They spent $200k to paramilitarise their response to free speech breaking out on American Campuses..
HOW MUCH MONEY DID THE NYPD WASTE QUASHING STUDENT PROTESTS? WE TALLIED IT UP.
Mayor Eric Adams has calledfor Columbia to foot some of the bill, but New York City residents are, for now, the ones paying for that violent evening. Based on estimates of the size of the police force and the cost per officer, New York spent at least $200,000 on overtime alone for the four-hour raid to clear Hamilton Hall, according to an analysis by The Intercept.
“Every dollar that we spend on policing, especially policing that is suppressing our constitutional rights in a democracy, is an affront against so many New Yorkers who are in desperate need for economic and social support,” said Jawanza Williams, director of organizing at VOCAL-NY, a community activist group. “The administration has a totally flipped, upside-down perspective when it comes to what should be a priority in the city’s spending and the city’s budget.”
…as America responds to free speech breaking out on campus like this…
…Macklemoore of all people has dropped a song so raw and so powerful it jolts and reminds everyone that anti-Zionism is not anti-semitism and that Palestinian human rights are mainstream despite everything the Israeli Apologists have thrown at it
What is threatenin’ about divesting and wanting peace?
The problem isn’t the protests, it’s what they’re protesting
It goes against what our country is funding
(Hey) Block the barricade until Palestine is free
(Hey) Block the barricade until Palestine is free
When I was seven, I learned a lesson from Cube and Eazy-E
What was it again? Oh yeah, f**k the police
And a system that was designed by white supremacy (Brrt)
But the people are in the streets
You can pay off Meta, you can’t pay off me
Politicians who serve by any means
AIPAC, CUFI, and all the companies
You see, we sell fear around the land of the free
But this generation here is about to cut the strings
You can ban TikTok, take us out the algorithm
But it’s too late, we’ve seen the truth, we bear witness
Seen the rubble, the buildings, the mothers and the children
And all the men that you murdered, and then we see how you spin it
Who gets the right to defend and who gets the right of resistance
Has always been about dollars and the color of your pigment, but
White supremacy is finally on blast
Screaming “Free Palestine” ’til they’re home at last
Claimin’ it’s antisemitic to be anti-Zionist
I’ve seen Jewish brothers and sisters out there and riding in
Solidarity and screaming “Free Palestine” with them
Organizing, unlearnin’ and finally cutting ties with
A state that’s gotta rely on an apartheid system
To uphold an occupying violent
History been repeating for the last seventy-five
The Nakba never ended, the colonizer lied (Woo)
If students in tents posted on the lawn
Occupying the quad is really against the law
And a reason to call in the police and their squad
Where does genocide land in your definition, huh? (Hey, hey)
Destroying every college in Gaza and every mosque
Pushing everyone into Rafah and dropping bombs
The blood is on your hands, Biden, we can see it all
And f**k no, I’m not voting for you in the fall (Woo)
Undecided
You can’t twist the truth, the people out here united
Never be defeated when freedom’s on the horizon
Yet the music industry’s quiet
Complicit in their platform of silence
If I was on a label, you could drop me today
I’d be fine with it ’cause the heart fed my page
I want a ceasefire, f**k a response from Drake (Woo)
What you willing to risk? What you willing to give?
What if you were in Gaza? What if those were your kids?
If the West was pretending that you didn’t exist
You’d want the world to stand up and the students finally did
Let’s get it
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I’m pretty sure this is the only song that my daughters have been listening too for the last 24 hours.
remember apartheid Israel is the only democracy in the M.E
Any system other than US style democracy must be opposed least the man on the street see’s a better way.
Martyn – The children of the ruling elite at those universities, are showing easy it is to manipulate people with half truths, and emotions.
So are you denying that Palestinians are being killed? While you might be unwilling to let mass murder by government forces of innocent people move you (unless it was the holocaust) anyone with any decency can see the evil being practiced by Israel and want to protest.
Bonnie – as Israelis are being killed as well…that seems to have skipped your post.
Yeah bro… it’s the ruling ‘elite’ who’re conspiring to slaughter the legitimate human population of Palestine, not the other way round. Pull the other one.
Mohammed Khan – and yet, look at the protests – tell me I am wrong
the question isn’t how much the police spent BUT WHY they stood aside and let pro-isreal goons attack the students
The child murdering going on in Gaza so far has cost US $10million per kid. The life of a child, priceless? No, just disgustingly, hugely profitable. Who gets the money?
War Is A Racket – YouTube Book Reading
https://bit.ly/War-Is-A-Racket-Chapter1
https://bit.ly/War-Is-A-Racket-Chapter2
https://bit.ly/War-Is-A-Racket-Chapter3
https://bit.ly/War-Is-A-Racket-Chapter4
https://bit.ly/War-Is-A-Racket-Chapter5
Nick Rockel, over at ‘Nick’s Kōrero ‘ does a great post on Macklmore’s song worthy of being reposted in full.
I didn’t know that Macklemore song first sung in New Zealand.
Nick even gives a shout out to Martyn Bradbury for being one of the first to tweet about this.
Nick’s Kōrero
https://nickrockel.substack.com/p/macklemores-pro-palestinian-protest