Tarik Endale

“She is an international student w/a visa…She appeared to have been taken from her Columbia-owned apartment on West 121st Street…Ms. Aghayeva posted a one-second video on her popular Instagram account showing her in the back of a vehicle with the caption: ‘Dhs illegally arrested me. Please help.’”

bsky.app/profile/ms.n... even if Columbia had no prior knowledge of this, they own creating the situation where Ms. Aghayeva’s friends feel they need to clarify she wasn’t involved in campus protests, meaning DHS must have had some other reason for abducting her

EMERGENCY RALLY TODAY AT 12:00 PM

At the gates at 116th and Broadway to protest the detention of an undergraduate from a Columbia University building this morning

Early this morning, DHS entered Columbia University housing and abducted another student.

This is the result of Columbia refusing the union’s demands for substantive protections for international students.

Dozens demand protections for international student workers at Sundial protest amid stalled union negotiations <i>Updated Feb. 26 at 3:07 a.m.</i>

Yesterday, student workers picketed for Columbia University to reassert itself as a sanctuary campus and include more protections for international students in their next contract. @swcolumbia.bsky.social also opened a strike authorization vote on Friday.
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/02...

Recording now available:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=HVYA...

ICE is executing civilians. ICE is trafficking children. ICE is kidnapping our coworkers and neighbors. Columbia University must end its complicity with ICE. 🧵

NYPD arrests 12, including students and faculty, at anti-ICE demonstration outside campus gates <i>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.</i>

NYPD arrests 12, including students and faculty, at anti-ICE demonstration outside Columbia campus gates

The “ICE Off Campus” rally asked participants to “join us as we demand Columbia establish itself as a sanctuary campus and end its complicity with ICE”
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/02...

Join Psychologists for Justice in Palestine for the webinar "Protecting Free Speech in Psychology & Beyond" to explore why the right to speak about Palestine is foundational to resisting authoritarianism and broader attacks on free speech/academic freedom.
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Join Psychologists for Justice in Palestine for the webinar "Protecting Free Speech in Psychology & Beyond" to explore why the right to speak about Palestine is foundational to resisting authoritarianism and broader attacks on free speech/academic freedom.
tinyurl.com/na3yhbmu

Dr. MLK Jr. addressing the American Psychological Association, 1967

“You who are in the field of psychology have given us a great word. It’s the word maladjusted… But… I’m sure that we recognize that there are things in our world to which we should never be adjusted.”
www.apa.org/topics/equit...

“economic sanctions imposed by the USA/EU were associated with 564,258 deaths annually from 1971-2021, higher than battle-related casualties … 25% of all countries were subject to sanctions from 2010-2022 … US sanctions often aim to create conditions conducive to regime change” @lancetgh.bsky.social

“What does it mean to be a citizen of a country on the wrong side of every liberation struggle on Earth?”

-Audre Lorde (1985) We Must Learn to Use Our Power: On Apartheid, Police Brutality and Internationalism

Oh my days 😭

Hope as Praxis: A Process Model of Black Women’s Radical Hope and Activism (2025) Journal of Community Psychology @briannaabaker.bsky.social @nessiethegreat.bsky.social @tarikendale.bsky.social

“radical hope is not only a construct or character trait, but an action that must be intentionally practiced… reminiscent of Mariame Kaba’s declaration that “Hope is a discipline” … and Angela Davis’ definition of radical as “simply grasping at the root”
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

Harvard Dismisses Director of FXB Center for Health and Human Rights | News | The Harvard Crimson Harvard forced out the director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights — another shakeup at a center whose programming on the Israel-Palestine conflict has been a flashpoint...

Dr. Mary T. Bassett is one of the bravest people I have met in my lifetime - her moral compass and commitment to justice are unmatched. Shame, shame, shame on Harvard. Her ouster is shocking yet unsurprising and on brand for the University.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

NO COOPERATION, END THE OCCUPATION

With cellphone cameras and tip lines, D.C. residents find small ways to fight ICE How neighbors and school communities are organizing against the immigration crackdown.

Residents are finding all sorts of ways to fight ICE: They're recording and reporting. They're wheatpasting and sharing know-your-rights materials. And they're stepping up to care for each other, from delivering groceries to walking kids to school. 51st.news/dc-residents...

Leonard Peltier talks freedom, future after nearly 50 years in prison After spending most of his life behind bars, Leonard Peltier now lives in a home on the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa reservation in North Dakota. He says he has no regrets but still harbors…

At a moment when the problems our world is facing feel insurmountable, I found a lot of inspiration in this. My friend and reporter Allison Herrera sat down with recently freed Leonard Peltier, one of the longest-serving political prisoners in the U.S.

“We Will Not Win on Our Own” In April 2024, Columbia’s administration brought in the New York Police Department to dismantle the tents that had been set up by pro-Palestinian protesters occupying the university’s South Lawn.

@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social on universities and the pro-Palestine movement:

www.thedriftmag.com/we-will-not-...

We win together. Don’t let them divide you.

Which is what identity politics as coined by the Combahee River Collective, was intended to do. Be the center of a critical politic that builds solidarity within and across identities that share that questioning of power, not a replacement for that critical politic.

There's a lot to be said about identity, solidarity. But a simple place to start: the people who are willing to fight for their neighbors when their neighbors have different problems have a very, very good chance of having neighbors to fight with when you all share problems

Honored to write with this group about addressing mental health effects of historical and contemporary racism through Black-led grassroots community healing efforts, including ABPsi’s Sawubona Healing Circles

Every circle is a reminder: “We are each other’s medicine”
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

“it ultimately matters little whether violence is meted out by the police, the hospital, or both working in concert. Then, as now, the challenge is in building the political consciousness and systems of care necessary to move towards a healthier social order.”

“They’re not going to call the police to defend them, they’re going to call us.”

The incredible story of community members organizing effectively against ICE. lataco.com/union-del-ba...

By @theglutster.bsky.social

cc: @uniondelbarrio.bsky.social

The Plurality of Abolitionism Groundings · Episode

“If we come up with therapeutic modalities to address violence in communities that’s terrific. But therapeutic modality will not deal with police, ICE, CIA, FBI. They don’t deal in therapeutic modalities they deal in control, capture, elimination”
open.spotify.com/episode/3XvY...

Not Your Guru - Lux Magazine Theorist Joy James on the failures of academic radicalism and new zones of struggle.

“[Black Panthers] job was not only to offer care… that’s important… but their job was also security. My problem with contemporary politics is y’all disappeared the security aspect… you’re just doing the social worker aspect.”

Joy James and @girlcloudnine.bsky.social
lux-magazine.com/article/joy-...