Arizona Universities: Once known for sunshine and free spirit, now hallmarks of censorship and oppression

The University of Arizona in Tucson, which partners with Raytheon Missiles and other defense contractors, brought in police to attack students at the pro-Palestine encampment at 2 a.m., firing on them with rubber bullets, pepper balls and tear gas.

Arizona Universities: Once known for sunshine and free spirit, now hallmarks of censorship and oppression

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, May 8, 2024

Arizona's universities, once known for their sunshine and free spirit, are now hallmarks of censorship and oppression. The University of Arizona in Tucson, and Arizona State University in Tempe, are partnered with defense contractors, including Raytheon Missiles, a top war profiteer. The universities are smashing support for Palestine, and censoring voices opposed to war crimes and genocide.

While the defense contracts pour into Arizona State University, in Tempe, in the Phoenix Valley, ASU has suspended 20 students arrested, among more than 70 arrested, in a midnight police raid at the encampment in support of Palestine. The students oppose the war crimes and genocide that the United States government is funding and providing weapons for.

'In Backlash to Campus Pro-Palestine Protests, Echoes of Standing Rock and the Global Crackdown on Climate Protest' by Drilled

In Backlash to Campus Pro-Palestine Protests, Echoes of Standing Rock and the Global Crackdown on Climate Protest

The use of militarized police and “antiterrorism” laws against activists is not new in the U.S.

by Alleen Brown, Drilled

This story is co-published with the Center for Media and Democracy.

As soon as a single Palestinian activist showed up at an anti-Dakota Access Pipeline camp on the edge of the Standing Rock reservation in 2016, intelligence analysts for the mercenary security firm TigerSwan were on alert."

"El-Zabri, the Palestinian activist surveilled at Standing Rock, was among 79 people arrested this week while protesting at the University of Texas at Austin. “It really felt like the same as Standing Rock, when we were facing the police,” he said. “There was a whole army that looked like it was at war in riot gear. They eventually used tear gas and pepper spray.”

“They're afraid of what we have to say and the people that we can touch,” said Cornell senior Yanenowi Logan, who is Deer Clan from the Seneca Nation and has been negotiating with campus administrators.

"Logan said that by standing up for Gazans, she and other Native organizers are also standing up for themselves. “We want to be able to show them that, hey, we're still here,” she said. “You can try to kill us. You can burn our crops. You can do whatever you want to do, but we're still going to persist.”

Read the article at Drilled
https://drilled.media/news/gaza-standingrock-tigerswan

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New today: TigerSwan spy files from September 24, 2006 on Red Warrior Camp, American Indian Movement, and aerial photos of camp. Posted by Drilled, with article by Alleen Brown. The documents were released after a court battle after TigerSwan was found to be operating without a license in North Dakota. See more of this file at https://drilled.media/documents/1ed15ccd-a1cf-4f20-aaff-483b4714ab57/f4bb0d85-4da2-413a-83b8-ae1bfa63c01d

Mohawk Nation News 'Great Meeting, Grand Entrance at McGill Encampment'

 

New today at Mohawk Nation News: Read more and watch video at MNN

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024/05/05/great-meeting-grand-entrance-mcgill-encampment/

Mohawk Nation News 'Mohawk Knowledge Keeper Provides Guidance to 'Palestinian Encampment' at McGill'

Mohawk Nation News 'Mohawk Knowledge Keeper Provides Guidance to 'Palestinian Encampment' at McGill'

Mohawks Mothers provide guidance to Palestinian Encampment at McGill University. Read the breaking news article at Mohawk Nation News.

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024/05/03/knowledge-keeper-provides-guidance-to-palestinian-encampment-mcgill/