Re: Columbia protesters take over building after defying deadline

On 4/30/2024 4:53 AM, lynching time wrote:
> Pro-Palestinian demonstrators at Columbia University have occupied an
> academic building as part of their protest over the war in Gaza.
> 
> Dozens of activists seized Hamilton Hall early on Tuesday and barricaded
> themselves inside.
> 
> The university and police are yet to comment.
> 
> Columbia earlier began suspending students involved in a two-week
> encampment who defied a deadline to disperse.
> 
> Students were warned they would face disciplinary action if they failed to
> move by 14:00 EST (18:00 GMT) on Monday.
> 
> But as the deadline passed, dozens of students rallied at the site.
> 
> Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), one of the main protest
> groups, vowed to defy the order in a post on X and called on activists to
> "protect the encampment".
> 
> The group later said it had taken over Hamilton Hall, highlighting that
> this was also the focus of student protests in 1968.
> 
> Images from the site on Tuesday show the building with broken windows.
> Protesters blocked doors with wooden tables and chairs, the Columbia
> Spectator reported.
> 
> Another group, Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), said it had
> "reclaimed" the building in honour of Hind Rajab, a six-year-old girl
> found dead in Gaza earlier this year.
> 
> https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68923528
> 

Dumb, dumb, dumb!

They're all protesting over the ownership of future sea-bottom!

Dawn