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Tarik Endale

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DC born, PG County raised, Ethiopian roots. Clinical Psychology PhD Global Public Mental Health www.tarikendale.com

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Tarik Endale @tarikendale.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Ethiopia’s army says it kills 272 Tigrayan fighters and wounds 260 in a counter-offensive in the Amhara region, reporting “heavy personnel and equipment losses” -Al Jazeera This implies that these first days of fighting have been at least as intense/deadly as the first week war in 2020. Horrific.
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Tarik Endale @tarikendale.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
TPLF forces seized control of airports in Tigray and battled federal troops in the neighboring Afar and Amhara regions of Ethiopia. "It is the beginning of the war," TPLF vice president told @AFP. “I do not see the possibility of a de-escalation now.” www.rfi.fr/en/internati...
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Tarik Endale @tarikendale.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Seven Ethiopian armed groups form “Ethiopian Peoples’ Forces Alliance for Survival” to “remove the government in Addis Ababa.” The alliance includes Fano, OLA, TPLF as well as Ogaden/Somali, Afar, Benishangul, and Gumuz armed groups. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Ethiopia conflict: Seven armed groups form alliance against Abiy Ahmed
The groups have been active in Ethiopia's most populous regions for years and now say they will work together.
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Tarik Endale @tarikendale.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
On Sept 20, three drone strikes on a Catholic Relief Service convoy destroyed a truck carrying 41 tons of humanitarian aid in Tigray, injuring the driver and a nearby 13-year-old girl. Federal government forces are the only group in Ethiopia with drones. addisstandard.com/us-condemns-...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New: Students suing Columbia for its response to a library demonstration last year. Student Jessie Rubin recalls officers "shouting racist & homophobic epithets while guards put their hands around students’ necks, slammed participants into the ground, & dragged their bodies across the stone floor."
Student protesters sue Columbia University for illegal detention and assault in class-action lawsuit

NEW YORK, NY – Plaintiffs Nisreen Khokhar, Jessie Rubin, and Hayes Buchanan filed a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on September 18, 2026, alleging that Columbia University falsely imprisoned and assaulted nearly 100 students and community members during a pro-Palestine teach-in last May. The lawsuit seeks to hold Columbia accountable for its collusion with the Trump Administration and for violating students' constitutional rights, and seeks damages and injunctive relief to prevent Columbia from similarly targeting other campus activists.

The teach-in on May 7, 2025, included speeches, a reading syllabus, and guided discussions on the writings of Basel al-Araj, a Palestinian teacher and intellectual who was assassinated by the Israeli government in 2017. Flyers with five demands distributed at the teach-in extended the April 2024 Gaza Solidarity Encampments’ call for Columbia to divest its holdings in corporations complicit in the US-backed Israeli genocide.

According to the suit, Columbia responded to the teach-in by kettling participants in a reading room and barricading all exits for nearly four hours, all while denying food, water, and urgently-needed medical assistance.

The unlawful and violent confinement ended only after the NYPD's Strategic Response Group entered the room and began arresting participants — most of them students in their own library — on trespassing charges.

Rubin recalled “Public Safety officers shouting racist and homophobic epithets while guards put their hands around students’ necks, slammed participants into the ground, and dragged their bodies across the stone floor.”

