A young woman cried into a cell phone camera as a police officer dragged her off of Emory University’s Quadrangle around 10:15 a.m. this morning, stating her birthday and her mother’s phone number. Ten minutes later, a young man yelled as another officer walked him off the Quad in handcuffs, shouting that the restraints were […]
I’m not well versed in what is happening at specific campuses across the US - but if people not associated with the school (anyone not current students/Alumni) are protesting on Private property, the school is well within their rights to have trespassers removed.
Students should be allowed to peacefully protest on school grounds, or they can join non students protest that is off campus.
I’m not sure what the answer to Israel//Palestine is, but the US is absolutely directly funding and assisting in a genocide while publicly almost maybe finger wagging Netanyahu.
I would love to see North Americans actually tuck in to protest and figure out how to actually make them work. There’s so much that needs to change but never will until actual consequences come for those responsible.
They are arresting students. And suspending students without trial. And disabling the student’s keycards (used to enter their dorm room and get food on campus), making them homeless and without access to the food they already paid for.
Many of these students are Jewish, which means the greatest antisemitic attacks on campus recently have been by police and the school administration themselves.