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#defendfreespeech

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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

New Trump Order Among 'Scariest Things I've Seen in US Politics,' Civil Rights Attorney Says

The new order, he says, would essentially allow "random fascist vigilantes" to "sign up to be a Brownshirt" for Trump's militarized occupation forces.

from #CommonDreams
Stephen Prager
Aug 26, 2025

...it orders the secretary to create a "standing #NationalGuard quick reaction force" that "can be deployed whenever the circumstances necessitate," not just in the nation's capital but in "other cities where public safety and order has been lost."

Monday's order calls for the creation of "an online portal for Americans with law enforcement or other relevant backgrounds and experience." Agency heads then "shall each deputize the members of this unit to enforce federal law."

commondreams.org/news/trump-vi

#DefendCivilLiberties
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime

#USA #US #USPol #politics #Trump
#news #press

Common Dreams · New Trump Order Among 'Scariest Things I've Seen in US Politics,' Civil Rights Attorney Says | Common DreamsCivil rights attorney Alec Karakatsanis said that Trump's latest executive order creates "an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers" to help crack down on protests across the country.
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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

this is a repost of sociale.network/@gubi/11500395
with alt text added to the pic, plus 2 groups and some hashtags
#Alt4You

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If you want to protest in UK against a government that outlawed the pacifist organization "Palestine Action" with the anti-terrorism law, here is a plan for you:

1) Print the T-Shirt of the image below
2) Make a trip to UK
3) Wear the shirt at a public rally
4) Get unduly arrested under terrorism act for speaking the truth as nonviolent resistance against the authoritarian nature of regimes supporting ongoing genocide.

@palestine@lemmy.ml @gubi
#repression
#DefendFreeSpeech

#ProtestIsNotACrime
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine

@palestine@a.gup.pe

Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

this is a repost of sociale.network/@gubi/11500395

with alt text added to the pic, plus 2 groups and some hashtags

If you want to protest in UK against a government that outlawed the pacifist organization "Palestine Action" with the anti-terrorism law, here is a plan for you:

1) Print the T-Shirt of the image below
2) Make a trip to UK
3) Wear the shirt at a public rally
4) Get unduly arrested under terrorism act for speaking the truth as nonviolent resistance against the authoritarian nature of regimes supporting ongoing genocide.

@palestine@lemmy.ml
#DefendFreeSpeech

#ProtestIsNotACrime
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine

#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
@palestine@a.gup.pe

Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with #Trump
Rashid Khalidi

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Fri 1 Aug 2025 06.00 EDT

Columbia’s capitulation has turned a #university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an-anti university, a gated security zone with electronic entry controls, a place of fear and loathing, where faculty and students are told from on high what they can teach and say, under penalty of severe sanctions. Disgracefully, all of this is being done to cover up one of the greatest crimes of this century, the ongoing genocide in #Gaza, a crime in which #Columbia’s leadership is now fully complicit.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

#DefendFreeSpeech

#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine

#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#StopTheDeportations
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Israel #Palestine #DefendAcademicFreedom
#news #press @palestine

The Guardian · I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with TrumpBy Rashid Khalidi
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

Prominent historian cancels course at Columbia University over Trump deal

#RashidKhalidi, in open letter published by #Guardian, accuses university of ‘capitulating’ with $200m settlement

from #TheGuardian
Dani Anguiano
Fri 1 Aug 2025 06.00 EDT

“Although I have retired, I was scheduled to teach a large lecture course on this topic in the fall as a “special lecturer” but I cannot do so under the conditions #Columbia has accepted by capitulating to the #Trump administration in June,” Khalidi wrote.

