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Brian Deyo

@deyob.bsky.social
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Husband, Proud Papa, Teacher-Scholar-Activist, Writer, Democratic Socialist. Nihil humani a me alienum puto ... y sigo a los perros. Opiniones son mias.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Amazing work from all the organizers, presenters, & our hosts from Labor@Wayne I’ll take some credit for editwork, but this really was conceived from the outset by @deyob.bsky.social @sunyufspresident.bsky.social & Sean O’Brien.
theamericanvandal.com
AI, FOIA, & The Public Good (Vandal Live from Labor@Wayne)
with Christopher Newfield, Sean O’Brien, Yasmeen Hishmeh, & more
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
If you believe higher education is essential to the project of building multiracial democracy and the infrastructures that support human flourishing, then you oughta read this, sign our petition, and pass it along to a loved one, a colleague, or a friend!
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Sign the Petition
The State of Shared Governance: Independence Day 2026
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Public Good U @publicgoodu.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
AAUP TV and The American Vandal Podcast will help conversations like Thursday’s reach wider audiences. In addition to AI, talks from Public Budgets, Public Good at Wayne State focused on how higher ed is being affected by private equity, institutional debt, and ed tech. Top notch work!
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Higher Ed folks, mark your calendars cuz this is happening! Gonna be broadcast on AAUP TV so we can reach a national audience! Please spread the word to help us reclaim higher education for the public good!
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
English Studies colleagues, I’m gathering examples of position statements on AI, as I’m working with a colleague on a draft for our department. The one from Rutgers rocks, and I’m wondering if any of y’all could share yours? The process is trickier than I had imagined !🙏✊
english.rutgers.edu
Department Statement on AI
The Department of English is the largest humanities department in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Our faculty st
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Thanks for sharing and amplifying our story, Matt. Many of us at GV have been preparing for this—listening to the ensemble of critical voices you’ve gathered in your excellent podcast, The American Vandal, has been indispensable, empowering, and inspiring. ✊🙏
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
If you’ve been haunted like I’ve been by what that grinning bow-tied grifter did to WVU—and you wanna try to make sense of the AI-EdTech-Higher Ed nexus—please read and share widely✊🙏
mlive.com
GVSU approves $139M bond to cover new technology hub plans
GVSU authorized issuing bonds not to exceed $139 million, a decision applauded by university leaders and decried by some faculty members.
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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Let’s goooooooo!!!!!
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Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City
Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
This book is a godsend for academic workers! Read it, share it with folks who care about the fate of democracy and the planet, teach it, talk it up within organizing, union, and faculty governance spaces. It's gonna be indispensable to the struggle to build a political economy that works for all.
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University Keywords
How American universities operate as social and economic engines that shape society beyond their traditional educational roles.University Keywords gathers, contextualizes, and develops original unders...
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
So much I wanna say about this episode. For now, just wanna extend my most heartfelt thanks to Matt and the collective of good folks who make AV possible—and are fighting, on the daily, to build a more just, beautiful, and verdant future. Burn, burn—always, Matt—with Pater's "hard, gem-like flame"!
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Cruel Futurism
The American Vandal · Episode
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Thinking (too much!) about technofeudalism, the seemingly unstoppable genocidal/ecocidal violence/madness directed toward Palestinians, climate apartheid, the death drive, Eisenhower's warnings about the military-industrial complex, Trump's interminable bloviating, then happened upon this title...
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The Palestine Laboratory
Winner of the 2023 Walkley non fiction journalism prizeFinalist for the 2023 Moore Prize for Human Rights WritingIsrael's military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a te...
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Academic workers at public regional universities MUST have a seat at the table with admin to determine their respective digital strategies; it's also imperative they have a say in their contracts with EdTech, AI startups, and companies like Ziplines. If not, they need to ORGANIZE and DEMAND it!
open.substack.com
How Venture Capitalists Built A For-Profit "Micro-University" Inside Our Public Flagships
You can graduate any time, but you can never leave.
