Among those arrested in Atlanta today were Noelle McAfee, Chair of the Philosophy Department at Emory University. You can hear her ask the PhD student taking the video:

“Can you call the Philosophy Department office and tell them I’ve been arrested?...I’m Noelle McAfee, I’m Chair of the Philosophy Department”

I needed to share this because this was so incredibly moving. This girl is so incredibly strong❤️❤️❤️🇵🇸🇵🇸

something incredibly powerful is how healing these encampments as community spaces have been for so many. I’ve seen undergraduates get tutoring from graduate students, students who are food insecure receive three meals a day, students share their art and exchange gifts…. Seeing students put aside these typical structures of power aside has been incredibly fulfilling to watch. So many different people from many different backgrounds have learned from each other and exchanged their resources. I wish student protestors all over the US the very best. There is so much selflessness and passion in these spaces

THIS MORNING: one of our comrades from emory university that was arrested shared her experience, and what she saw her 22 other comrades experience, while in dekalb county jail. our comrades were subjected to racism, not given water for 12 hours despite vocalizing the water fountain didn't work, and silenced during court appearances.

Statement from Emory University protestors (X)

Dr. Noelle McAfee:

"Drawing on feminist philosophy, psychoanalysis, and political theory. She holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Texas (1998), an MA in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1990), and an MA in public policy from Duke University (1987)."

"McAfee is the author of over 80 articles and essays and five books, including Fear of Breakdown: Politics and Psychoanalysis (Columbia, 2019), which won the American Psychoanalytic Association’s 2020 Courage to Dream Book award. Her other books include Feminism: A Quick Immersion (Tibidabo Publishing 2021), Democracy and the Political Unconscious (Columbia 2008), Julia Kristeva (Routledge 2004), and Habermas, Kristeva, and Citizenship (Cornell 2000). She is also on the board of officers of the feminist section of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, where she oversees dozens of entries in feminist theory, and co-editor of the Kettering Review."

This is what ALL academics and feminists should be doing -being in strong solidarity with the Palestinian people. Everyone else who has been silent or vocal about supporting imperialism, terrorism, and setterlism -you're complicit in this genocide.

National news outlets will report this as a "violent clash" https://twitter.com/TylerKatzen/status/1785656341182226800

reminder!!!

hey idk if y’all have heard about what’s going on on Emory’s campus in Atlanta but it’s some intense stuff.

-There was an encampment for Palestine earlier today (04/25/24) thats been on and off since this morning.

-Several people have been arrested; police teargassed and shot rubber bullets at protesters of all ages, students and faculty, journalists.

-The QR code is a bail fund for the people arrested. (Venmo is HALLESTEWART)

-Here’s sources for videos, pictures, and an article. Warnings for police brutality.

donations can also be made to atlsolidarity.org !

Source for bail fund + it has numbers to call for the university and jail as well (or check out the page for palestinianyouthmovement on instagram)

Minutes ago: Atlanta cops tasing a restrained student protester at Emory University

The protests at Emory university in Atlanta have been met with the most violent police brutality by far. Students have been tased, tear gassed shot with rubber bullets and THEY WILL NOT STOP because they are courageous Beings with a heart to match and the common people will not accept anything less than a Free Palestine 🙏🍉

I wonder how many of the Universities that are disenrolling students for protesting (cutting their benefits, destroying their belongings, making them homeless, etc) made statements in october about how saddened they are by the terrorist attack and how they value education and youth

I would bet that none of them have once talked about israel bombing universities and schools in gaza- including the students inside

TODAY: (cw for police brutality if you choose to click the link) police attacked and arrested an econ professor who came across them brutalizing a protester at emory this morning. it cannot be understated how horrifying the rapid escalation of police violence on us college campuses is.

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