Trump Order Halts Legal Aid for Migrant Youth as Colleges Partner With ICE Funding cuts hit clinics as universities partner with immigration agencies, raising fears for students.

Funding cuts hit clinics as universities partner with immigration agencies, raising fears for students.
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'In the tumultuous years since the creation of the Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery Initiative, three memorial committee members have stepped down and researchers have been fired largely over disputes related to engaging descendant communities.'

Tell the truth and get fired.

Pro-Palestinian Tufts University graduate targeted by Trump administration returns to Turkey A Tufts University graduate who had been arrested by U.S. immigration agents last year as part of the Trump administration's targeting of pro-Palestinian ​campus activists has returned to her home in ...

All strength to Rumeysa Ozturk, who announced today she will be returning to Turkey.

Rumeysa was arrested and detained by immigration agents last year as part of ongoing pro-Palestine repression.

Last week, fed administration fired the immigration judge who rejected DHS efforts ​to deport her.

The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

Explosive & really outrageous revelations in here about a billionaire's private surveillance network completely run amok.

If we can't stop Dolan from spying on us at MSG, let's at least cancel his sweetheart tax break. (1/2)

NEW: Censorship and Surveillance at US Universities Dear Friends and Comrades, Today we’re publishing the first piece from our forthcoming issue on campus activism and repression since October 7, 2023. In “Censorship and Surveillance at US Universitie...

In “Censorship and Surveillance at US Universities,” Torin Monahan details the expansive apparatus used by university administrations, often following federal or state political pressures, to police pro-Palestine and progressive speech on campuses across the country.

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Two years ago on April 17th, the first Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University was erected. The next day, 100+ students were arrested in an NYPD sweep. That same afternoon even more students occupied the lawn, and the second encampment was born.

Columbia Student Workers Are Poised to Strike In response to what they describe as foot-dragging by the administration in contract negotiations, student workers at Columbia University have authorized a strike. We spoke to some of them about their...

In response to what they describe as foot-dragging by the administration in contract negotiations, student workers at Columbia University have authorized a strike.

We spoke to some of them about their demands.

🙄 Anyways

FBI, NYPD disrupt assassination plot targeting pro-Palestinian activist in Hoboken An attempt on the life of a pro-Palestinian activist was disrupted by law enforcement in Hoboken on Thursday night.

Authorities have arrested 26 year old Alexander Heifler after he planned to target Palestinian activist Nerdeen Kiswani, co-founder of Within Our Lifetime, with Molotov cocktails. Nerdeen says that Betar has incited against her and her family for months: abc7ny.com/post/fbi-dis...

“I don’t know what to say. I’m free! I’m free! Finally, after one year.”

Kordia also said she would keep fighting on behalf of people still being held at the detention center.

“There is a lot of injustice in this place,” she said. “There is a lot of people that shouldn’t be here the first place.”

Last protester in immigration detention after Trump’s campus crackdown has been released A Palestinian woman who was the last person still in immigration detention after the Trump administration’s 2025 crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists has been released.

"Leqaa Kordia, a 33yo from the West Bank who has lived in New Jersey since 2016, had been held in a U.S. immigration detention center in Texas since last March. Kordia was among roughly 100 people arrested outside Columbia University during protests at the school in 2024."
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We voted YES to authorize a strike by a whopping 91.5%! Columbia won’t budge on protecting student workers from an authoritarian takeover and a cost-of-living crisis—it’s time to turn up the pressure.

Open Letter: Toward Real Freedom of Expression <i>This letter was </i><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DR5L44WCvuj/?img_index=2" rel=""><i>distributed</i></a><i> and signed in December 2025. Still, we feel that the issue it discusses remains h...

We’re encouraged by the many Columbia affiliates speaking out in this letter against the University’s repression of Palestinian voices. As we mobilize for a strike, SWC remains committed to the fight for academic freedom for all members of our community.
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Here's a full write-up on the judge tossing out Columbia's unprecedentedly harsh disciplinary actions against students accused of occupying Hamilton Hall in 2024:

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Powerful article!

“I believe that all of the securitization of campus exists to police the students,” said Srinivasan, the Indian PhD student targeted by ICE. “It does not actually exist to protect the students from ICE.”

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.
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Recording now available:
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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”
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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“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”
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