The arrests and disciplinary hearings that followed resulted in the largest sweep of suspensions and expulsions in Columbia’s history. Plaintiffs allege that Columbia's actions have severely and permanently impacte…
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Tarik Endale @tarikendale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Next stop: Clinical Implementation Science Postdoctoral Fellow at CUNY School of Public Health, Center for Innovation in Mental Health
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Aparna Raj @aparnafordc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
One year after the occupation started, and it’s dangerously escalating. A surge of armed troops and a helicopter at a school don’t make families feel safe, they just serve to intimidate and keep people living in fear. www.washingtonsun.com/metro/dc-fed...
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Neighbors Upset Over Federal Agents’ Presence at D.C. School
Agents and National Guard troops handed out fliers outside a Northwest elementary school, as a helicopter hovered overhead.
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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
177 years ago today, Harriet Tubman made her first escape from a plantation in Maryland with her two brothers.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We woke up thinking about the long shadow of all the workers’ wins and even their losses. We made it free to watch the short documentary that dominated my life this year. Happy Labor Day. vimeo.com/1224659811/7...
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Power to the People, Y'all [Happy Labor Day]
Power to the People, Y’all is a character-driven documentary that explores aging, legacy, and resistance through interviews with five founding members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of the Black Panther...
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Tarik Endale @tarikendale.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Abolishing ICE is suicide prevention
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Tarik Endale @tarikendale.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Dissertation Defended ✅ Two weeks of internship left to go ⏳
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
One of the great People’s Scholars, and writer of the definitive book on the Young Lords. Her class on race and empire (offered for free with a radical bookstore) introduced me to thinkers who changed how I saw the world. What a devastating loss
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 30/07/2026
I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.
newrepublic.com
ICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your Community
While attempting to maintain a relatively lower profile, ICE is managing to arrest record numbers of people. Here’s how it’s doing that.
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Tarik Endale @tarikendale.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Free them all
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 25/06/2026
At Prairieland, federal prosecutors turned an anti-ICE protest into a terrorism case, with defendants now sentenced to decades in prison. @alfatau.bsky.social writes that the target is not just “antifa,” but mass opposition to deportation regimes, racist policing and authoritarianism.
inthesetimes.com
Antifa Everywhere
As Trump revives the war on terror against domestic opposition, what does antifascism mean?
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 25/06/2026
I wrote about the Prairieland defendants and the urgency of opposing the extreme sentences handed down on Tuesday. And they likely will not be the last.
newrepublic.com
The Prairieland Sentences Are a National Emergency
A federal court has punished Texas ICE demonstrators with decades in prison. This is dark news not just for them but for anyone who may want to register political dissent.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...
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In the heart of the Miccosukee, the Native American tribe that shut down Alligator Alcatraz
The community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention ce...
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Truthout @truthout.org · 22/06/2026
The UAW, a union with some 400,000 active members across the U.S., has voted to divest its estimated $400,000 from Israel bonds. The divestment vote makes the UAW the first major national union to vote to divest from Israel.
truthout.org
United Auto Workers Vote to Divest from Israel in Historic Victory
The divestment vote makes the UAW the first major national union to vote to divest from Israel.
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Tarik Endale @tarikendale.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Inside the case against the ‘Michigan 8’: Palestine activism recast as antisemitic terror The Justice Department's disproportionate charges reveal a broader effort to crack down on Palestine solidarity activism as a whole. mondoweiss.net/2026/06/insi...
