Category: Statements
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Faculty Letter to Revise PPD
Over 100 Duke faculty signed a letter demanding Duke revise the “Pickets, Protests, and Demonstrations” policy. We agree with the authors and likewise call on Duke to trust our students, recognize disruption as free speech and revise this tool of repression.
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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…