Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 15/05/2025As we can see from which books are being banned and whose portraits are being taken down, attacking DEI and Critical Race Theory is just a new way of attacking Black History and Black People. 040
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Columbia Protesters and Gaza For those upset by protesters who seized a room in Columbia's Butler Library before they were removed by police-Whatever injuries they inflicted on people or property at Columbia is dwarfed by the violence Israel is inflicting on people and the built environment in Gaza 020
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 09/05/2025No major university will voluntarily relinquish control of admissions and faculty hiring. This is a battle the Trump administration will lose, even if it inflicts unimaginable hardship on the universities it targets. 000
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 28/04/2025We need a 24 hour vigil outside the National Museum of African American History and Culture to prevent Trump Administration officials from trying to shut down any of its exhibits! #saynotofascism 031
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Some Good News! The Trump Administration is so Incompetent that it’s giving Fascism a bad name!! 020
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Every morning when you wake up say NO! Then say it again NO! This is what Canada did! This is what China did! This is what Harvard did! You can do it too! Every day! 020
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 16/04/2025I jost posted this article on #TheEducatorsRoom, for whom I will now be a regular columnist on higher education issues. theeducatorsroom.com/dei/theeducatorsroom.comResisting the rollback: How select universities maintain DEI programs despite federal pressure - The Educators RoomDEI programs are under attack. Here's what private institutions like Fordham University and Georgetown Law are doing. 011
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Our universities are far from perfect institutions- but resisting fascism requires a strong civil society, so we need to defend their autonomy from government edicts which seek to control what people teach and what subjects professors and students focus their research on 040
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Some people will lose everything Many people will go broke But in the face of all the madness I wont stop being “woke.” 050
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Some people are about to discover that rage and hate don’t pay the rent and put food on the table. 141
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 30/03/2025I don’t feel like I am living in a dictatorship. I feel like I am living in a toxic environment produced by would be dictators who can’t achieve their ultimate goal. but are willing to inflict unimaginable pain in a desperate effort to get there Do not concede defeat. They are not going to win. 0339
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Food from Johnson’s BBQ is making my students very happy!!! They ate all the ribs, chicken and mac and cheese! 130
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 29/03/2025I will not give an inch to racists and fascists, not today, not tomorrow, not ever. I am not sure that makes much of a difference. But I had to say it anyway just to clear the air! 021
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 24/03/2025://forward.com/fast-forward/706834/palestinian-director-of-no-other-land-beaten-and-arrested-in-the-west-bank/ 110
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Will historians of the future say: “The liberal arts, and the historic mission of great universities, died at Columbia without a whimper.” Is there any resistance to what just happened? Where are the leaders? If Columbia held out longer, it would have given other universities time to prepare 120
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 24/03/2025It’s really quite simple. There are too many of us to control if we refuse to obey. 020
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Just watch! We are about to head into the Springtime of Anti-Fascism! 150
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Every morning when you wake up, look in the mirror and shout "I'm Not Dead Yet!" 030
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Concede Nothing Resist Everything Get in the Face of Those Who Would Deport Your Neighbors, Friends and Colleagues 031
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 20/03/2025No better time than now to put on this tee shirt. Fascism—like bullying- thrives on compliance. 000
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 20/03/2025The most effective resistance to Trump is coming from Canada, Europe, and those everywhere who hate Teslas and Elon Musk, a large and growing group which seems to cross party lines. 071
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Remember, the Trump/Musk attempted Coup is an historic moment. It is not the end of History 000
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Today, after a great night's sleep, I felt better, mentally and physically, than I have in months. This snowflake is not going to melt. I will be ready to fight fascism for however long it takes And how will I fight? By following the edict "Go hard or go home!" 040
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Earlier this evening, a Columbia Alum just called me "Pro Hamas," the same accusation leveled at Mahmoud Khalil. This is apparently how Israel supporters at my Alma Mater label anyone who calls for equal rights for Palestinians or describe the Israeli destruction of Gaza as "genocide." 052
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Wearing an ICE Breakers button for my Saturday morning tennis game! 030
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 15/03/2025At a time when close to half the country would be happy to see me arrested and put in detention, I chose to focus on those people, young and old, who I can trust to defend the most vulnerable among us and fight those spreading cruelty and chaos. 040
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Columbia has just expelled and revokes the degrees of everyone who occupied Hamilton Hall -22 students. This is far beyond what it did in 1968 in response to bigger protests This is capitulation to fascism. It destroys Columbia’s role as a center of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. 031
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 13/03/2025A Columbia Professor's message to his fellow Jewish faculty members lithub.com/a-columbia-p...lithub.comA Columbia professor’s message to his fellow Jewish faculty members.[As news broke last Friday of the Trump administration’s plan to revoke $400 million dollars of research funding to Columbia University, filmmaker and Columbia professor James Schamus posted the fo… 021
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 13/03/2025I would be proud if President Trump called me a “Palestinian” because like it or not, Palestinians and Progressive Jews are in it together in fighting fascism in Israel and the US. 041
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 12/03/2025The Columbia experience shows that collaborating with this administration on suppression of student protests doesn't protect an institution, it invites further attacks. 052
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Trump is going to crash the economy. Is this what his supporters signed up for- inflation, plus unemployment, plus rising medical expenses and hospital closures? Because that is what is coming. 161
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 10/03/2025This is a video I just did for LA Progressive on strategies to resist the Trump/Musk Coup, on Black Studies at Universities, and on moments in US history, unfortunately not all that common,when working class blacks and whites came together to resist elite power. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKgB...youtube.comUnderstanding The MAJOR Implications Of Trump And Musk's PoliciesYouTube video by LA Progressive 053
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 09/03/2025If ICE is in the Columbia Residence Halls, as I was just informed they are, seeking to detain and deport international students who participated in Palestine Justice protests, Columbia Students and Faculty should consider going on strike, just as they did in 1970 after the US invasion of Cambodia. 051
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Apparently, MAGA people hate forest rangers and medical reaerchers as well as immigrants, trans people, student protesters, professors and players in the WNBA! That’s why they love Musk’s budget cuts! 030
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 09/03/2025This is only the beginning. The impact on our senior care facilities will be devastating. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/b...nytimes.comUndocumented Workers, Fearing Deportation, Are Staying HomeFearing roundups, many immigrants are staying home. Construction, agriculture, senior care and hospitality employers say labor shortages will worsen. 020
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 08/03/2025I know many of you are frightened by the top down assault on everything you believe in, so I want to share with you some advice I gave my daughter, Sara Naison-Tarajano, early in her sports career, advice she took and never looked back “When you walk onto a ball field, strut as if you own it!” 010
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 08/03/2025This song was made 15 years ago, but it is perfect for today. "We'll never rest again until every Nazi dies" www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLkP...youtube.comChumbawamba - The day the nazi diedYouTube video by Huppelplopp1848 130
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Going cold turkey on Amazon is feeling really good. Not only am I giving more business to local establishments, I am spending less on things I don't actually need. 040
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 08/03/2025When you cut off federal aid to Columbia University, you take the risk of destabilizing the medical system in New York City, as Columbia Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia Medical and Nursing Schools are central to health care in New York City, especially the provision of cutting edge procedures 86122
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Any university which allows politicians to influence what it teaches is undermining the historic mission of great universities. 041
Mark Naison @badasspapamark.bsky.social · 06/03/2025I am WOKE I am DEI I am CRT I am everything you hate. And you can't do anything about it without getting hurt. BIOMF! 140