𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗺 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝘆, 𝗪𝗔: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗙𝗹𝗶𝗽 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗮𝗹
In 2013, residents organized to stop a massive coal terminal.
Instead of just protesting, they flipped:
County council. Port commissioners.
Result: Project blocked.
𝗟𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗻: 𝘓𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘴 = 𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦.
AFP Demands Turkey Release Imprisoned Photographer https://petapixel.com/2025/03/26/afp-demands-turkey-release-imprisoned-photographer-yasin-akgul/ #photographerarrested #pressfreedom #newsagency #istanbul #protests #erdogan #turkey #News #AFP
On this day in 1967, more than 10,000 people showed up for a "be-in" in NYC's Central Park.
"It represents a cultural moment in our history. Central Park became an epicenter of the counterculture in New York, where different people from all walks of life could gather."
Rich people don’t like to lose money, welcome to capitalism 101. They are afraid of #protests.
More than 20 protesters lined the Heights Boulevard bike lane Tuesday afternoon, days after Houston Public Works removed physical protections known as “armadillos” that separated cyclists from vehicular traffic.
Some #TuesdayWins for you:
1) Judge prevents ICE from arresting and deporting a second Columbia student exercising free speech. https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5213841-judge-blocks-columbia-student-deportation/ (via @GottaLaff )
2) Judge blocks effort to defund Radio Free Europe https://about.rferl.org/article/us-district-court-halts-attempt-to-defund-rfe-rl/ (via @heidilifeldman )
3) This good article about the #TeslaTakedown #protests and a day of protest on March 29. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/tesla-takedown-elon-musk (via @georgetakei )
Don't ever believe that the situation is hopeless.
American Association of University Professors [#AAUP] v. #Rubio
A case challenging the #Trump administration’s policy of ideological deportation.
"On March 25, 2025, the Knight Institute filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty who participate in pro-Palestinian activism. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), AAUP’s #Harvard, #NYU, and #Rutgers campus chapters, and the #MiddleEastStudies Association, argues that the policy chills noncitizens from speaking and, by extension, robs these organizations and their U.S. citizen members of noncitizens’ perspectives on a matter of significant public debate.
"The lawsuit responds to a climate of repression and fear on university campuses. Federal agencies are attempting to deport multiple individuals for their #ProPalestinian advocacy, including #MahmoudKhalil, a leader of protests at Columbia University. These actions have sent chills through the community of noncitizen students and faculty on campuses around the country, causing some to pull out of academic conferences, stay home from #protests, and withdraw from other forms of public advocacy and engagement.
"The lawsuit alleges that the administration’s policy of ideological deportation violates the First Amendment right of the plaintiffs to hear from and associate with noncitizen students and faculty, that it is unconstitutionally vague, and that it violates the Administrative Procedure Act. The suit seeks a court order declaring that the policy is unlawful and enjoining the federal government from enforcing it."
Status: Complaint filed on March 25, 2025.
Case Information: American Association of University Professors v. Rubio, No. 1:25-cv-10685 (D.Mass).
https://knightcolumbia.org/cases/aaup-v-rubio
#YunseoChung #RightToProtest #SilencingDissent #USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #law
#immigration #FreeSpeech #MarcoRubio #Trump #FreedomOfAssembly #Authoritarianism #Palestine #CriminalizingDissent #HigherEducation
Looks like the American Association of University Professors agrees with me!
#AAUP, Allies Sue over #Trump Policy of Arresting and Threatening to Deport #Students and #Faculty for #LawfulSpeech
"The national AAUP; chapters at #Harvard, #Rutgers, and #NYU; and the #MiddleEastStudies Association today filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members who participate in #ProPalestinian #protests and other protected #FirstAmendment activities.
"We believe that the administration’s ideological-deportation policy violates the First Amendment by targeting constitutionally protected speech that Americans have a right to hear and engage with. The policy has created a climate of fear and repression on campuses around the country. We are represented in the case by the #KnightFirstAmendmentInstitute at #ColumbiaUniversity, #AhilanArulanantham, and Zimmer, Citron & Clarke LLP.
"Following executive orders issued by President Trump in January, the federal agencies that enforce immigration laws have arrested and detained several people associated with U.S. colleges and universities, including a legal permanent resident, on the basis of constitutionally protected speech and association.
"Today’s filing argues that the ideological-deportation policy has created a climate of #repression and intense fear on university #campuses, 'terrorizing students and faculty for their exercise of First Amendment rights in the past, intimidating them from exercising those rights now, and silencing political viewpoints that the government disfavors.'
