#rallyagainsthate

[mpartmagazine]

A child holds a sign at the Rally Against Hate to protest the recent violence aimed at the Asian American community at Columbus Park in New York. 📸 @Shutterstock #repostfrom @shutterstocknow #shutterstocknow #rallyagainsthate #protest https://www.instagram.com/p/CMuCSQmBTPf/?igshid=1c6jye9zyyk07

[jfchristcarol-blog]

A tale of two fences:

We’ve only just begun the tenure of new UC Berkeley Chancellor (and this blog’s bff) Carol Christ, and already we can see a disturbing continuation of the rhetoric and policy of her immediate predecessor, Nick Dirks, a man not exactly renowned for his leadership. From warmly welcoming the extreme right to campus, to insisting on austerity-based cuts to education while wasting money on corporatization and managerial bloat, to erecting expensive physical barriers in pathetically transparent attempts to silence community dissent, it all really feels like déja vu all over again. Christ, Carol! A little originality, please?

[jfchristcarol-blog]

free speech year (tm)

If you’re a living, breathing person with Internet access who is vaguely interested in the current invasion of the bay area (and the whole damn nation) by white supremacists, fascists, and other idiots, you may have heard about the email that brand new UC-Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ (protagonist of this here blog) sent out to the campus community within 48 hours of the death of Heather Heyer and brutal beating of Deandre Harris in Charlottesville. It contained a lot of words (linked in full above), including these: “This September, Ben Shapiro and Milo Yiannopoulos have both been invited by student groups to speak at Berkeley. The university has the responsibility to provide safety and security for its community and guests, and we will invest the necessary resources to achieve that goal. If you choose to protest, do so peacefully. That is your right, and we will defend it with vigor. We will not tolerate violence, and we will hold anyone accountable who engages in it.We will have many opportunities this year to come together as a Berkeley community over the issue of free speech; it will be a free speech year.“ Maybe you’re not caught up on the recent history of Berkeley, but let’s just say, this promises to be a shitshow. The email has been met with generalized dismay and derision by anybody who has been paying attention, and left some community members wondering just what it would take to expose this vile message as equal parts sanctimony and hypocrisy. 

Well, friends, it turns out our dear Chancellor has done the job for us, by rolling out the red carpet for the likes of Milo Yiannopoulos, Ann Coulter, and Steve Bannon, while welcoming a carefully planned, explicitly nonviolent “rally against hate” with concrete barricades and orders from UCPD to “Stay Away.” It’s almost like free speech is a special privilege reserved for wealthy white people who want to make sure their unearned position at the top is never challenged.  And to that, all we can say is, “Christ, Carol!”

[nerdlifeisbetterthanreallife]

Last night in downtown Middletown, friends and families of our town came out to denounce hate. We heard from local political leaders and religious leaders to let the world know that we will not stand for hate and will not let it into our community. #rallyagainsthate

[zoneg]

-- We The People -- Are Greater Than Fear #wethepeople #greaterthanfear #shepardfairey #amplifierfoundation #lovenothate #rallyagainsthate #columbuscircle #centralparkwest #nyc #streetphotography (at Central Park West, NYC)