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Just formed a faculty-staff-student led Land-Use group at Grand Valley State University to collectively resist technofeudal projects in the Great Lakes region, such as the building of data centers that will drive up the costs of energy and water for working people...
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JD Vance Funded AcreTrader. Here’s Why That Matters.
The real estate platform streamlines investing in US farmland. Now farms are fast becoming a portfolio staple for investors worldwide.
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Close reading—FUCK YEAH!
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
As I keep tellin' my students while they're makin' their podcasts together, if we're gonna make a revolution, we gotta become maestros in the ART of LISTENING. If yer feelin' down or downright disgusted with the state of things, then simply pour this tasty episode of AV into your ear!
theamericanvandal.substack.com
From Technostructure To Technofeudalism (A Tale of Today, Episode #16)
with James Livingston, Astra Taylor, & Yanis Varoufakis
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Paging all critical university studies folks—and anyone interested in understanding university budgets in the context of polycrisis—please join us for our webinar this Wednesday, April 16, 4:30-5:45, EDT. Link to register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Paging all critical university studies folks—and anyone keen to learn more about university budgets—I'm jazzed to announce this is happenin' next week! Join us👇✊
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 31/01/2025
From @aaup.bsky.social, what to do if ICE is on your campus.
ICE On Your Campus
Questions to Ask Your Administration
1. What is campus policy with regard to working with federal immigration authorities?
2. Who should faculty contact in the event that they are approached by ICE agents?
3. What private/limited-access spaces can you make available where ICE agents cannot enter unless they have a valid warrant?
4. Are you planning to communicate with students, staff, and faculty about their privacy rights? These rights include the right to deny immigration officers entry to their homes (including dorms) unless officers have a judicial warrant, and the right to not respond to the questions or statements of an immigration officer who is seeking to enter their home without a judicial warrant.
5. Are you planning to communicate guidance that, if a federal immigration enforcement officer seeks to enter a limited-access area on campus, students and workers should ask the officer for their name, identification number, agency affiliation, and business card, and inform the officer that they are not obstructing their process but need to contact the campus legal counsel for assistance?
6. What campus authority should students contact if they are contacted by ICE?
What Chapter Leaders Can Do Now
1. Provide to faculty any campus plan or policy and any campus authority contact.
2. Create a list of immigration attorneys who can be contacted in case of emergencies day and night.
3. Distribute a family preparedness plan template to your members. Example: aaup.org/ILRC-plan
4. Conduct Know Your Rights sessions for your members; these do not have to be done by an attorney.
Recommendations for Organizing on Your Campus
Engage members via a petition, open letter, high-participation meeting, in-person demonstration, or other collective action to demand that your campus administrators:
1. Not comply with ICE to detain or deport students, faculty, or staff unless legally required to do so.
2. Ensure that noncitizens understand the difference between an …
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
"The Iron Dome is a global project [....] a certain kind of fortressed inequality and apartheid that is actually a global project."
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‘The Exceptions Have Become the Rule.’ Naomi Klein on Trump, Gaza and the End of the ‘Liberal Order’
Award-winning author and journalist Naomi Klein speaks to Democracy in Exile.
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Anticipatory obedience is suicide.
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Against Anticipatory Obedience
The statement that follows, prepared by a joint subcommittee of the Association’s Committee on College and University Governance and Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, was approved for public...
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Methinks the late Fredric Jameson would have deep and penetrating insight into the fact that a US president-elect/greedhead/bullyboy/con-man/real estate mogul just brokered a ceasefire in Gaza: "I will put a very simple proposition to you: namely that today, all politics is about real estate."
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
"These developments expose without a shadow of a doubt that the Biden administration’s failure to achieve a ceasefire was always wilful, and that the Democratic Party government positively chose to arm and support the genocide. There will have to be accountability for that."
electronicintifada.net
Why is Trump pressuring Israel to end its war on Gaza?
Gaza ceasefire is closer than ever thanks to resistance steadfastness and intervention by US president-elect.
