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https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2024/02/21/thunberg-and-climate-protesters-acquitted-because-new-laws-are-too-broad-and-unworkable/
#Greta Thunberg #climate #protest #acquit #court #protest #law #broad #unworkable #Mike Sivier #Vox #Political
Biggest crowd I’ve ever seen in more than 25 years of living in West Oakland County, Michigan. A few photos from the Novi #HandsOff demonstration today.
My favorite #protest sign in Las Vegas today. #indivisible #50501movement #handsOff #impeachTrump
Latest comic: If media talked about the donor class the way it talks about college students
New York City police have arrested more than 100 people protesting Israel’s war in Gaza on the campus of Columbia University. A student group called Columbia University Apartheid Divest set up an encampment on Wednesday to protest the school’s “continued financial investment in corporations that profit from Israeli apartheid.” University President Minouche Shafik warned demonstrators that they were not allowed to set up tents and occupy the grounds before police started forcibly removing them. USA Today has more on the ongoing protest.
University protests against Israel's war in Gaza are spreading across the U.S. After multiple Columbia University students were arrested last week for refusing to leave an encampment, arrests were made at Yale University today.
Daily Beast has a recap of what's happening, including new protests at New York University and the University of Michigan: https://flip.it/2MJY.s
For more stories on the Mideast crisis, follow @israel-hamas-war-thenewsdesk
I've been drawing strips for years about attacks on students' right to protest, yet strangely I've never been invited to give a TED Talk, speak at an "ideas festival," or pen a column for the Atlantic.
This is from 2016.
A Palestinian child walks past a tent with a ‘thank you’ message dedicated to students at Columbia University in New York, at the Rafah refugee camp in southern Gaza on Saturday [Haitham Imad/EPA]
@palestine
#Gaza
#ColumbiaUniversity
#students
#protest
Every university protest against the genocide in Gaza has specific demands.
Each group wants their university to do something specific.
At UT Austin in Texas, for instance, the protesters have called for the school to divest from Israeli weapons manufacturers. I'll say that again. The school has official working agreements with weapons manufacturers that are currently being used to kill Gazans.
If your argument against students is "they're just using this as an excuse to not to go to class and just want to cause disruption" then you are either being lied to or you are the one lying to others.
If you have not heard of the specific demands and terms of what would stop the protests...
...then you might want to question where you get your news and what other propaganda you have consumed and currently believe.
“The Board and the Governor have put their politics over justice and made a mockery of our legal system.”
Yesterday, Governor Greg Abbott issued a full pardon for Daniel Perry, who killed Garrett Foster, a protester at a Black Lives Matter march in 2020. Special Investigative Correspondent @stevanzetti explains all the context the governor ignored: https://www.texasobserver.org/abbott-pardon-daniel-perry-garrett-foster/
#news #politics #USpol #GregAbbott #BlackLivesMatter #protest #GunViolence #Texas
“Of all people, you have a #disability so you can relate, I hope.”
Out today from Austin Free Press: Disability rights activists protested outside the Governor's Mansion, for the "liberation" of more people from institutions, marking the anniversary of a key #SCOTUS decision:
https://austinfreepress.org/wheres-abbott-austin-disability-activists-picket-one-of-their-own-at-governors-mansion/
#news #politics #activism #health #HumanRights #disabled #protest #GregAbbott #USpol #politics #law #CivilRights
As I've mentioned before, I think there really is something to the idea that we should be fighting climate crisis by going after banks, and not just fossil fuel companies, and as such I am pretty excited about the “Summer of Heat” civil disobedience campaign going on right now, that does precisely that.
Activists Are Bringing the Heat to the Banks Funding Climate Crisis
"Backed by a coalition of more than 80 climate and racial justice groups, the “Summer of Heat” is convening every day on Wall Street all summer to take direct action against the financial institutions bankrolling the oil and gas industry. At the center of activists’ divestment demands is Citibank, the second largest financier of fossil fuels worldwide.
In an age of widespread climate nihilism, there is real reason to think that this campaign in particular could successfully push Citibank to change course on investing in fossil fuels. The multigenerational, multiracial, cross-class movement is highly strategic in its embrace of nonviolent direct action, marking “the first time in history that climate activists will hold an entire season of sustained civil disobedience protests targeting Wall Street and big banks for their role in fueling the climate crisis.” There is a track record of similar campaigns getting big wins. And there are signs that Citi is starting to crack under the sustained pressure."
Although corporate media is trying not to report it, and nihilists will tell you this sort of thing doesn't work, the fact is that disrupting the large financial institutions that underwrite the companies boiling us all like soup for five pennies a share *does* have a recent track record of success; as this very article notes similar campaigns have knocked banks like HSBC and Barclays out of the financing new oil and gas wells business, to say nothing of historically successful actions that forced banks to divest from coal, or even stop bankrolling businesses and investments in apartheid South African - a model that student protestors all across America have being trying to replicate by demanding their colleges and universities divest from Israel over its ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and its maintenance of an apartheid state in the occupied territories.
