I've written on political dissent & violent policing for 15 years, particularly in NYC. Compared to Tuesday night, I have never witnessed, at the scene of a protest, the use of police power so disproportionate to the type of demonstration taking place. theintercept.com/2024/05/01/nyc…

Columbia and the NYPD tried to keep the press as far away from last night’s police raid on student protesters, but m Anna Oakes and Claudia Gohn were inside the barricades for Hell Gate *subscribe today!*: hellgatenyc.com/nypd-raid-colu…

That is most definitely a bike lock.

A friendly May Day reminder that cops aren’t workers and never have been, and that their continued inclusion in our unions (and of police “unions” within the AFL-CIO ✊) remains a stain on the entire labor movement. They’re just bosses with a license to kill teenvogue.com/story/what-to-…

Wrote this piece before everything went to hell last night. But it's even more appropriate now. We've seen over and that heavy-handed police responses only escalate tension. We just don't ever seem to learn from it.

thedailybeast.com/we-dont-need-w…

Worth noting that the NYPD has yet to release any information or data on the so-called 'outside agitators' or which of those arrested aren't students, but have edited this short film from the protests

You can read Katie Honan's coverage of what Mayor Eric Adams and top police officials had to say following the NYPD's crackdown at Columbia and CUNY protests here:

thecity.nyc/2024/05/01/cam…

UPDATE FROM ONE POLICE PLAZA:
- No press allowed inside Hind’s Hall, including WKCR.
- Multiple Columbia students were taken straight to the hospital due to severe injuries by NYPD.
- Students had swollen faces from being kicked repeatedly by police.

CUNY workers announced a wildcat sickout after NYPD raided City College’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment. It’s the first known job action in the PSC union’s 52-year history.
CUNY Out Sick for Palestine CUNY4Palestine
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Correcting NYU's propaganda one statement at a time.

NEW:

A frontline account, minute by minute, from two journalists inside Columbia, during the NYPD’s ‘dystopian’ nighttime raid on Columbia student protesters.

hellgatenyc.com/nypd-raid-colu…

BREAKING: Fordham University students launch a Gaza solidarity encampment, just hours after encampments were swept at CCNY and Columbia.

Tonight in the United States of America, we are witnessing a militarized police force, funded by NYC taxpayers, arresting American students in the name of a foreign country that’s carrying out a genocide.

.Benny Polatseck, a staffer in Mayor Adams' office, has deleted this tweet.

As a cuny faculty member i unequivocally condemn the police crackdown on student protestors and student journalists at city college tonight.

On today's This Day In Esoteric Political History, a story that has been on our list for a while but of course we had to do in this moment: the 1968 Columbia student protests. What happens when campus politics and real-world politics converge? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thi…

NEW: The letter Shahan Mufti and I organized—signed by 65+ professors of journalism and communication from across the country—has been published in full at Literary Hub.Read why we are demanding an independent investigation of the NYT's 'Screams Without Words' lithub.com/a-call-from-th…

BREAKING: ACT UP NY member, Butch Molly, has chained themselves to a bench and announced a hunger strike in support of NYU's divestment campaign to end the genocide in Gaza. Come show your support at NYU Tandon School of Engineering in Brooklyn.