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ellevandersneed · 6 days

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a lot of the coverage of the Palestinian genocide is focusing on the US student protests and the narrative is constantly in danger of shifting away from what the protests are actually about and a lot of the language is now speaking in terms of police brutality, silencing of free speech, etc. It's not a radical thing to say that this isn't exactly helpful to the Palestinian cause if the actual reasons for the protests aren't constantly front and center. A lot of people have already made this point. I do not think the genie can necessarily be put back in the bottle with how the protests and the police reaction to them are entering the public consciousness of the USian people. A lot of people are or will become aware of these protests through the lense of these simply being instances of police brutality, and police brutality is a critical issue that many USamericans are very passionate about thus making it difficult to reframe the context of these images of police slamming white professors into pavement towards awareness of Israels decades long illegal occupation and systematic and indiscriminate displacement and murder of Palestinians. What I feel needs to be done is try to reframe these images flooding the internet not *away* from issues of police brutality and homesoil fascism, but in the wider context of imperialist governments taking the lessons they learn oppressing "foreign peoples" and turning them inwards. That police brutality is not disconnected from imperialist mass murder. That the one thing connecting the assaulted USian protester and the trans israeli denied gender affirming care for refusing to serve in the fascist Israeli military and the Palestinian child buried alive for the crime of being Palestinian... the one thing connecting them is that, sooner or later, they are all victims of power. Our rights are granted to us inequitably, unevenly, and are just as quickly stripped away when we do not serve the interests of fascist power. We are either a tool of the state or an enemy of the state. The Palestinian, not the innocent or the guilty but the human being Palestinian, is murdered because she can not be useful to the state while she is still breathing. She can never have the "privilege" of being a tool. I'll say it again: We outside of Palestine who can go to protests, who have families, who are able bodied, who can work, who can keep their head down or speak without immediate retaliation have the "honor" of choosing to be a tool of the state or an enemy of the state. The Palestinian has no choice.

There will always be an armed cop ready to arrest you and kill your brother as long as there is a bomb ready to drop on the heads of Palestinian children. Fascism trickles up and inward.

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girlactionfigure · 4 days

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Another video from yesterday's unique situation at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill (the one that produced the "picture of the year" 👆 according to many Americans).

Patriotic American students protect the US flag and keep it from touching the ground while the anti-Israeli students curse them, throw bottles at them and splash water at them.

The Israeli flag is also part of the situation.

There are reports on social media that hundreds of thousands of dollars have been donated by Americans to the group that defended the flag.

It inspires great pride in the American public.

Thanks to follower Y for the video.

#University of North Carolina #Chapel Hill #US Flag

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oddwomen · 3 months

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1979

#1979 #1970s #70s #vintage #women #vintage women #color #University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill #University of North Carolina #North Carolina #Chapel Hill #college #yearbook #~

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catdotjpeg · 17 days

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from Chapel Hill to NYC, we are all SJP ❗️ MOMENTUM [IS] BUILDING ❗️

-- National Students for Justice in Palestine, 19 Apr 2024 12:22 PM EDT

#palestine #usa #north carolina #chapel hill #new york #new york city #nyc #columbia university #youth activism

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secondaryartifacts · 8 months

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Front page of The Daily Tar Heel – independent student newspaper for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – for Wednesday August 30, 2023 is a collection of text messages sent and received by students on Monday during an active shooter school lockdown. A faculty member was killed by a student with a gun. Our son was in lock down for three hours in a building near Caudill Laboratory where the shooting took place. Professor Dr. Zijie Yan was killed; he is survived by his wife, a professor at NC State, and their two daughters, ages 2 and 7. All Chapel Hill-Carrboro area primary schools also went on lock down procedures for many hours and school release was delayed – it was the first day of school for these students, kindergarten through twelfth grade. It was the start of the second week of classes for the Tar Heels.

It was the sixth school shooting in the United States of America this month alone. When is enough?

#unc #the daily Tar Heel #student newspaper #text messages #active shooter #gun violence #chapel hill

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caintooth · 1 month

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NORTH CAROLINA FRIENDS!

This event has been organized by a good buddy of mine, and my partner and I are going to be there volunteering + selling our zines :)

Please send this to your local friends as well.

If you can come, let me know! We’d love to see you.

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frenchcurious · 1 year

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Taylor House designed by architects George Matsumoto & John Latimer in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1953 Photo: Kate Thompson. - source MCM Daily.

#george matsumoto #john latimer #chapel hill #north carolina

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faguscarolinensis · 3 months

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Crocus chrysanthus / Golden Crocus at the Coker Arboretum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, NC

#Crocus chrysanthus #Crocus #Flowers #Nature photography #photographers on tumblr #UNC-Chapel Hill #UNC #chapel hill #Chapel hill NC #North Carolina #Coker Arboretum

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cyarskj1899 · 8 months

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https://twitter.com/FOmyronpitts/status/1696849306496463168?s=20💔

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mostlysignssomeportents · 6 months

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Announcing The Lost Cause Tour: LA, Stratford, Concord, Simsbury, Toronto, New York and Chapel Hill!

I'll be at the Studio City branch of the LA Public Library on Monday, November 13 at 1830hPT to launch my new novel, The Lost Cause. There'll be a reading, a talk, a surprise guest (!!) and a signing, with books on sale. Tell your friends! Come on down!

There's just one week until my next novel, The Lost Cause, goes on sale, and I'm hitting the road with it! I hope you can make it out – tell your friends!

Los Angeles: I'll be at the Studio City branch of the LA Public Library on Monday, November 13 at 1830hPT; there'll be a reading, a talk, a surprise guest (!!) and a signing, with books on sale. Tell your friends! Come on down!

Stratford, Ontario: I'm onstage on November 16 at 19hET with Vass Bednar at the University of Waterloo Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business. I'll also be doing a talk for middle-schoolers at the Stratford Public Library on November 16 from 1330hET-1430hET.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cbc-ideas-visionaries-in-conversation-tickets-729692809837

Simsbury, CT: I'm at the Simsbury Public Library on November 20 at 19h.

Toronto, ON: I'm at the Metro Reference Library on November 22, at 19hET, hosted by Vass Bednar.

Toronto, ON: I'm hosting Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower, on November 27 at 19hET, at the Metro Reference Library.

New York City: I'm at the Strand Bookstore on November 29 at 19hET.

Chapel Hill, NC: I'm at Flyleaf Books on December 5, live with Sarah Taber, at 18hET.

If you don't see your city on this list, don't panic! I've got another tour coming in a couple of months, when The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, comes out in February:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/08/fiduciaries/#the-lost-cause

#pluralistic #Stratford #Concord #Simsbury #Toronto #New York #los angeles #chapel hill #the lost cause #clifi #hopepunk #solarpunk #science fiction

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lonesomelavender · 7 months

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North Carolina sapphics hmu please I'd like to know how many of us there are;_;