How To Get Mutual Aid and Bail Funds into the Hands of Student Protestors Now

Red, Green, White, and Black collage says the words "demilitarize education" and the backs of the heads of two protestors
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When the Autostraddle editors decided that we wanted to do something actionable and be of service to our community, as it relates to the ongoing student protests and encampments against the genocide in Gaza and in support to a free Palestine, I took on the task of collecting lists of schools with protests and encampments. At first, I found roughly 30. Then 40. Then 63. And by last night, roughly eight hours from when I started, I found a list of over 120 encampments going on across college campuses in the United States. It’s heart bursting. It’s also too many to research every supply request or bail fund and have this published in a time that would be useful. It’s too many even list out, and they are changing every day (some of these needs are changing hourly!). And so, this is where I am coming to you.

According to AP News, more than 2,000 people have been arrested during pro-Palestinian protests at college campuses across the United States. So many of us have watched as police have rolled into campus with military grade riot gear, called by administrators onto their own students — students whose tuition pays their salaries. The past 10 days, the past seven months, have been a brutal reminder that the United States is a project of brute force and empire making, it would rather turn on its own citizens, on its own kids, then say as much as “Ceasefire Now.”

I’ll admit that I am new to this, writing about the necessity of a free Palestine. Not because it’s new in my heart, but because I worry about saying the wrong things. But we’re so far past that now. Here is a list of over 60 protests and encampments to start, cross-referenced across as many sources as I could. And then, here is a list over 120 more.

What follows below is a living document, it is purposefully incomplete because the work is not done.Here is your task:

  • Look for a protest or encampment that is near you
  • Give to their supply list if you are able, give to their bail fund if you are able
  • Come back here and share links as you find them, so that we can keep track of where to help.

Wash. Rinse. Repeat.And please, feel free to share your own resources in the comments. I will update this list accordingly.

Arizona

Arizona State University — Tempe, AZ
instagram

University of Arizona — Tuscon, AZ
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California

California State Polytechnic University Humboldt — Arcata, CA
Humboldt for Palestine Instagram
Bay Area SJP Instagram

Occidental College – Los Angeles, CA
instagram

Pomona College — Claremont, CA
instagram

Stanford University — Stanford, CA
instagram

University of California at Berkeley — Berkley, CA
BFP Instagram
Berkeley Law for Palestine instagram

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) — Los Angeles, CA
Supply Requests
Twitter
Instagram

University of Southern California (USC) — Los Angeles, CA
instagram

Colorado

Auraria Campus — Denver, CO
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Community College of Denver – Denver, CO
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Connecticut

University of Connecticut — Storrs, CT
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Yale University — New Haven, CT
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Wesleyan University — Middletown, CT
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Florida

Florida International University — Miami, FL
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Florida State University — Tallahassee, FL
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University of Central Florida – Orlando, FL
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University of Florida — Gainesville, FL
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University of South Florida — Hillsborough County, FL
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Georgia

Emory University — Atlanta GA
instagram
givebutter

University of Georgia — Athens, GA
facebook

Illinois

Northwestern University — Evanston, IL
instagram
gofundme
people’s resolution
hot food donations form

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign — Champaign, IL
Instagram

Indiana

Indiana University – Indianapolis, IN
instagram

Purdue University — West Lafayette, IN & Indianapolis, IN
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Kansas

University of Kansas — Lawrence, KS
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Louisiana

Tulane University — New Orleans, LA
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Maryland

University of Maryland — College Park, MD
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Massachusetts

Emerson College — Boston, MA
Instagram

Harvard University — Cambridge, MA
Instagram

Northeastern University — Boston, MA
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) — Cambridge, MA
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Tufts University — Medford, MA
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Williams College — Williamstown, MA
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Michigan

University of Michigan — Ann Arbor, MI
instagram
givebutter

Michigan State University – East Lansing, MI
instagram

Minnesota

University of Minnesota — Minneapolis, MN
instagram

Missouri

Washington University St. Louis — St. Louis, MO
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Nevada

