On April 18, students at Columbia University and Barnard College established the Gaza Solidarity Encampment, an occupation of shared campus space to call for divestment and Palestinian liberation. Here's a running list of solidarity actions on other U.S. campuses since Apr 18.🧵

When you punish students for their love & compassion you teach them how powerful compassion truly is. You admit to them that you govern on a premise that cannot withstand love. Love prevails. We’re witnessing the soul growth of a generation. They deserve our care & respect.💜

and Barnard College is the one evicting students & giving them 15 min to retrieve belongings from their own dorms. Dean Grinage and Laura Rosenbury are downright villainous for leaving young women with no housing the same night many of them got out of jail.

We're saying it louder, for the people in the back.

📸: Protester with sign that reads, “Columbia [University] is the enemy of all Black people”. 1968. Photo by Steve Schapiro.

It’s as if USC decided to drain the pool during the summer rather than comply with desegregation.

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…

When even the NYPD said the protest was peaceful and presented no danger…

Brilliant student editorial - Columbia students running rings around the administration:
Is Columbia in crisis? columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/0…

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

For THE CITY, NYPD confirms 108 arrests thus far, Columbia says anyone who participated is suspended, though they haven't confirmed #'s. By 2pm police had cleared the lawn of protesters, though hundreds more have since set up in another portion of lawn.

thecity.nyc/2024/04/18/col…

The enormity of this image:

Arrests happening now at Columbia Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine

Columbia University It’s 9:15pm, it is raining again, and the air feels heavy with the weight of so many people at Columbia University diligently waiting.

Some fidget, some gaze at nothing while standing stone still.

Columbia University has given the Gaza Solidarity Encampment/Liberated Zone until 9pm to clear the lawn. Negotiations ongoing.

Per multiple sources off-acampus, there are a significant number of NYPD outside that seem ready to move in.

Students are going over Know Your Rights.

Tomorrow is pub day for Organizing Your Own!
I can't quite wrap my head around the fact that it now exists in the world, BUT I will be eating a mountain of cake this week and counting down the days til my Thank-You-Detroit party in mid-May.
NYU Press
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United States of Attica by Faith Ringgold (1972), a map detailing many Indigenous, slave, and immigrant uprisings in each state since the 1700s and dedicated to the men who died during the 1971 Attica prison riots in upstate NY.

Professor Ruha Benjamin (Ruha Benjamin) using her honorary degree address at Spelman to denounce Atlanta’s Cop City, the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, and the repression of student activists 💜

Look at this! Thanks The Webby Awards for honoring The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks!!