Mario Savio giving a speech at Berkeley in 1964 during an occupation of the university
There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part!
You can't even passively take part!
And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus -- and you've got to make it stop!
And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it -- that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all!!
"Like I'd... die here. If I am killed you'll be unstoppable. I need to keep watching... until they graduate... and become heroes! I still need... the one in the way... the one in the way is you!"
Imagine how many people JUST LIKE HER are in ICU, TRAUMA, BIRTH AND DELIVERY, NICU, STEP-DOWN UNITS, PYSCH WARDS, ELDERLY CARE, OBGYN, CARDIOLOGY, POST OP CARE, etc…
Stokely Carmichael [Kwame Ture], (1965, 1971), The Black American and Palestinian Revolutions [Organization of Arab Students (O.A.S.) Convention, Ann Arbor, MI, August 25-31, 1968], in Stokely Speaks. Black Power Back to Pan-Africanism, Random House, New York, NY, 1971, pp. 131-143
Forgot to post yesterday because I was so busy. But I have gotten a huge number of things done over the past 2 days, it has been amazing! Here are some of the things I have done~!
Detail cleaned my floors.
Washed the dishes.
Detail cleaned my bathroom.
Made a study schedule for A&P 2 (I failed A&P 1)
Done some planning for my wedding.
Bought groceries.
Done a couple loads of laundry.
And that is only a small portion of the list.
I plan to keep doing the days of productivity but may do them sporadically and with a couple days at a time.
Note : Until the page break, NONE of these points are opinions - they are all facts, with citations. Opinions are after the page break.
October 25, 2022
Penn State University :
1. Proud Boys founder invited to give a speech
2. Proud Boys are "labeled a terrorist organization by New Zealand and Canada" (but not in the US)
3. Turnout = 100s of students
4. Protests turned violent
5. Charges : 1 criminal, 0 suspensions/expulsions/other sanctions by Penn State
April 4, 2024
Columbia University :
1. Khaled Barakat, alleged member of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, invited to "Resistance 101" event
2. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine "been designated by the United States as a terrorist organization" (but nowhere else in the world)
3. Turnout = none, event canceled
4. No violence
5. Charges : Initial 6 suspensions, final - 4 students with indefinite suspensions
April 18, 2024
University of Southern California (USC) :
1. Asna Tabassum noted as valedictorian for Class of 2024 (speech not yet written)
2. Known to be Muslim, wears a hijab, publicly pro-Palestinian (none of which classifies her as a terrorist)
3. Turnout = none in person, "complaints" online by pro-Israel groups
4. No violence
5. Charges : none but the valedictorian speech was canceled
April 19, 2024
Columbia University :
1. Pro Palestine student demonstrator occupied Columbia University lawn for over 30 hours
2. No organization affiliated with the protest, including Columbia University Apartheid Divest, have been linked to terrorism
3. Turnout = 100s of students
4. No violence
5. Charges : suspensions (unclear whether separate from April 4 suspensions), 100+ students arrested
End facts.
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So. Let's compare.
Yes, the three universities are different in location however... both Columbia University and Penn State used to boast a liberal arts education. "Such colleges aim to impart a broad general knowledge and develop general intellectual capacities, in contrast to a professional or vocational curriculum" per Wikipedia.
Hmm.... you'd think freedom of speech is included in this, no? Which Penn State demonstrated by issuing a statement, paraphrasing, they do not agree with the Proud Boys but for the sake of freedom of speech, they approved the event. Only after students protested (with violence), it was canceled.
I'm not gonna analyze more because if the above facts aren't CRYSTAL CLEAR to you... I don't know what else to say. Again - the top part had none of my actual opinion, simply facts I took from various news articles (including the direct source at the university, when possible).
if someone came to your home and told you you had to get out because their parents lived there 50 years ago, you would call the police on them. you would think they are insane. you would rightly think they are out of their minds because having people who once lived in a place a hundred years ago does not give anyone today the right to take someone else's property. however, israel has been spreading the lie that somehow having people who lived on a land 3000 years ago gives them the right to take it from the indigenous population through theft, murder, gr@pe, and worse. i'm so proud of these university kids for seeing the truth.
Nationally, hate crimes against Jews are at shockingly high and disproportionate levels, with four times as many anti-Jewish crimes as anti-Muslim and anti-Arab crimes combined. One need only look at some of the recent scenes on campus, such as anti-Israel demonstrators besieging Jewish students locked in a room at Cooper Union, to understand why Jewish students are afraid.
Moreover, it is not the pro-Israel rallies and activists that have regularly descended into violence, intimidation, and vandalism — or barrages of antisemitic and genocidal chants.
It is the Jewish students who are being attacked at their own rallies or while putting up posters of innocent Israeli civilians taken hostage by Hamas. It is Jewish students who are being forced to reject a central part of their Jewish identity if they want to participate in university functions.
We know where much of this hate is coming from. As shown by one study, the presence of the major anti-Israel student organization, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), is one of the best predictors for the perception of a hostile climate for Jews on campuses.
As one New York appellate court ruling explained, a university’s conclusion that an SJP chapter would “work against, rather than enhance [a university’s] commitment [to] open dialogue” was “not without sound basis in reason” nor “taken without regard to the facts.”
Which brings us to the “cry” part of “crybully.”
Anti-Israel activists shriek and howl over alleged threats to their free speech. But the evidence is thin that there is any reason for anti-Israel students to feel that their freedom of expression is under any serious threat on campus.
Moves against various SJP chapters on universities have not been on the basis of their beliefs or expression, but rather their violations of legitimate university rules, and even plausible arguments that National SJP has run afoul of the Anti-Terrorism Act.