For now, #Biden is taking a hands-off posture toward the unrest & has no plans to step up his involvement in escalating clashes between #police & #protesters, WH & campaign advisers said, even as #Trump looks to capitalize on the issue.

Biden's view is that it’s up to #university ldrs to decide how to cope w/campus #demonstrations….

#FreedomOfAssembly #FirstAmendment
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-tries-paint-college-campus-anti-israel-protests-biden-political-rcna150253

Trump tries to paint college campus anti-Israel protests as a Biden political liability

Joe Biden’s advisers believe that tensions over U.S. support for Israel in the war in Gaza spreading through college campuses will soon flame out.

^{Peter Nicholas (NBC News)}

Currently, all students, teachers and employees of 36 #Dutch educational and research institutions can use #Mastodon and the #Fediverse with 1 click by using their pre-existing institutional account.

🎓 social.edu.nl (#edu & #research)
🇳🇱 social.overheid.nl (#gov)
📺 social.npo.nl (#broadcast)
🌐 social.publicspaces.net (public org)

#vocationaleducation #highereducation #research #university #umc #library

In the late ‘60s, to right-wing activists, communists were over-running #college campuses and #university administrators needed to be subpoenaed and law enforcement sent in to forcibly end protests.

In 2024, to right-wing activists, antisemites are over-running college campuses and university administrators need to be subpoenaed and law enforcement sent in to forcibly end protests.

A historian of the reaction to campus protests lays out the parallels:
https://theconversation.com/college-administrators-are-falling-into-a-tried-and-true-trap-laid-by-the-right-228732 @academicchatter

College administrators are falling into a tried and true trap laid by the right

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, conservative activists led a counterattack against campus antiwar and civil rights demonstrators by demanding action from college presidents, the courts and the police.

^{The Conversation}

"The developments over the past week mark a political turning point. The Biden administration, in alliance with the fascist-led Republican Party, has moved to criminalize political opposition to the Gaza genocide, currently centered on campuses, through a massive police state mobilization."

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/24/vcgw-a24.html

#USA #Biden #University #FreeSpeech #Crackdown #Imperialism #Capitalism #Israel #War #Genocide #Gaza #Protest

Biden launches police-state crackdown at US universities

The Biden administration, in alliance with the fascist-led Republican Party, is criminalizing political opposition to the Gaza genocide, the greatest war crime of the 21st century.

^{World Socialist Web Site}

Hello Mastodon! We are a collective of #students and staff from #Amsterdam University College who care about #OpenStandards, #FreeSoftware, and #OpenData.

Every week, we get together to explore, study and organize our way out of the corporate lock-ins that we face at our #university and beyond.

Next to our website, this account will be our main channel to communicate with the world.

We hope that we can connect with others that share our ambitions to push for a free and open digital world.

Africa's fight against #urban #air #pollution
"With #urbanization and #economic #development, there is more pollution of air in urban areas, which exposes people to diseases that are linked to this polluted air," Felix Assah, a member of the population #health #research group at the #University of #Yaounde, told #DW. Such diseases include #cardiovascular and #respiratory ailments, along with #cancer.

Experts and organizations working for #cleaner air in Africa recently met in Yaounde to discuss how they can cooperate to monitor air quality using #sensor #technology

English https://www.dw.com/en/africas-fight-against-health-risks-of-urban-air-pollution/a-68757907

French https://www-dw-com.translate.goog/en/africas-fight-against-health-risks-of-urban-air-pollution/a-68757907?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=fr&_x_tr_hl=fr

#Afrika #afrique #africa #افريقيا

Africa's fight against urban air pollution

Cities are growing rapidly in Africa, but many countries lack effective technologies to measure the associated air pollution. Experts are finding new ways to track air quality in hopes of reducing health risks.

^{Martina Schwikowski (Deutsche Welle)}