{"id":471351,"date":"2021-05-04T15:36:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T19:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=471351"},"modified":"2021-05-04T15:36:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T19:36:05","slug":"educators-students-take-day-off-to-protest-the-existence-of-college-police-departments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/educators-students-take-day-off-to-protest-the-existence-of-college-police-departments\/","title":{"rendered":"Educators, Students Take Day Off To Protest The Existence Of College Police Departments"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feducators-students-take-day-off-to-protest-the-existence-of-college-police-departments%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=471351&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Defund-the-Police-1-1.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>On Monday, hundreds of educators and students nationwide participated in a \u201cday of refusal\u201d wherein they refused to go to work or class to protest the presence of police on college campuses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/article?id=17416\"><span>Campus Reform<\/span><\/a><span>, Stanford University Professor David Palumbo-Liu went so far as to cancel his class. Palumbo-Liu also co-founded the Campus Antifascist (Antifa) network.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The \u201cday of refusal\u201d was organized by the \u201cCops Off Campus Coalition,\u201d a national network of students with the stated\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/copsoffcampuscoalition.com\/\"><span>goal<\/span><\/a><span> \u201cto get cops off campus and cops off the planet.\u201d Participants were asked to sign a petition, which included a list of demands.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Demands included eliminating all police off of all campuses nationwide, demanding \u201cthe land back,\u201d and demanding that money be reallocated from policing to \u201ccommunity safety and education.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSflSmZF120ACrgByFQ1cVfhLGc-9wZHgTc31VZFlx9EGZp8zA\/viewform\"><span>petition<\/span><\/a><span> reads:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"21\">\n<p><i><span>I pledge to absent myself from work, class, teaching, and more on Monday, May 3, 2021, as part of the national Day of Refusal to demand cops off campus. As a member of a campus community, I am horrified that \u2014 amidst\u00a0 global pandemic, relentless state and vigilante violence against Black, Brown, and Indigenous people, and national calls for abolition \u2014 schools across North America have committed to increasing police budgets. College police forces are increasingly militarized, and I support the nationwide call to demand cops off our campus to make our university truly safe and free for all, and I will not cross the picket line.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The coalition argues that colleges are funding police forces at the expense of educating students properly, especially amidst the coronavirus pandemic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cColleges and universities spend millions \u2014 often hundreds of millions \u2014 of dollars on these police forces,\u201d the petition reads. \u201cThis spending occurs while states cut appropriations for higher education and schools impose layoffs, furlough workers, slashing wages, and more in the midst of the pandemic.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The petition received <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1MrDcNLQcSi9dusS5n-GSuMwe-u5JbP6hH4d3__EUayM\/edit\"><span>45-pages<\/span><\/a><span> worth of signatories from individuals and university departments across the country. A slew of University of California-Los Angeles clubs and departments were among the signatories, such as the UCLA Black Feminism Initiative, the Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice &#038; Health, the Department of Art,\u00a0 the Department of Gender Studies, and the Department of Social Welfare.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The coalition designated May as \u201cAbolitionist May\u201d and created a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1kTSf56cPi53Zd4GiFbgAjsPvslNPVwGv\/view\"><span>handout<\/span><\/a><span> with a number of activist activities to participate in. Examples included \u201cmarch[ing] to your chancellor\u2019s house and let[ing] them know how you feel,\u201d hosting a \u201cteach-in with abolitionist speakers,\u201d \u201credecorat[ing] your campus police stations,\u201d and hosting \u201cstreet puppet theater.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Campuses across the nation have been riddled with anti-police sentiment following the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement. Students have organized to create independent anti-police chapters, such as Northwestern University\u2019s \u201cNU Community Not Cops.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In October, \u201cNU Community Not Cops\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/northwestern-students-burn-and-vandalize-school-property-at-anti-police-protests\/\"><span>vandalized and burned<\/span><\/a><span> school property and placed the charred remains at the feet of police officers guarding the home of Northwestern president Morton Schapiro. The group also vandalized the school\u2019s iconic Weber Arch during a protest aimed at abolishing the campus police department.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Related: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-professor-berates-student-for-calling-police-heroes\"><b>Watch: Professor Berates Student For Calling Police \u2018Heroes\u2019\u00a0<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, hundreds of educators and students nationwide participated in a \u201cday of refusal\u201d wherein they refused to go to work or class to protest the presence of police on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277307,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Defund-the-Police-1-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Educators, Students Take Day Off To Protest The Existence Of College Police Departments","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Defund-the-Police-1-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Educators, Students Take Day Off To Protest The Existence Of College Police Departments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}