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Inside the case against the ‘Michigan 8’: Palestine activism recast as antisemitic terror
Eight Palestine solidarity activists in Michigan face decades in prison over property damage. The Justice Department’s disproportionate charges reveal a broader effort to crack down on Palestine solid...
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 22/06/2026
Minnesota labor was recently honored at the AFL-CIO convention in Minneapolis for anti-ICE organizing, including food distribution, rapid response networks & the January shutdown. Now, @sarahlazare.bsky.social & Amy Livingston report, 15 people face federal indictments.
inthesetimes.com
Sweeping Federal Indictments of Ice Observers Net Minnesota Unionists
“I think this is intended to make workers shy away from being vociferous in their opposition to state sponsored violence.”
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maya @smalltraitor.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
“The FBI would rather intimidate and punish the people protesting outside of Delaney Hall than investigate the physical, sexual, and psychological violence that ICE agents and their auxiliaries are inflicting on detainees across this country every day,”
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FBI Tried to Flip Anti-ICE Protesters Into Informants
“They were asking me to inform,” said a protester, one of dozens contacted by the FBI, who was arrested while playing the cello at ICE’s Delaney Hall.
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 21/06/2026
Big up to folks demanding justice for immigrant detainees at Delaney Hall ICE detention center who have been on a hunger & labor strike for weeks! These community supporters have reportedly been attacked by ICE agents with batons & have endured NJ state police in riot gear launching tear gas at them
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Everyone Has a Role to Play in Supporting the Strike at Delaney Hall ICE Jail
The uprising at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, has become a focal point for broader resistance to ICE.
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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
For the latest issue for @readlux.bsky.social , I followed a couple of different groups of court watchers earlier this year. The piece (if you don’t have your copy in hand yet) is also online now! lux-magazine.com/articlea/ice...
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All Eyes on ICE
Court watchers get inside the deportation machine.
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Alex S. Vitale @alexvitale.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Yes. Even in cities with Sanctuary Laws, local police routinely aid ICE by suppressing protests against them. truthout.org/articles/loc...
truthout.org
Local Police Departments Are Enabling ICE’s Deportation Machine
Even in cities where police decline to work with ICE, local law enforcement still bolster Trump’s deportation agenda.
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OuterBoroPrincess @outerbororoyal.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
“‘To our neighbors who quickly mobilized last night, thank you for making it loud and clear that ICE is not welcome in Brooklyn,’ [Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso] Reynoso wrote.”
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NYC officials criticize ICE after clash outside Brooklyn hospital leads to 8 arrests
Elected leaders are questioning the presence of federal immigration agents and the police response after a chaotic confrontation on Saturday night.
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RESIST | FIGHT™ @resistfight.com · 05/05/2026
🚨 ICE brought Chidozie Wilson Okeke to Wyckoff Hospital. New Yorkers swarmed the Brooklyn hospital to stop ICE agents from disappearing him back into ICE custody. That public pressure matters. Without witnesses, cameras, and people refusing to move, ICE controls the body, the exit, and the story.
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
ABC report tonight on Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff hitting two students with his car after they approached him to discuss repression of free speech on campus and the 80+ student activists he’s suspended without due process:
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DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Prof. Derek Peterson, U of Michigan historian & MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, thanked “pro-Palestinian student activists” during a grad speech today, for “opening our hearts to the injustices and inhumanity of Israel’s war in Gaza.” His words, and the cheers that followed made my heart sing.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The New School student government is suspending student funding for the campus Hillel chapter. They cite programs sending students to support the IDF, including units that killed a 78-year-old American, and killed 15 Palestinian emergency workers & buried them in a mass grave.

