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"If you're not a #protester but you want to #protect protesters from criminal prosecution, start wearing a #mask out in #public when you're doing ordinary things. Mask up at the grocery store, on public transit, at the library, to work, to school. Make the case with your face that protest is ordinary."

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#ColumbiaUniversity #protester #MahmoudKhalil files $20M claim against #Trump administration

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 3:47 PM EDT, July 10, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — "On a recent afternoon, Mahmoud Khalil sat in his Manhattan apartment, cradling his 10-week-old son as he thought back to the pre-dawn hours spent pacing a frigid immigration jail in Louisiana, awaiting news of the child’s birth in New York.

"For a moment, the outspoken Palestinian activist found himself uncharacteristically speechless.

" 'I cannot describe the pain of that night,' Khalil said finally, gazing down as the baby, Deen, cooed in his arms. 'This is something I will never forgive.'

"Now, weeks after regaining his freedom, Khalil is seeking restitution. On Thursday, his lawyers filed a claim for $20 million in damages against the Trump administration, alleging Khalil was #FalselyImprisoned, maliciously prosecuted and smeared as an #antisemite as the government sought to deport him over his prominent role in campus protests.

"The filing — a precursor to a lawsuit under the #FederalTortClaimsAct — names the #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the #USStateDepartment.

"It comes as the deportation case against Khalil, a 30-year-old recent graduate student at Columbia University, continues to wind its way through the immigration court system."

apnews.com/article/mahmoud-kha

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@bascule #Protester's lifeline according Jennifer Shin: "If you're protesting on #Saturday please wear a cap and mask to protect your identity from the #cult.
Also, it was suggested to me that you should write the phone number of the #ACLU #FirstDefenseLegalAid on your arm. That number is 1-800-529-7374 in case anything happens."

+ Also you could/should additionally write a number of a loved one at home or a lawyer you trust on your arm (waterproof ink).

#Protest#maga#usa

#Jewish #ColumbiaUniversityStudents Chain Themselves to #ColumbiaUniversity Fence to Protest #Khalil Detention

"As Jewish students, we grew up learning about the rise of #fascism, learning about how important it is to stand up when you see #injustice in the world," said one #protester.

by Julia Conley, Apr 02, 2025

"'We are here in protest of that to demand that the university tell us which trustees, which members of the university administration, are responsible for this so we can demand immediate consequences for them and hold them accountable for what they've done to our peer,' said the undergraduate student.

"Shea added that Jewish students were leading the protest because 'the attacks on our international students, on students of color, have been so fierce, so dangerous, so disproportionate that we are the only students who can be here right now taking this risk.'"

commondreams.org/news/columbia
#FreeMahmoudKhalil #AlirezaDoroudi #RumeysaOzturk #YunseoChung #KseniyaPetrova #Disappeared #Orwellian #MemoryHole #CharacteristicsOfFascism #ICE
#JewishVoicesForPeace

Common Dreams · Jewish Students Chain Themselves to Columbia Fence to Protest Khalil Detention | Common DreamsJewish Columbia University students chained themselves to a fence in protest of the school's cooperation with ICE to arrest a pro-Palestinian leader. #FreeMahmoudKhalil