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Galvanizing to witness hundreds of fellow academic workers protesting the MLA's refusal to allow its members to vote to approve a resolution endorsing the 2005 call of Palestinian civil society organizations to boycott, sanction, and divest from Israel at the Delegate Assembly meeting today✊🇵🇸♾️
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Matt has answers to the ongoing and accelerating climate catastrophe—build and harness the power of a transnational labor movement. Wanna do something about the wildfires in California? Or the genocide in Gaza? Support and build unions that are excited and ready to FIGHT to defend the planet!
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Lookin' out my hotel window at the MLA in New Orleans and ... cruise ships on the Mississippi—WTF?😱
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Warm thanks to colleagues in the MLA for their principled stance on the genocide in Gaza. Anti-BDS legislation is fascistic and continuous with the barbarous logics of coloniality since 1492. To capitulate to the idol of neoliberal economic rationality at this historical moment is MADNESS!
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”
fortune.com
AI doesn’t just require tons of electric power. It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/01/2025
Events like the California fires demonstrate why it's so dangerous when tech billionaires decide to eschew rigorous fact-checking. Social media remains a vital source of real-time life-saving information during crises and disasters. Having accurate information is often a matter of life or death.
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Holy smokin' mother of SIN! "BILLIONS AND BILLIONS SERVED"—indeed ... and legions upon legions of wild-ass chickens comin' home to roost! So this is 2025—buckle up, folks ... and UNIONIZE, UNIONIZE, UNIONIZE!
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Always read Mike Davis: "You say fire, I say climate change, and we both ignore the financial and real-estate juggernaut that drives the suburbanisation of our increasingly inflammable wildlands." "Unnecessarily, our children, and theirs, will continue to face the flames."
lrb.co.uk
Mike Davis | El Diablo in Wine Country
In 1942 Alfred Hitchcock recruited the author of Our Town, Thornton Wilder, to write the screenplay for Shadow of a...
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Gearing up to write an abstract for an essay on indebted life and the ways that higher education is entangled with neoliberal, extractivist, racial capitalist political economies. Gotta recognize the ways that listening to @mattseybold.bsky.social's podcast has made this work possible.
theamericanvandal.substack.com
The First Curriculum is Work Without Wages (A Tale of Today, Episode #11)
with Rachel Sagnar Buurma, Jelani Favors, Laura Heffernan, Nathan Kalman-Lamb, & Derek Silva
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
"Collective actions that have material impacts can also remind people that we can affect the heartbreaking conditions that discourage us. Feelings of powerlessness and overwhelm are responsible for many of the harmful dynamics that hinder our work as activists and organizers."
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
"And local sources of news, which could counter the political narratives being shamelessly promoted by the billionaire class, are facing censorship, layoffs and closures." In the absence of local news, colleges and unis can do their part to train up an army of muckrakers to counter fascist bs.
inthesetimes.com
Scapegoats and Solidarity
Scapegoat politics is a tempting—but harmful—distraction from the real work of solidarity-building.
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Intrigued, pissed, and a touch terrified by the AI advertising blitz happenin' on ESPN and elsewhere during college bowl season. Same shit goin' down while watchin' the Lions last night🤔😱
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
"What might it mean to live a life, if we can't risk desiring and working towards utopia?" – Rinaldo Walcott, "Towards Another Shape of this World"
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Warm thanks to our colleagues in the MLA for their principled stance on the genocide in Gaza. Anti-BDS legislation is fascistic and continuous with the barbarous logics of coloniality since 1492. To capitulate to the idol of economic rationality at this historical moment is madness.
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
"By reimagining the global economy as a means to exert pressure on Israel, BDS has transformed boycotts into one of the most effective forms of nonviolent resistance in a capitalist world, creating ripple effects that resonate far beyond the checkout counter."
