BONUS: Michigan Raids on pro-Palestine Students
Added 2025-05-05 15:59:19 +0000 UTCFelix speaks with Nora Hilgart-Griff from the TAHRIR Coalition and Liz Jacob from the Sugar Law Center for Social and Economic Justice about the Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel collaborating with the Trump DOJ in a series of raids on pro-Palestine students at the University of Michigan on April 23. Liz and Nora give background on Nessel's previous intimidation campaign at the university, the administration's attempts to repress the student movement against the genocide, TAHRIR Coalition's work on divestment, and much more. You're going to want to hear this whether you're a Yooper, a Detroiter, or even a recently incarcerated jewel thief who assumed the identity of a sheriff so he can stare at his ex-girlfriend in a small Pennsylvania town where everyone is a violent criminal.
Update: On Monday, 5/5/25, felony charges against the students have been dropped! TAHRIR Coalition has clarified that Nessel's office is still pursuing misdemeanors for two other students, with this being related to the encampment from months and months earlier.
Legal fund for the students facing charges from Nessel's office
https://chuffed.org/project/um-palestine-legalfund
Background on the raids
TAHRIR Coalition's campaign to drop the charges
The demands of the students
https://tahrirumich.org/demands
Guide to the University of Michigan's economic links to Israeli genocide and occupation profiteers
https://tahrirumich.org/research/endowment-guide
Comments
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K
2025-05-08 16:54:39 +0000 UTCSuch an important episode! Much love from a fellow Michigander!!
BE4R
2025-05-08 14:55:37 +0000 UTCGreat episode, thank you! More interviews with primary sources please this is why I love you.
Studio Novaya
2025-05-06 16:19:31 +0000 UTCInter-jurisdictional vandalism makes it sound like they're going after graffiti artists, or taggers, whatevs.
Val_iant_Effort
2025-05-06 14:36:49 +0000 UTCWe are so cooked
T33ny
2025-05-06 05:16:54 +0000 UTCi wrote my AG (Dan Rayfield, OR) and urged him to condemn Nessel’s racist and tyrannical acts.
Richard Fitzgerald
2025-05-06 03:40:08 +0000 UTCThis is such a clear violation of the student's legal rights. I have to imagine that civil damages are going to be part of what follows these actions. A real abuse of power by Nessel.
J P 3
2025-05-06 02:08:10 +0000 UTCAnn Arbor represent! Love to see the home town in the news
Nico
2025-05-06 01:56:50 +0000 UTCAs the Resistance always says, it is "intifada until victory or death". The movement will not stop. No matter what they do, no matter the odds, no matter which bourgeois party is in power, it is our duty and our honor to stand with Palestine and the victims of this genocide!
Jennifer Hammerhead
2025-05-05 21:43:05 +0000 UTCI thought Nessel's name sounded familiar, the last time I heard about her was when she and CNN's top guns were smearing Rashida Tlaib
Timothy Buttons
2025-05-05 21:30:54 +0000 UTC
