They were arrested for just being there. This is absolute bullshit. In the 90s, there was a protest camp there against the Gulf War that was there 24/7. I know because I was in it sometimes, helping to cook food and do other things to keep it a place to live in.
In the 80s, there was a semi-permanent shantytown there to protest South African apartheid.
This is utter bullshit.
Don’t you know? You’re not allowed to protest anymore unless you have permits haha
So fucking nuts. Dunn Meadow has a long history of hosting student protests. My dad was a professor and he told me about the anti-Vietnam protests there in the 60s when students occupied the park.
I remember learning about protesting as a kid and I was always really into it because it was like the ultimate freedom… if you didn’t like what your government was saying you sit on their lawn until they change haha it seemed so cool to me… but after being involved with occupy Nova Scotia, when the government started shutting down protest camps, I started noticing the government’s changing the parameters of protesting… and then once they destroyed the native protests up north that was it for protest in Canada… now if you are disrupting the population, you’re just shut down as a nuisance… protest is not disruption anymore for whatever reason
33 anti-genocide protesters arrested at Dunn Meadow encampment Thursday
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Believe me, if I could have done that in the title, I sure as hell would have. This is absolutely unacceptable.
It’s a play on words purposefully used by the US media in order to frame the protests as a versus. “If it’s pro-palestine then it must be anti-israel.” I’ve seen Canadian articles that call them “Gaza protests”, which is far more accurate.
That is not the implication I am getting from those headlines. Those people are pro-Palestinian, as we all should be.
I agree that we should all support a free and independent Palestine, but that’s not the game the American media is playing. All you have to do is look at “conservative” media to see the strategy play out. “Pro-palestine must mean anti-israel.”
But that doesn’t say ‘pro-Palestine?’
And I really don’t think that the IDS is part of this media machine you’re talking about considering the articles are written by students.
I meant that naming the protests as “pro-palestine” immediately sets up the narrative as an “one versus the other”, which leads to " anti-israel" headlines like the one I shared. That narrative distracts people from the main objective, which is to halt the genocide of the Palestinian people.
Okay, but again, I really don’t think an IU student newspaper run and written by students is trying to contribute to that narrative. I really doubt they’ve taken a “simp for Israel” journalism class.
