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The persecution of Mahmoud Khalil is a threat to free speech across the US
If a student can be jailed for speaking out, so can anyone who criticizes U.S. government actions. That’s the point. Scene from a protest...
Michael Laxer
Mar 203 min read
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'This Felt Like a Kidnapping Because It Was': Family of Mahmoud Khalil Releases Arrest Video
Khalil's wife said that "officers in plain clothes—who refused to show us a warrant, speak with our attorney, or even tell us their...
Michael Laxer
Mar 163 min read
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Hundreds of Cuban students and youth rally in Havana in solidarity with US students and Palestine
All images via the PCC By Katherin Hormigó Rubio, translated from the Spanish The iconic staircase of the University of Havana, which has...
Michael Laxer
May 4, 20244 min read
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Student Demands for Divestment Are Not New
There is a long history of students organizing for divestment from states and institutions complicit in criminal acts, apartheid, and...
Michael Laxer
May 3, 20245 min read
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The Older Generation of Politicians Can’t Stop the American Intifada
Millions of Americans are clearly fed up, with war, with their government’s allegiance to a foreign country, to militarism, to police...
Michael Laxer
May 3, 20245 min read
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'All Because Columbia Refuses to Divest': Police Storm Campus, Violently Arrest Dozens
"The U.S. government and institutions like Columbia are showing that they would rather brutalize students than divest from apartheid and...
Michael Laxer
May 1, 20243 min read
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Campus Activism for Gaza Ignites
Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia University on the night of April 24 -- screenshot image via X By Saurav Sarkar Students at more...
Michael Laxer
Apr 27, 20243 min read
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Students Launch Encampments in Solidarity With Gaza Across the U.S.
NYU students and faculty stage protest in Washington Square Park, March 23, after NYPD conducted mass arrests clearing their protest...
Michael Laxer
Apr 24, 20242 min read
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US unions call for Columbia University to "immediately end the repression of protest"
Protests in the Columbia Quad, March 22 -- image via X With the ongoing Palestine solidarity protests at Columbia University in New York...
Michael Laxer
Apr 24, 20242 min read
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Elites in the Global North Are Scared to Talk About Palestine
Professors join students at mass protests at Columbia University, April 22 -- Image via X By Vijay Prashad Israeli bombs continue to fall...
Michael Laxer
Apr 22, 20245 min read
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American Bar Association Urged to Fight Censorship of Pro-Palestinian Voices
"The suppression of dissenting voices, at this moment, especially those advocating for peace and non-violence, is antithetical to the...
Michael Laxer
Nov 14, 20233 min read
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