Palestine Tet – 132 – Colorado Legislators, Denver City Council Members Call for Dropping Charges Filed Against Auraria Encampment Protestors
April 29, 2024
Angela Davis speaking at the Auraria Encampment on April 27, 2024. She congratulated the demonstrators “you are the ones who are making history” calling the current national protests against U.S. support for Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza “a breakthrough moment” – which it is
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(Note: What are they protesting about anyway?
For an immediate ceasefire, for an end to Israel’s genocidal campaign against Palestinian Gazans, for cutting U.S. military (and other) aid to Israel, for Gazans to return home to their devastated neighborhoods so they can pull out the bodies of their dead relatives crushed in the rubble and rebuild. Each day in the past week more college campuses have seen the erection of Gaza encampments, of calls for their universities to divest from Israel, etc. In many places – University of Texas at Austin, Emory College in Atlanta, Washington University in St. Louis come to mind, the police have been extremely brutal. In other places as well. Here in Denver, on the orders of Mayor Mike Johnston, local police disrupted an encampment on the Auraria Campus, rough housing many and arresting forty people. There were reports to me by participants of police stepping on the backs of protesters lying peacefully on the ground and other forms of what can only be called police brutality.
But the encampment has survived – at least until this morning – [Monday, April 29, 2024]. And the next day in the pouring rain, the encampment remained in tact. The protesters stood their ground and the police backed off. The encampment continues. Angela Davis stopped by to give her support on her way to the airport out of Colorado. RJP)
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View from the Left Bank: Rob Prince's Blog 
Thank you. It’s good but I’m not sure much will stop or change. The Mayor is behaving exactly like I predicted Before the Election. Yea Angela – – I still have her picture up. 💜💜💜
Yes, you are right…coordinatel assaults on encampments at Columbia U. and UCLA last night. New level of state-directed violence. The “rules of the game” which are neither rules nor a game have just changed. But the repression will only intensify the growing resistance as we watch the authorities bust heads, brutalize the flower of American youth and those academics who stand by their students taking the blows with them.