Re: Columbia protesters take over building after defying deadline

In article <[email protected]>, pursent100
@gmail.com says...
> 
> 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

and we get to pay for it