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The Uncommitted Campaign in New Jersey: The Fight To End Genocide Continues
A sense of urgency loomed over Fatima Mughal, one of the leading organizers behind the uncommitted campaign in New Jersey. Some emotional containment was necessary in the midst of an ongoing genocide....
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House Passes Bill That Defines Criticism of Israel as “Antisemitism”
House lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to approve legislation directing the U.S. Department of Education to consider a dubious definition of antisemitism, despite warnings from Jewish-led...
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How Labor Can Aid the Student Movement for Palestine
Since April 18, over one thousand students, faculty members, and community supporters have been arrested at college campus protests across the country. Despite fierce repression from university...
View ArticleDocuments Expose How DC Police Surveil Protest Activity, Social Media Profiles
Internal documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Brennan Center and Data for Black Lives reveal that for years, Washington, DC, police have used online surveillance...
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NYC Mayor Smeared A Grandmother As An “Outside Agitator” To Justify NYPD...
Nahla Aa-Arian has been living a nightmare for the past seven months, watching from afar as Israel carries out its scorched-earth war against her ancestral homeland in the Gaza Strip. Like many...
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Student Demands for Divestment Are Not New
The student-led movement against the genocide in Gaza that is sweeping college campuses across the United States, has made “divestment” from Israel central to its demands. It’s what the “D” in BDS...
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The Fiction of the “Outside Agitator”
More than 2,000 people have been arrested on US college campuses for peacefully protesting Israel’s war on the people of Palestine. For the “crime” of forming tent cities, or “encampments” on campus,...
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Missouri Organizers Submit Signatures For Ballot Measure To Legalize Abortion
A coalition of abortion rights advocates in Missouri moved one step closer to putting abortion rights on the ballot despite legal challenges, delays and a grassroots “decline to sign” campaign waged by...
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The Well-Heeled and Our Personal Well-Being
Just what exactly happens when a society becomes substantially more unequal, when a few become fabulously richer than the many? Defenders of our deepest pockets have a ready answer. What happens when...
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The Pro-Palestine Protests Must Continue Off Campus
In 1968, Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall was occupied by student activists protesting both Columbia’s complicity in the Vietnam War and the university’s plan for a de facto segregated building. It...
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Inside The ‘Student Intifada’: A Roundtable With Campus Organizers
Seven months into Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, a student-led grassroots movement is spreading across the US and beyond, hearkening back to the student protests of the ‘60s that played a pivotal role...
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Opposed to Genocide in Gaza, This Is the Conscience of a Nation Speaking...
Common Dreams Editor’s Note: This is a transcript of remarks made by Professor Rashid Khalidi just outside the gates of Columbia University on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, just hours after NYPD officers...
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Can the UAW Turn It Around for Labor in the South?
The United Auto Workers recently scored the largest union victory in decades in the South. Their success at a Tennessee Volkswagen plant could be a turning point for labor in a region long known for...
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We Need “Outside Agitators”
These days, outside agitators are everywhere. According to politicians, police commissioners, university administrators, and mainstream journalists they lurk on every campus where there has been...
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How AI Disinformation Poses New Risks to Southern Voters
Earlier this year, thousands of New Hampshire voters received robocalls with audio of what sounded like President Joe Biden’s voice telling them to stay home during the state’s primary election. But...
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Courageous Students—and You—Should Aim Demands for Peace at Congress This Summer
At many college campuses, students are protesting in opposition to the Biden Administration’s unconditional backing, with weapons and diplomatic cover, of Netanyahu’s continuing serial war crimes...
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Congress’s Antisemitism Bill Is an Insult to Jewish History
Over the past two weeks, student protests over the US-Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza have been met with brutal police crackdowns. Meanwhile, the campus demonstrations have provoked hysteria...
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Bernie Sanders Issues Bad News for Trump Ahead of Election
Brian Tyler Cohen interviews Senator Bernie Sanders about his message to young people and progressives who may be moving away from Biden, his thoughts on the Republican slate of millionaire...
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Armenians in NYC Are Organizing for Palestinian Liberation
On April 18, as the death toll of Palestinians killed in Israel’s genocide surged to nearly thirty-four thousand, Columbia students, peacefully protesting the use of their grossly inflated tuition to...
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US vs. China: Who Really Stands for Peace?
Thousands of innocent civilians are dying– men, women, children– being bombed to death as they sit in their homes. Thousands of Ukrainian and Russian men have been unwillingly drafted into the...
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