Tarik Endale

Fresh off bribing Trump, Columbia is now taking a sledgehammer to its graduate programs. If this succeeds, only grads independently wealthy enough will remain.

I’m sure Chris Rufo knew some schools would cave easily, but I doubt he anticipated that one would enthusiastically take his side.

Barnard lays off 77 full-time staff members in collegewide ‘restructuring’ <i>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.</i>

SWC is not the only union targeted by Columbia during contract negotiations. We are appalled at Barnard’s firing of 77 workers, including union siblings of UAW local 2110. The mass layoff impacts the livelihoods of workers as well as Barnard and Columbia's educational mission.

Graphic with text: Trump and Columbia just inked a deal to suppress student protest by making ciriticism of Isreal a firing-worthy offense. Multiple UAW members have now been expelled or suspended. They lost their jobs and healthcare for protesting a genocide. We need your help. Show your solidarity >>

In 1968, Columbia suspended 73 students for protesting Columbia’s investment in war and theft of Harlem land. More than half the suspensions were reversed. Public pressure WORKS! We can do it, too. tinyurl.com/cupopuni-let...

Columbia punishes students involved in pro-Palestinian protest It comes as Columbia seeks a deal with the Trump administration to reinstate millions in federal funding.

Columbia just expelled or suspended 80 students for protesting in favor of Palestinian rights. Suspended students can only be readmitted if they "apologize"--otherwise the suspension converts to an expulsion.

www.axios.com/2025/07/22/c...

if you're an academic—especially if you're in the NYC area—please read and sign this open letter, a pledge against replacing union labor at Columbia.

the university has a frustratingly long, lurid history of union-busting; take no part in it.

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.

Demand Amnesty for Students of the Basel al-Araj Popular University [Read the fact sheet and download a social media toolkit at tinyurl.com/cupopuni-factsheet] On May 7th, an autonomous group of students launched the Basel al-Araj Popular University in Butler library...

Columbia is attempting to expel SWC members for joining a teach-in on Palestine honoring Basel al-Araj, a Palestinian revolutionary and teacher at the Popular University in the West Bank. Stand with student workers fighting to keep their jobs. tinyurl.com/cupopuni-let...

CUNY suspends student activist leader, fires four faculty members in escalation of repression against Palestine activism Activists say the City University of New York is escalating its repression against Palestine activism by suspending a student leader and terminating the positions of four faculty members who have been...

Activists say the City University of New York is escalating its repression against Palestine activism by suspending a student leader and terminating the positions of four faculty members who have been active in protesting Israel's genocide in Gaza.

mondoweiss.net/2025/07/cuny...

#Palestine #Israel

it's an interesting theory and international-comparative research design, I recommend giving it a read. it is a nice counterweight to the consensus view among many quantitative social scientists (the answer to high rates of interpersonal violence is hiring more cops)

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”
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“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”
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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-...

“….this struggle has two faces. Care and militancy.”

RIP Joshua Clover

Social movements are more likely to have success when three factors are present: elite conflict, shifting public opinion, and elite blunders.

Mass collective action can create the conditions for these factors to emerge and deepen.

These 197 Terms May Trigger Reviews Of Your NIH, NSF Grant Proposals Apparently, if you have "women" or "female" somewhere in your scientific research grant from the National Science Foundation or National Institutes of Health, watch out.

The claim that social movements should adopt slogans the right can't weaponize overlooks how the right's political project relies on distorting & weakening any language that threatens power.

I mean, they've banned words like female, bias, historically & political.

www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...

Despicable.

Mahmoud Khalil was kept from the birth of his first child because he stood up for Palestinian freedom. ICE refused to even grant a temporary release.

Mahmoud’s wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla: “I will continue to fight every day for Mahmoud to come home to us.”

Mahmoud Khalil addressing the judge today: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...