Columbia announced last week that it would pay more than $200m in a settlement with the federal government after the White House claimed the university failed to adequately address alleged antisemitism on campus amid protests over the #Israel-#Gaza war, and threatened to pull significant funding.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

@palestine
#DefendFreeSpeech

#ProtestIsNotACrime
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine

#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
#news #press

The Guardian · Prominent historian cancels course at Columbia University over Trump dealBy Dani Anguiano
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

Those Attacking Pro-Palestinian Student Protests Endanger Jews

from #WorldOutlook
July 23, 2025

It’s Not Gaza Campus Protests That Endanger Jews, It’s Misguided Efforts to ‘Protect’ Them

What truly poses a danger to #Jews today is not young people demanding peace on campuses, it’s the way in which authorities, both university and governmental, but also the Jewish establishment, respond

article below was first published by Haaretz
July 22, 2025

Its author, Elijah Kahlenberg, is the president and founder of Atidna International, a university-based peace group uniting Jewish and Arab students.

Kahlenberg, who is #Jewish, graduated this spring from the University of Texas, Austin. Last year, he took part in UT student protests condemning #Israel’s genocidal war in #Gaza and demanding the school divest from entities that do business with Israel.

world-outlook.com/2025/07/23/t

#DefendFreeSpeech
#DefendStudentProtesters
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
#news #press @palestine

World-Outlook · Those Attacking Pro-Palestinian Student Protests Endanger JewsThis article explains that, far from “protecting” Jewish students, those attacking pro-Palestinian student protests are the ones endangering Jews. Its author, Elijah Kahlenberg, is the president and founder of Atidna International, a university-based peace group uniting Jewish and Arab students. Kahlenberg, who is Jewish, graduated this spring from the University of Texas (UT) at Austin. Last year, he took part in UT student protests condemning Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza and demanding the school divest from entities that do business with Israel.
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

Freed from #ICE detention, #MahmoudKhalil files $20 million claim against Trump administration

from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 3:47 PM EDT, July 10, 2025

[good article - contains interview excerpts and photos]

"Inside, Khalil said he was denied his ulcer medication, forced to sleep under harsh fluorescent lights and fed “nearly inedible” food, causing him to lose 15 pounds (7 kilograms). “I cannot remember a night when I didn’t go to sleep hungry,” Khalil recalled.

Meanwhile, the #Trump administration publicly celebrated the arrest, promising to deport him and others whose protests against #Israel it dubbed “pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity.” "

apnews.com/article/mahmoud-kha

#NoDeportationOfMahmoudKhalil
#StopTheDeportations
#NoDeportationOfRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationOfMohsenMahdawi
#DefendFreeSpeech
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#Gaza #Palestine #MiddleEast
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
#news #press @palestine

Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

After Social Explosion in L.A., Millions Protest Workplace Raids, Deportations & Attacks on #DemocraticRights

Next Round of Coordinated ‘No Kings’ Rallies Set for July 17

from #WorldOutlook
June 23, 2025
By Duane Stilwell

PHOENIX, Arizona — On Saturday, June 14, U.S. president #DonaldTrump watched over a military parade in Washington, D.C. The lackluster spectacle was designed to celebrate Trump’s birthday, which coincided with the 250th anniversary of the #US Army, and thus advance the process of establishing one-man rule in the #UnitedStates.

The same day, over 5 million people took part in “#NoKings” rallies and marches across the country. The flagship march in Philadelphia was estimated to have surpassed 100,000 demonstrators. Other large actions included more than 50,000 in New York City, and tens of thousands in Atlanta, Chicago, and Los Angeles.

world-outlook.com/2025/06/23/a

#DefendFreeSpeech
#StopTheDeportations
#NoKingsProtests
#USA #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press

World-Outlook · After Social Explosion in L.A., Millions Protest Workplace Raids, Deportations & Attacks on Democratic RightsOn June 14, U.S. president Donald Trump watched over a military parade in Washington, D.C. The lackluster spectacle was designed to celebrate Trump’s birthday, which coincided with the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army, and thus advance the process of establishing one-man rule in the United States. The same day, over 5 million people took part in “No Kings” rallies and marches across the country. These registered the growing opposition to intensifying workplace raids by heavily armed federal agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and to the danger that these — and other actions by the White House — pose to due process, civil liberties, and democratic rights. These protests followed a weeklong social explosion in Los Angeles in response to a spike of ICE raids.
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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

‘Justice Will Prevail,’ #MahmoudKhalil Says as He Goes Free on Bail

Mr. Khalil, a #Columbia graduate, had been held in Louisiana for over three months as the #Trump administration sought to deport him. A judge found reason to believe it was retaliation for his pro-#Palestinian speech.

