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Solidarity with University Students for Peace

College students are facing police violence, arrests, suspensions, and ugly false accusations for nonviolently protesting genocide.

Send an email with one click to the administrations of these universities: Columbia, NYU, Yale, UNC, Washington U, Vanderbilt, Michigan, The New School, MIT, Emerson, Tufts, Humboldt, Berkeley, Smith, Pomona, Minnesota.

Tell Google Not to Fire Employees Who Oppose Genocide in Gaza

Google (jointly with Amazon) has a $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli military and government, and has fired at least 50 employees for opposing it.

Tell Google what you think with a quick email.

Announcing – Progressive Hub!

We’re very excited to announce the launch of Progressive Hub, a pathbreaking website. We hope you’ll visit now and bookmark it as a daily destination.

ProgressiveHub.net combines the need to learn the latest with the imperative to take action.

American Spring? Suppression of Free Speech is Undermining the U.S. Constitution

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”--The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified Dec., 15, 1791.

NYT’s War on Words: Avoid ‘Palestine,’ ‘Genocide,’ ‘Ethnic Cleansing’

Please ask the New York Times to revise its guidance on coverage of the Gaza crisis so that it is no longer banning standard descriptions and placing the most accurate characterizations of Israeli actions off limits.

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