University of Nevada — Las Vegas, NV
instagram

New Jersey

Princeton University — Princeton, NJ
instagram

New Mexico

University of New Mexico — Albuquerque, NM
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New York

City University of New York — New York, NY
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City College of New York – New York, NY
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Columbia University — New York, NY
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Cornell University — Tompkins County, NY
instagram

Fashion Institute of Technology — New York, NY
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Fordham University — New York, NY
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New School — New York, NY
instagram

New York University (NYU) — New York, NY
SJP instagram
PSU instagram
supplies call
ceasefire petition

State University of New York at Stony Brook — Stony Brook, NY
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University of Rochester — Rochester, NY
instagram

North Carolina

North Carolina State University – Raleigh, NC
instagram
petition

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) — Chapel Hill, NC
instagram

Wake Forest University – Winston-Salem, NC
instagram

Ohio

Case Western Reserve University — Cleveland, OH
instagram

Miami University Ohio — Oxford, OH
instagram

Oberlin College — Oberlin, OH
instagram

Ohio State University — Columbus, OH
instagram

Oregon

Portland State University — Portland, OR
instagram

Pennsylvania

Bryn Mawr – Bryn Mawr, PA
instagram

Swarthmore College — Swarthmore, PA
instagram

Temple University — Philadelphia, PA
instagram

University of Pennsylvania (Penn) — Philadelphia, PA
Penn Against the Occupation Instagram (currently deactivated)
Penn’s Faculty For Justice in Palestine Instagram

University of Pittsburgh — Pittsburg, PA
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Rhode Island

Brown University — Providence, RI
instagram

Tennessee

Vanderbilt University — Nashville, TN
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Texas

Rice University — Houston, TX
instagram

Texas A&M — College Station, TX
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University of Texas at Austin — Austin, TX
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University of Texas at Dallas — Richardson, TX
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University of Texas at San Antonio — San Antonio, TX
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Utah

University of Utah – Salt Lake City, UT
instagram

Vermont

Middlebury College — Middlebury, VT
instagram

Virginia

University of Mary Washington — Fredericksburg, VA
instagram

Virginia Commonwealth University — Richmond VA
instagram

Virginia Tech — Blacksburg, VA
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Washington

University of Puget Sound — Tacoma, WA
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Washington DC

American University — DC
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Howard University – DC
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Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin, Madison — Madison, WI
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Carmen Phillips

Carmen Phillips is Autostraddle's former editor in chief. She began at Autostraddle in 2017 as a freelance team writer and worked her way up through the company, eventually becoming the EIC from 2021-2024. A Black Puerto Rican feminist writer with a PhD in American Studies from New York University, Carmen specializes in writing about Blackness, race, queerness, politics, culture, and the many ways we find community and connection with each other.  During her time at Autostraddle, Carmen focused on pop culture, TV and film reviews, criticism, interviews, and news analysis. She claims many past homes, but left the largest parts of her heart in Detroit, Brooklyn, and Buffalo, NY. And there were several years in her early 20s when she earnestly slept with a copy of James Baldwin’s “Fire Next Time” under her pillow. To reach out, you can find Carmen on Twitter, Instagram, or her website.

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15 Comments

  2. Thank you, Carmen and Autostraddle, for highlighting this side of the situation while also committing to keeping the focus on Gaza itself.

    As an academic it’s been unsettling how many colleagues (faculty, administrators) are dismissive of the earnest demands being made by protesters.

    These are both much small encampments and schools but there are active encampments at Middlebury in Vermont and at Williams College in Massachusetts.

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    • Is this the same UCLA where counter-protesters destroyed parts of the encampment and assaulted protesters while the LAPD looked the other way? Pull the other one.

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  6. Thank you for this. I deeply appreciate autostraddle’s commitment to standing against the horrors happening in Gaza and in support of college kids speaking out against the genocide, this is very useful and appreciated

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