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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumslist of the 47 colleges/universities that experienced some type of protest or encampment
Where the police have intervenedColumbia University in Manhattan
Emory University in Atlanta
University of Southern California in Los Angeles
Emerson College in Boston
University of Texas at Austin
Princeton University in New Jersey
California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt in Arcata
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Ohio State University in Columbus
Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill
Washington University in St. Louis
New York University in Manhattan
Yale University in New Haven, Conn.
Other schools where protesters have set up encampments
Harvard in Cambridge, Mass
Brown University in Providence, R.I..
University of California, Los Angeles: .
Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.
Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan:
Florida State University in Tallahassee:
City College of New York in Manhattan:
George Washington University in Washington
University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia:
Michigan State University in East Lansing
University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y.:
Tufts University in Medford, Mass.
University of Delaware in Newark:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge
The New School in Manhattan:
The University of California, Berkeley:
University of Michigan in Ann Arbor:
University of North Carolina at Charlotte:.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Rice University in Houston:
University of Pittsburgh: V
Indiana University in Bloomington
Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pa.
Schools with other forms of protest
University of Florida in Gainesville
University of Maryland in College Park
American University in Washington
University of Texas at Dallas
University of Texas at San Antonio
University of New Mexico in Albuquerque
University of Texas at Arlington
University of Southern Maine in Portland
Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind.
Loyola University in Chicago
University of California, Santa Barbara
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/us/pro-palestinian-encampments-protests.html
OAITW r.2.0
(24,672 posts)That would explain a lot.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(8,105 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(24,672 posts)LeftInTX
(25,607 posts)They were planning an occupation for quite awhile. So, they decided to bulk order a bunch of tents.
They decided to set up the day their president testified at the Capitol for maximum publicity.
Irish_Dem
(47,518 posts)We can guess, the usual suspects.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,672 posts)Facts and names are needed.
ecstatic
(32,745 posts)the event?
OAITW r.2.0
(24,672 posts)These details usually get vacuumed up and then fit into the picture.
Irish_Dem
(47,518 posts)Who benefits and how?
Who has the money and organizational skills?
Who can deploy this operation quickly?
Who wishes to break the Dem party in two?
Who wishes to damage Biden?
Who wishes to make democracy look weak?
Develop a short list of suspects, rank order them based on probability.
Boots on the ground can find out easily who is organizing and funding this.
Ping Tung
(739 posts)The hawks used the same "payoff", "funding:, B.S, back then when the slaughter was taking place in Asia.
Wanna stop the protests? Stop the war.
David__77
(23,553 posts)I understand that that may be hard to fathom.
TBF
(32,111 posts)they have kind of a primitive website - but kids tend to talk on apps anyway - snapchat, etc (https://nationalsjp.org/about)
On over 200 campuses so they are all over. The real question would be who is funding.
Doc Sportello
(7,533 posts)It's the Communists I tell you. Or antifa. Maybe the Black Panthers too.
Good grief. This sounds like what the right wingers did to the Vietnam protestors. Were the civil rights protests of the 60s "funded" by some nefarious "outsiders"? Maybe MLK was a secret agent of some global cabal. Oh, there are TENTS, TENTS I tell you. That could be people are coordinating on the internet. Young people do that you know. The speculating on some grand conspiracy by these college students and their "secret handlers" is just ridiculous. No better than the Q anon types. Sorry, green tents do not show some great conspiracy.
Ping Tung
(739 posts)JI7
(89,279 posts)Ping Tung
(739 posts)LeftInTX
(25,607 posts)Heck even after 911, tons of support for Muslims on college campuses.
Outside of universities, it's different.
The last 25 years on college campuses have had lots of Muslim influence. In 2015, my son was a minority. He's Hispanic in a 70% Hispanic town. Most of engineering graduates were Arab or Indian and some from China.
I don't know of huge mass protests against Palestinians on college campuses. Never saw it in the 70's. We had small groups of Palestinian protesters back then. No one protested against them. We had a very large Jewish student population from Chicago too. They didn't harass the Palestinians.
The Jewish students can't even manage to get a group of more than a handful of counter protesters while the pro-Palestinians at UT yesterday had 500. An Israeli student at UT, has a Palestinian professor teaching him history of Israel.
Big Blue Marble
(5,152 posts)are intelligent and sensitive enough to know the difference between
people who are ethnically Jewish and the far-right rogue Israeli
Government who is slaughtering and starving children.
They are asking that our government and our institutions stop
giving the Israeli Governments the means to kill children and
continue the apartheid against the Palestinians.
WHAT ARE THE PROTESTERS DEMANDING?
Across campuses where protests have broken out, students have issued calls for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, an end to U.S. military assistance for Israel, university divestment from arms suppliers and other companies profiting from the war, and an amnesty for students and faculty members who have been disciplined or fired for protesting.
WHO ARE THE PROTESTERS?
Pro-Palestinian protests have drawn students and faculty of various backgrounds, including of Jewish and Muslim faiths. The groups organizing the protests include Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace.
The encampments have also attracted a diverse array of teach-ins, interfaith prayers, and musical performances.
Organizers have widely disavowed violence against pro-Israel counter-protesters, although some Jewish students have said they feel unsafe on campus and unnerved by chants they say are antisemitic.
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