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Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com |
One of the first protests I attended was a teach-in at Pomona College about the first Gulf War. I was a freshman in high school. People who act like the students here are doing unprecedented things are just lying to you.
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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone
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Everyone should watch the PBS American Experience documentary 1964. Extremely pivotal year, including the beginning of the student free speech movement. Mister, we could use a man like Mario Salvo again
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Bobcat
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There was a "Peace Camp" as a semi-permanent fixture on the quad of my college campus for most of my senior year in the early '00s. Dittoing this being nothing new.
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‘stina is a shiny special one
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When I went to Pomona, we took over Foothill in protest of the Rodney King verdict. Later other students took occupied the administration office for a few days over tuition hikes. When I went to Oxford, students struck over rent.
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🌷Skippy The Bush Kangaroo🌷
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I was so struck by this. Students protest. It’s part of the experience. At my undergrad this would have all been just another day. There was always someone protesting something. The problem is that administration has lost its mind.
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Jackie Barbosa
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See, it's different because THEY were the ones protesting, so of course they were on the side of the angels. But this new generation just doesn't respect anything and doesn't know its place Song as old as time!
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Courtney Milan
@courtneymilan.com
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I keep thinking about this and just choking on my rage.
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Kingfisher & Wombat
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Ayup. Were the Dixie Chicks canceled in vain?
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Liz Schiller #DefundthePolice
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There was a tent city in Sproul Plaza at Berkeley protesting university support of apartheid and South Africa. Late 1980s (the era when College Republicans were a thing, starting conservative college newspapers all over with big right wing money).
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Sarah
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Most of the people telling us that are either Boomers or Xers, and between the Occupy protests and American culture's agreed mythology of the 60s, they're completely full of shit.
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Amanda
@msemmalyon.bsky.social
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I was in college during the first Gulf War and attended such things
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amdiamanti
@amdiamanti.bsky.social
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If you shout "Free Palestine," Columbia will derail your education.
If you should "Jews will not replace us," UNR will tell the world Nazis deserve an education too.
www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/09...
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HudsonRiverCroc
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Same hippies protesting the Vietnam war now want college students to stop protesting another war
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Liz
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These students are following in a grand tradition. The police violence is also traditional -- this viscerally reminds me of the cop who walked down a line of cuffed UC Davis students, pepper spraying them in the face. What's unprecedented is that this call came from inside the house. Shafik must go.
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Kendra Abel
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I mean… youtu.be/1q82twrdr0U?...
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Aaron Bourque
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There were anti-Vietnam protests on universities in the 60s. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the same was true of the Korean war and even WWII??? College campus protests against wars (even wars the US is not directly invovled in) ARE NOT NEW. THEY'RE PRACTICALLY TRADITION!
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D. A. Hosek
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If I remember correctly, a priest friend of mine (Chris Ponnet) was part of that event or maybe another one at that same time. I remember him talking about how much he enjoyed it.
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Jeanine Finn
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Yes. Walking through campus last Sunday with a friend who’s a 1993 graduate and she was telling me about occupying Alexander Hall in support of S African divestment.
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semiotics of film grain
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it's been weird to see people roll up to the conversation with "I have never heard of a sit-in before, and am against them for breaking the following rules"
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gochenourabout
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Vietnam???????????? ALL OF VIETNAM?????
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Mx. Coreo Jones
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I grew up with people who had been on campus for or had friends or family who were in Kent during the May 4 shooting, and all my grownups taught me that protesting was an important thing college kids did and that those shootings had been a travesty. I am terrified we've forgotten that.
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Richard
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And now Pomona is calling riot police. 🤬
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