This stuff works, and the hundreds of Summer of Heat protestors who've already been arrested for these nonviolent protests are relying on us, the people, to get the word out about these actions and the establishment's repressive response to them to make these tactics more effective - because the universe knows corporate media sure isn't going to tell folks about it unless they don't have a choice.
"Still, Summer of Heat activists are determined to persist with their chosen tactics. In July, Citi obtained a restraining order against one 63-year-old protester named John Mark Rozendaal, a grandfather, professional cellist and adjunct music instructor at Princeton University. Flying in the face of the order, Rozendaal returned to the Citi headquarters on August 8 to perform J.S. Bach’s “Suites for Cello” in the bank’s public plaza. At Citi’s behest, the New York City Police Department arrested Rozendaal, who now faces up to seven years in prison.
“Rather than engage on the merits of their arguments and acknowledge the role they play, Citibank has chosen to unleash a brutal police crackdown on organizers,” New York City Council Member Alexa Avilés said in a statement. “You cannot incarcerate your way to a livable planet. I am calling on Citibank to drop the charges and commit to meeting our shared vision of a livable planet for generations to come.”
The simple truth is that they can't arrest us all; tell your friends about the Summer of Heat, the police violence being used to try and stop it, and fight climate crisis by protesting banks that fund fossil fuel production today!
#ClimateCrisis #SummerOfHeat #Citibank #WallStreet #DirectAction #Protest
This is how MLK was depicted in 1967 to scare white Americans, in case there’s any confusion about the strategy:
#BLM #BlackLivesMatter #MLK #Protest
The #documentary film that I'm featured in is now available for #free viewing:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb4q_dXo7Bw
It includes footage & shared #deforestation issues with the #Amazon. It's all connected.
I'm holding back tears near the end of it. I was arrested a few days after doing the documentary film interview at gate to River & Landback resistance camps.
#DocFilms #EcoFlix #FreeDocumentary #DirectAction #ClimateAction #blockade #FairyCreekBlockade #Comrades #CorporateMercenaries #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #PortRenfrew #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Activists #Protest #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNewDeathParty #BCForestryReform #FuckTheBCGovernment #CDNpoli #BigotsWithBadges #KKKanada #ACAB #BritishColumbia #ColonialResistance #FuckTheRCMP #FlashbackFriday #AmazonWatch
From Ben HsuBorger at #MEAction:
"Why I Joined a Stand Up for Science Rally"
https://www.meaction.net/2025/03/12/why-i-joined-a-stand-up-for-science-rally/
"I have lived as an ME/CFS 'spoonie' for the past 20 years after I got a virus and never recovered. I’ve spent much of the past 10 years of my career advocating for ME/CFS research at the NIH"
"I don’t want to see the same scientific harms that have happened in the ME community become even more widespread across all of science"
@mecfs
We need more of this. People need to stop complying and start fighting.
(H/T @lavaeolus)
If you think Americans aren't doing anything and nobody is protesting, that's understandable. Corporate media and a lot of billionaire owned social media want you to think we're all just sitting on our hands.
There are protests going on right now. And there will be protests Wednesday at noon in every state capital. I'm going to mine.
Hey fellow Americans! Please show up for your state's 50501 protest on Wednesday at your state capitol building.
50 states, 50 protests, 1 day.
I know it's a work day for most, but it's happening from 12-7pm. If it's possible, show up and let your voice be heard.
Bonus points: print some copies of the poster for your state and put them up them around your town!
Please boost. We desperately need some anti-fash energy.
I am going to revive my #Youtube channel and start posting there as well.
#clapper is fun, but I made that because of how low the barrier of entry was. It was the easiest #app to just grab and start #livestreaming with, and allows adult content so if something crazy happens at a #protest I don't lose my channel.
If I want to stream I need to use #twitch and YouTube, they are just harder to get into.
Clapper is a bit ghetto really xD
🚨 The Hands Off! protests are tomorrow, Saturday, April 5 🚨
Find one near you -
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/
Can't attend in person? There's a virtual event:
"Hands Off! Disabled Community Fights Back"
2 - 4 PM Pacific Time
Virtual Event
Join from anywhere!
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/event/770700/
#USpol #HandsOff #Protest #Resist #Virtual #Disabled #Disability #Accessibility
Today's Seattle Children's Hospital protest in support of gender affirming care for trans youth was 
awesome
- There were at least 900 people there! 
- So many cars honking and waving!
- Exactly *one* car flipping us off! 😘
#Seattle #Protest #ProtectTransYouth #Trans #LGBTQ #SeattleChildrensHospital
