#silentsam — Public Fediverse posts

UNC-Chapel Hill has a long tradition of students speaking out for justice. We historically look back on these movements and are grateful for them overturning the Speaker Ban, standing up for housekeepers and food workers, opposing South African apartheid and the Gulf Wars, demanding the construction of a free-standing Black cultural center, and for taking down Silent Sam. (Just to name a new examples.)

And yet without fail, University administrators have fought against every one of these movements. In 1991, I participated in a Peace Village where we camped in the Pit for over a month to oppose the bombing of Iraq. The only people that bothered us were racist College Republicans.

Now students have camped out in Polk Place to show solidarity with the people of Palestine and to demand that UNC divest from Israeli apartheid. In spite of the fact that they are not disrupting the campus in any way (I was there Sunday and they are not even blocking sidewalks) the Chancellor brought in thugs yesterday to brutalize and arrest these students. The global struggle for human rights comes home again.

In response, a diverse group of alumni composed this letter to UNC administrators, and we have already gotten over 1,000 signatures!

Please share, and sign on ONLY if you went to UNC. Thank you for support! 🩵🍉✊🏽🇵🇸

SIGN & SHARE: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe0WHg_RADb8bPAkpSQaWHHV0AptGtz1Byb3-9nxDAMqWhP3g/viewform

READ: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oasmsCkOOGFdL4oennR823ReFjO9sVkblbXdLMza7F4/

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