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  • Reportback: Triangle Queers Bash Back

    Reportback: Triangle Queers Bash Back

    Reportback: Triangle Queers Bash Back Screening 2025 — Stonewall was an Intifada Reportback On June 9th, 2025 queers gathered in Durham, NC for “Stonewall was an Intifada” to bring in Pride Month with a liberatory bang. This event, hosted by Triangle Queers Bash Back (TQBB) with assistance from Jummah 4 All, included film snippets (created…

  • the emperor is all filler, the university has already fallen

    the emperor is all filler, the university has already fallen by Saanet Among myths that UNC-Chapel Hill benevolently offers is that this quad is for the people.  Does it get more prestigious than manicured lawns?  Does it get closer to the American Dream than The expanse of green at The Oldest Public University?  Where hard-thinking…

  • Reportback: Rally for Leqa’a Kordia & Mahmoud Khalil: ICE & DHS Off Our Campus

    Reportback: Rally for Leqa’a Kordia & Mahmoud Khalil: ICE & DHS Off Our Campus

    Reportback: Rally for Leqa’a Kordia & Mahmoud Khalil: ICE & DHS Off Our Campus a rally for leqa’a kordia & mahmoud khalil. held @ unc 3/19/25 at south building. The speeches below have been lightly edited for clarity.  To get involved with the represented organizations, please scroll to the bottom of the article for information…

  • This year, they will call us terrorists more, again, and louder.

    This year, they will call us terrorists more, again, and louder.

    This year, they will call us terrorists more, again, and louder.  by dagwood and friends The coordinated Zionist campaign to quash the Palestine solidarity movement (an anti-imperialist, anti-apartheid, anti-genocide movement) will escalate this year through the tactic of designating Palestine solidarity activists, groups, and networks as terrorist. Through this designation, the state will extend itself…

  • Reportback: A Fig Tree Grows in Palestine, A Fig Tree Grows Here

    Reportback: A Fig Tree Grows in Palestine, A Fig Tree Grows Here

    Reportback: A Fig Tree Grows in Palestine, A Fig Tree Grows Here The below speech was edited for clarity.  Introductory speech Welcome everyone! Thank you so much for coming to celebrate the opening of A Fig Tree Grows in Palestine, A Fig Tree Grows Here in the Alumni Sculpture Garden. This project grew out of…

  • celebrating our collective power

    celebrating our collective power

    Celebrating our Collective Power a speech given at the UNC Defendants for Palestine gathering on december 3, 2024 by a defendant in the bloc. a video of the speech can be found here. Sometimes I struggle to find joy in the achievements of the Palestinian liberation movement between october 7 and now, because my constant…

  • No More Cop Cities & No More Family Policing: Durham County Commisioners Meeting – November 12

    No More Cop Cities & No More Family Policing: Durham County Commisioners Meeting – November 12

    No More Cop Cities & No More Family Policing: Durham County Commissioners Meeting – November 12 By Jupiter N. Mars & Funky Fairy The Durham County Commissioners meeting two nights ago was a shitshow. Community members showed out after a post went up on Instagram from Durham Beyond Policing, Triangle Stop Cop City, Charlotte Stop…

  • UNC: END ALL STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMS & ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE

    UNC: END ALL STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMS & ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE by UNC SJP Readable Version: Printable Version:

  • Why did UNC let me study abroad in an apartheid state?

    Why did UNC let me study abroad in an apartheid state?

    Why did UNC let me study abroad in an apartheid state? By Ruth Jeffers, UNC ’23 When I decided to study abroad in Israel, I didn’t know I had signed up to live in an apartheid state. An Israeli program promised to teach me about cross-border environmental cooperation on a socialist kibbutz, where politicized identities…

  • I don’t want a better candidate. I want no candidate at all.

    I don’t want a better candidate. I want no candidate at all.

    I don’t want a better candidate. I want no candidate at all.  By Anne Eile, Jupiter N. Mars, Saanet After this past spring brought mass unrest and action across the country protesting the U.S. war machine’s arming of Israel — on the streets, targeting weapons manufacturers, at college campuses, the self-immolations of several resistors —…