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    • People’s University for Gaza
      • Forum 7.0 // People’s University for Gaza, Introduction
      • Forum 7.1 // Campus Circulation & Noncirculation: Fall 2024
      • Forum 7.2 // The New Age of McCarthyism: The Challenges of Teaching About Palestine in a Post-October 7th World 
      • Forum 7.3 // Teaching The Question of Palestine: Interdisciplinary Considerations 
      • Forum 7.4 // UCSC People’s U Reflections on Kinship, Community, and Care
      • Forum 7.5 // Making Meaning of What We’ve Lost:  Collective Grief, Community, and Campus Crackdowns in the Wake of the Encampment Movement  
      • Forum 7.6 // What My College’s Palestine Encampment Taught Me About Love 
      • Forum 7.7 // Solidarity until Liberation against the Militarized University
      • Forum 7.8 // From New York Liberation School to Intifada University
      • Forum 7.9 // From Central America to Palestine:The importance of solidarity and global connections The People’s University
      • Forum 7.10 // Sustaining Dialogue
    • On Peer Review
      • Forum 1.1 // On Peer Review, Introduction
      • Forum 1.2 // On Peer Review, by Marissa J. Moorman (Radical History Review)
      • Forum 1.3 // On Peer Review, by Rocío Zambrana (Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy)
      • Forum 1.4 // On Peer Review, by Andrew Dilts (Abolition Journal Collective)
      • Forum 1.5 // The Precarity of Peer Review, by Eli Thorkelson (precarious ethnographer)
    • Mauna Kea
      • Forum 2 // Enduring Hawaiian Sovereignty : Protecting the Sacred at Mauna Kea, Introduction by J. Kehaulani Kauanui
      • Forum 2.1 // For Mauna Kea to Live, TMT Must Leave, by David Uahikeaikalei‘ohu Maile
      • Forum 2.2 // In Ceremony and Struggle: The Lāhui at Puʻuhonua o Puʻuhuluhulu, by Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar
      • Forum 2.3 // Stop TMT: Bearing Witness to the Decolonial Change the World Has Long Needed, by Dean Itsuji Saranillio
      • Forum 2.4 // Ke Mau Nei Nō Ke Ea O Ka ʻĀina I Ka Pono, by Noenoe K. Silva
    • The Border is the Crisis
      • Forum 3.1 // Four Things You Need to Know About the Border by Lisa Sun-Hee Park
      • Forum 3.2 // The Racist, Sexist, Classist, and Homophobic Past of the “Public Charge” Clause by Julio Capó, Jr.
      • Forum 3.3 // On Common Ground: Concentration Camps in the ‘Home of the Free’ at the Southwest Border and in History by Hana C. Maruyama
      • Forum 3.4 // ‘3 Mexican Countries’: When All Latin American Migrants Become Mexicans by David Hernández
      • Forum 3.5 // #Microsyllabus: Immigration Enforcement and the U.S.-Mexico Border
    • From Carr to Classroom
      • Forum 4 // From Carr to Classroom : Pursuing Historical Knowledge in the Shadow of the Confederacy
      • Forum 4.1 // Where do we study history?
      • Forum 4.2 // Carr, the Confederacy, and Conversations Ongoing
      • Forum 4.3 // Renaming the Carr Building and its Role in the Discussion of Race-Based Issues
      • Forum 4.4 // Confessions of a White Moderate
      • Forum 4.5 // The Past is for the Living
    • White Terror, “Red” Island: A People’s Archive of the Jeju 4.3 Uprising and Massacre
      • Forum 5.2 // Literature of Memory Struggle
      • Forum 5.3 // Reiterations of Dissent
      • Forum 5.4 // Early Cold War Genocide: The Jeju 4.3 Massacre and U.S. Responsibility
      • Forum 5.5 // Silent Wounds of Jeju 4.3
      • Forum 5.6 // “So Many Stories You Never Heard”: An Inheritance of Loss (an interview with Dohee Lee)
      • Forum 5.7 // Over 5,000 Days of Resistance: An Interview with Anti-base Activist Choi Sung-hee on the Gangjeong and Jeju Struggle for Peace
      • Forum 5.8// Sangsuwon (The Origin of Water), HOBAK Jeju Solidarity zine #1
    • Campus Policing
      • Forum 6.1 // Abolitionist Study and Struggle in and beyond the University
      • Forum 6.2 // Who Polices the Campus? The Relationship between Administrators and Campus Police
      • Forum 6.3 // No Guns, No Cops, No Code: the 1980s Anti-Deputization Movement at the University of Michigan
      • Forum 6.4 // The Local as Problem: A Berkeley Story
      • Forum 6.5 // Abolition, Universities, and the American Right
      • Forum 6.6 // Against Naïve Autonomy: Critiquing the Policing of South African University Campuses
      • Forum 6.7 // Scaling Up and Building Solidarity: A Conversation with Organizers from the Cops Off Campus Coalition
      • Forum 6.8 // Art: Praxis & Power
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People’s University for Gaza

