adachika192 , to palestine group
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https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2024/04/22/students-at-mit-emerson-tufts-set-up-pro-palestine-encampments-after-columbia-arrests/

Students at , , set up pro-Palestine encampments after arrests (Boston.com, 2024-04-22)

"Pro-Palestinian students at several prominent Boston-area schools spent Sunday night in tents after more than 100 Columbia University students were arrested for participating in a similar demonstration last week.

"As of Monday night, dozens of protesters at MIT, Tufts University, and Emerson College are occupying outdoor spaces on or near campuses to demand the schools cut ties with Israeli companies and military and call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war."

"MIT Jews for Ceasefire were represented at the tents, the group said on X. MIT reportedly moved the location of Seder for MIT students celebrating Passover from nearby Hillel to an undisclosed location, but Jews for Ceasefire is hosting a Seder at the encampment."

https://x.com/mitj4c

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Sherifazuhur , to palestine group
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JUST IN: Faculty members of walk onto the encampment and begin forming a human chain. protesters erupted in cheers! Chanting “keep us safe! Keep us safe”. It now dawns the hour of this “unspecified response” by NYU admin but staff appears to oppose it. @palestine
https://x.com/mfsgottenshook/status/1782502078230729098?s=12&t=uM8me4uwdP7D0z4nanVVuw

Sherifazuhur OP ,
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@palestine Kuffiya: , , and University students established encampments in solidarity with the Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University.

https://x.com/kuffiyateam/status/1782448874470125607?s=12&t=uM8me4uwdP7D0z4nanVVuw

ifnotnowboston , to palestine group
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ICYMI: Last night, students at , , and started solidarity encampments.
https://mastodon.social/@ifnotnowboston/112311845322640669

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MIT: evening scene of a quad with tents set up, and a table with sign making materials and snacks. Someone is walking by in a keffiyeh
TUFTS: Two hands holding a cardboard sign that says "Free Gaza". In the background you can see two tents, and a quad at sunset.

ifnotnowboston , to random
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College has joined the encampment movement for ! They are asking people to show up at 2 Boylston Place in to show support.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C6CrLw0Ow_a/?igsh=NGFxeTUwYzVzc3dy

appassionato , to bookstodon group
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Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson by James Marcus

An engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readers.

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More than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American culture. Yet his reputation as the starry-eyed prophet of self-reliance has obscured a much more complicated figure who spent a lifetime wrestling with injustice, philosophy, art, desire, and suffering. James Marcus introduces readers to this Emerson, a writer of self-interrogating genius whose visionary flights are always grounded in Yankee shrewdness. This Emerson is a rebel. He is also a lover, a friend, a husband, and a father. Having declared his great topic to be “the infinitude of the private man,” he is nonetheless an intensely social being who develops Transcendentalism in the company of Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Bronson Alcott, and Theodore Parker. And although he resists political activism early on—hoping instead for a revolution in consciousness—the burning issue of slavery ultimately transforms him from cloistered metaphysician to fiery abolitionist. Drawing on telling episodes from Emerson’s life alongside landmark essays like “Self-Reliance,” “Experience,” and “Circles,” Glad to the Brink of Fear reveals how Emerson shares our preoccupations with fate and freedom, race and inequality, love and grief. It shows, too, how his desire to see the world afresh, rather than accepting the consensus view, is a lesson that never grows old.
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