Re: Columbia protesters take over building after defying deadline

Dave S. wrote:
> On 30 Apr 2024, Dawn Flood <[email protected]> posted some
> news:[email protected]:
> 
>> 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!
> 
> They were dumb before they got to college.  It's a waste of money sending
> those who aren't equipped.  They belong in institutions, but not those of
> higher learning.
> 
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