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[gift article - link can be shared. Expires in 30 days.]

By Jonah E. Bromwich
June 20, 2025

"On Friday, Judge Farbiarz rebuked the government mildly, noting that it had offered no evidence to suggest that Mr. Khalil was a danger to his community. The administration’s claims about his links to, or even sympathies for, #Hamas have not been substantiated in court.

“He is not a danger to the community, period, full stop,” the judge said."

nytimes.com/2025/06/20/nyregio

#DefendFreeSpeech
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DueProcessForAll
#StopTheDeportations
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
#news #press @palestine

The New York Times · ‘Justice Will Prevail,’ Mahmoud Khalil Says as He Goes Free on BailBy Jonah E. Bromwich
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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

Millions across US turn out for ‘No Kings’ protests against Donald Trump

Protesters demonstrate at about 2,000 sites nationwide on day US president holds military parade in Washington

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Rachel Leingang in Minneapolis, Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles and Melissa Hellmann in Philadelphia
Sat 14 Jun 2025 18.45 EDT

"“No Kings organizers estimated the day’s events have so far drawn millions of people, with some hundreds still under way in all 50 states and to some cities abroad. These included over 200,000 in New York and over 100,000 in Philadelphia, plus some small towns with sizable crowds for their populations, including the town of Pentwater, Michigan, which saw 400 people join the protest in their 800-person town, the No Kings coalition said.”"

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

#NoKingsProtest #NoKings #DefendRuleOfLaw #DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime #StopTheDeportations
USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press

The Guardian · Millions across US turn out for ‘No Kings’ protests against Donald TrumpBy Rachel Leingang
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

#ICE Says It Has No Immediate Plans to Release #MahmoudKhalil

A federal judge ruled this week that the government cannot hold the #ColumbiaUniversity graduate under the rarely invoked law it used to detain him.

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
By Jonah E. Bromwich
June 13, 2025, 11:04 a.m. ET

nytimes.com/2025/06/13/nyregio

archive.ph/o4Lvd

#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#repression
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine

The New York Times · ICE Says It Has No Immediate Plans to Release Mahmoud KhalilBy Jonah E. Bromwich
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

#ADL chief compares student protesters to Islamist terrorists

#JonathanGreenblatt also said protests against #Israel were driven by ‘same kind of nihilists’ who participated in Black Lives Matter

from #TheForward
[#Jewish publication from #USA

By Arno Rosenfeld and Jacob Kornbluh June 6, 2025

[contains links to audio of his speech]

"“We are an apolitical, non-partisan organization, but you have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to see what’s happening on the left,” #Greenblatt said Friday, according to audio from the event obtained by the #Forward.

“There is a throughline from Occupy Wall Street to BLM to ‘defund the police’ to ‘River to the Sea,’” he added, referring to the Black Lives Matter movement launched a decade ago to protest police violence. “They are the same people, these are the same kind of nihilists.”"

forward.com/news/726133/greenb

#DefendFreeSpeech
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
#news #press @palestine

The Forward · Exclusive: ADL chief compares student protesters to ISIS and al-Qaeda in address to Republican officialsJonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, said the protesters were acting like members of ISIS and al-Qaeda.
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

Judge says US effort to deport Mahmoud Khalil on foreign policy grounds is likely unconstitutional

from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 6:58 PM EDT, May 28, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge said the #Trump administration’s effort to deport #MahmoudKhalil because of his pro-#Palestinian activism at #ColumbiaUniversity likely violates the #Constitution.

In a lengthy order issued Wednesday, Judge Michael Farbiarz wrote the government’s primary justification for removing Khalil — that his beliefs may pose a threat to U.S. foreign policy — could open the door to vague and arbitrary enforcement.

apnews.com/article/mahmoud-kha

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#ReturnKilmarAlbertoGarcia
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
#news #press @palestine

Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

#Georgetown scholar recalls terror and ‘mockery of due process’ in immigration jail

from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
By OLIVIA DIAZ and BEN FINLEY
Updated 6:34 PM EDT, May 23, 2025

"Then Khan Suri had to use the plane’s bathroom. He said the guards refused to unshackle his wrists.

