Columbia University
NYPD Represses Columbia Students, Sets Up A Multi-Week Occupation of Campus
After a weeks-long stand-off between Columbia University student protesters and the administration, the university president has called the NYPD back on-to campus and asked them to stay for the rest of the semester.
Eleanor Volkova
May 1, 2024Columbia Students Occupy Hamilton Hall — Down with Repression and for Full Divestment and Amnesty
Early Tuesday morning, student activists at Columbia University began occupying a building on campus. It is vital to fight with these students against repression and for full divestment and amnesty.
Left Voice
April 30, 2024Unite the Encampments Against Repression and for a Free Palestine
Student encampments in solidarity with Gaza are cropping up across the country and are facing intense repression by police acting on behalf of university officials. Defending the occupations requires uniting outrage with these attacks on the right to protest with broad support for Palestine across the student movement and the labor movement.
Left Voice
April 25, 2024Faculty, Staff, and Students Must Unite Against Repression of the Palestine Movement
As Gaza solidarity encampments spread across the United States, faculty and staff are mobilizing in solidarity with their students against repression. We must build on that example and build a strong campaign for our right to protest.
Olivia Wood
April 23, 2024Dispatches from Labor Notes 2024: Solidarity with Columbia Students Against Repression
The Labor Notes Conference this year takes place right after over 100 students were arrested at Columbia for protesting for Palestine. We must use this conference to build a strong campaign against the repression which will impact us all if it is allowed to stand.
Olivia Wood
April 20, 2024All Eyes on Columbia: We Must Build a National Campaign to Defend the Right to Protest for Palestine
After suspending and evicting students and ordering the repression of a student occupation, Columbia University has become the ground zero for attacks against the pro-Palestine movement. What happens at Columbia in the coming days has implications for our basic democratic rights, such as the right to protest.
Maryam Alaniz
April 19, 2024Student Workers of Columbia Union Call for Solidarity Against Repression and in Defense of the Right to Protest
In response to the suspensions and arrests of students at Columbia, the Student Workers of Columbia is circulating a call for solidarity against the repression. We re-publish their statement here and urge organizations, unions, and intellectuals to sign.
Student Workers of Columbia - UAW Local 2710
April 19, 2024The Movement for Palestine Is Facing Repression. We Need a Campaign to Stop It.
In recent weeks, the movement in solidarity with Palestine has faced a new round of repression across the U.S. We need a united campaign to combat this repression, one that raises strategic debates about the movement’s next steps.
Tristan Taylor
April 17, 2024“We Shouldn’t Let this Stop Us”: Suspended Columbia Student Activist Speaks Out
Aidan Parisi, a student at Columbia University’s School of Social Work, was recently suspended and has been threatened with eviction from their graduate student housing for pro-Palestinian activism on campus. Aidan talked to Left Voice about the state of repression, the movement at Columbia, and the path forward for uniting the student movement with the labor movement and other movements against oppression.
Left Voice
April 11, 2024Hundreds of New York Students, Faculty and Staff Walk Out for Reproductive Justice
On October 6, hundreds of students, faculty and staff walked out of class for reproductive rights and trans rights.
Left Voice
October 13, 2022