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spitsun · 1 day

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#Ut austin #free palestine

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mysharona1987 · 1 day

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#free palestine #democrats #republicans #politics #ww2 #news #xwittee #Israel #ww2 history #columbia university #ut austin

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i-am-aprl · 9 hours

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Texas police stormed the campus of UT Austin and arrested 43 students who defied orders to clear away the protest encampment that had been erected in support of Gaza.

The mobilizations in Texas show how solidarity with Palestine is spreading far beyond the traditional bastions of student activism, as well as the absence of so-called “free speech” and “First Amendment” rights in conservative states that claim to champion these values.

Nevertheless, despite the repression and arrests, students continue to protest daily and refuse to abandon the encampments. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has said that “no encampments will be allowed,” yet those encampments remain.

#ut austin #Students #shut it down for palestine #palestine #gaza #free palestine #free gaza #فلسطين #jerusalem #i stand with palestine

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bellabayushki · 9 hours

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The problem with telling people to "do more" for Palestine is that sometimes, we lack the resources to do so.

To be clear, I'm not referring to people like Bisan asking students in the United States to do more. I'm talking about the people harassing college kids holding up their cardboard "Free Palestine" signs because they're "not doing enough." You don't know their circumstances--and you sure as hell aren't doing anything public either.

You don't get to tell people to "do more" if you aren't doing anything yourself.

#palestine #gaza #free gaza #gaza strip #save palestine #free palestine #support palestine #gaza under attack #gaza genocide #palestinian genocide #studentsrevolution #student protest #ut austin #sfasu #columbia university

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hack-saw2004 · 1 day

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JUST NOW: our comrades in austin are not backing down, but apd and tx state troopers continue to respond with violent force. arrests are still ongoing, the last number i saw was 43 but that was almost an hour ago, i dont think anyone has a definitive count right now.

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catdotjpeg · 1 day

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Hundreds of Texas state troopers have arrested students protesting against Israel’s assault on Gaza at the University of Texas in Austin in the US. Demonstrators have been told to leave by the university, but they have defied orders to do so. Al Jazeera’s Heidi Zhou-Castro, reporting from the scene, said arrests are “continuing and ongoing”. “Now, the sheriff’s department has showed up with a large bus that they are filling now with arrested protesters,” she said. Within the encampment, protesters are sitting “with their arms linked, in defiance of the call from the university to disperse”, Zhou-Castro said, adding that people at the scene said there is an “overly heavy police response”. According to Zhou-Castro... there was “no sort of violence, no sort of anti-Semitic chanting, leading up to this police response”.

-- "Arrests of protesters ‘ongoing’ at University of Texas" by Edna Mohamed and Farah Najjar for Al Jazeera, 29 Apr 2024 20:30 GMT

#palestine #usa #texas #austin #ut austin #youth activism

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gorgeousgreymatter-x · 6 days

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so yeah it turns out at least half the country are disgusting psychopaths who want to see college kids beaten and arrested for peaceful protests. i've never been more disgusted to be american in my life.

#free palestine #palestine #free gaza #gaza #columbia university #ut austin

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memys-art-stuff · 6 days

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It is vital that we keep the efforts of so many students across the United States from going to waste. We need to keep the momentum going and ensure that news of the cruelty happening to the people of Palestine is not ignored or suppressed.

Despite what many news outlets may have you believe, what is happening in our world is not minor in the slightest. It is a genocide that is happening before our eyes, day after day. Do not forget the administrative responses these colleges have given to the act of bringing attention this inhumanity. This is history happening now, and these colleges are on the wrong side of it.

These students are calling to divest college funds from Israel. Do not let the media warp their efforts and paint them as an antisemitic mob. Do not let those opposing these demonstrations hide behind claims of antisemitism to justify their actions. This is about stopping human suffering, and to believe anything different is willful ignorance.

#college protests #usc #ut austin #brown university #columbia university #mit #csu Humboldt #free palestine #free gaza #Palestine #gaza #israel #activism #important

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saja-star · 5 days

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I showed up yesterday completely unprepared. No water, no emergency phone numbers, my school backpack on my back with my laptop in it. I thought it would be a small event on the green and the university admin would mostly ignore us. People talked about holding a seder, teaching classes.

I was surprised by the turnout, but the university was not. Over 150 cops showed up, state troopers, APD, university security, and others. They surrounded us on all sides and boxed us in tighter and tighter. Call me a coward, but me and the people with me got out of the box and away from the center at that point. There were a dozen troopers on horseback. They rode through groups of people shouting at them to move or the horse would hurt them. Some on motorcycles. Some with batons forming barriers and pushing people back (except for the moments the students pushed them back).

The governor called for us to be arrested, and I've heard over 79 people were. Indiscriminately: including people tying to disperse the group, including a cameraman for Fox. Students were shoved to the ground, bruising their faces and bloodying their noses. They were dragged by their hair and legs, one of them over a chain link fence. From what I've heard, the charges will likely be dropped, but we're waiting to see what action the university will take internally. If graduate student employees, professors, and staff will lose jobs (they already banned some grad students from TAing, effectively firing them, for implying support for palestine). If undergrads will be expelled (which the university suggested would happen). No idea how an arrest or other reprisals may impact international students who depend on this job/school enrollment for their visas.

