We denounce the Columbia University University Administration’s shameful authorization of the sweep of student activists on campus by the NYPD. Student activism is an important and historical part of struggle for a better world in the U.S. and beyond. We stand with the brave students…

columbia university militarizing the police state against its own anti-war student protesters in 1968 and 2024

Having your own students arrested for trespassing — a crime only because you suspended their right to be on campus — is just so obviously, horribly beyond the pale literally no matter what they were protesting.

This is what the Columbia campus looks like AFTER the mass arrests. The school has fucked around and it’s about to find out.

The students are now singing in a huddle facing down the entire might of the NYPD. Oh my heart.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Press conference at 7 PM at the Columbia University President’s house at 60 Morningside Drive.

What a dumb fucking world we live in where the country that carried our retaliatory attacks is being sanctioned, not the country that provoked the attacks and whose leader has overseen the slaughter of 30,000 men, women, and children in the last 6 months.

The ACLU calls the NYPD Strategic Response Group a “notoriously violent rapid response unit”

But that’s who Columbia University President Shafik called to come to campus—deployed to arrest students for the crime of peacefully protesting against genocide

Shameful & unacceptable

Despite 100+ arrested today students at Columbia continue their occupation after moving the Gaza Solidarity Encampment to the other lawn. Hundreds are rallying now calling on the school to meet their demands and end its complicity in genocide and repression of student organizers.

columbia's noted history of displacement, antiblackness, complicity in sexual violence, zionism, hatred of students, union-busting, islamophobia, exploitation of past-tensed activism for PR, etc. are all connected to these arrests, evictions & suspensions. it's not all minouche

Columbia University is making a mistake. Their eagerness to police and criminalize their own students will not only fail to suppress the voices and activism of those students, but they’re also going to radicalize countless others who witness this abuse of their rights.

'Will there be singing in the dark times?
Yes there will also be singing
About the dark times'

Students singing at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia university yesterday.

I want this to be very clear. The arrests at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment is a political stunt for Columbia University President Minouche Shafik to cowardly bend to the will of the Zionists and AIPAC funded congressmen (see: Elise Stefanik) that have been grilling her in her…

Every single student in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment has been arrested at Minouche Shafik’s direct request. Shame on Columbia University. Solidarity to all our protesters and the people of Palestine. 🇵🇸

Minouche Shafik & the repression of student protest during the Arab Spring, in case anyone thinks the past is past‼️
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'Columbia is committed to academic freedom...by which I mean Columbia Corp's freedom to invest in a state that has destroyed every single university in Gaza and arrested a Hebrew University prof for speaking out against the genocide and the decades-long occupation preceding it'

'We trust that you will take care and caution' is an absolutely astounding thing to say to the ... NYPD

Cornel West has joined the students occupying the West Lawn at Columbia University in support and solidarity with the students arrested in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment and the Palestinian struggle!!!
#Columbia University #Columbia

🚨UPDATE: Hear the chants of over 1000 of Columbia University/Barnard students, faculty, alumni, and affiliates as they call for disclosure and divestment of CU funding of Israel and its genocide of Palestinians. They are also calling for amnesty for all students and faculty…

Also I don't understand why the prize money for writers outside of prison can be as high as $75,000 but the prize money for writers inside of prison is $250. prismreports.org/2024/04/17/pen…