Pro-Palestine protesters and UW-Madison administration agree on deal to end encampment (www.dailycardinal.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by glans@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

15 comments fedilink hide all child comments

top 15 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 51 points 2 years ago

Pro-Palestine student protesters and University of Wisconsin-Madison administration reached an agreement to end the Library Mall encampment Thursday in exchange for facilitating discussions into disclosure and investment principles with decision makers at the UW Foundation (WFAA).

So sounds like they folded for nothing? This is meaningless word slop

[-] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Jesus, another one. We promise to talk about discussing scheduling a meeting to take your concerns seriously in the future.

[-] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

Thats the rhythm of these things. Minor protest triggers knee jerk violent response, which triggers mass widespread protests and more knee jerk violence. It seems like it'll cycle out of control but then "cooler heads" prevail. Exact same as 2020

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago

Maxim 68: Negotiating from a position of strength does not mean you shouldn’t also negotiate from a position near the exits.

We need to teach folks that negotiating in good faith is all well and good, as long as you're negotiating with a gun held to your enemy's head.

[-] glans@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I agree. I posted it before properly reading/thinking. So lame I was going to delete it. But decided to let it linger in case it would be useful to someone to think about before falling off the page and into obscurity.

if I understood the linked PDF properly, the univeristy's "obligations" such as they exist are voided if there is any further protest. Great way to have the activists discipline each other and sow divisions.

Would be better suited to the dunk tank.

[-] toilet_wolf@lemmygrad.ml 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

this and that other school that ended their encampment on a promise for a divestment vote in like November or whatever are exactly why you don't let liberals lead your protest movements. It's fucking embarrassing

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago

Do not lift your siege until their ransom is in your treasury.

Vae Victis! said Brennvs to the Romans.

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

That one hurt to see, given the fight Madison was putting up. I kept looking at the statement and thinking, "is that it?"

[-] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

Tod Pritchard, UW Foundation spokesperson, previously told WPR the foundation will “not take directives on how to invest donor money from any parties outside of our board.”

Sounds like there should be direct action against them.

[-] DyingOfDeBordom@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

In all this divestment talk like nobody talks about how fucked up it is that these schools are invested in Israel to begin with?? it's a fucking school, the only thing it should be invested in is its students' educations

[-] mactan@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago

how embarrassing, it's just like the 2008 collective bargaining protest for which they got nothing

[-] Beetle_O_Rourke@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

No object permanence

[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

It’s so much easier for the schools to “accept” the terms of the protests and just wait till they graduate

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

I already know it’s gonna end like this for each campus. But god damn. Someone needs to kill at least one defense executive at the end of this if it’s going to be pointless anyway.

[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

cringe liberalism

be more like trinity college dublin smh

this post was submitted on 10 May 2024

74 points (100.0% liked)

news

24519 readers

603 users here now

Welcome to c/news! We aim to foster a book-club type environment for discussion and critical analysis of the news. Our policy objectives are:

To learn about and discuss meaningful news, analysis and perspectives from around the world, with a focus on news outside the Anglosphere and beyond what is normally seen in corporate media (e.g. anti-imperialist, anti-Zionist, Marxist, Indigenous, LGBTQ, people of colour).
To encourage community members to contribute commentary and for others to thoughtfully engage with this material.
To support healthy and good faith discussion as comrades, sharpening our analytical skills and helping one another better understand geopolitics.

We ask community members to appreciate the uncertainty inherent in critical analysis of current events, the need to constantly learn, and take part in the community with humility. None of us are the One True Leftist, not even you, the reader.

Newcomm and Newsmega Rules:

The Hexbear Code of Conduct and Terms of Service apply here.

Link titles: Please use informative link titles. Overly editorialized titles, particularly if they link to opinion pieces, may get your post removed.
Content warnings: Posts on the newscomm and top-level replies on the newsmega should use content warnings appropriately. Please be thoughtful about wording and triggers when describing awful things in post titles.
Fake news: No fake news posts ever, including April 1st. Deliberate fake news posting is a bannable offense. If you mistakenly post fake news the mod team may ask you to delete/modify the post or we may delete it ourselves.
Link sources: All posts must include a link to their source. Screenshots are fine IF you include the link in the post body. If you are citing a Twitter post as news, please include the Xcancel.com (or another Nitter instance) or at least strip out identifier information from the twitter link. There is also a Firefox extension that can redirect Twitter links to a Nitter instance, such as Libredirect or archive them as you would any other reactionary source.
Archive sites: We highly encourage use of non-paywalled archive sites (i.e. archive.is, web.archive.org, ghostarchive.org) so that links are widely accessible to the community and so that reactionary sources don’t derive data/ad revenue from Hexbear users. If you see a link without an archive link, please archive it yourself and add it to the thread, ask the OP to fix it, or report to mods. Including text of articles in threads is welcome.
Low effort material: Avoid memes/jokes/shitposts in newscomm posts and top-level replies to the newsmega. This kind of content is OK in post replies and in newsmega sub-threads. We encourage the community to balance their contribution of low effort material with effort posts, links to real news/analysis, and meaningful engagement with material posted in the community.
American politics: Discussion and effort posts on the (potential) material impacts of American electoral politics is welcome, but the never-ending circus of American Politics© Brought to You by Mountain Dew™ is not welcome. This refers to polling, pundit reactions, electoral horse races, rumors of who might run, etc.
Electoralism: Please try to avoid struggle sessions about the value of voting/taking part in the electoral system in the West. c/electoralism is right over there.
AI Slop: Don't post AI generated content. Posts about AI race/chip wars/data centers are fine.

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

Alaskaball@hexbear.net

carpoftruth@hexbear.net

Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net

Infamousblt@hexbear.net