NEW YORK CITY'S COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS TAKE OVER BUILDING TO DRAW ATTENTION TO CULPRITS IN GAZA GENOCIDE

BUILDING IS FAMOUS FOR STUDENT PROTEST TAKEOVERS

DEATH COUNT OF MOSTLY WOMEN & CHILDREN PAST 34,500 ON DAY 207 OF WAR ON PALESTINE🇵🇸

ASSANGE & SNOWDEN STILL CRIMINALIZED FOR WHISTLEBLOWING ON DERANGED WARLORDS

“There are no universities left in Gaza” read the sign today by an abandoned protest site at Mantor Library. Last night, the free paper's one-man news team was there to hand out copies of yesterday's issue. It was a late time to arrive, but this University of Maine at Farmington library had the nearest gathering of protesters to be found in Maine. There were still a few people standing & talking next to a couple of tents. Today (Tuesday), none of them were here to interview, though the plan had been to continue for another day. What remained was the sign, and some banners and pins. There were no reports of what happened online or from others in the area.

With 2 weeks left before graduation, students at New York City's Columbia University have chosen a different approach. Instead of being forced to leave, some protesters have occupied a building on campus. Mainstream media tries to portray the scene there as chaotic. Live streams of the exterior area can be found online, where it was mostly a quiet day until hundreds of cops arrived recently.

The building is Hamilton Hall. Construction saboteurs protesting war crimes in Vietnam🇻🇳 barricaded themselves inside over 50 years ago. Today's incident is the fifth such one there so far, and the first since before Julian Assange and Edward Snowden were international fugitives. The war crimes this time are in Gaza, where families are walled in, being starved to death and bombed.

These protests were initially based on demands for universities to stop supporting the genocide in Gaza. Instead of agreeing to stop doing business with Israel, many universities have escalated with police violence. In the slew of free speech violations sweeping the nation, Columbia University revoked the ability for students involved in this protest to graduate, then continued threatening the students with further action, prompting the takeover of Hamilton Hall.

The message is clear: universities like Columbia would rather have incidents like this than attract students committed to goodie-two-shoes morals like genocide avoidance.

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