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Wheelchair-using UNC student activist doxxed, criminally charged; loses scholarship.
Reposted by Kevin M. Kruse
Nathan Kalman-Lamb
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A wheelchair-using UNC student who was physically assaulted by police when they broke up the school’s anti-genocide encampment has since had a prestigious scholarship rescinded, been criminally charged, doxxed and constantly surveilled because of her Palestine activism.
https://www.wunc.org/education/2025-04-30/unc-student-activist-lost-scholarship-pro-palestinian-protest
Forero sat on the outskirts filming as police dragged protesters from the flagpole.
"And before I knew it, I was completely knocked over," Forero said. "I was just sitting there filming, I'm knocked over, and then an officer steps on the barricade trying to keep me pinned under it. And people immediately rush in (to help), like I said, community has always saved me."
That day, photos and videos of her trapped under the barricade began circulating around social media. It would later become one of the many images that would make Forero a target.
Unlike other students who can use masks to shield their identities, Forero's wheelchair makes her easily recognizable. And she was already a well-known voice on campus for her past activism for disability rights.
ALT
"I knew I was being watched, both from the university (and) from Morehead-Cain. There was nowhere where I was 'safe,' because there was nowhere where I could hide my identity," Forero said. "Constantly being surveilled — that is very much a significant form of oppression. And I wasn't going to let my visibility prohibit me from standing for the things that I believe in. And by doing so, I had to pay some extra costs or at least consider them."
In the next year, those costs of being an activist would expand to include Forero being doxxed, criminally charged, and losing her scholarship.
ALT
May 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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A wheelchair-using UNC student who was physically assaulted by police when they broke up the school’s anti-genocide encampment has since had a prestigious scholarship rescinded, been criminally charged, doxxed and constantly surveilled because of her Palestine activism.
https://www.wunc.org/education/2025-04-30/unc-student-activist-lost-scholarship-pro-palestinian-protest
Forero sat on the outskirts filming as police dragged protesters from the flagpole.
"And before I knew it, I was completely knocked over," Forero said. "I was just sitting there filming, I'm knocked over, and then an officer steps on the barricade trying to keep me pinned under it. And people immediately rush in (to help), like I said, community has always saved me."
That day, photos and videos of her trapped under the barricade began circulating around social media. It would later become one of the many images that would make Forero a target.
Unlike other students who can use masks to shield their identities, Forero's wheelchair makes her easily recognizable. And she was already a well-known voice on campus for her past activism for disability rights.
ALT
"I knew I was being watched, both from the university (and) from Morehead-Cain. There was nowhere where I was 'safe,' because there was nowhere where I could hide my identity," Forero said. "Constantly being surveilled — that is very much a significant form of oppression. And I wasn't going to let my visibility prohibit me from standing for the things that I believe in. And by doing so, I had to pay some extra costs or at least consider them."
In the next year, those costs of being an activist would expand to include Forero being doxxed, criminally charged, and losing her scholarship.
ALT
May 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
https://bsky.app/profile/nkalamb.bsky.social/post/3lo5b5rx3222v
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