A t-shirt design I came up with and produced and sold by a vendor on Etsy.
#NoKings #DefendFreeSpeech #StopTheDeportations #StopTrumpsCutbacks
#LetGazaLive #NoArmsToIsrael
#HandsOffVenezuela
#politics #USpol @palestine
#graphic #GraphicTee #Tshirt
#Palestine #Gaza #Israel #Venezuela
Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats
Mark Bray was teaching courses on #antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night.
from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[shareable 30-day gift article]
By Sharon Otterman
Published Oct. 8, 2025 Updated Oct. 9, 2025, 2:54 AM ET
In the weeks after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, he has become a target of right-wing hate, accused of being a part of the movement he studied. Jack Posobiec, a right-wing influencer, called Dr. Bray a “domestic terrorist professor” on X. The #Rutgers chapter of #TurningPointUSA then circulated a petition accusing Dr. Bray of being an “outspoken, well-known #antifa member” and called for him to be fired.
“My role in this is as a professor,” Dr. Bray, an assistant teaching professor at Rutgers, said..
Trump’s Blueprint to Crush the Left Draws from Decades of #Counterterrorism Policy
Trump's NSPM-7 is a pivotal policy endangering free expression in the United States.
from #DropSiteNews
Chip Gibbons
Oct 03, 2025
If there was any question as to whether his Executive Order was merely bluster, #Trump clarified the matter three days later when he issued National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7). Bearing Trump’s signature, #NSPM7 was clearly drafted with a deep understanding of the #US counterterrorism bureaucracy. It seeks to “disrupt” not just those allegedly carrying out left-wing violence, but those who fund it and those who “radicalize” and recruit individuals to partake in it. It declares domestic terrorism to be a top priority and defines domestic terrorism priorities to include “civil unrest” and “doxing.”
#DefendDemocraticRights
#DefendFreeSpeech
#news #politics #USpol #repression
In the Aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s Murder: Defend Free Speech
By world-outlook.com on September 23, 2025
from #WorldOutlook
By Yvonne Hayes and Argiris Malapanis
[In my opinion, this is an outstanding article, even if a bit long.]
The September 10 assassination of right-wing “influencer” #CharieKirk was an attack on free speech of the most serious and dangerous kind. It should be unequivocally condemned. Kirk’s murder served up an excuse on a silver platter for the #Trump administration and its allies to accelerate their assault on #democraticrights. The White House is now using the horrendous killing to propel Trump’s drive toward autocratic rule.
No matter how odious one’s ideas, eliminating an opponent in an act of violence does nothing to advance the cause of justice. It sets back every effort to win public opinion to defend democracy, which is preferable to any kind of dictatorial rule.
https://world-outlook.com/2025/09/23/in-the-aftermath-of-charlie-kirks-murder-defend-free-speech/
Don't be fooled by the return of #JimmyKimmel
This is one battle, not the war.
Kimmel may be back, but the war can still be lost if TV hosts (and others) don't doubledown in speaking their minds.
For example, free speech is lost if:
- talent starts self-censoring
- shows start hosting rightwing spokegoblins (in particular, watch for Kirk's widow)
- shows don't get renewed
Palestinian student #MohsenMahdawi returns to Columbia University: ‘They have failed to silence me’
Mahdawi was targeted and arrested for deportation due to his activism but the permanent US resident is resuming postgraduate studies
Anna Betts
Tue 2 Sep 2025 16.33 ET
Mohsen Mahdawi, the 34-year-old #Palestinian student and #US permanent resident, returned to #ColumbiaUniversity on Tuesday and vowed to continue speaking out.
“They have failed to silence me, and in fact, now I am more outspoken than before, and I will continue to work for peace and justice. I do this work not for myself alone – I do this for the future of children, whether they are Palestinians or #Israelis,” he told the Guardian on Tuesday in his first interview since stepping back on to campus to begin his graduate studies.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/mohsen-mahdawi-columbia-university-palestinian
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#StopTheDeportations
#USA #USPol #politics
#Gaza #Palestine
#news #press @palestine
University of #Michigan still punishing pro-#Palestine students after graduating
Arbitration hearings carried out this summer are overreach, former students say
from #MiddleEastEye
By #MEE staff
Published date: 2 September 2025
A little over a year ago, Drin Shapiro was a student programme assistant at the #UniversityOfMichigan's (UM) English Language Institute, and a student in his final year of a bachelor's degree in history.
