LauraInLA
LauraInLA's Journal[Have you ever heard of this before?!] DIGITAL DISGUISE: MYSTERIOUS LED TRUCK INCIDENT ON CAL POLY HUMBOLDT CAMPUS YESTE
Yesterday, around 9:45 a.m., a bizarre incident occurred at Cal Poly Humboldt. The incident, which occurred on a campus already tense due to ongoing protests, involved a mobile LED billboard truck showcasing images of three white hooded figures, reminiscent of Ku Klux Klan members. This display lasted for approximately 30 seconds before the screen turned off and its driver took the truck from the scene, according to an anonymous witness.
The photo as it was taken by a witness.
The photo showing the mobile digital truck as it was taken by a witness.
The witness described the incident, saying that the digital display also included a masked figure with a turban [the figure on the right on the digital billboard shown in the top photo.] “I witnessed this vehicle with a digital screen and, on the screen, it displayed members of the KKK and as we were standing there watching this vehicle, the screen turned off on the truck and it turned completely black and drove away,” the witness recounted.
The quick disappearance of the imagery and the truck’s ability to revert to a nondescript matte black finish made the vehicle almost unnoticeable as an advertising truck once the display was turned off. Several tipsters told us that the vehicle sometimes would show only a simple logo like a company truck might on its screens so it could pass as a different vehicle.
Law enforcement responded and the driver, who we were told was a Russian national, was arrested. At 10:20 a.m., the Humboldt County Correctional facility booking log shows a Sergey Vladimirovich Polishchuk was booked on a single charge, PC602(m), trespassing, which many of the protesters arrested Tuesday morning were also charged with, as the campus was closed due to the protests.
The article talks about a similar event at UVA.
https://kymkemp.com/2024/05/02/digital-disguise-mysterious-led-truck-incident-on-cal-poly-humboldt-campus-yesterday/
UCLA declares unlawful assembly, poised to clear pro-Palestinian camp
Less than 24 hours after a violent attack on a pro-Palestinian camp at UCLA, authorities appeared poised to shut down the encampment by declaring an unlawful assembly.
The move comes after UCLA Chancellor Gene Block announced Tuesday the university’s intentions. The University of California has generally taken a lighter touch in handling protests than USC, Columbia and other campuses that have called in police, who have arrested hundreds of students.
In a statement earlier Tuesday, University of California President Michael V. Drake said he “fully” supported UCLA’s action. UC must be “as flexible as it can” in matters of free speech, he said, but must act in cases in which student learning and expression are blocked, university functions disrupted and safety threatened.
https://archive.ph/DJcL2
From
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-01/la-me-ucla-camp-police
Steve Martin on Twitter:
“Re : Civil Disobedience
My understanding of "civil disobedience" from Ghandi to Martin Luther King, Jr. is that the demonstrators or protesters shall be,
1 ) Civil
and
2) Those paricipating do not resist arrest.
3) They are to suffer the injustice they protest to make clear the law is immoral.
Then the law can be exposed,change can occur.”
County prosecutor calls for talks between UT Austin and protest organizers, noting arrests are "putting a tre
Travis County prosecutor Delia Garza on Tuesday called for University of Texas-Austin leadership to initiate a compromise with student protest organizers, as police presence on campus and arrests are “dwindling” law enforcement resources.
Nearly 80 people were arrested on campus Monday and Garza’s office is processing at least 65 criminal trespass cases, she said.
"While we understand the safety concerns of the university, continuing to send protesters to jail on criminal trespass charges — one of the lowest level non-violent crimes our office is presented with – is putting a tremendous strain on our criminal justice resources," Garza said.
The attorney explained that her office is working to process the “large volume” of cases that has caused “a delay on normal, everyday processes,” and that magistrates are working to determine eligibility for release.
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/university-protests-palestine-04-30-24/index.html?tab=all
Ongoing Rally on UNC's [Chapel Hill] Polk Place Leads to Classes, Non-Mandatory Operations Suspended
UNC campus moved to Condition 2 shortly after 3 p.m. on Tuesday, suspending all non-mandatory operations and cancelling all remaining classes as a rally of pro-Palestine demonstrators developed into a broader struggle with campus police over the flagpole at Polk Place.
Footage from the central open space on the Chapel Hill campus showed university police retaliating against community members who removed the United States flag around 2 p.m. and replaced it with a Palestinian flag. The group had marched over to the area — which had been the site of an encampment established by the UNC Students for Justice in Palestine chapter in the days prior — and removed temporary barricades put up by police after law enforcement arrested demonstrators Tuesday morning. While UNC Police officers and Interim Chancellor Lee Roberts came out of South Building and raised a replacement U.S. flag, members of the pro-Palestinian group removed the American flag a second time. During the police response, officers used pepper spray on the crowd.
The incident happened around two hours after a rally organized by UNC Students for Justice in Palestine began a few yards away at the steps of South Building — where demonstrators criticized the university for arresting colleagues earlier on Tuesday and inaction regarding their requests for UNC to divest from any contracts with companies who have ties with Israel. Until its movement to the flagpole, the gathering was peaceful and consisted of speakers using megaphones to talk with participants and lead chants.
Condition 2 is reserved for when “safety risks or logistical challenges are severe, and there is substantial interest in having a relatively limited number of individuals travel to or remain on campus,” according to the university system’s Adverse Weather & Emergency Closing guidelines. It asks all non-mandatory employees to not report to work and leave campus immediately.
https://chapelboro.com/news/unc/ongoing-rally-on-uncs-polk-place-leads-to-classes-non-mandatory-operations-suspended
Most Jews and Palestinians want peace. Extremists, narcissists and other 'allies' only block the way
Beware the friend who is only trying to help. Not, perhaps, as a rule for life but certainly when it comes to the Israel-Palestine conflict and the clashes that battle provokes around the world. So often those who think they’re doing their bit serve only to make an already impossible situation even worse.