The dispersal order said that we'd broken rules by obstructing pathways. The stated plan was to sit on the lawn, but police pushed everyone off the lawn and set up a perimeter around it, forcing them onto the sidewalks where they could be arrested. This protest was smaller than the crowds of people standing around for the eclipse, which the police felt no need to disperse. The university president, in his response, stated that he supports lawful protests, but this one broke the rules. Which rules? Well the university knew about the protest in advance and decided in advance that it wouldn't be allowed, period. So he's pro-protest, but this protest broke the rules of... existing at all.

Last night there was an email from the Dean of Students expressing concern for those "affected" and offering support. She made it very clear who this support was for by saying that if we felt unsafe, we should call the university police. The president's statement suggested that many people at the protest were not from the university, which is blatantly untrue. Every single person I met there was a student, employee, or alumnus.

Today a notice was passed around at the protest laying out a new set of rules, and a matching list was sent to all university staff by the provost. It bans wearing masks, being on the lawns, being at entrances, being on walkways, making any noise, and being out after 10 pm. Organizers were already working around the ridiculous claims that the protest was too noisy and therefore distracting students in class by not using any amplification devices. Instead everything they said was repeated by the people around in waves so that the people at the back could hear.

Today was scheduled for a protest from the state employees' union against the sudden firing of 60 staff associated with DEI, following the state's ban on DEI offices and programs. The union officially ceded the day to protest for Palestine and against the events of yesterday. The DEI protest is rescheduled for Monday.

Today's resumption of the protest wasn't met with violence like yesterday. There was some police presence, but much lighter, and they didn't press us. After two hours, we dispersed peacefully on the organizers' orders. I've heard that there was even more turnout today than yesterday, although I never got a good look at the crowd from a distance either day. I am proud that a number of people from our department were there, from undergrads to tenured professors. I am grateful that as far as I have been able to find out, none of my colleagues or students have been arrested.

Everyone take care. 🇵🇸

#ut austin #university protests

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agnesandhilda · 5 days

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"we're deploying the police to keep students safe!" they say, as they deploy the police against the students

#bolo speaks #texas #ut austin #free palestine #jay hartzell slit your throat

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spitsun · 1 day

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whats happening at the university of texas at austin. if you're curious.

#free palestine #ut austin

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mysharona1987 · 2 days

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#free palestine #columbia university #south afirca #News #israel #yale university #ut austin #democrats #republicans #politics

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i-am-aprl · 5 days

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Dozens of students arrested at the University of Texas, Austin for protesting against Israel’s #genocide in #Gaza.

✊🏿Hundreds of anti-war protesters in #Austin, #Texas — in the face of an aggressive police response — chanting "Free, free, free #Palestine"

✊🏿This is spreading despite their best efforts to contain it.

✊🏿Looked like 100+ state troopers, UT police, and APD for a pro-palestine protest on UT Austin campus today.

#ut austin #free palestine #palestine #gaza #free gaza #فلسطين #jerusalem #i stand with palestine #israel #israel is a terrorist state #israeli war crimes #texas #university of texas

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twst-charity · 6 days

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Some updates about the protests and subsequent arrests (plus charges and bookings) at UT Austin.

Initial statement by UT Austin admin:

DPS (Texas state troopers/riot cops, Greg Abbot’s personal army) begins to escalate

Students note that DPS has no problem manhandling and marching on peaceful protestors, unlike that time they sat on their phones and harassed concerned parents while kindergartners were left to bleed out in their classrooms.

DPS - along with their semi-automatics, 200 rounds of rifle ammo, and HORSES - don’t take kindly to that. Abbot continues to forget how to shut the fuck up.

50-75 people are arrested, including a journalist who was initially accused of assaulting an officer when he accidentally nudged the cop with his camera due to the surging of the crowd.

This is illegal btw, thanks to state laws Abbott himsef signed into being.

Thanks, mate.

Faculty and local officials take a stand against the DPS.

And finally, the terrifying protest plans that required the state troopers to come arrest these dangerous terrorists… (/s)

Horrifying, isn’t it?

#twst charity #ut austin #Texas #college #free palestine #by mod Ryuu. a bitter Texan.

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hack-saw2004 · 1 day

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ONE HOUR AGO: our comrades at ut austin started a gaza solidarity encampment, state troopers are already on campus, and as of just a few minutes ago one arrest has been made so far.

edit: things are escalating quickly. seen reports ranging from 3 to 7 people have been arrested, and ive been told by a person at ut its around 10-12 people. im keeping my eyes on ut right now, texas cops are fucking scary. (source: im a texan)

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twiststreet · 6 days

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#civilization is doomed #go ahead and mess with texas #UT Austin

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