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From: daves45@yahoo.com
On 30 Apr 2024, Dawn Flood posted some
news:v0qipb$2drp3$2@dont-email.me:
> 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!
They were dumb before they got to college. It's a waste of money sending
those who aren't equipped. They belong in institutions, but not those of
higher learning.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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