New School student government suspends Hillel from receiving student funds over  organization’s material support for genocide

The Student government proclaimed Hillel “Not in Good Standing” in a majority vote after determining Hillel’s violation of a policy that requires all student organizations to comply with international law.

New York City (May 1st, 2026): In a first of its kind resolution for a U.S.-based university, the New School student government voted to declare their campus Hillel chapter “In Bad Standing.” This resolution bars the New School Hillel and the Baruch College Hillel from receiving any Student Government funds, co-sponsorship or events, or logistical support until The New School Hillel disaffiliates from Hillel International and ends its promotion of programs that violate international law. 

On May 1st, The New School Student Government voted to accept a report produced by the Registered Student Organization Compliance Committee that detailed Hillel’s repeated and egregious violations of the University Student Senate’s Declaration of Principles, which requires all university Registered Student Organizations to comply with and adhere to international law. The report detailed violations from both the New School / Baruch College Hillel and the larger Hillel International with which they are affiliated. The violations include Hillel’s participation in three different programs that send students to volunteer in Israel on military bases to provide logistical support for the Israeli army as it wages a genocide in Gaza:“Hillel on Base,” “Onward Israel,” and “The Volunteers for Israel (VFI) / Sar-El Program.” . The report, the result of a lengthy investigation undertaken by the TNS Student Government’s Registered Student Oorganization Compliance Committee, also details several multi-million dollar direct partnerships with Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to promote pro-genocide propaganda through the New School / Baruch College Hillel.
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 02/05/2026
“I did not advocate for Palestine because I wanted to be active. I advocate because I have no choice,” writes Mahmoud Khalil. “What choice does a Palestinian refugee, deprived of basic rights, have but to resist the forces that seek to erase him?”
nymag.com
I Miss My Old Life
One year after my abduction by ICE, I still watch my back. When someone falls in step behind me, I stop, tie my shoe, and wait until they pass.
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I did a big article about all of this. It’s kind of baffling to me why people aren’t more concerned that blue state dems are attacking the First Amendment rights of people advocating against genocide and ethnic cleansing. prismreports.org/2026/03/11/n...
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New York ‘buffer’ bills part of wider crackdown on leftist protests
Local bills aim to quash protests against illegal land sales at synagogues, while Trump administration targets organizers using FACE Act
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Occidental College students have launched a NEW encampment protest, calling on Trustees to divest from companies that “profit off and enable Israeli genocide.” They cite Israel’s destruction of Palestine, Lebanon, and Iran — including of schools just like theirs.
Tent encampment on Occidental College’s campus
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/04/2026
breaking: 80-student encampment up at Occidental College in California, demanding the Board of Trustees commit to divest from Lockheed Martin, Palantir, Maersk, and Caterpillar amid the war on Iran, Lebanon and Palestine at an upcoming meeting on Monday.
Los Angeles, CA (April 24, 2026) — 80 Occidental college students and community members set up an encampment on the Academic Quad to demand that their college divests from weapons manufacturing, the prison industrial complex, and war profiteering. Occidental students collected over 600 signatures on a resolution calling on the College to divest from companies that profit off and enable israeli genocide. After the Board of Trustees refused to vote on the timely resolution, the students launched an encampment ahead of the Spring trustees meeting on April 27th to demand that the board vote on the resolution and take action towards divestment.



“We are a new class of students calling on Occidental to uphold its stated values by divesting from companies that build the bombs which are used by the zionist state to obliterate families in Palestine, Lebanon, and Iran. It’s been two years since the last encampment, and we have witnessed the College double down on genocidal investments and student repression.”

 – said Aurelia Mendez-Ortega 



On Monday April 27th, the Occidental College Board of Trustees will be meeting on campus to enjoy a extravagant meal while they authorize the further investment of our schools money into the military industrial complex, ICE detention centers, and surveillance technology.



