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   Skeeter to All   
   Re: Columbia protesters take over buildi   
   30 Apr 24 15:59:14   
   
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   From: skeeterweed@photonmail.com   
      
   In article , pursent100   
   @gmail.com says...   
   >   
   > Skeeter wrote:   
   > > In article , Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com   
   > > 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   
      
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