As universities across the country are colonized (or decolonized, depending who you ask) by tent-cities of anti-Israel protesters, Stanford has rekindled its “sit-in to stop genocide.”  The sit-in 2.0, a tent city in Stanford’s White Plaza, is about 500 feet closer to Stanford’s Main Quad and has

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  • immuredanchorite [he/him, any]
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    2 months ago

    not my experience. most branches had a connection/organizing relationship to sjp and other Palestinian organizations from well before October of 23. When we mobilized in October in most parts of the country worked in concert with them, with the guidance to take Palestinian organizer's lead. Many, but not all, of the student organizers likely have already been working with psl before the encampments. When the students started to form them, in my experience a lot of student organizers reach out to whoever has worked with them in the past for support. it is a mass movement, but one that psl has been incorporated into, in part because we have had longstanding relationships with Palestinian organizers... psl runs pretty openly these days too, and outside of answer and people's forum, there isn't really much of a proxy or trojan horse situation going on these days in most parts of the country, because the prevailing thought is that the country is more open to socialism than had been historically the case

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      I'll stand corrected on the question of connections to the current situation. And a question, am I understanding you correctly when you say outside of psl's left forms, being answer and people's forum respectively, does psl not have/run intermediate forms? (Not directly communist organizations but under the control of communists directed towards drawing in progressive americans to work towards progressive goals and subtly destigmatize communism. Examples being CPUSA's former intermediate forms that it's either liquidated or lost control of: Women for Racial and Economic Equality, The US Peace Council, National Council of American–Soviet Friendship, etc)