Podcast | Inside an American university encampment, Kristen Talman's dispatch from George Washington University 🎧🎙️

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“This is a moment for independent journalists,” Abu-Jamal says. Immediately after the prison phone call system cuts him off, a student journalist grabs the mic and suggests putting together an encampment publication of their own, to be called the People’s University Press.

And if the violent crackdown happens at a private college or university, you can request communications from the police department between cops and administrators #FOIAFriday

reporting with the Indypendent CUNY4Palestine and other CUNY faculty + staff have started an encampment

Honestly thought this was satire at first.

⁦New York University⁩ did not have to do what it did last night. Statement from ⁦AAUP - NYU Chapter⁩.

New statement from Columbia student protestors:
'We are frustrated by media distractions focusing on inflammatory individuals who do not represent us…Our members have been misidentified by a politically motivated mob.'

'We firmly reject any form of hate or bigotry…'

Our team spent long hours reporting on and around Columbia’s campus on Thursday & Friday. I want to clear some stuff up. I didn’t see a single instance of violence or aggression on the lawn or at the student encampment. The student-led protest was peaceful and often very quiet…

As night falls and waking up at 5 AM, flying to New York and 8 hours of street reporting non-stop catches up with me, I am about to leave this party and let these young ppl who welcomed me into their space carry on. But first, some final thoughts…

Anne Carson’s Master Class is her sitting in a folding chair, in a beautifully lit kitchen, looking directly into the camera to say, “Just think about something.”

A statement from WKCR’s Executive Board

Live coverage still on WKCR right now : cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/#

Dance groups performed on Saturday at the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on South Lawn. An Instagram post by Columbia University Apartheid Divest earlier in the day listed an open call for involved student groups to lead performances and other programming.
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Jewish students celebrate Shabbat in song at the Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampment, student protesters chant “Disclose! Divest! We will not stop! We will not rest!” and students pass out copies of The Columbia Daily Spectator Columbia Daily Spectator.

Statement of the Barnard-Columbia chapters of the AAUP regarding the mass arrest of peacefully protesting students: “We have lost confidence in our president and administration, and we pledge to reclaim our university.”

the free press only exists as a free press if it can exercise that right without having to ‘phone a friend’ or call in an administrative favor to do so

it shouldn’t be left up to @columbia administration to ‘allow’ the media the access it needs in order to literally do its job

A statement by our faculty at Columbia and Barnard. More to come. I am behind every word.

UPDATE: Public Safety has corrected themselves and have permitted us to remain in the space. IMPORTANT TO REITERATE THAT THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE.

THIS IS UNPRECEDENTED