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4 months agoProspects for a Big Tent BDS Campaign Are Larger Than Ever
The BDS movement is gaining momentum due to global resistance against Trump, fostering unity in campaigns for Palestinian justice.
What these two life-altering years of organising taught me is that a union is not a magical solution that will resolve all work-related grievances, but a link of solidarity that will reflect us and be as strong or fragile as we make it.
If ever there was a moment that demands civil disobedience, it is the hour of genocide. We walk in the footsteps of earlier Stanford students who occupied this same plaza to end the Vietnam War and later to force partial divestment from apartheid South Africa. Now that baton passes to us. On October 20, 2023, Stanford students built the nation's first Gaza‑solidarity encampment.
In emergency scenarios, people exhibit an extraordinary sense of solidarity and often assist each other in unexpected ways, defying the stereotypes seen in disaster portrayals.
In Tulsa, public school officials Deborah and Stacey initially clashed, but a newfound understanding during COVID-19 led to collaboration, showing how adversity can foster solidarity.
"Throughout the filming of It Ends With Us, we saw her summon the courage to ask for a safe workplace for herself and colleagues on set, and we are appalled to read the evidence of a premeditated and vindictive effort that ensued to discredit her voice."