"'The Trump administration is going after international #scholars and students who speak their minds about #Palestine, but make no mistake: they won't stop there. They'll come next for those who teach the history of #slavery or who provide #GenderAffirming health care or who research #ClimateChange or who counsel students about their reproductive choices. We all have to draw a line together—as the old labor movement slogan says: an injury to one is an injury to all,' says AAUP President Todd Wolfson.
"'The First Amendment means the government can’t arrest, detain, or deport people for lawful political expression—it’s as simple as that. This practice is one we’d ordinarily associate with the most repressive political regimes, and it should have no place in our democracy,' says #JameelJaffer, executive director at the Knight First Amendment Institute."
Source:
https://www.aaup.org/news/aaup-allies-sue-over-trump-policy-arresting-and-threatening-deport-students-and-faculty-lawful
#RightToProtest #SilencingDissent #USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #law
#immigration #FreeSpeech #MarcoRubio #Trump #FreedomOfAssembly #Authoritarianism #Palestine #CriminalizingDissent #HigherEducation
Lol, craft beer, food trucks and crafting protest signs
Nobody said resistance couldn't be fun!
#Protests on the other side too. I don't know how important or representative this is.
Hundreds of people have taken part in the largest anti-Hamas protest in #Gaza since the war with #Israel began, taking to the streets to demand the group step down from power.
Masked #Hamas militants, some armed with guns and others carrying batons, intervened and forcibly dispersed the protesters, assaulting several of them.
Videos shared widely on social media by activists typically critical of Hamas showed young men marching through the streets of Beit Lahia, northern Gaza on Tuesday, chanting "out, out, out, Hamas out".
TURKEY
AFP Journalist Jailed Over Protest Coverage
Yasin Akgul detained pending trial for “joining illegal gatherings.” AFP says Akgul was covering, not participating in, protests. 1,400+ people detained in protests over Mayor Imamoglu’s jailing. Gov’t faces continued defiance after 6 nights of unrest.
Thousands of students chanting angry slogans hit the streets of Istanbul on Tuesday as a court jailed an AFP journalist and six others for covering the biggest protests to hit Turkey in over a decade. The demonstrations erupted after the arrest of the mayor of Istanbul, Erdogan's main political rival, in a crackdown that has seen more than 1,400 people arrested, including 11 Turkish journalists. FRANCE 24's Jasper Mortimer reports from Ankara.
#Turkey #Erdogan #protests
Wide-ranging homegrown threats of political and extremist violence are challenging law enforcement to change how it operates. Some experts say cooperation among agencies and community trust are essential to solving the problem. #protests #violence #extremism https://flip.it/WR40av
Update. Here are some press releases and news stories on the lawsuit against the #Trump admin by American Association of University Professors (#AAUP) and the American Federation of Teachers (#AFT).
* From the AAUP
https://www.aaup.org/news/aaup-allies-sue-over-trump-policy-arresting-and-threatening-deport-students-and-faculty-lawful
* From the AFT
https://www.aft.org/press-release/faculty-unions-sue-trump-admin-no-halting-science-research-suppress-speech
* From The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/pro-palestine-student-deportation-lawsuit?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
* From the NYTimes
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/nyregion/professors-sue-trump.html
#Academia #Censorship #DefendResearch #MahmoudKhalil #Protests #Travel #Universities #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter
Reminder that all Jasmine Crockett wants for her birthday, March 29th, is for Elon #Musk to be taken down.
Fortunately there are lots of actions around the US and world that day. Happy birthday, Congresswoman!
She shows up for us, we can show up for her.
Germany’s most likely future farm minister drops candidacy: Between two petitions and #protests, opposition to Felßner's candidacy has grown in recent weeks. https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/germanys-most-likely-future-farm-minister-drops-candidacy/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=dlvr.it
UK’s Secret Meeting With Top Israeli Arms Firm
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/25/uks-secret-meeting-with-top-israeli-arms-firm/
John McEvoy reports on the government’s crackdown on the anti-genocide group Palestine Action, which carries out direct actions in the U.K. against Elbit Systems and other suppliers of weapons to Israel. By John McEvoy Declassified UK Keir…
#Politics #CivilRights #HumanRights #Israel #Legal #Palestine #Protests #Terrorism #UnitedKingdon #ElbitSystems #JohnMcevoy #PalestineAction’ #ThalesUk #U.k.HomeSecretaryYvetteCooper #U.k.PrimeMinisterKeirStarmer #UavTacticalSystems
