Article 6ME0Y Stunning police brutality will ignite a student anti-war movement in America | Joan Donovan

Stunning police brutality will ignite a student anti-war movement in America | Joan Donovan

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Joan Donovan
from US news | The Guardian on (#6ME0Y)

There is some truth to the popular protest slogan: They tried to bury us, but they didn't know we were seeds'

University students across the US have been protesting since 7 October 2023 with vigils, rallies and marches asking for a ceasefire in Gaza and for their universities to divest from Israel. While some of these protests led to heated fights about foreign policy, the most prominent events have involved university presidents' abysmal congressional testimony. This week's arrests of more than 100 Columbia students reinvigorated the student movement and now it's kicking off everywhere.

As a sociologist of social movements, I study how movements select and shift tactics to elicit a response from their opponents. Over the next few weeks, we will see dozens of other university encampments spring up because activists have found a tactic that gets the administration's attention at a critical time: during finals and commencement.

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