Since then, he has faced criminal charges brought by the state's attorney general, lost his on-campus job, spent time behind bars, and, as of last month, was still being disciplined by the university despite having graduated in May.
All of this was because he took part in a student encampment against the war on #Gaza on 21 May 2024. He was arrested during the police raid of the encampment and was later released on bond.
#DefendFreeSpeech
#DefendStudentProtesters
#USA #US #USPol #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine
New Trump Order Among 'Scariest Things I've Seen in US Politics,' Civil Rights Attorney Says
The new order, he says, would essentially allow "random fascist vigilantes" to "sign up to be a Brownshirt" for Trump's militarized occupation forces.
from #CommonDreams
Stephen Prager
Aug 26, 2025
...it orders the secretary to create a "standing #NationalGuard quick reaction force" that "can be deployed whenever the circumstances necessitate," not just in the nation's capital but in "other cities where public safety and order has been lost."
Monday's order calls for the creation of "an online portal for Americans with law enforcement or other relevant backgrounds and experience." Agency heads then "shall each deputize the members of this unit to enforce federal law."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-vigilante-portal
#DefendCivilLiberties
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#USA #US #USPol #politics #Trump
#news #press
How #Columbia’s Leadership Refashioned the University in Trump’s Image
#ColumbiaUniversity President Claire Shipman said the school retained full independence, but it gave in to virtually all of #Trump's demands.
from #TheIntercept
Meghnad Bose, Anna Oakes
August 7 2025, 10:10 a.m.
https://theintercept.com/2025/08/07/columbia-gaza-student-protests-expulsions-trump/
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine
this is a repost of https://sociale.network/@gubi/115003955787654526
with alt text added to the pic, plus 2 groups and some hashtags
#Alt4You
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If you want to protest in UK against a government that outlawed the pacifist organization "Palestine Action" with the anti-terrorism law, here is a plan for you:
1) Print the T-Shirt of the image below
2) Make a trip to UK
3) Wear the shirt at a public rally
4) Get unduly arrested under terrorism act for speaking the truth as nonviolent resistance against the authoritarian nature of regimes supporting ongoing genocide.
@palestine@lemmy.ml @gubi
#repression
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
@palestine@a.gup.pe
I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with #Trump
Rashid Khalidi
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Fri 1 Aug 2025 06.00 EDT
Columbia’s capitulation has turned a #university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an-anti university, a gated security zone with electronic entry controls, a place of fear and loathing, where faculty and students are told from on high what they can teach and say, under penalty of severe sanctions. Disgracefully, all of this is being done to cover up one of the greatest crimes of this century, the ongoing genocide in #Gaza, a crime in which #Columbia’s leadership is now fully complicit.
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#StopTheDeportations
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Israel #Palestine #DefendAcademicFreedom
#news #press @palestine
Prominent historian cancels course at Columbia University over Trump deal
#RashidKhalidi, in open letter published by #Guardian, accuses university of ‘capitulating’ with $200m settlement
from #TheGuardian
Dani Anguiano
Fri 1 Aug 2025 06.00 EDT
“Although I have retired, I was scheduled to teach a large lecture course on this topic in the fall as a “special lecturer” but I cannot do so under the conditions #Columbia has accepted by capitulating to the #Trump administration in June,” Khalidi wrote.
Columbia announced last week that it would pay more than $200m in a settlement with the federal government after the White House claimed the university failed to adequately address alleged antisemitism on campus amid protests over the #Israel-#Gaza war, and threatened to pull significant funding.
@palestine
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
#news #press
Those Attacking Pro-Palestinian Student Protests Endanger Jews
from #WorldOutlook
July 23, 2025
It’s Not Gaza Campus Protests That Endanger Jews, It’s Misguided Efforts to ‘Protect’ Them
What truly poses a danger to #Jews today is not young people demanding peace on campuses, it’s the way in which authorities, both university and governmental, but also the Jewish establishment, respond
article below was first published by Haaretz
July 22, 2025
Its author, Elijah Kahlenberg, is the president and founder of Atidna International, a university-based peace group uniting Jewish and Arab students.
Kahlenberg, who is #Jewish, graduated this spring from the University of Texas, Austin. Last year, he took part in UT student protests condemning #Israel’s genocidal war in #Gaza and demanding the school divest from entities that do business with Israel.
https://world-outlook.com/2025/07/23/those-attacking-pro-palestinian-student-protests-endanger-jews/
#DefendFreeSpeech
#DefendStudentProtesters
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
#news #press @palestine
Freed from #ICE detention, #MahmoudKhalil files $20 million claim against Trump administration
from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 3:47 PM EDT, July 10, 2025
[good article - contains interview excerpts and photos]
"Inside, Khalil said he was denied his ulcer medication, forced to sleep under harsh fluorescent lights and fed “nearly inedible” food, causing him to lose 15 pounds (7 kilograms). “I cannot remember a night when I didn’t go to sleep hungry,” Khalil recalled.
