Authorities move to break up encampments at two more US universities on Monday, as Columbia University cancels in-person classes
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is it illegal to protest in the US?
Dozens arrested at Yale and NYU as pro-Palestinian student protests spread
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where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They weren’t arrested for protesting, heavens no. They were arrested for some nebulous but definitely illegal thing that will retroactively be written on the arrest report just as soon as the cops finish searching their house.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s only a matter of time before we start seeing reports of pro-palestinian protesters
being murdered by copsdying from “Excited delirium”.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Not everywhere, but it is illegal in 3 US states now.
The Supreme Court effectively abolishes the right to mass protest in three US states.Buelldozer@lemmy.today 2 months ago
…but it is illegal in 3 US states now.
No. I wrecked that disaster of a Vox article in a comment days ago.
DoomBot5@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A New York police spokesperson said arrests were made after the university asked police to enforce trespassing violations but the total number of arrests and citations would remain unknown until much later.
Nope, but you also don’t have a right to protest on private property.
tyler@programming.dev 2 months ago
Most of these universities aren’t private property
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not officially but authoritarian politicians from both major parties (though mostly the fascist one) have passed a bunch of bullshit “public order” laws that basically have that result. Some of them even classify protesting as terrorism!
Plus cops are always looking for an excuse to arrest and assault protesters, of course.
jkrtn@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Depends on what you’re protesting. If you’re against black people being murdered for no reason you might get the shit kicked out of you by government employees. If you’re against wearing a 1-ply cotton cloth to buy seeds in Home Depot that’s fine (and you’re allowed to block traffic for that).
Uranium3006@kbin.social 2 months ago
they certinly wish it was. they don't respect our rights, they're illegitimate
Binthinkin@kbin.social 2 months ago
We are all anti-Israel if they’re just committing genocide idk what the problem is because that’s what they’re doing.
SteefLem@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Funny that every news outlet calls it PRO palistinian and not that its against actions from israel, or anti israel.
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
That part annoys me so much.
At their core, these are anti-genocide protests. Sure, they’re wrapped up in other stuff - a lot of other stuff, but genocide is the core reason.
Characterizing these as either pro-Palestine or anti-Israel (or even anti-Jewish - ugh) is either willfully missing the point of the protest, or just accepts that not only is a genocide occurring but posits that a challenge to genocide is a challenge to Israel.