Tag: Higher education
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At NYU, pro-Palestinian efforts are in the crosshairs
BC Hamilton reports on the repression of pro-Palestine activism at NYU.
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A racist counter-offensive in Texas
Interview with Joshua Hamilton on the attacks on DEI in the Texas higher-education system.
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Complicit academia: Israel and the US
Keith Rosenthal reviews Towers of Ivory and Steel. Maya Wind’s new book details the active service that Israeli universities have always given to the project of settlement and the repression of Palestinian perspectives and resistance.
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Ode to an encampment
Tempest’s Sam Friedman offers this ode to faculty, students, staff and others who have camped in solidarity with Palestine.
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Convergence of labor and Palestine on campus
Interview with two striking grad workers at Dartmouth College, part of GOLD-UE’s newly formed Palestine caucus.
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From student revolt to workers’ power
As California academic workers prepare to strike against repression of pro-Palestine activism, Helen Scott discusses the connection between student struggle and workers’ action.
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California State faculty mobilize for a no vote
Dana Cloud and Gary Holloway interviewed four activists in the California Faculty Association who are urging union members to vote down a bad tentative agreement reached after just one day of a planned five-day strike across the 23-campus system.
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California Faculty Association engaged in rolling strikes against the California State University system
Tempest’s Dana Cloud reports on strikes by faculty at the California State University, the largest public university system in the United States. The California Faculty Association has called a system-wide strike for January 22-26.
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Solidarity with Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists
The Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists (CORS) are facing political repression at Ohio State University for its Palestine activism. Tempest shares CORS’s account of the suspension of its student group while rightly calling attention to the wave of McCarthyite tactics by universities across the country. Please sign and circulate the CORS solidarity petition.
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All I want for the holidays is a ceasefire
Scholars Against the War on Palestine called for a permanent ceasefire in Israel’s war on Gaza. Here we reproduce the statement and a partial list of signatories.