SouprMatt
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I started this thread as a place to separately talk about protests of the conflict.
Feel free to ignore if you think it makes more sense to just keep it in the main thread.
We‘ve discussed the Columbia protests quite a bit, but here’s another college where police response to protests turned violent. Emerson College in Boston.
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One interesting thing that connected to a recently-heard SCOTUS case: The cops used an anti-homeless law as an excuse to violently disperse students that were camping out in protest. So… criminalizing homelessness is also a way to justify violence against peaceful protesters? In that case, and with these justices, it seems even more likely the Supremes will rule against homeless people!
Feel free to ignore if you think it makes more sense to just keep it in the main thread.
We‘ve discussed the Columbia protests quite a bit, but here’s another college where police response to protests turned violent. Emerson College in Boston.

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Attached: 1 video Emerson College in Boston saw a particularly interesting crack down on Palestine protesters yesterday. The university and city conspired to use an anti-homeless ordnance (which criminalized being unhoused) now to criminalize protesters instead. The students were setup in...
One interesting thing that connected to a recently-heard SCOTUS case: The cops used an anti-homeless law as an excuse to violently disperse students that were camping out in protest. So… criminalizing homelessness is also a way to justify violence against peaceful protesters? In that case, and with these justices, it seems even more likely the Supremes will rule against homeless people!