Al! posted:

poo...

Cuttlefush posted:

Willa Rogers posted:

Speaking of Pulitzers this year's are being announced today at 3 pm eastern... from Columbia University.

DaysBefore posted:

Especially funny because they'll be for all the articles where journos were weeping that none of the mean teenagers would talk to them

quote:

A Statement From the Pulitzer Prize Board

As we gather to consider the nation’s finest and most courageous journalism, the Pulitzer Prize Board would like to recognize the tireless efforts of student journalists across our nation’s college campuses, who are covering protests and unrest in the face of great personal and academic risk. We would also like to acknowledge the extraordinary real-time reporting of student journalists at Columbia University, where the Pulitzer Prizes are housed, as the New York Police Department was called onto campus on Tuesday night. In the spirit of press freedom, these students worked to document a major national news event under difficult and dangerous circumstances and at risk of arrest.

KomradeX posted:

And when they say that I assume the journalists were all told to talk to the desginated media liaison and they're just mad they can't get an inarticulate protestor to look stupid for them

Willa Rogers posted:

This looks like a pre-emptive strike to counter all the pro-Israel award winners tba later today; I hope I'm wrong!

joepinetree posted:

It's very obvious that there has been a top down order to stop publicizing the protests, because some of the biggest things have happened since friday and they are either way down on the news sites or not covered at all

- emory faculty voted no-confidence on the president, today they moved commencement to off campus
- this morning police cleared UCSD camps
- Columbia cancelled commencement
- Harvard said that students who did not leave the camps would be placed on "involuntary leave" and not be able to take finals
- 17 Princeton students started a hunger strike
- there are now camps on oxford and cambridge.
- Georgia State and U of Michigan removed students with pro-palestinian messages from commencement

joepinetree posted:

It's very obvious that there has been a top down order to stop publicizing the protests, because some of the biggest things have happened since friday and they are either way down on the news sites or not covered at all

- emory faculty voted no-confidence on the president, today they moved commencement to off campus
- this morning police cleared UCSD camps
- Columbia cancelled commencement
- Harvard said that students who did not leave the camps would be placed on "involuntary leave" and not be able to take finals
- 17 Princeton students started a hunger strike
- there are now camps on oxford and cambridge.
- Georgia State and U of Michigan removed students with pro-palestinian messages from commencement

BRAKE FOR MOOSE posted:

okay, but MAN OR BEAR?

In Training posted:

Columbia just cancelled their commencement

Pink Mist posted:

that police occupation sure did them a lot of good

Pink Mist posted:

that police occupation sure did them a lot of good

Precambrian Video Games posted:

Toronto's is only growing, as I imagine are others outside of the US and/or that started later. There was an obnoxious bagpiper in the vicinity yesterday morning although I have no idea if that had any connection or if it was an obscure gaelic holiday.

I imagine protests at schools with trimester systems or lots of summer courses will continue absent brutal policing.

Anthony Balogna posted:

For sure self-control. Not so much on the ethics; but, as AnEdgelord said: it's actually of tremendous strategic importance that these protests remain disciplined.
If anyone were to pop off on the protestor’s side, it would immediately make Israel and Zionists the “good guys” in so many loving morons’ smooth brains, and also, the police would immediately open fire on all of the protestors, with the complete backing of the aforementioned smooth brains.

Hence why my triple dog dare still stands!

BRAKE FOR MOOSE posted:

okay, but MAN OR BEAR?

Dreylad posted:

lets rock!

das hipster posted:

I disagree. The Zionists already are seen as the good guys in this situation even after becoming violent and hurling racial abuse at protest




and the White House itself has referred to the protestors as antsemtites and as terrorists.



I'm not advocating that the campus protests turn violent, they should do all they can do to remain peaceful, but they also shouldn't modulate their behavior in order to meet the impossible standards of a group that is opposed to them. They could spend the whole protest helping old ladies cross the road and getting stuck cats out of trees, and they'll still end the day with a cops baton cracking their skulls. Violence, whether it's against those trying to put boots on necks or against physical property is a valid part of protest, if for no other reason than it serves as a reminder to those in power that they do not necessarily have a monopoly on violence.

Tl;dr

joepinetree posted:

Not taking the bait isn't the same as being a white moderate you loving fed

joepinetree posted:

I am totally not a fed, I just think protests should follow the direction of agent provocateurs. It's french, must mean "true lefty"

AnimeIsTrash posted:

unshockdingly uw isnt going to be cutting ties with boeing

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/university-of-washington-rejects-protesters-calls-to-cut-boeing-ties/

Al! posted:

theyd have to shut down all their academic programs designed to funnel people into boeing

Al! posted:

events like this culminating in the industry awarding itself prizes and mewling how important it is without acknowledging who has been doing the important work and who theyve been getting killed by ftw. the western press is rotten to the core yet they think themselves so valuable to democracy lol

Willa Rogers posted:

This looks like a pre-emptive strike to counter all the pro-Israel award winners tba later today; I hope I'm wrong!

quote:

Another Palestinian journalist was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip on Monday, taking the death toll to 142 since last October, the government media office said.

Mustafa Ayad, a photojournalist, lost his life in an attack targeting his house in Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City, the media office said in a statement.

JainDoh posted:

https://x.com/ACatWithNews/status/1787469312263164321https://x.com/ACatWithNews/status/1787482445539111230

JesusIsTehCool posted:

Gina organizes with a lot of the folks who are doing organizing around homelessness, she is legit even if I don't see eye to eye with her electoral strategy anymore. I hear they are charging all these people with burglary.