Re: Columbia protesters take over building after defying deadline
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Skeeter wrote: > In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] > says... >> >> 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 > > Most of them don't even know what they're protesting. They get free days > off from classes and a free tent. > bingo