The week began with an instructive example, when Gideon Falter, head of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, released a video clip of himself being steered away from one of London’s weekly Gaza demonstrations by a police officer on the grounds that: “You are quite openly Jewish, this is a pro-Palestinian march.” Falter argued that he had flushed out proof that the Metropolitan police regard the marches as an unsafe environment for visibly Jewish people, even though the Met allows them to go ahead week after week.
Was Britain’s Jewish community grateful for this contribution from Falter? Some were, but others were troubled by his insistence that he had merely been out and about on a Saturday, minding his own business, when he happened to stumble across the Gaza demo, rather than admitting that he had deliberately set out to make a (perhaps legitimate) point. That lack of honesty was damaging because it played directly into the hands of antisemites who say Jews cannot be trusted to tell the truth about antisemitism. Falter would say he was only trying to help, but there were plenty – including those who work full-time to protect Jewish life in Britain – for whom the whole episode was a headache they didn’t need.
All this was relatively small beer compared with the pro-Palestinian demonstrations now spreading across US campuses, where mass protests and permanent solidarity camps have been broken up by sometimes brutal police action. There, too, debate rages over whether these demos pose a threat to Jews, with organisers pointing – as they do in the UK – to the presence of a vocal Jewish contingent as evidence that they are completely safe. After all, how could a movement possibly be hostile to Jews if Jewish supporters are so warmly embraced?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/26/jews-palestinians-peace-gaza-narcissist-allies
Columbia University begins suspending students after warning to clear out of protest camp
Source: NBC News
Students defied Columbia University's orders to vacate their pro-Palestinian protest by 2 p.m. Monday, despite warnings of suspension and after the school's president said it would not divest from Israel — a demand that has sparked protests on college campuses across the country.
"We have begun suspending students," Ben Chang, vice president for communications and a spokesperson for Columbia University, said around 5 p.m., about three hours after the deadline passed.
The university had told student demonstrators to vacate by 2 p.m. or else “be suspended pending further investigation” and barred from completing the spring semester.
At the encampment, now in its second week, participants voted nearly unanimously to stay put.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/columbia-university-president-says-negotiations-protesters-stalled-sch-rcna149755
Cal Poly Humboldt Responds to Protesters' Demands, Explaining Investments and Principles While Promising Consequences Fo
Shortly after 10 o’clock this morning, Cal Poly Humboldt posted the following response to demands from the protesters who have been demonstrating on campus and occupying Siemens Hall in support of Palestinian liberation:
The following was shared yesterday during a conversation with student protestors.
This is an initial response intending to make a good faith effort to respond, and is meant to lead to additional dialogue.
###
The Cal Poly Humboldt pro-Palestine protests have elevated a remarkable number of important questions, opened a space for difficult, meaningful conversations, and also raised concerns about what principles of the community we bring into spaces of disagreement. Even in the midst of this challenging period for our community, we remain firmly rooted in our University’s purpose: to provide the highest quality and affordable college education built on the contributions of diverse students, staff, and faculty who are committed to a just and sustainable world.
We write today in this spirit, while also reasserting our responsibility for civil discourse and fact-based debate. In particular, we would like to provide context and feedback to the stated demands of the protesters. They have asked the campus to:
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2024/apr/26/cal-poly-humboldt-responds-protesters-demands-expl/
In war-battered Gaza, residents grow angry with Hamas
JERUSALEM — More than six months into the war in Gaza and with dimming hopes for a cease-fire deal, Palestinians there are growing more critical of Hamas, which some of them blame for the months-long conflict that has destroyed the territory — and their lives.
The war has displaced most of the Gaza Strip’s population, killed tens of thousands of people and pushed the enclave toward famine, its infrastructure in ruins. The Israeli military waged a punishing campaign to eliminate Hamas after the group, which has ruled Gaza for 17 years, attacked Israel on Oct. 7, killing an estimated 1,200 people and abducting more than 250.
But while the majority of Palestinians in Gaza blame Israel for their suffering, according to polling conducted in March, they also appear to be turning their ire toward the militants. In interviews with more than a dozen residents of Gaza, people said they resent Hamas for the attacks in Israel and — war-weary and desperate to fulfill their basic needs — just want to see peace as soon as possible.
If Hamas wanted to start a war, “they should have secured people first — secured a place of refuge for them, not thrown them into suffering that no one can bear,” said Salma El-Qadomi, 33, a freelance journalist who has been displaced 11 times since the conflict started.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/27/gaza-hamas-public-support-israel/
Put link in archive.ph if you hit a paywall.
Hamas and Iran celebrate anti-Gaza war protests taking US colleges by storm
Palestinian militant group Hamas and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei publicly applauded the growing number of anti-Gaza war protests and encampments that have sprung up on college campuses from California to Massachusetts and have become a flashpoint in the U.S.
Izzat Al-Risheq, a member of the militant group's Political Bureau, said on Wednesday that President Joe Biden's administration is violating the rights of students and faculty members and arresting them, "because of their rejection of the genocide that our Palestinian people are the subjected in the Gaza Strip at the hands of the neo-Nazi Zionists."
The statement claimed: "Today's students are the leaders of the future."
The U.S. designated Hamas a terrorist organization in the late 1990s. Several other countries have labeled it a terrorist group.
Khamenei also put out a statement on X, formerly Twitter, where he celebrated the flying of a Hezbollah's flag in the streets of the U.S. "The people of the world are supporting the Resistance Front because they are resisting & because they are against oppression," the post read.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hamas-iran-celebrate-anti-gaza-031858274.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
Profile Information
Member since: Thu Oct 19, 2023, 09:29 PMNumber of posts: 429
