Knight Institute Comments on Arrests of Pro-Palestinian Student Protesters at Columbia University. Read Knight First Amendment Institute full statement from Jameel Jaffer below & here: knightcolumbia.org/content/knight…

Here's Knight First Amendment Institute's comment on today's events at Columbia. knightcolumbia.org/content/knight…

as a member of the faculty @columbia, i want to say that i stand with the student protestors and am outraged that our president called in the cops

Columbia should not be calling the cops on its own students for engaging in nonviolent protest.

The university has a long history of respecting free speech on campus, and I support the faculty who are pleading with their administration to continue that tradition.

Karen Attiah @Columbia @Columbia’s SSW (@ColumbiaSSW) entire curriculum is built around undoing state violence while their school calls the police on non violent students protesting a genocide.

Occasionally

I have been conducting research about the 1968 Columbia protests for such a long time, but I honestly do not know what to say right now. Except, perhaps, that student movements have been one of the most progressive, courageous political avantgardes of the past century

As a Columbia University alum and current adjunct lecturer, it's horrifying to see the university admin send in a police force (with a known record of brutality) to arrest students peacefully demonstrating.

*sips beer*

Personally if I were a university president committed to academic freedom and student safety I wouldn’t call the fucking NYPD to arrest my kids, but that’s why they don’t pay me the big bucks.

Immoral and completely indefensible.

The day after Ilhan Omar questioned Columbia leadership's commitment to free academic expression, the school suspended her daughter? It's clear what is happening here.

Our educational institutions should not be in the business of political reprisals.

This is Ilhan Omar's daughter, who was just suspended by Columbia.

On this week's episode of Democracy-ish Danielle Moodie and I discuss who has the right to free speech and protest in America? (@KarenAttiah gets a shout out as well). Give us a listen.
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1. Black civil rights leaders were hated, and still killed
2. Wait till you find out MLK called for action against a 'distant war' in Vietnam.

'We must continue to raise our voices and our lives if our nation persists in its perverse ways in Vietnam.'

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I’d add that nonviolent movements are typically a form of economic disruption & not simply to persuade oppressors to change their ways.

Sit-ins & boycotts were about disrupting the segregated southern economy.

In the Free India movement, they would often simply refuse to work

Karen Attiah I'm also just frankly kind of tired of the idea that MLK set down the boundaries of what is acceptable protest forever in the 1960s.

The main point of peaceful mass protest is responding to extremely violent systems without using violence.

Mass protests, boycotts, sit-ins, etc are ways of forcing amoral systems to course-correct, by using power without brutality.

Amoral systems only understand force.

Africans were accused of being irrational when they said they didn’t trust this man.