Students are calling on the University to divest from companies like Lockheed Martin, Palantir, Maersk, and Caterpillar that aid in the zionist military’s genocide in Palestine and facilitate their brutal warfare, surveillance, and ethnic cleansing around the world. “How can I go on as usual, while students in Palestine, Lebanon, and Iran are murdered by the zionist state? We came to college to learn, not to have our tuition dollars invested into a the cult of death. ” — said Athya Paramesh who decided to join the encampment.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 18/04/2026
Tell the truth and get fired.
Christopher Newman remembers seeing campus police officers as he walked into a human resources office at Harvard University, but
he didn't imagine that they were there for him. 
It was July 2024, and Newman had just turned in the results of a two-month-long internship with the Harvard University Archives: an annotated bibliography for the landmark 2022 Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery Initiative report, which detailed the university's ties to slavery across three centuries. He completed his project on Friday, 26 July, and on Monday, he said he received an email that HR wanted to meet with him.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
All strength to Rumeysa Ozturk, who announced today she will be returning to Turkey. Rumeysa was arrested and detained by immigration agents last year as part of ongoing pro-Palestine repression. Last week, fed administration fired the immigration judge who rejected DHS efforts ​to deport her.
reuters.com
Pro-Palestinian Tufts University graduate targeted by Trump administration returns to Turkey
A Tufts University graduate who had been arrested by U.S. immigration agents last year as part of the Trump administration's targeting of pro-Palestinian ​campus activists has returned to her home in ...
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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
In “Censorship and Surveillance at US Universities,” Torin Monahan details the expansive apparatus used by university administrations, often following federal or state political pressures, to police pro-Palestine and progressive speech on campuses across the country. @merip.bsky.social
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NEW: Censorship and Surveillance at US Universities
Dear Friends and Comrades, Today we’re publishing the first piece from our forthcoming issue on campus activism and repression since October 7, 2023. In “Censorship and Surveillance at US Universitie...
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Tarik Endale @tarikendale.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Two years ago on April 17th, the first Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University was erected. The next day, 100+ students were arrested in an NYPD sweep. That same afternoon even more students occupied the lawn, and the second encampment was born.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
In response to what they describe as foot-dragging by the administration in contract negotiations, student workers at Columbia University have authorized a strike. We spoke to some of them about their demands.
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Columbia Student Workers Are Poised to Strike
In response to what they describe as foot-dragging by the administration in contract negotiations, student workers at Columbia University have authorized a strike. We spoke to some of them about their...
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Tarik Endale @tarikendale.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
🙄 Anyways
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Authorities have arrested 26 year old Alexander Heifler after he planned to target Palestinian activist Nerdeen Kiswani, co-founder of Within Our Lifetime, with Molotov cocktails. Nerdeen says that Betar has incited against her and her family for months: abc7ny.com/post/fbi-dis...
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FBI, NYPD disrupt assassination plot targeting pro-Palestinian activist in Hoboken
An attempt on the life of a pro-Palestinian activist was disrupted by law enforcement in Hoboken on Thursday night.
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Tarik Endale @tarikendale.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
“I don’t know what to say. I’m free! I’m free! Finally, after one year.” Kordia also said she would keep fighting on behalf of people still being held at the detention center. “There is a lot of injustice in this place,” she said. “There is a lot of people that shouldn’t be here the first place.”
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Tarik Endale @tarikendale.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
"Leqaa Kordia, a 33yo from the West Bank who has lived in New Jersey since 2016, had been held in a U.S. immigration detention center in Texas since last March. Kordia was among roughly 100 people arrested outside Columbia University during protests at the school in 2024." apnews.com/article/leqa...
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Last protester in immigration detention after Trump’s campus crackdown has been released
A Palestinian woman who was the last person still in immigration detention after the Trump administration’s 2025 crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists has been released.
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Student Workers of Columbia @swcolumbia.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
We voted YES to authorize a strike by a whopping 91.5%! Columbia won’t budge on protecting student workers from an authoritarian takeover and a cost-of-living crisis—it’s time to turn up the pressure.
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Student Workers of Columbia @swcolumbia.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
We’re encouraged by the many Columbia affiliates speaking out in this letter against the University’s repression of Palestinian voices. As we mobilize for a strike, SWC remains committed to the fight for academic freedom for all members of our community. www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2026...
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Open Letter: Toward Real Freedom of Expression
<i>This letter was </i><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DR5L44WCvuj/?img_index=2" rel=""><i>distributed</i></a><i> and signed in December 2025. Still, we feel that the issue it discusses remains h...
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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Here's a full write-up on the judge tossing out Columbia's unprecedentedly harsh disciplinary actions against students accused of occupying Hamilton Hall in 2024: hellgatenyc.com/columbia-exp...
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Judge Rules Columbia's Expulsions of Pro-Palestine Protesters Were Illegal
The judge tossed out Columbia’s disciplinary actions against 22 students accused of occupying Hamilton Hall in 2024.
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Student Workers of Columbia @swcolumbia.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Powerful article! “I believe that all of the securitization of campus exists to police the students,” said Srinivasan, the Indian PhD student targeted by ICE. “It does not actually exist to protect the students from ICE.”
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Tarik Endale @tarikendale.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Early this morning, DHS entered Columbia University housing and abducted another student. This is the result of Columbia refusing the union’s demands for substantive protections for international students.
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Tarik Endale @tarikendale.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Yesterday, student workers picketed for Columbia University to reassert itself as a sanctuary campus and include more protections for international students in their next contract. @swcolumbia.bsky.social also opened a strike authorization vote on Friday. www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/02...
columbiaspectator.com
Dozens demand protections for international student workers at Sundial protest amid stalled union negotiations
<i>Updated Feb. 26 at 3:07 a.m.</i>
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Tarik Endale @tarikendale.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Recording now available: m.youtube.com/watch?v=HVYA...
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Protecting Free Speech in Psychology & Beyond
YouTube video by PJP
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Student Workers of Columbia @swcolumbia.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
ICE is executing civilians. ICE is trafficking children. ICE is kidnapping our coworkers and neighbors. Columbia University must end its complicity with ICE. 🧵
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