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columbia administration is threatening to call in the national guard tonight

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Academics and scholars have vowed to boycott Columbia University over its repressive policies against protesting students in shocking scenes that have sparked a wider student movement for Palestine across the US.

Over the past 24 hours, student encampments have mushroomed in colleges - on the east coast, in particular - with more anticipated to begin over the next few days. Middle East Eye is aware of at least two other universities that are planning similar encampments which have not been announced yet.

Student encampments demanding divestment from companies involved in Israel's occupation of Palestinian land and "genocide" in Gaza have popped up at the Massachusetts Insitute of Technology (MIT); Tufts and Emerson in Boston; New York University and The New School in New York City; Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tennessee; Yale University in Connecticut; University of California-Berkeley; The University of Michigan; Washington University in St Louis; and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[...]

The targeting of students, the attacks on academic freedom and the policing of speech at the university from administrators has also drawn condemnation from several academics and scholars with ties with Columbia.

On Monday, academic Marc Lamont Hill, presidential professor at CUNY, said he would be pulling out of his scheduled lecture from Columbia over the ongoing repression at the university.

Faculty at Columbia and Barnard College on Monday staged a walkout in support of students.

Hours earlier, the Graduate Center Program in English announced a full academic boycott of Columbia and Barnard College "until they reinstate suspended students and respond to their demands: transparency, divestment, liberation".

Several others have released public statements cutting ties with the prestigious university.

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umm sorry for always making posts i've yet to get paid and i am just really hungry, i have no food available in the house, can anyone spare a few $$ so i can get delivery? i should be able to get groceries soon but i'd appreciate help w food tonight ^_^

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this is so on the nose

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Extreme poverty should not exist, period. The fact that up to 17 percent of the world population lives in extreme poverty today (according to Robert Allen’s data on cost-of-basic-needs poverty) should be understood as an indictment of our economic system. It is a sign that severe social dislocation remains institutionalized in the capitalist world economy. Yes, the prevalence of extreme poverty is lower today than it was at the height of the colonial period, but this is not sufficient reason for celebration. The colonial high-water mark was an effect of capitalist policy and should never have existed.

Furthermore, extreme poverty can and should be ended immediately. It does not require further increases in aggregate production, it does not require a massive mobilization of charity; rather, it requires no more than restoring people’s access to the basic resources they need for survival. The existing world economy, despite its extraordinary output, appears incapable of achieving this basic objective: projections indicate that with existing trends it will take at least forty years to end extreme poverty, even according to the World Bank’s inadequate metric (three decades later than promised by the sustainable development goals), and possibly as long as a century. This should be condemned as a failure. Instead, we are enjoined to accept as “normal” a form of suffering that need not exist and can be ended immediately. What is required? We must ensure peasants have access to productive land, workers have secure employment and living wages, and universal access to affordable housing and food. This is not complicated, it is basic.

Jason Hickel and Dylan Sullivan, Capitalism, Global Poverty, and the Case for Democratic Socialism

#poverty wont end without abolishing work. entirely but otherwise i agree

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its 4/20 please take some time to remember everyone that has died / been incarcerated / lost any chance at a normal life for your right to smoke ur fuckin mids.

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JK Rowling decided to continue denying Nazi persecution of trans people, so I updated the list to 55 names I could personally confirm the status of. Added some new colorized photos, too! This is only a fraction of 160+ known trans individuals located by activist Jako Wende, which itself is a fraction of the true scope of anti-trans persecution during the Third Reich. Check it out: http://elierlick.com/transholocaust/

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Liberals will say shit like "Yeah, well Trump would be doing so much worse right now" while Biden and the Democrats pull shit like this

Fuck you and your lesser-evilism. I refuse to do the math you want me to. The appropriate level of fascism is zero. If you don't believe that, line up with the fascists and follow your leader.

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Please share this around

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"Policing" permeates the logic of every social relation, and frames our movement through this world. 'Police' is not a job title but rather a description of a series of social relations and actions, police is an act, a living breathing methodology, and a medium of communication. Police is something people do, are doing, have done, not something they are.

