In article <00455jpb7bjvo6hmmlo3stfi1bsp0j92fb@4ax.com>,
void@invalid.noy says...
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> Dear students,
>
> What an honor it is to stand with you all, and to stand with you not
> as teacher or writer but shoulder-to-shoulder as comrade and
> accomplice. What an honor to witness this courage and this clarity, to
> be just a small part of the life-affirming time you have opened-up in
> this asphyxiating genocidal present.
>
> Our liberal ruling class is fond of platitudes about being on the
> ?right side of history.? But these always come long after that history
> has been made and tamed. Let them keep their platitudes. One day they
> will, no doubt, turn them on this moment too; but today it is you, in
> the largest student movement for generations, that are making history.
> Today it is you who teach, today it is you who educate, today it is
> you who lead. And what you?re teaching and learning and enacting in
> these spaces is worth a million classrooms.
>
> You know as well as I do that this struggle is long and will remain
> fiercely contested by the powers that be. They will keep coming for
> you, first with their overseers of ?civility,? those purveyors of
> ?complexity and nuance,? then with their goons and thugs ? uniformed
> and un-uniformed.
>
> In the dead of night, they will come for you, they will tear gas you,
> pepper spray you, shoot you with rubber bullets. They will try to
> silence you, smear you, arrest you, scare you. Worse still, they?ll
> patronize you, and talk about your misplaced enthusiasm or abused
> privilege, or how you need to read a bit more history, or how you?ll
> one day outgrow this naivety; they?ll send out their entire gaggle of
> authorized stenographers to ?advise? you, to ?counsel? you on the
> timbre of your rhetoric or the militancy of your demands (lest you
> alienate the ?community?), or, to ?teach? you about the myriad
> complexities of modern financial investments that couldn?t possibly be
> divested from things as mundane as genocide or apartheid. But they can
> never take away what you and your comrades across the globe have
> already achieved, the future you?re already engendering in joining the
> struggle for Palestinian liberation.
>
> If Palestine has ignited our planetary consciousness once again, it is
> your movement that insists on rising to the moment at the very core of
> the imperial world. It is you who have refused to let genocide become
> our normal; you who have refused to accept ?business-as-usual? in the
> shadow of the mechanized slaughter of thousands of children. You who
> have refused complicity in a genocide effectively administered by the
> world?s most powerful states in the advanced capitalist west, a
> genocide the liberal democracies of ?the free world? fall over
> themselves to arm, finance, rationalize, and abet. And in doing so,
> you have refused our collective gaslighting; you remind us that we?re
> not actually going insane, that this sense of madness is the only
> human response to this global choreography of carnage, to image after
> image after image of ashen lifeless children being pulled out of the
> rubble in the name of ?western civilization and values.?
>
> It is you who remind us that we revolt not because we have a choice,
> but because we can longer breathe. When Aaron Bushnell, whose act of
> self-sacrifice in opposition to this genocide remains entirely
> incomprehensible to our political order, charged that ?this is what
> our ruling class has decided is normal,? he could not have asked for a
> more worthy response. You have picked up Aaron?s mantle, and you honor
> it. As you honor the martyrs of Gaza and Palestine in Hind?s Hall,
> Shireen Abu Akleh Hall, the Lama Jamous Center, and the Refaat Alareer
> Encampment.
>
> To the cynical weaponization of identity politics and discourses of
> safety, you have enacted spaces of love and comradeship across
> difference; the beautiful scenes of Passover celebrations in
> encampments under a sea of protective Palestinian keffiyehs have on
> their own shattered the racial-colonial common sense and aesthetic
> order of Euro-American Zionism. But you have also done this with a
> clarity that continuously foregrounds the Palestinian struggle and
> rejects the demonization of Palestinian resistance, including its
> unequivocal right to a war of national liberation. In doing so you
> help us rediscover the language, historical literacy, and courage of
> the Left we still hope to become.
>
> You know that the fight for Palestine, like the fight for Black lives,
> indigenous sovereignty, socialist futures, and open borders, is a
> fight for us all. And you also know that the slaughter of Palestinians
> today is prefiguring the slaughter that awaits millions on a burning
> planet tomorrow.
>
> I see in your uprisings the cumulative knowledge that you have
> cultivated over years of organizing, study, and labor, in meetings and
> classrooms, on the streets and behind barricades. Your urgency and
> militancy grow organically from this knowledge. You know that the
> fight for Palestine, like the fight for Black lives, indigenous
> sovereignty, socialist futures, and open borders, is a fight for us
> all. And you also know that the slaughter of Palestinians today is
> prefiguring the slaughter that awaits millions on a burning planet
> tomorrow, that the algorithmic killing sprees of AI-powered drones and
> quadcopters are already making their way across the earth?s surface,
> that the homicidal sadism of a humiliated Zionism lurks in every
> frustrated supremacist project. You know that the systems of
> surveillance, incarceration, and segregation over there are at work in
> the border regime and carceral state over here.
