Guide: How to Shield Yourself From Risk When Planning Actions on Campus

Guide: How to Shield Yourself From Risk When Planning Actions on Campus

Preparing for an action on campus? Use this guide to assess your risk and prepare to fight back! Over the past two years, students have organized in unprecedented numbers to stand in solidarity with Palestine. However, instead of listening to students’ demands for institutions to end their complicity in genocide, universities are taking increasingly punitive measures to punish their students for using their voices.

This guide has important resources from Palestine Legal and trusted partners to ensure you can protect yourself and others, and reduce harm from repression.

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CU Boulder Must Drop Charges Against Student Palestine Activists and Journalists

CU Boulder Must Drop Charges Against Student Palestine Activists and Journalists

The University of Colorado-Boulder (CU Boulder) is violating the civil and constitutional rights of students who protested against the university’s partnership with war profiteer Lockheed Martin, Palestine Legal wrote in a letter to the university yesterday.

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New Report Exposes UC Berkeley’s Repression of Pro-Palestinian Speech Likely Violate Civil Rights Laws

New Report Exposes UC Berkeley’s Repression of Pro-Palestinian Speech Likely Violate Civil Rights Laws

Today, Palestine Legal is sharing a new report by UC Berkeley Law students exposing that Berkeley’s repression of pro-Palestinian speech likely violated federal civil rights laws.  

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George Mason University censors Palestinian student group for saying “Belly of the Beast” and “Turtle Island” in striking violation of First Amendment

George Mason University censors Palestinian student group for saying “Belly of the Beast” and “Turtle Island” in striking violation of First Amendment

Today, Palestine Legal sent a letter to George Mason University on behalf of their client, Students for Justice in Palestine at George Mason (Mason SJP), warning the university that as a public institution, using the IHRA definition to censor speech in support of Palestinian rights violates the First Amendment and federal civil rights law.

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Back to School? Top 3 Ways Trump & Universities are Bulldozing Your Right to Protest.

Back to School? Top 3 Ways Trump & Universities are Bulldozing Your Right to Protest.

As students return to school this fall, here are the top three ways we are seeing universities intensify their crackdowns on campus activism, and ways they’re being challenged.

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Civil Rights Groups Announce Historic $100K Settlement from University of Maryland for Unlawfully Suppressing Pro-Palestinian Student Speech

Civil Rights Groups Announce Historic $100K Settlement from University of Maryland for Unlawfully Suppressing Pro-Palestinian Student Speech

Today, civil rights groups Palestine Legal and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced a historic $100,000 settlement agreement for their clients, University of Maryland Students for Justice in Palestine (UMD SJP), paid by the University of Maryland.

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Mahmoud Khalil Still Detained Despite Court Ruling Detention Unconstitutional

Mahmoud Khalil Still Detained Despite Court Ruling Detention Unconstitutional

Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, who has been detained in a remote ICE facility in Jena, Louisiana, since March, was hoping to be released last Friday after U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz ruled there was no legitimate basis for his continued detention.

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