Cover of Fredy Perlman’s I Accuse This Liberal University of Terror and Violence (Black & Red, 1969).  

Earlier today Columbia issued shelter in place orders and reportedly told parents to get their kids from campus. ~2 hours ago NYPD moved to retake Hind Hall. CBS livestreamed the event in full, complete with live commentary (like watching a sports game), including reporting that police went in with guns drawn... But later praising their lack of violence, wearing only helmets and not riot gear, and not using chemical weapons. They were praised for being specific in their arrests and telling students to stay inside dorms, despite constant yelling "Shame on you."

WKCR, Columbia's student radio, also had live coverage with 3+ reporters on the ground. They reported smelling the use of teargas inside of the building, as well as at least one student unconscious in front of Hind Hall. They reported everyone, including non protestors, getting swept in arrests.

I'm sharing this because I recommend all of you look for archived recording of student coverage and be aware that whitewashing of this event happened in real time.

Watch this short report to get a glimpse of what Israel has been subjecting Palestinians it has taken captive since October 7, whose numbers have now surpassed 8,400 from the West Bank alone.

The conditions in Israeli prisons have intensified and men, women, children and elderly people are subjected to starvation and torture. 14 Palestinian captives have in fact died in Israeli prisons since October 7, which is an alarming and unprecedented escalation to the already dire humanitarian crisis taking place in Israeli torture chambers.

The family of the 74 year old man in the video, Omar Assaf, did not even recognise him. He describes the past 6 months feeling as though they were 6 years.

As of yesterday (27/04/2024) the number of Palestinian captives that have died in Israeli prisons since October 7 is now 17

Yesterday, Kareem Abu Saleh died due to extreme torture after only 10 days of being held captive. He’s from Sakhnin, a city in the occupied 1948 territories, close to Akka. Two days before he died his wife gave birth to their first child.

My friend Mona has asked me to share her story with you all.

Here's the link to the evacuation gofundme. They're very close to their goal. They legitimately only have less than 10k USD left to go before all 9 of them can evacuate.

Columbia University students at the Gaza solidarity encampment reading Wisam Rafeedie's The Trinity of Fundamentals and Ghassan Kanafani's The Revolution of 1936–1939 in Palestine (ph. Ian Bartlett).

Bit telling that for years and years evangelical religious extremists have been allowed on university campuses with their bullhorns and horrific imagery where they harass students into physical altercations and when students complain to the university’s administration they just shrug their shoulders citing freedom of speech but when those same tuition-paying students start protesting against war and genocide they call SWAT

i always kind of daydream abt driving all over america but i have seen a good chunk of it and well i mean a highway exit and a strip mall in Mungo Falls wisconsin will look exactly like the ones in San Antonio texas. much of this country is filler. "what really goes on here?" medical malpractice and insurance scams and white ppl who will go in to detail abt their heritage in line at the grocery store. Q anon dentists in new build homes with double door fridges...

?? none of this country is “filler” but its filled with people who can’t appreciate whats in front of them because as an American, you were born ungrateful to the land you live on.

6 biomes. 30 distinct dialects. 20,000 years of history on one side of my family, 500 on the other. Jazz, blues, folk, funk, soul, bluegrass, country, rap. You can go where they invented those. 429 national park sites. 107 HBCU’s. 35,000 museums. 574 federally recognized Indigenous tribes. You swing by the Aquinnah Cultural center yet? How many of these places can yall name let alone have visited ?

but sure. you see one truck stop in America, you’ve seen it all 🫡

Also btw you’re a goddamn lie OP. Southern Texas looks nothing like fucking. lush green Wisconsin & only an American would ignore a completely different biome just to be like “well…. they all got a Buccee’s sooo….”

Palestinian artist Asmaa Aljueithni shares a photo of the only thing that survived the airstrike that left her Gaza home in ruins: one of her paintings.

Anok Yai getting ready for the Mugler Alien Hypersense launch party (2024)

Festival of roses in Kalaat M’Gouna, Morocco. Photographed by Jacques Bravo

AESHA ASH

ever since i was a little girl i always knew i didn't wanna talk to anyone

Kindergarten students commemorating Land Day with the Federation of Palestinian Women’s Action Committee, 29 March 1986. The Palestinian Museum Digital Archive