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Keep seeing people ask why European students are not also protesting. Here is a brief list of some examples of students protesting in the countries USAmericans think of when they say "Europe". This doesn't include the student groups that I've seen participating in the regular (sometimes weekly) mass marches in some cities.

UK

Students from the University of Leeds and at Goldsmiths occupied campus buildings (Feb and March 2024)

Students also held a national strike day for Palestine (Feb 2024)

Students from colleges (~16-18 year olds) and universities staged walkouts in four different cities (Nov 2023)

Even children went out to protest (Feb 2024)

Students in London marched in December

SOAS students held a solidarity rally in October

France

Protests at Sciences Po have held several protests since November

At the Sorbonne too in November

These November protests were simultaneously held in universities across the country

And though the French love a good clash with riot police, there have also been campus candlelight vigils and flags put up

Spain

University students went on strike in October

Secondary school students did the same in November

Student organisations participated in a week of Basque-Palestinian solidarity in February (it feels so wrong to put them under this header in this context....)

Germany

Student protests (Feb)

And more (March)

And more (Nov, & this source article is awful btw)

Also an occupation of a campus building (December)

In an environment where pro-Palestinian views can get you into trouble

Italy

Heavy-handed policing in response to protesting secondary school students in Pisa (Feb)

Students interrupting conference in Turin (April)

More protests in Florence (Nov)

Mass protests in various cities in October

And students on hunger strike in Rome

& More!

Sit-ins on campus in Antwerp, Belgium (November)

Students involved in marches in Czechia (October)

Academics demanding Uppsala University (one of the spiritual homes for the academic study of peace and ending conflicts!) respond to the genocide

In sum, if you say "why aren't students in x country protesting too", the answer is they have been, you just only read USAmerican news

#palestine #gaza #academia #university #protest

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i hope that the discussion about student protests does not get reduced to "privileged rich kids faffing around at an ivy league school." setting aside that tenuous claim, over the last week, protests have erupted over the entire country. a few days ago, riot police beat, pepper-sprayed, and arrested NYU faculty shielding students; protests started at the university of southern california when the admin cancelled the valedictorian's speech; encampments appeared at the university of southern carolina, UT dallas, the university of maryland, the university of new mexico, IUPUI, virginia tech, the university of virginia, the university of illinois, the university of north carolina — chapel hill, the university of pittsburgh, uc berkeley, the university of michigan — ann arbor, MIT, emerson, tufts, the university of rochester, rice, swarthmore, the new school, vanderbilt university, with students arrested; students protested or walked out at miami university, northwestern, temple, the 5 claremont colleges: pomona, pitzer, scripps, harvey mudd, and claremont mckenna, stanford, washington university in st louis, students were arrested at ohio state, students were confronted by riot police at cal poly humboldt, after which they occupied campus, students were arrested at the university of minnesota — twin cities, after which faculty walked out; and yes, there are protests at the other ivies, most notably yale, with students facing mass arests after encampments, but there is also an encampment at brown, protests appeared at cornell, princeton faculty issued a statement of solidarity while students are preparing an encampment, and harvard banned the undergraduate palestine solidarity committee. there are thousands of students who are protesting for palestine across the entire country, facing harassment, arrest, and suspension in return

#palestine #gaza #academia #protest #gradblr #university

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– Jacques Derrida’s library

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the stuff going on at columbia campus rn is genuinely incredible

#Palestine #Gaza #Academia #Studyblr

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Invisible Cities

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hey boss i can't come in today it's a sunny day and there's a lovely breeze coming in through my window, yeah it's rustling the branches of the tree outside that's finally bloomed so it's pretty serious

#the secret strength of things #capitalism #light #lumière

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Bird in the Bush, Kenneth Rexroth, 1955

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the contents page of Pictures & Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings by James Elkins

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In a still-provocative text published in 1939, Sam Moss, a member of a council communist group in the USA, mercilessly undermined the significance which “revolutionaries” and “revolutionary groups” assign themselves.

Moss starts off from how the problem appears: on the one hand, there is a “we” — that of “revolutionaries” — and on the other, there are the masses or the working class. The former wish to overthrow capitalism but are incapable of doing so, while the latter, the only possible agent of a revolutionary struggle, are concerned with everyday needs and not the revolution. Asking himself about the reason for this apparent difference in objectives between the masses and “revolutionists”, he argues that while the masses are socialised by capitalist culture to “play the role of machines”, the “revolutionists” are a harmless “byproduct”. For Moss the masses are an understandable product of the society while the “revolutionists” are merely “deviations from the working class” representing “isolated cases of workers who, because of unique circumstances in their individual lives, have diverged from the usual course of development”.

Going further, Moss suggests the ground of the difference is that the “revolutionists” are “unsuccessful careerists” — workers who have acquired an intellectual interest and a higher level of education than their fellows, but whose personal advance has been blocked. He continues that although their efforts to help the rest of the class may appear to come “from the noblest of motives, certainly it doesn’t take much to see that one suffers for another only when he has identified that other’s sorrow with his own”.

We unhappy few

#Endnotes #Sam Moss #On the impotence of revolutionary groups #capitalism #Marxism #anarcho communism #Communism #Anarchism #academia #university #gradblr #studyblr #Living Marxism

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#silent hill 2 #silent hill #the day of night #fatigue #akira yamaoka

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this is a fascist death machine that mechanizes and abstracts the process of mass murder, anyone still hesitant to compare this to nazism is willfully delusional

#military industrial complex #Palestine #Gaza #free gaza

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breakfast before heading to the fields

#personal #the secret strength of things

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Franz Wright, Walking to Martha's Vineyard

#franz wright #On earth #dark #death #litblr #bookblr #american poetry #american literature #studyblr #gradblr

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Hey so Goldsmiths University is an international bastion of arts & humanities, and social sciences research and education. The senior management team is cutting up to 50% of those departments. If these cuts go through, it spells devastation for arts education around the world.

You want to be upset about the death of media literacy and arts at the hands of AI? Do something about it. Sign and share please! Save Goldsmiths, save arts education. More details in the open letter.

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#Glenn Gould

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Ships logs from 18th/19th centuries vs 1945

#colonialism #18th #19th #maps

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"More than 87% of University and College Union (UCU) members at the south London institution voted for strike action in a ballot with a turnout of 69%, as well as backing action short of a strike, such as a boycott on marking papers and submissions.

The ballot is in response to what the union described as “extraordinary cuts” under consultation that would lead to almost half the academics in the schools of arts and humanities, culture and society, professional studies, and science technology being axed, representing a cut of 91.5 from 262.9 full-time staff members, and one in six academics at the institution."

#academia #university #strike #studyblr #gradblr #litblr #grad student #grad school #travail