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We Must Strike<p>"I am saying it clear and loud to President <a href="https://c.im/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> and his Cabinet, I am not afraid of you."</p><p>Columbia University student protester Mohsen Mahdawi released from federal custody - UPI.com <a href="https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/04/30/Vermont-Mohsen-Mahdawi-custody-released-ICE-Columbia-University/7991746034142/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/04/30</span><span class="invisible">/Vermont-Mohsen-Mahdawi-custody-released-ICE-Columbia-University/7991746034142/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/freeMahdawi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freeMahdawi</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/dueprocess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dueprocess</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a></p>
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸<p>Harvard University punished with $2b funding freeze for defying Trump</p><p>Freeze followed a letter sent on Monday to the Trump administration saying it rejects the government’s demands </p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/MiddleEastEye" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleEastEye</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/MEE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MEE</span></a><br>By Syma Mohammed<br>Published date: 15 April 2025 21:30 BST </p><p>"The freeze, representing 35.9 percent of <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Harvard</span></a>'s $6.4bn operating expenses, immediately followed a letter on Monday from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/HarvardUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HarvardUniversity</span></a> lawyers to the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration, stating that it rejected the government’s demands.</p><p>The letter, issued by Emanuel Urquhart &amp; Sullivan and LLP King &amp; Spalding LLP, said that “The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.”"</p><p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/harvard-university-punished-2b-funding-freeze-defying-trump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">middleeasteye.net/news/harvard</span><span class="invisible">-university-punished-2b-funding-freeze-defying-trump</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendAcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendAcademicFreedom</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ReleaseMahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReleaseMahmoudKhalil</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/repression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>repression</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/FreeMahdawi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeMahdawi</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/StopTheDeportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopTheDeportations</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendFreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendFreeSpeech</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ProtestIsNotACrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProtestIsNotACrime</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendStudentProtesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendStudentProtesters</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinian</span></a> Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a></p><p>A green card holder, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColumbiaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColumbiaUniversity</span></a> protest leader <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MohsenMahdawi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MohsenMahdawi</span></a> faced attacks from pro-<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> activists. </p><p>By Akela Lacy, April 14, 2025</p><p>"Mohsen K. Mahdawi arrived at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColchesterVT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColchesterVT</span></a>, on Monday. A Palestinian student at Columbia University, he hoped that, after 10 years in the U.S., he would pass the test to become a naturalized citizen. <br>Instead, agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested him and began the process to deport him to the occupied West Bank. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mahdawi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mahdawi</span></a>, a leader of the campus protest movement against Israel’s war on Gaza, became yet another green card holder arrested and facing removal. </p><p>"'<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MohsenMahdawi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MohsenMahdawi</span></a> was unlawfully detained today for no reason other than his Palestinian identity,' Mahdawi’s attorney Luna Droubi said in a statement to The Intercept. 'He came to this country hoping to be free to speak out about the atrocities he has witnessed, only to be punished for such speech.'<br> <br>"Mahdawi’s lawyers filed a habeas corpus petition on Monday morning challenging the legality of his detention, alleging the government was violating his statutory and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcess</span></a> rights by punishing him for speech related to Palestine and Israel. The filing said it appears that Mahdawi was facing deportation under the obscure provision used in other recent cases that gives Secretary of State <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MarcoRubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarcoRubio</span></a> the right to unilaterally declare immigrants as threats to American foreign policy."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/04/14/ice-columbia-student-mohsen-mahdawi-citizenship-interview/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theintercept.com/2025/04/14/ic</span><span class="invisible">e-columbia-student-mohsen-mahdawi-citizenship-interview/</span></a></p><p>Archived version:<br><a href="https://archive.ph/Z0lNh" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/Z0lNh</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeMahdawi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeMahdawi</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a></p>
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