It seems like it has been ages since the pro-Palestinian tent solidarity encampments. But it is the first anniversary of the Columbia University Gaza encampment.
Don’t be afraid. It’s an honour to come out for the Palestinian people. Keep fighting for them. Keep coming out. Don’t be afraid. Don’t let them oppress you. We need to keep coming out to say that his genocide is wrong. This genocide is wrong. 20,000 dead children. It’s disgusting.
Keep coming out for Palestine Do not be afraid my friends. Free Palestine every day, until it’s free.
Free Palestine.
This is one of the actions of the Wisconsin Coalition for Justice in Palestine (WCJP) I belong to.
Call For A National Direct Action On April 17
On April 17, the one-year anniversary of the Columbia University Gaza encampment, academic workers, students, and activists are calling for a coordinated national direct action to protest the ongoing genocide and escalating repression in the U.S.
Editor’s Note: The following call and action plan was issued from a collective of academic workers, students, union members, and activists within multiple higher education associations and unions, trade unions, and other organizing spaces. It calls for a coordinated national day direct action on April 17 in protest of the ongoing genocide abroad and the escalating repression at home. To learn more visit: dayofactionforhighered.org.
This April 17, we, a collective of academic workers, students, union members, and activists within multiple higher education associations and unions, trade unions, and other organizing spaces, call for a coordinated national direct action in protest of the ongoing genocide abroad and the escalating repression at home. As academic workers and students united with other labor sectors, we aim to take back public places and uplift the right to dissent and the right to collective organizing for liberation. We stand against the neoliberal and colonial logic of higher ed that represses speech and academic freedom in the US and that enables genocide, carceral tactics, and the long-running destruction of education and historical memory in Gaza and throughout Palestine.
We resist the attacks on gender, women, and sexuality studies, Black studies, Indigenous studies, ethnic studies, and Middle East studies departments and programs across the U.S. While attacks on fields that emerged from social movements are not new, their intensification during the genocide in Palestine highlights the interconnectedness of necropolitical practices of the U.S. empire around the world and at “home.” As those “in the university but not of the university,” we are aware of our complicity. We know that the universities in which we work and study were built on stolen Indigenous land and with capital extracted from slave labor. We are aware that our universities continue to profit from settler colonial violence, incarceration of Black, Indigenous, trans, and immigrant people, investments in weapons manufacturing companies, and investments in companies that enable the genocide in Palestine.
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In commemoration of the beginning of the Columbia encampment on April 17, 2024 and in honor of Palestinian prisoners day, we envision April 17 as part of an arc of escalating actions for collective liberation in and beyond higher-ed. Our next major national direct action will take place on International Workers’ Day, May 1, followed by Nakba Day, May the 15th.
Stop The Genocide Abroad And The Repression At Home by Open Letter, Mondoweiss, April 14, 2025
Zero Accountability for War Crimes
This is the sixth time we update this visual with figures on Israel’s wanton destruction of Gaza and genocide against Palestinians since October 2023.
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