A picture of a tent with a fabric large sign drapped across that reads: "DISCLOSE / DIVEST / WE WILL NOT STOP / WE WILL NOT REST at the UW-Madison encampment. Forums

Forum 7.0 // People’s University for Gaza, Introduction

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It is difficult to capture how the world was utterly transformed since October 7, 2023. In response to Hamas’ Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, Israel unleashed an…

A picture of signs outside metal stand-up gates. The signs read: "Linda Kills / NYU Pays," "No More War with OUR Tuition," and other signs that are only partially in the frame. Behind the signs and gates are the tents that form the encampment. New York buildings are behind them. Forums

Forum 7.1 // Campus Circulation & Noncirculation: Fall 2024

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By Abigail Boggs, Eli Meyerhoff, Nick Mitchell, Zach Schwartz-Weinstein  Universities, as we have argued in our collective writing on an abolitionist approach to the study…

A university building appears behind a line of protesters with various signs. The picture is far to the left of the protesters showing the distance they span across the walkway on each side of the building. Forums

Forum 7.2 // The New Age of McCarthyism: The Challenges of Teaching About Palestine in a Post-October 7th World 

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By *Rab Shak  Simply saying the word “Palestine” usually leads to universal reactions from people – bodies stiffen, words stumble, voices whisper, all in an…

A picture in front of Greco-Roman styled building at Columbia with Palestinian flags and signs protesting an end to the Israeli Occupation of Palestine and genocide in Gaza. Signs are both lifted off the ground and flat, lined along the grass. Forums

Forum 7.3 // Teaching The Question of Palestine: Interdisciplinary Considerations 

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By Karam Dana, Maryam Griffin, Dan Berger, Jed Murr, Brinda Sarathy  After nearly two months of an unfolding genocide in Gaza, the urgency of holding…

A photo of protesters struggling against police who are in riot gear. In the struggle, police are grabbing protesters, many wearing masks, headscarves, or keffiyeh across their faces. The protesters are pulling away from the police, holding onto those targeted by the officers, and holding onto each other in the broader group. Forums

Forum 7.4 // UCSC People’s U Reflections on Kinship, Community, and Care

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By Max Sárosi and Sophia Azeb On May 1, 2024, hundreds of University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) students, workers, staff, and faculty gathered for…

A picture of a encampment outside of a building with lights on. The street lights along the walkways are visibly on and the sky is dark above them. Bushes line the walkway that separates the encampment. Posted to a bush, a sign is visible with unreadable writing across a painting of the Palestinian flag across the sign. Forums

Forum 7.5 // Making Meaning of What We’ve Lost:  Collective Grief, Community, and Campus Crackdowns in the Wake of the Encampment Movement  

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By A.B. The day that I ended up at my first rally for Palestine was also the day that I forgot, for a moment, how…

Forums

Forum 7.6 // What My College’s Palestine Encampment Taught Me About Love 

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By zoe ly sen First and foremost, I want to dedicate this essay to Hamed and Sheikh and their children, Ashraf, Rafef, and Rose. They…

Forums

Forum 7.7 // Solidarity until Liberation against the Militarized University

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By Jennifer Kelly As a founding member of UCSC’s Faculty for Justice in Palestine and a scholar of Palestine, I provided three teach-ins and study…

Forums

Forum 7.8 // From New York Liberation School to Intifada University

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By Conor Tomás Reed The greatest honor of producing a book within and for social movements is to see its most impactful chapters being written…

Forums

Forum 7.9 // From Central America to Palestine:The importance of solidarity and global connections The People’s University

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By Amy Argenal In March 2018, I visited the community of Guapinol, Honduras, for the first time. Guapinol is a farming community in the Bajo…

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