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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
““A few days ago I visited the ruins of the village.The devastation is total.One wall of the school is still partially standing. It has an elegiac inscription in Arabic: “We have the right to an education.” I have never seen people so devoted to educating their children as the Palestinians”
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 29/12/2024
Jimmy Carter was the one ex-president in the modern era to openly admit (and lament) the truth about what America has become in the post-Citizens United era. The national press corps probably won’t mention this, but it was really something. He was a real one. RIP.
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Had a thimbleful of hope that perhaps the Biden administration might cancel the debt of aging borrowers. Reading this article just killed it. Takes me back to the moment when Biden and the Dems blocked Bernie—and an entire movement that joyfully embraced and defended the dignity of ordinary people.
truthout.org
Gas Exports and AI Boom Poised to Spike Energy Prices for Consumers Under Trump
The expansion of AI data centers and a rush to export fracked gas is rapidly reshaping the energy landscape.
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Fetch me a bucket. I think I'm gonna throw up!
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Reading Jameson's An America Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army mañana en Mexico ... y descubrí este artículo—feelin' groovy✌️
theguardian.com
‘Living proof that you can spend money on the poor’: Utopia comes to Mexico City
A visionary mayor has harnessed her imagination to promote health, wellbeing and culture in one of the Mexican capital’s most impoverished neighbourhoods
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Gonna start givin' friends and family a solid ribbing if they're still hangin' onto the flamin' shit-missile, AKA X. Nuthin' good can come from continuing to enfranchise, empower, and enrich this knuckle-draggin' nincompoop—NADA!
theguardian.com
Elon Musk pens German newspaper opinion piece supporting far-right AfD party
Billionaire Trump adviser said his ‘significant investments’ in the country justified his wading into German politics
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
K-12 educators, college professors, librarians, journalists—ANYONE invested in reclaiming the commons from the depredations of American oligarchy—listen to this episode of @mattseybold.bsky.social's The American Vandal. Wanna make sense of polycrisis? Cravin' a lil' hope to make it through the day?👇
theamericanvandal.substack.com
Half Castle 'Gainst The Scott Walkers (A Tale of Today, Episode #9)
with Rachel Sagner Buurma, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Eleanor Courtemanche, Jelani Favors, Samuel Freedman, Laura Heffernan, Jeffrey Insko, Anna Kornbluh
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Our 2025 playbook: "Neoliberal capitalists have planted the seeds of their own destruction by using debt to shape and control educational institutions. They erred when they decided to put debtors–faculty, staff, students and universities themselves–in the same location." Let's go, y'all!
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Brilliant
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
"NOTHING is more popular than a story about Higher Ed." – Tressie McMillan Cottom Gilded Age 2.0 + Climate Breakdown = the opportunity to train up an army of muckrakers. New interdisciplinary programming in "Media, Storytelling, and Public Engagement"? Anybody down for this convo at MLA 2025?
theamericanvandal.substack.com
Half Castle 'Gainst The Scott Walkers (A Tale of Today, Episode #9)
with Rachel Sagner Buurma, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Eleanor Courtemanche, Jelani Favors, Samuel Freedman, Laura Heffernan, Jeffrey Insko, Anna Kornbluh
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
“The leaving the power on the table story might be the great story of higher education right now. We have so much and yet are absolutely terrified to use it.” - Tressie McMillan Cottom
marktwainstudies.com
Half Castle ‘Gainst The Scott Walkers (A Tale of Today, Episode #9)
An episode inspired by “The Teaching Archive.”
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
"I want Democrats lying down on train tracks. I want them reviewing the civil rights–era playbook and remembering how people who had no institutional power brought about structural change by demanding better from institutionalists."
thenation.com
Institutional Resistance Is Futile
It’s time for the Democratic Party to abandon its staid, rules-based resistance to Trumpism and wage a fierce, moral response.
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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Proud, inveterate anti-fascist, anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist comrades, please sign here👇✊♥️🇵🇸
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Open Letter to NYU Leadership
On December 12, the NYU administration invited the NYPD to arrest two faculty members who were supporting students involved in a nonviolent protest at the main library. The university also designated...
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