A group of students at Amherst College in Massachusetts “occupied” the library yesterday, with some spending the night there:
.@AmherstCollege students occupying Frost Library. #AmherstUprising #SitInSolidarity #RadicalCompassion pic.twitter.com/OE8uexIe9k
— Marc Daalder (@marcdaalder) November 13, 2015
https://twitter.com/Mathdespair/status/665008044149972992
#AmherstUprising #RadicalCompassion pic.twitter.com/gzSjUWUhvp
— trash witch (@cforrest13) November 13, 2015
#AmherstUprising Amherst Students occupying Frost library all night to make a visible stance against visible racial injustices
— ACSU Amherst (@ACSUAmherst) November 13, 2015
Students caring for each other at Frost Library #AmherstUprising pic.twitter.com/MMwkzh4VdI
— Vasquez (@Vasquez706) November 13, 2015
Lights out at 3am at Frost Library. Shifts of students all night. #Remarkable #AmherstUprising #ThankYouBiddy pic.twitter.com/d1VuxTyWdm
— Vasquez (@Vasquez706) November 13, 2015
#AmherstUprising organizers say the protest is to address “the negative social climate created towards our peers of color and other marginalized groups,” and to stand in solidarity with Mizzou protesters. What are the demands at Amherst?
One demand is to scrap the First Amendment:
This is a demand for thoughtcrime prosecutions, from Amherst College.pic.twitter.com/AO5yUnyXu0
— Michael Watson (@MichaelWatsonDC) November 13, 2015
#AmherstUprising demands IMMEDIATE end to #freespeech. Absolutely pathetic. https://t.co/wMmgr8TOXt #Yale #Mizzou pic.twitter.com/hCsGXG56xq
— Ari Cohn (@AriCohn) November 13, 2015
"Racial and cultural competency"? What does that even mean? https://t.co/iV5EAKUsYU
— Blaknsam (@Blaknsam) November 13, 2015
The entire list of “demands” is here.
Day 2 #AmherstUpRising
— no cap (@hallamir) November 13, 2015
Another day of exercising free speech rights to speak out against freedom of speech?
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