Afua Hirsch Instagram – Deeply ironic to me that so many universities’ responses to these student protests seem profoundly uneducated
Educate yourself by reading. One book I recommend
Student resistance: a history of the unruly subject
By Mark Edelman Boren
My takeaways:
1. As long as there have been students; there have been student protests
2. Our media’s obsession with centres of formal political power makes it ill-equipped to understand or analyse protests like this, hence the allegation they are anarchic displays of pointless disruption. They are anything but
3. The decision to meet peaceful protest with violence – eg inviting riot police onto campus – tends to be what rallies wider public opinion in favour of the protesters. So self defeating even by its own standards
4. There is no justification for educational institutions not being transparent about their financial dealings. And divestment works
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#Resistance
#Gaza
#Ceasefire
#divest
#freespeech
#USC | Posted on 02/May/2024 21:07:33
