Last spring, campuses across the country became flashpoints of anti-war resistance, as thousands of students mobilized in a powerful demonstration of moral conscience and collective action. Their demands were clear: an end to U.S. complicity in the genocide in Gaza and the dismantling of the war machine that sustains it. This wave of activism commanded both national and international attention.
Yet, in recent months, despite the ongoing slaughter and the White House’s egregious proposals to further orchestrate the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, mainstream coverage of the student movement in solidarity with the Palestinian people—and in opposition to what Martin Luther King Jr. condemned as “the madness of militarism”—has steadily faded from the headlines. Despite the relative media silence, and amid an intensifying campaign of institutional repression, the campus-based fight against the intolerable status quo has not ceased. Students remain at the forefront of the struggle for a more just, less militarized, and truly democratic world. Despite the intensifying climate of repression and intimidation, students, faculty, staff, and community members of conscience remain steadfast in their struggle for justice and a better world and continue to push back: + Within the University of California system, People’s Tribunals are being organized <https://www.ucpeoplestribunal.org/> to expose institutional complicity, build grassroots power, document evidence, and hold those responsible accountable. + Scholars within the American Historical Association overwhelmingly voted to condemn the ongoing destruction <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/arts/historians-gaza-israel-education.html> of schools, libraries, and universities and the murder of academics in Gaza as scholasticide. + At Columbia University, students have initiated legal action <https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/columbia-students-sue-university-palestine-activism?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2510348&post_id=156374887&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=16yhv&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email> against their administration, joining other lawsuits across the country. + In California, taxpayers are suing their representatives <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H_tUu1WIKo> over the unlawful appropriation of public funds to support genocide. + Students at Bowdoin College launched the first encampment <https://www.commondreams.org/news/bowdoin-sjp> since last spring in protest of their university’s intransigence despite a democratic referendum that passed calling for the university to take a public stand against the genocide in Gaza. https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/12/repression-vs-activism-colleges-crack-down-while-gaza-solidarity-persists/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#35196): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/35196 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/111147225/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
