Category: Statements
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Duke Deploys “Pickets, Protests, and Demonstrations” Policy to Silence Dissent
8 JANUARY 2025 Duke has escalated its repression against pro-Palestine, anti-genocide protest. Seven members of the Duke community (students and faculty) will be called before the University Judicial Board for hearings that decide whether there will be punishments for nonviolent vocal protest on West Campus on the evening of November 19, 2024. Potential consequences for…
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Introducing Free Learning for a Free Palestine: A Palestine Liberation Education Starter Kit
To work collectively toward the liberation of Palestine, we must organize transnationally. A first step to building transnational organization is collective education—education that teaches us who has power, how power is maintained and used, and how we can challenge it.
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No Justice, No Peace: Duke University’s Failed Racial Reckoning Four Years Since the Murder of George Floyd, Jr.
24 MAY 2024 This joint statement, written by a group of Black and Brown Duke students and faculty, marks four years since the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25, 2020. The statement, cosigned by six faculty, staff and student groups, including Duke Academics and Staff for Justice in Palestine,…
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Against Campus Militarization and Repression
We condemn the militarization of campuses and repression of students, faculty, and staff demanding an end to the US-Supported Israeli genocide of Palestinians, disclosure and divestment from Israel, and re-investment in our communities. Duke Academics and Staff for Justice in Palestine 7 MAY 2024 On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard killed four Kent…
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Duke University Academics and Staff for Justice in Palestine Stands with Gaza Solidarity Encampments
Duke University Academics and Staff for Justice in Palestine condemns the intensified repression of students at Columbia and Barnard and stands in solidarity with encampments and demands to end institutional complicities with Israeli genocide and occupation. 22 APRIL 2024 DURHAM, NC Duke University Academics and Staff for Justice in Palestine condemns in the strongest terms…