“They said, ‘No, you have to use it like this or do it in your trousers,’” #KhanSuri recalled of the trip, taking him to a Louisiana detention center. “They were behaving as if we were animals.”"

apnews.com/article/badar-khan-

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression #ICE
#NoDeportationForBadarKhanSuri
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw #GeorgetownUniversity
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine

Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

#ProjectEsther: #NYT Details Right-Wing Plan to “Rebrand All Critics of #Israel” as #Hamas Supporters

from #DemocracyNow
Interview with-
Katie J.M. Baker
investigative reporter for The #NewYorkTimes

Stefanie Fox
executive director of #JewishVoiceForPeace.

democracynow.org/2025/5/19/pro

#StopGazaGenocide
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine

Democracy Now! · Project Esther: <span class="caps">NYT</span> Details Right-Wing Plan to “Rebrand All Critics of Israel” as Hamas SupportersBy Democracy Now!
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

#MahmoudKhalil blocked from holding son for first time by #ICE, lawyers say

Detained #Columbia University graduate and #Palestinian activist forced to meet month-old baby from behind glass

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Léonie Chao-Fong in Washington
Wed 21 May 2025 18.24 EDT

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine

The Guardian · Mahmoud Khalil blocked from holding son for first time by Ice, lawyers sayBy Léonie Chao-Fong
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

Graduates Boo #Columbia’s President at Commencement After a Fraught Year

Claire Shipman, the university’s acting president, noted the absence of #MahmoudKhalil, a graduate who continues to be detained by immigration authorities.

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[gift article - link can be shared. Expires in 30 days.]

By Sharon Otterman
May 21, 2025 Updated 4:08 p.m. ET

"The celebrations at smaller graduation ceremonies on Tuesday were also punctuated by anger directed at Columbia administrators. At the graduation for Columbia College, the university’s main undergraduate school, some students repeatedly interrupted Ms. Shipman’s remarks with loud jeers. At one point, they chanted “Free Mahmoud.”"

nytimes.com/2025/05/21/nyregio

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Gaza
#news #press @palestine

The New York Times · Graduates Boo Columbia’s President at Commencement After a Fraught YearBy Sharon Otterman
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

Freed from #ICE custody, Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi graduates from Columbia to cheers

from #AssociatedPress #APNews
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 5:46 PM EDT, May 19, 2025

"NEW YORK (#AP) — Less than three weeks after his release from an immigration jail, the #Palestinian activist #MohsenMahdawi strode across the graduation stage at #ColumbiaUniversity on Monday morning, savoring a moment the #Trump administration had fought to make impossible.

Draped in a keffiyeh, Mahdawi, 34, paused to listen to the swell of cheers from his fellow graduates. Then he joined a vigil just outside #Columbia’s gates, raising a photograph of his classmate Mahmoud Khalil, who remains in federal custody."

apnews.com/article/columbia-un

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine

Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement

Even before President #Trump was re-elected, the #HeritageFoundation, best known for Project 2025, set out to destroy pro-#Palestinian activism in the #UnitedStates.

From #TheNewYorkTimes #NYT
[Gift article - expires in 30 days]
By Katie J.M. Baker

May 18, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ET

Heritage officials said they did not know whether the White House, which has its own #antisemitism task force, had used Project Esther as a guide. Administration officials declined to discuss it. But Robert Greenway, a Heritage national security director who coauthored #ProjectEsther, said it was “no coincidence that we called for a series of actions to take place privately and publicly, and they are now happening.”

nytimes.com/2025/05/18/us/proj

#StopGazaGenocide
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#DefendFreeSpeech
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#Israel #Palestine
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
#news #press @palestine

The Heritage Foundation headquarters in Washington, D.C.
The New York Times · Inside the Heritage Foundation’s Plan to Crush the U.S. Palestinian MovementBy Katie J.M. Baker
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