Statement to students from President Serene Jones of Union Theological Seminary, affiliate of Columbia University regarding Columbia President Shafik’s ordered arrests of peaceful student protesters

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.”

UNC students right now starting an encampment outside of the university administration building in solidarity with Columbia students and Palestine 🇵🇸

Barnard Columbia Abolition Collective is recommending to send donations to these orgs from here on out.

Gaza Mutual Aid Collective - Venmo & Paypal agedknafeh (put $ or @ before)
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Pal.Gaza-- givebutter.com/the-sanabel-te…

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.

A big story that hasn't gotten enough attention: a VA ed official tried to stop gen ed diversity requirements at 2 unis by targeting the syllabi of 27 profs. As we argue Richmond Times-Dispatch, gov't censorship of DEI initiatives inevitably leads to faculty censorship. richmond.com/zzstyling/view…

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Took 4 years for some of these universities to go from publishing statements declaring their support for protests against racism & police violence to using police to suppress protests

#NYC Morning Everyone! I’m reporting inside Columbia’s campus where students have simply rebuilt the encampment zone on the other lawn after yesterday’s sweep.

The original lawn, once a designated ‘free speech zone’ for students, is now just placeholder for construction cargo.

Today we're going to see Columbia University's first Arab president work with New York City's black cop mayor work with the nypd's first Latino Chief to arrest as many diverse students as possible. Only in America™️

Anyone seen bail fund info for the Columbia kids ?

Please support Dr. مُحَمَّد‎ who is being unjustly targeted and subjected to repression by Columbia University for his political position. Contingent faculty matter too!

“my minor in resistance to genocide allows me to study the human condition at possibly one of its worst conditions, and then biomedical engineering is my way of learning technically how we can improve the human condition through increasing health accessibility.” - Asna Tabassum

From the Spec archives: 'Officials say shanties Ok.' Comparing CU admin's treatment of today's protest Palestine solidarity movement with how it responded to the solidarity w/South Africa divestment movement on campus in 1986

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

Breaking: The Austin City Council has voted to restart its guaranteed income program, approving a $1.3 million contract with a nonprofit to oversee the program.

The move comes a week after TX AG Ken Paxton sued Harris County over a similar program: kut.org/austin/2024-04…

Netflix using generative AI images in a true crime doc is extremely irresponsible and exactly what archivists are telling documentaries not to do 404media.co/netflix-doc-wh…

On applications for schools like Columbia, Pomona, and USC, students are asked to demonstrate their intellectual fortitude, leadership skills, and personal courage. Now, with shameless hypocrisy, these same institutions are punishing their own students for embodying these values.

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