
I wonder why the city didn’t classify them as school shootings. Maybe it’s different because they were gang related shootings outside of schools and not armed assailants entering a school and killing indiscriminately?
Apparently not Phili cops.
Divested from Israel. The answer is that they should have divested from Israel.
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I’m only vaguely keeping up with the news (I have PTSD relating to war/violence). Can you help me understand how universities are invested in Israel? What would divesting mean?
To over-simplify, making sure that they don’t accept donations, grants, etc. from companies or other third-parties that are involved with Israel. The article gives some brief details on how “divest from Israel” is the approach that Brown University actually took here.
In addition to what @JakenVeina@lemm.ee said, a lot of universities have endowments that are invested in stocks, bonds, etc., to provide a baseline level of passive income. Divestment would mean getting rid of any existing investments and barring future investments in Israeli companies and companies that do extensive business with Israel. The result is to lower the access to cash and value of said companies.
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Fascist Cops be like:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahiya_doctrine
The Dahiya doctrine, or Dahya doctrine, is a military strategy involving the destruction of civilian infrastructure in order to pressure hostile regimes. It is a type of asymmetric warfare. It endorses the employment of “disproportionate force” (compared to the amount of force used by the enemy) to secure that end. The doctrine was outlined by former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of General Staff Gadi Eizenkot.
American police leadership has been trained by the IDF for decades.
Did you mean to time travel to the 50s?
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What’d it say?
People have decided that its easier to appease the right wing media so they go after someone else than stand up to them. But in reality that just shows them that you’re an easy target and makes things worse.
this article fails to mention to stop funding genocide.
i think that would have been effective.
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Don’t feed the trolls y’all
Block them and ignore them like the rest of the world does. They do this for attention, so remove it.
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Awh, poor troll feels offended for being called out.
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Ironic.
I’m just smart enough to spot bullshit when I see it, unlike you.
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Exactly how a child would respond.
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What high ground, bro? This isn’t a battle of life and death. Cry some more.
No.
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I’ve never seen a campus that was “closed to the public”. The article probably means the UCs are on state-owned, not private, land. But I’m not sure that’s true or makes any difference.
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Man, you’re really desperate for attention. I guess the lack of human contact will do that to you. Poor pathetic troll. 😢
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