Tag
Protests
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When Universities Are Agents of the State
The story of Israeli universities serves as a warning for what US academia could become.
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Liberation, Education
In April 2024, Sofia Rivera captured stark close-ups of scenes from the Columbia University campus, from barricaded buildings to clipped versions of the campus’s famous statues, obscured in favor of the images of protest surrounding them.
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The Fire This Time
I come to you with the same tears of rage, the same feelings of intense internal pain, and the same traumas that you all carry daily.
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Lyrics of the Student Intifada
There is an elegy that echoes from the universities of Gaza to the universities of the world.
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Like Trees By Water
lock-armed and mealy mouthed atop us / the blockade begins to sing / and cross-legged / fetal below / we join
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From Palestine to NYC: Globalizing the Intifada
On the central platform’s mast, a fluttering Palestinian flag challenges the legitimacy of the official American one positioned a few meters above.
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Because Grief Is Collective, Healing Is Too
I watched news incessantly, like it was going to save me. I stopped sleeping at night.
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When the Singing Turned to Screams
The city had to wash the blood of students off the ground, and both it and Emerson are pretending nothing happened.
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On Being Disruptive
To say that the protests were not disruptive helps us look for the real reasons as to why the police were called. There are many.
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Iran’s Social Revolution: The Heartbeat Continues
What to do with the affective legacies of the Iranian left?
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Protesters of the World, Unite
Individual protests, like those in Hong Kong, may be defeated. But the global protest movement is only beginning.
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How to Defund the Police
The inconvenient truth of police history in the United States is that police departments were not designed to keep a generic public safe.
