Authorities move to break up encampments at two more US universities on Monday, as Columbia University cancels in-person classes
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is it illegal to protest in the US?
They weren’t arrested for protesting, heavens no. They were arrested for some nebulous but definitely illegal thing that will retroactively be written on the arrest report just as soon as the cops finish searching their house.
It’s probably only a matter of time before we start seeing reports of pro-palestinian protesters
being murdered by copsdying from “Excited delirium”.Well, that’s both repugnant and par for the course.
Yup! Just typical cops doing typical cop stuff 🤬
Not everywhere, but it is illegal in 3 US states now.
The Supreme Court effectively abolishes the right to mass protest in three US states.…but it is illegal in 3 US states now.
No. I wrecked that disaster of a Vox article in a comment days ago.
I won’t argue with the article, it was the first result that showed up in search, but the consequences are the same. SCOTUS refused to hear the case, so now the lower court’s ruling stands.
And while it doesn’t directly ban mass protesting, it does that effectively. If you as an organizer are financially responsible for every single person that attends your protest, invited or not, it’s a death sentence to mass protesting.
You REALLY need to read Sotomayor opinion. Your takeaway isn’t accurate at all.
I did read all 3 pages. My comment stands.
A New York police spokesperson said arrests were made after the university asked police to enforce trespassing violations but the total number of arrests and citations would remain unknown until much later.
Nope, but you also don’t have a right to protest on private property.
Most of these universities aren’t private property
Alright, tell me which ones from the ones mentioned aren’t private property, then we can start the discussion from there.
Not officially but authoritarian politicians from both major parties (though mostly the fascist one) have passed a bunch of bullshit “public order” laws that basically have that result.
Some of them even classify protesting as terrorism and/or legalize murdering protesters with your car like in Charlottesville!
Plus cops are always looking for an excuse to arrest and assault protesters, of course.
Depends on what you’re protesting. If you’re against black people being murdered for no reason you might get the shit kicked out of you by government employees. If you’re against wearing a 1-ply cotton cloth to buy seeds in Home Depot that’s fine (and you’re allowed to block traffic for that).
they certinly wish it was. they don’t respect our rights, they’re illegitimate
Funny that every news outlet calls it PRO palistinian and not that its against actions from israel, or anti israel.
That part annoys me so much.
At their core, these are anti-genocide protests. Sure, they’re wrapped up in other stuff - a lot of other stuff, but genocide is the core reason.
It’s easier for the news media to pretend that all these people just are here to support bunch of folks halfway across the world for some reason, than it is to say these folks are anti-Israel, because it begs the question of why people are anti-Israel.
I’d even go so far as to say that characterizing these protests as pro-Palestine is willfully missing the point, but calling them anti-Israel (or even anti-Jewish - ugh) accepts that not only is a genocide occurring but implies that opposing genocide means you oppose Israel.
We are all anti-Israel if they’re just committing genocide idk what the problem is because that’s what they’re doing.
