"This generation of youth have spent their entire lives in fear of having guns pointed at them in schools; what a disgrace for America that is now their own schools that are pointing the guns at them."
--Josh Paul, former Director, US Department of State (resigned in protest)
ccny campus magazine livestream is genuinely incredible, they’re reading out police badge numbers + names and getting people in the chat to search complaints filed against them, then reading the complaints back out loud to the cops 😭
A Palestinian student at Columbia was arbitrarily suspended along with many other arbitrary suspensions today. Columbia is racially profiling students who have no involvement with the ongoing protests and suspending them with no due process.
I don’t know why a lot of people are surprised at how university students are being treated by US forces.
Y’all they fired teargas and pellets at protestors in Ferguson ten years ago. I remember because it was the same teargas Israel was firing at us at the time.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: Students have taken over Hamilton Hall.
This escalation is in line with uprisings in 1968, 1985 and 1996, which Columbia repressed then and celebrates today.
All power to students putting their bodies and livelihoods on the line to stand against genocide.
Fun fact: Columbia’s School of General Studies made an exception and REFUNDED THE TUITION OF IOF SOLDIERS who left Columbia to fight in Gaza after October 7th, after the refund deadline had already passed.
This is unacceptable @VCU.
Sending in the police to break up a peaceful protest at a public university is a complete violation of these students’ right to free speech and assembly.