Columbia is not simply an academic institution, it is the largest private landowner in New York City and manages *18 BILLION dollars* of capital. And its very legitimacy is crumbling before the world’s eyes. All power to the student movement!
Police overreactions are a sign of weakness. Congressional hearings for college protests are a sign of weakness. The ruling class is afraid of the rising consciousness of the masses. They know this is all held together by our submission. Solidarity with the Columbia students.
At bard college I’ve been in conversation with the duality of the bodies and the spaces they occupy juxtaposing the striking nature of their experience within a body and the duality of a space