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Student Arrests, Expulsions, and Evictions at Colleges Across the US Over Palestine Protests

BY LEX MCMENAMIN, © teenVogue
April 16, 2024

College students have been at the forefront of the movement for a ceasefire in Palestine since Israel’s ongoing incursion of Gaza after the October 7 Hamas attack. As soon as organizing for that movement began, there was backlash against it, including doxxing and harassment at Harvard, attempted state-level bans of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapters in Florida, and also the banning of protests and SJP chapters at other universities. In Vermont, Palestinian college students on a walk, wearing kuffiyehs, were shot at during Thanksgiving break. (The reported shooter, who has pleaded not guilty to attempted second-degree murder, remains in jail as the case proceeds.)

Over the past few weeks, several student protesters have received criminal charges, expulsions, suspensions, and campus bans due to their involvement in protests for Palestine. This includes students at Columbia, who say they are being scapegoated before an April 17 congressional hearing to investigate Columbia University over campus antisemitism. (After a similar proceeding in December, the president of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania each stepped down.) According to Inside Higher Ed’s reporting, “some observers have described [the April hearing as] a political trap set by Congressional Republicans critical not only of campus leaders’ response to antisemitism but also of higher education in general.”

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JAUJA

Aero Theatre | Q&A with filmmaker Lisandro Alonso and actor Viggo Mortensen

THU APR 25, 2024, 7:30 PM

ABOUT THE FILM:
In Danish, Spanish, French with English subtitles.

An astonishingly beautiful and gripping Western starring Viggo Mortensen, JAUJA begins in a remote outpost in Patagonia during the late 1800s.

Captain Gunnar Dinesen has come from abroad with his fifteen year-old daughter to take an engineering job with the Argentine army. Being the only female in the area, Ingeborg creates quite a stir among the men. She falls in love with a young soldier, and one night they run away together. When Dinesen realizes what has happened, he decides to venture into enemy territory, against his men’s wishes, to find the young couple.

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Spire collapses after fire rips through Copenhagen’s old stock exchange

By Stephanie Halasz, Antonia Mortensen and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, © CNN
April 16, 2024

A huge fire has engulfed Copenhagen’s old stock exchange, one of the Danish capital’s most famous landmarks, causing its spire to collapse as staff and citizens scrambled to rescue paintings and historic artefacts from the blaze.

Stunned commuters and onlookers watched as the raging fire could be seen swirling around the building’s distinctive 56-meter spire – shaped as the tail of four entwined dragons – moments before it collapsed and fell into the street below.

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Los jugadores que le dedicaron unas palabras al Gallego tras su salida de San Lorenzo

© Redacción Olé
April 12, 2024

El pasado jueves se confirmó la salida de Ruben Darío Insua de San Lorenzo. En sus casi dos años como entrenador del club, marcó la carrera de varios jugadores: desde algunos que pudieron dar el salto a Europa a otros que se convirtieron en referentes del club. Por eso le dedicaron algunas palabras luego de su salida.

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How Speaker Johnson helped Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election

By Marshall Cohen, © CNN
April 12, 2024

Years before becoming House speaker, Republican Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana played a leading role aiding Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

That history will be on display Friday, with Johnson set to deliver remarks alongside the former president about “election integrity” – a phrase Trump often uses to describe the lie that the 2020 election was rigged and unfounded concerns about future mass voter fraud.

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Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations. For the corporations, by the corporations.

-Arundhati Roy

A Class Analysis of the Trump-Biden Rerun

BY RICHARD D. WOLFF, © Counterpunch
April 12, 2024

By “class system” we mean the basic workplace organizations—the human relationships or “social relations”—that accomplish the production and distribution of goods and services. Some examples include the master/slave, communal village, and lord/serf organizations. Another example, the distinctive capitalist class system, entails the employer/employee organization. In the United States and in much of the world, it is now the dominant class system. Employers—a tiny minority of the population—direct and control the enterprises and employees that produce and distribute goods and services. Employers buy the labor power of employees—the population’s vast majority—and set it to work in their enterprises. Each enterprise’s output belongs to its employer who decides whether to sell it, sets the price, and receives and distributes the resulting revenue.

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While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.

-Harold Pinter