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Hierarchy:

A system in which people, groups, or things are ranked one above another according to status or authority

if the hierarchy is a social system that ranks groups of people, the group at the apex maintains and enforces said hierarchy through economic or cultural coercion,

the coercion is justified through a paradox of self-justification

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Patriarchy is more than sexism.

Heteronormativity is more than homophobia

Cisnormativity is more than transphobia

White Supremacy is more than racism

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Patriarchy, heteronormativity, cisnormativity and white supremacy are the names used to describe these hierarchical systems

Sexism, homophobia, transphobia and racism are words used to describe components within these systems

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EGALITARIAN PERSPECTIVE ON PATRIARCHY:

A social system that enforces a hierarchy of genders is morally wrong, harmful to human beings, and must be opposed

If patriarchy is enforced, it can be dismantled and replaced

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HIERARCHICAL PERSPECTIVE ON PATRIARCHY:

The hierarchy of genders is morally good, and upsetting this hierarchy is harmful to society (e.g., traditionalist family unit)

Patriarchy is not enforced, and therefore doesn't exist.

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NATURAL HIERARCHY JUSTIFICATION:

Social hierarchies are natural outcomes and are devoid of malicious human manipulation

Ergo, social hierarchies are not immoral, and dismantling them is harmful and potentially immoral

(Both operate under some variant of the "just world fallacy")

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Living in Portland, Oregon which is a solid Democratic Party city definitely breaks your illusions that the party is progressive. Portland is a miniature police state that gentrifies, pushes around the homeless, and allows neo-Nazis to attack its civilians while the police watch approvingly. We’ve had Nazi sympathizers in high level positions within the police force. Our police union has been on an unofficial slowdown since the 2020 Uprisings to collectively punish the city for revolting for over a hundred nights. Our mayor is also our police commissioner.

January 6th wouldn’t have happened if the Proud Boys weren’t allowed to rally and recruit around assaulting Portland. That built their strength. Democratic Party leadership in this city is not only complacent in resurgent fascism it’s an active collaborator.

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A Modern Anarchism (Part 3): Revolution

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you can’t tell me that ableism isn’t as important as any other social struggle it’s when one of the main things reactionaries love to engage in to insult their political enemies.

transphobes regularly accuse trans people of being mentally ill, racists insist that black folk are mentally deficient, and misogynists will believe that women are “hysterical”/and emotionally unstable. not even non-humans are safe from it — wild animals are classified as inferior lifeforms due to their relative lack of intelligence or physical abilities, and thus ripe for exploitation by the “superior” (ostensibly able-bodied, sane, white and cishet,) human.

If someone is part of a marginalized group, you can bet ableism will follow and inform the character of their attacks on them. as such, all of these issues are intertwined with ableism. focusing on just one form of exploitation while leaving ableism intact and unaddressed is a futile endeavor.

however, we should be wary: this type of behavior isn’t exclusive to “the right” — cops and politicians are regularly called “psychopaths”, ignoring the reality that the vast majority of actual psychopaths are not inherently violent or abusive.

in an attempt to insult them, radicals resort to claiming that authoritarians and bigots are just “idiots”, but this shifts focus away from their hatefulness and targets their alleged lack of intelligence instead.

the problem with this is that it gives us the false impression that the right isn’t to be taken seriously, that it’s ok to underestimate them, that they are easy to outsmart and unable to devise complex strategies or organizations, when this is demonstrably untrue, and can be a fatal mistake during conflicts.

this framing also suggests anyone who is considered intelligent must have leftist values, when this is also untrue. doctors, scientists, engineers and scholars can each be abusive or conservatives in their own right. their academic achievements has no real bearing on their political leanings.

take ableism seriously.

resist the urge to call your political enemies ableist slurs. don’t fall into the trap of believing that ableism can be a tool for liberation or to score points against others during arguments. If disabled people aren’t free, none of us are.