Re: Columbia protesters take over building after defying deadline
"Scout" <[email protected]>
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"Skeeter" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > 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. Easy.. they are preparing for their future as homeless street bums..... And some people say that College doesn't prepare you for life.