BREAKING: Organizers of the Yale divestment encampment have been informed that those at the encampment can expect arrest, likely sometime between now and early morning.

Repeat: ARRESTS ARE EXPECTED AT YALE.

The crowd of hundred of students is sitting in a circle and singing.

was on the train to Columbia to interview isra hirsi on Thur when she stopped replying; she had been arrested.

Isra's one of 100+ Columbia/Barnard students arrested over the Gaza Solidarity Encampment. we spoke after her eviction from the dorms Teen Vogue
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Just learned that Columbia University has locked down every building on campus (deactivated swipe access) and that faculty wishing to visit their offices today require a campus police escort to gain access.

Anddddd WKCR-FM NY is back on the job, minutes after being raided by public safety. these student journos deserve all the kudos, all the jobs, all the awards for the absolutely outstanding job they've been doing covering the uprising.

Multiple individuals attempted to enter the encampment, using their phones to film students and trying to push past marshals.

The crowd, which has more than doubled in the last half hour, has formed a wall and begun singing “We shall not be moved”

11:30 deadline minutes away.

With 11:30 now here, the crowd has more than tripled in the last hour, with likely well over 500 student in the plaza.

Police presence seems to have decreased as more students have arrived at the encampment.

As energy grows, students continue singing.

UPDATE: Columbia Public Safety backs off what would have been first time authorities had ever attempted to shut down student radio station WKCR. 'That was scary,' says host, her voice trembling. Nervous laughter heard in background; host says 'we're gonna cut to music now!'

Lots of gates at Columbia University are locked with bike locks, with security bouncing the few entrances people are allowed into.

A Columbia professor commented on Friday prayers being offered by Muslims on Columbia lawns as symbolizing hate. Now the chant of freedom-Azadi- in South Asian languages (Hindi and Urdu) on Columbia campus is being seen as not welcoming and documented as hate! Wow!!!

Columbia Journalism School is no longer allowed to sign in credentialed media, as they were yesterday.

Instead, press were allowed to enter campus during a 2-hour window, but for the first ~30 minutes, Public Safety was refusing us entry even though Columbia admin was there.

1,200 new recruits to join NYPD as Mayor Adams announces more funding

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NOW: Although separated by a locked gate, protesters and Columbia University students rally together on what is now day 4 of the student encampment

New: House votes 366-58 to send Israel $26 billion in aid.

37 Democrats and 21 Republicans voted against the bill.

After 25 years of selling tamales in Chicago’s Little Village, an undocumented mother returns to Mexico without her family.

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Hundreds of Yale students have built an encampment outside a Trustee dinner, with dozens of tents in solidarity with Columbia protestors.

They demand Yale to disclose investments & divest from weapons manufacturers.

Follows solidarity protests at UNC & Miami University.

Hundreds of Yale students are occupying Beinecke Plaza outside a Board of Trustees meeting to demand Yale divest from Israeli weapons manufacturing.

“We call on you to listen to our demands. Not only our demands but the same demands that are echoed by the students at Columbia.”

A good sign

Johnson offered condolences to Antia Lyons’ family and said he doesn’t know the details of what happened. He says there is an investigation but I haven’t heard of one. It’s been eight months, how long will this investigation last? Will findings be shared?

Boston University students walked out of class today to protest the arrests of 100+ pro-Palestinian student demonstrators at Columbia University yesterday. Students at Harvard and MIT are also walking out today.

UT Austin DEI layoffs disproportionately affected women and Black staffers, records show trib.al/nExBK1Q