>
> In this, you remind us that Palestine condenses our struggles.
> Palestine is the name of an inassimilable excess that can?t be
> captured in late capitalism?s regime of signs; it can?t be captured
> because class power ? that self-conscious power of capital?s ability
> to command and that runs between the boards governing our academic
> institutions and the corporate-financial world ? remains an imperially
> derived power, still entirely contingent upon war and plunder. And so,
> we ? we the exploited, the looted, the dispossessed, the racialized,
> the illegalized, the wretched ? see ourselves in Palestine.
>
> In truth I?ve always known it?s your generation that would make this
> breakthrough. Not just because I didn?t subscribe to the tales of your
> attention deficits, nor because I have an inflated sense of your
> abilities. But simply because of the historical challenge you have,
> for better or worse, inherited. It is you, born in the shadow of the
> great recession, active shooter drills, and the forever wars, that
> have come of age in the global disorder of the slow collapse of the
> unipolar imperial world. In fact, you were born into a temporality of
> crisis that is uniquely yours: indefinite secular stagnation on the
> one hand and imminent climatic collapse on the other.
>
> But it?s not simply that you?ve inherited climate catastrophe, an
> entirely looted commons, neo-feudal inequality, and all but broken
> public institutions, but that the way out of these crises looks harder
> than ever. In some way I believe you?re better for it ? for one, your
> nose for elite-ordained bullshit is all the sharper. But the risks too
> are grave. Nothing would?ve been easier for those in your generation
> than a turn to reaction, or dissociation, or to any kind of escapism.
> Instead before our very eyes, the best of you have decided on
> revolutionary love. It?s no wonder our ruling class is so dumbfounded.
> That your uprising has emerged on the terrain of the university is no
> coincidence. It?s the university above all that concentrates the
> historical contradictions of our age. And like the good dialecticians
> you all intuitively are, you know that in the contradiction lies the
> hope. Nothing could be more telling of the current scale of the
> contradictions and indeed the crisis of the university than the
> hysterical, brutal militarized response to your protest.
>
> You?re practicing everything that academic administrators profess to
> value: collective democracy, civic action, selflessness, empathy,
> diversity, courage, and risk-taking. Yet when these cease to be a
> series of empty signs circulating as operations of value at the behest
> of finance capital, they become a danger. When the university has been
> entirely financialized then divestment appears like a terminal threat.
> When the ?worth? of the university becomes overwhelmingly an index of
> financial circuits and flows, of market confidence and ?belief,? then
> of course the pageantry of robes, regalia, bagpipes, and syrupy vapid
> commencement speeches attains a hollow sacredness of its own. When
> ?the show? is all there is, then of course it must go on even as
> children?pulled out from the rubble in pieces at a rate of about 95 a
> day every day for 7 months (how?s that for returns?) ? are slaughtered
> by weapons our universities help finance.
>
> The truth is that our universities are financialized corporate
> entities that leak. What we do in them is a kind of leakage that has
> to be captured and regulated as value. Everything from the training of
> critical thought to the ethics of critical pedagogy, from radical
> study to the questioning of given narratives and histories is a
> leakage that somehow the university-as-private-equity-firm both
> depends on and dreads, both valorizes and heavily regulates.
>
> Today it?s precisely these leakages that the rightwing assault on
> higher education is coming for. They?re coming to plug the gaps. The
> Congressional witch-hunts are just the latest iteration. They?re
> plugging the gaps, taking the regulation to its logical conclusion,
> because the ruling classes know very well the size and magnitude of
> the crisis that is not imminent but already here. They know they?ve
> left you with a burning planet, crumbling infrastructures, atrophied
> democracies, and foreclosed futures. They don?t need people like you
> who think, who question, who critically parse, and less still, people
> who are committed to causes like anti-imperialism and genuine
> universalisms.
>
> They need technicians, financiers, engineers, and the kind of quiet
> cold competencies of the managerial paradigm; they need people who are
> not invested in the world but invested in stocks, or better yet,
> invested in themselves as figures of a kind of stock, as human
> financial portfolios. And if they have to gut the university to get it
> done, if they have to mobilize every piece of institutional and
> repressive power to do so, then they will. Yesterday it was critical
> race theory. The day before that, trans rights. Today it?s Palestine
> and anti-Zionism ? the script changes, but the play is the same.
>
> The fight for Palestine and divestment today, then, is also a fight
> against the corporatization of the university, against its
> hyper-exploitation of precarious and contingent labor, against its
> centralization around technocratic administrations, a fight for its
> genuine democratization. It?s a fight for and against the university.
> And if the university is to have any future beyond its corporate
> capture, it will be you and your allies who forge it.
>
> What an honor it is to step into this breach with you.
>
> Long live the student uprising, long live Palestine!
>
>
> https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/the-student-uprising-is-fighting-for-all-of-us/

Fuck them domestic terrorists and expel them and make them pay back what
they owe.