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Around the country, police are brutalizing students and professors, subjecting them to a small taste of what Palestinians have endured for generations. Every time a mercenary puts on a police uniform, he commits treason to humanity. Nothing could be more dangerously irresponsible than silencing your conscience and selling your capacity to inflict harm to the highest bidder. Yet this is the very job description of the police. https://crimethinc.com/posters/the-police “Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both.” —Frederick Douglass

Day One: University of Texas Austin Students Take the Lawn https://crimethinc.com/UTApril24 On April 24, students, faculty, and community members assembled on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin to demonstrate against the complicity of the university administration in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Fearing a repeat of the upheavals that have taken place at Columbia University and elsewhere around the country, campus authorities mobilized a massive number of police in response. Yet despite arrests and violence, the demonstrators ultimately outlasted and outmaneuvered the police. In this report, participants describe what they learned.

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And an instructional video from Chile that appeared in 2019.

More video footage showing how to extinguish tear gas canisters.

This video from Chile shows how to extinguish tear gas canisters quickly, safely, and easily. Please pass it on! To deal with those tear gas canisters, take a water jug with a wide mouth, pick up the canister with protective gloves, drop it in the jug, and shake the jug while covering the top with your hand just enough that the gas doesn't get out. It can help to put a little baking soda, dish soap, and/or vegetable oil in the jug of water—3 tablespoons of each to 1 liter of water. Don't seal the bottle. You don't want it to explode.

タコマ港の封鎖 セイリッシュ海からの省察 https://crimethinc.com/2023/11/10/takomagang-nofeng-suo-seiritusiyuhai-karanosheng-cha-1 11月6日（月）寒空にも拘わらず、数百人がワシントン州タコマ港に集まり、イスラエル軍に装備品を送る予定の輸送船の入港を阻止した。 以下のテキストで、抗議行動参加者達が、ピュージェット湾の港湾封鎖の歴史を振り返り、抗議行動での経験を共有し、継続的な大洋横断連帯に向けたインスピレーションを提供しようとする。 #日本語

"This is about stopping the genocide in Palestine." The text of a flier distributed at Columbia University, along with a printable pdf: https://crimethinc.com/2024/04/21/it-is-an-honor-to-be-suspended-for-palestine-dispatches-from-the-solidarity-encampment-at-columbia-university#appendix-ii-a-handout The flier sets forth ten points about the significance of the fight against the genocide in Gaza in the context of rising authoritarianism around the world.

We are now offering a zine version of the reportback from the successful building occupation in solidarity with Gaza that took place at Cal Poly Humboldt. https://crimethinc.com/2024/04/23/report-from-within-the-cal-poly-humboldt-occupation-the-occupation-of-siemens-hall#further-resources Please print and distribute!

A continuous thread of revolutionary struggle connects the Occupy movement of 2011 to the Gaza solidarity encampment of 2024. This little handout summarizes some of the lessons of that experience: Lessons from the Occupy movement for building popular momentum https://crimethinc.com/zines/eight-simple-steps

Report from within the Cal Poly Humboldt Building Occupation https://crimethinc.com/SiemensHall On April 22, 2024, students at Cal Poly Humboldt campus in Arcata, California occupied a building in solidarity with Palestinians, precipitating a showdown with police from throughout the region. After a six-hour standoff, the police were compelled to withdraw from campus. In this report, participants in the occupation describe what took place and what they learned.

Campus Building Occupations from 2008 to Today https://crimethinc.com/BuildingOccupations Last night, students acting in solidarity with those suffering in Gaza successfully occupied and defended a building at Cal Poly Humboldt campus in Arcata. In hopes of equipping today's student demonstrators to experiment more, we present a history of the wave of campus building occupations that took place from December 2008 to 2010—written by participants in some of the first occupations of that era.

Graffiti from inside Siemens Hall at Cal Poly Humboldt right now, reading "Cops beat students here—all cops are cursed."

According to local media, as of 10:50 pm, "All law enforcement have left from in front of the building and appear to be leaving the campus. Scanner traffic appears to confirm that law enforcement has left the scene. One officer said that law enforcement is being 'disbanded.' Students are currently pouring in and out of the occupied building." https://kymkemp.com/2024/04/22/pro-palestinian-protesters-occupy-siemens-hall-at-cal-poly/ For the second time in a week, students have successfully held territory against the full force of police raids.

In solidarity with those suffering in Gaza, students have occupied Siemens Hall at Cal Poly Humboldt in Arcata. Police have attempted to storm the building to evict it; they inflicted injuries on some students, but have thus far failed to gain entry. All around the country, encampments and demonstrations are taking place now. https://crimethinc.com/Columbia2024

There are more tents up at the Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia University now than there were before the police raid. Police evicted the camp at Yale today, but similar camps are appearing as far away as Michigan and North Carolina. https://crimethinc.com/Columbia2024 The question remains: how can this momentum spread beyond the walls of the universities?

Today, with the encampments at universities around the US in our thoughts, we are mailing out copies of our zine "Why We Don't Make Demands" in the packages of books people order. You can read the article online here: https://crimethinc.com/demands Over a hundred zines are freely available for printing in our zine library: https://crimethinc.com/zines

パレスチナ連帯の戦略：ツールキットの拡大 要求提示から直接行動へ https://crimethinc.com/2023/11/03/paresutinalian-dai-nozhan-lue-turukitutonokuo-da-yao-qiu-ti-shi-karazhi-jie-xing-dong-he-1 ジョージア州アトランタで、アボリショニストと環境保護主義者は、「コップ゠シティ」として知られる憲兵訓練施設建設を止めるべく3年半戦い続けている。この運動を鎮圧しようとしているまさに同じ警察が、イスラエル警察を何十年間も訓練し、様々な致命的暴動鎮圧戦略をやり取りしてきた。以下の文章で、「ストップ゠コップ゠シティ」の闘争に参加しているユダヤ人コレクティヴが、自分達が何故パレスチナ連帯にコミットしているのか・ガザへのイスラエル軍の攻撃を止めるためには何が必要なのかを解説する。 #日本語