Meanwhile, the #Trump administration publicly celebrated the arrest, promising to deport him and others whose protests against #Israel it dubbed “pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity.” "
#NoDeportationOfMahmoudKhalil
#StopTheDeportations
#NoDeportationOfRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationOfMohsenMahdawi
#DefendFreeSpeech
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#Gaza #Palestine #MiddleEast
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
#news #press @palestine
‘Justice Will Prevail,’ #MahmoudKhalil Says as He Goes Free on Bail
Mr. Khalil, a #Columbia graduate, had been held in Louisiana for over three months as the #Trump administration sought to deport him. A judge found reason to believe it was retaliation for his pro-#Palestinian speech.
from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[gift article - link can be shared. Expires in 30 days.]
By Jonah E. Bromwich
June 20, 2025
"On Friday, Judge Farbiarz rebuked the government mildly, noting that it had offered no evidence to suggest that Mr. Khalil was a danger to his community. The administration’s claims about his links to, or even sympathies for, #Hamas have not been substantiated in court.
“He is not a danger to the community, period, full stop,” the judge said."
#DefendFreeSpeech
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DueProcessForAll
#StopTheDeportations
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
#news #press @palestine
Millions across US turn out for ‘No Kings’ protests against Donald Trump
Protesters demonstrate at about 2,000 sites nationwide on day US president holds military parade in Washington
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Rachel Leingang in Minneapolis, Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles and Melissa Hellmann in Philadelphia
Sat 14 Jun 2025 18.45 EDT
"“No Kings organizers estimated the day’s events have so far drawn millions of people, with some hundreds still under way in all 50 states and to some cities abroad. These included over 200,000 in New York and over 100,000 in Philadelphia, plus some small towns with sizable crowds for their populations, including the town of Pentwater, Michigan, which saw 400 people join the protest in their 800-person town, the No Kings coalition said.”"
#NoKingsProtest #NoKings #DefendRuleOfLaw #DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime #StopTheDeportations
USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press
#ICE Says It Has No Immediate Plans to Release #MahmoudKhalil
A federal judge ruled this week that the government cannot hold the #ColumbiaUniversity graduate under the rarely invoked law it used to detain him.
from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
By Jonah E. Bromwich
June 13, 2025, 11:04 a.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/nyregion/mahmoud-khalil-trump-detention.html
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#repression
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine
Judge says US effort to deport Mahmoud Khalil on foreign policy grounds is likely unconstitutional
from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 6:58 PM EDT, May 28, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge said the #Trump administration’s effort to deport #MahmoudKhalil because of his pro-#Palestinian activism at #ColumbiaUniversity likely violates the #Constitution.
In a lengthy order issued Wednesday, Judge Michael Farbiarz wrote the government’s primary justification for removing Khalil — that his beliefs may pose a threat to U.S. foreign policy — could open the door to vague and arbitrary enforcement.
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#ReturnKilmarAlbertoGarcia
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
#news #press @palestine
#ProjectEsther: #NYT Details Right-Wing Plan to “Rebrand All Critics of #Israel” as #Hamas Supporters
from #DemocracyNow
Interview with-
Katie J.M. Baker
investigative reporter for The #NewYorkTimes
Stefanie Fox
executive director of #JewishVoiceForPeace.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/19/project_esther
#StopGazaGenocide
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine
Freed from #ICE custody, Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi graduates from Columbia to cheers
from #AssociatedPress #APNews
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 5:46 PM EDT, May 19, 2025
"NEW YORK (#AP) — Less than three weeks after his release from an immigration jail, the #Palestinian activist #MohsenMahdawi strode across the graduation stage at #ColumbiaUniversity on Monday morning, savoring a moment the #Trump administration had fought to make impossible.
Draped in a keffiyeh, Mahdawi, 34, paused to listen to the swell of cheers from his fellow graduates. Then he joined a vigil just outside #Columbia’s gates, raising a photograph of his classmate Mahmoud Khalil, who remains in federal custody."
https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-graduation-mohsen-mahdawi-b17b3d7514d760af8835eaf909fb83ac?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine
