So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)
Bit telling that for years and years evangelical religious extremists have been allowed on university campuses with their bullhorns and horrific imagery where they harass students into physical altercations and when students complain to the university’s administration they just shrug their shoulders citing freedom of speech but when those same tuition-paying students start protesting against war and genocide they call SWAT
If you're having trouble keeping up with what's going on in Palestine because of US news coverage of university protests, here are some articles you can read and a video you can watch:
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While CNN & all the other mainstream media try to paint the university protests as "pro terrorism" (which they're not, they're literally anti-war protests.) Palestinians are being slaughtered by the minute.
Footage of Caroline Fohlin, an economics professor at Atlanta-Emory University, being pinned to concrete and detained by the police during demonstrations in support of Gaza.
UCLA launched their Gaza Solidarity Encampment today. Their demands are as follows:
1. DIVEST: Withdraw all UCLA Foundation funds from companies & institutions that are complicit in the israeli occupation, apartheid, & genocide
2. DISCLOSE: Provide full transparency to all UC-wide & UCLA Foundation
3. END POLICING: End targeted repression & policing of pro-Palestinian advocacy on campus, & sever all ties w/ LAPD
4. BOYCOTT: Sever all connections to israeli universities, including study abroad programs, fellowships, seminars, research partnerships, & UCLA’s Nazarian Center.
5. END THE SILENCE: Call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and end to the occupation and genocide in Palestine.
Every time someone talks about how it's our "purpose" or how we're "meant to" to reproduce, I want to tear my reproductive organs out and slam them down on the table.